Prayers & Curses

Prayer is a vital part of combat but also includes utility and skilling effects.

Prayer points are the currency for using prayers. When turning prayers on, your prayer points will drain over time. Each prayer will drain prayer points by a different amount, and having multiple prayers active at once will sum those amounts. You can replenish your prayer points by drinking potions such as a Prayer potion, or by visiting and using an altar.

As your prayer skill level increases, the amount of prayers you have access to will increase, as well as your maximum prayer points.

Prayer Books

There are two prayer books: the standard prayer book and the ancient curses book.

The standard prayer book is unlocked automatically, whilst the ancient curses book is unlocked by completing The Temple of Senntisten quest. Additional Seren curses can be unlocked and added to this book via completion of The Light Within.

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Standard Prayer Book

Offensive Prayers

Each style has a prayer that increases your accuracy in that style by +6 levels, and a prayer that increases your damage in that style by 6%. You can use both of a style's prayers at the same time.

Protection Prayers

There are 4 prayers that reduce damage taken from that style by 50%. In OSRS these fully block damage, but in RuneScape it is only a 50% reduction.

Combined Prayers

Lastly on the standard spellbook there is a prayer for each style that increases your accuracy, damage and defence. The accuracy increase is +8 levels, the damage increase is +8% and the defence increase is +8 levels.

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Ancient Curses Book

Deflect Curses

Similar to the standard prayer book, there are 4 prayers that reduce damage taken from that style by 50%, but also can deflect some incoming damage back to the target.

Soul Split

At a much higher prayer level, exists Soul Split. This is one of the most powerful prayers in the game, as it heals you for 10% of the damage dealt, although this does have diminishing returns the higher the damage dealt.

This spell cannot be used at the same time as a deflect prayer.

Level 95 Curses

Our next 4 prayers are the most commonly used damage boosting prayers, with a prayer for each style. Each of these prayers increases your accuracy, damage and defence. The accuracy increase is +10 levels, the damage increase is +10% and the defence increase is +10 levels.

These prayers also include a stat drain on your target, primarily used to drain their defence level for slightly higher accuracy, however some bosses are immune to this.

Level 99 Curses

The final 4 damage boosting prayers are very similar to our previous 4, but just a little bit stronger. These now include a +12 level accuracy boost, +12% damage boost and +12 defence levels boost, while also retaining a very similar stat drain effect. These prayers require a codex to unlock as well as 99 prayer.