Guide To Prayer Bonuses/Drain

Zaney · Feb 12, 2011

Zaney's Guide To Prayer Bonus/Drains

In this guide I'll try to explain how you can calculate the prayer drain/prayer pots, so you can find out how long you can stay at Aviansies, Zammy Warriors, Bandits etc.

- Prayer Summary -

Prayer is often used by Pures, who have the acquired level, to beat high level monsters or players, that would otherwise rip through their low defense. Using a Prayer spell drains the player's Prayer energy at varying speeds, and once this energy is depleted, Prayers can no longer be used; therefore, use of any and all Prayers is temporary. To slow the rate of drain, players may equip items that add Prayer bonuses, such as a blessed holy symbol or priest robes, which reduces the drain rate by increasing Prayer bonuses. Increasing Prayer level does not reduce the drain rate of prayers. Once the player's Prayer points reaches zero, all Prayers will deactivate and no Prayers will be able to be in use until the player recharges their Prayer points, through various mediums. Your prayer level will drain slowly or fast, depending on what prayers you have activated, here is a list of the regular prayers and how they drain.

- Normal PrayerBook -

Players can also use some Prayers at the same time with others, though doing so will compound the drain rate of these Prayers. Some Prayers cannot be used simultaneously and are marked in the table with the same background color. For example, activating the Smite Prayer while the Protect From Melee Prayer is active will automatically deactivate Protect from Melee as they are incompatible Prayers.

Thick Skin - 1 point per 12 seconds
Burst of Strength - 1 point per 12 seconds
Clarity of Thought - 1 point per 12 seconds
Sharp Eye - 1 point per 12 seconds
Mystic will - 1 point per 12 seconds
Rock skin - 1 point per 6 seconds
Superhuman strength - 1 point per 6 seconds
Improved reflexes - 1 point per 6 seconds
Rapid restore - 1 point per 26 seconds
Rapid heal - 1 point per 18 seconds
Protect item - 1 point per 18 seconds
Hawk eye - 1 point per 6 seconds
Mystic lore - 1 point per 6 seconds
Steel skin - 1 point per 3 seconds
Ultimate strength - 1 point per 3 seconds
Incredible reflexes - 1 point per 3 seconds
Protect from summoning - 1 point per 3 seconds
Protect from magic - 1 point per 3 seconds
Protect from ranged - 1 point per 3 seconds
Protect from melee - 1 point per 3 seconds
Eagle eye - 1 point per 3 seconds
Mystic might - 1 point per 3 seconds
Retribution - 1 point per 12 seconds
Redemption - 1 point per 6 seconds
Smite - 1 point per 2 seconds
Chivalry - 1 point per 1.5 second
Rapid renewal - 1 point per 2.5 seconds
Piety - 1 point per 1.8 second
Rigour - 1 point per 2 seconds
Augury - 1 point per 1.8 second

- Ancient Curse PrayerBook -

These are only available to members. Similar rules from the regular Prayer list apply: Sap Curses cannot be used with leech curses. Deflect Curses cannot be used together, except Deflect Summoning can be used with another Deflect Curse.

Protect Item - 1 point every 18 seconds
Sap Warrior - 1 point every 2.4 seconds
Sap Ranger - 1 point every 2.4 seconds
Sap Mage - 1 point every 2.4 seconds
Sap Spirit - 1 point every 2.4 seconds
Berserker - 1 point every 18 seconds
Deflect Summon - 1 point every 3 seconds
Deflect Magic - 1 point every 3 seconds
Deflect Missiles - 1 point every 3 seconds
Deflect Melee - 1 point every 3 seconds
Leech Attack - 1 point every 3.6 seconds
Leech Range - 1 point every 3.6 seconds
Leech Magic - 1 point every 3.6 seconds
Leech Defense - 1 point every 3.6 seconds
Leech Strength - 1 point every 3.6 seconds
Leech Energy - 1 point every 3.6 seconds
Leech Special Attack - 1 point every 3.6 seconds
Wrath - 1 point every 12 seconds
SoulSplit - 1 point every 2.0 seconds
Turmoil - 1 point every 2.0 seconds (3.0 seconds with Castle Wars Halo equipped)

- Prayer Drain Calculations -

These are the prayer drain rates without any prayer bonus, with prayer bonus you can calculate like this:

A player has a drain rate of 2 points per 3 seconds, if that player equips prayer Armour to get a prayer bonus of 20 the the prayer is slowed by 0.035 * 20 = 0.7

Therefore the drain rate will become 3 * (2 + 0.7) = 2 points per 8.1 seconds or 1 point per 4.05 seconds.

This might seem advanced, just keep in your head that the formulas will always be 0.035*Prayer bonus

As you would pray range for Aviansies you would need a total of 705.88 prayer points (If you are praying Protect Range only and wearing 20 prayer bonus)

The prayer potion formula is a bit easier; 7 + (Prayer level / 4)

So if you had 43 prayer, you could get 17.75 prayer points restored by 1 dose of a prayer potion.

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