Prayer

Prayer
Prayer points	Your Prayer level when full
Drain	Points per 36 seconds, slower with a higher prayer bonus
Refill	Altars, restoration pools, potions
Strongest prayers	Piety, Rigour, Augury

Prayer is the combat skill that powers prayers: boosts to your combat stats, protection from attacks and a few special effects. Each prayer uses up Prayer points while it is on, and all your prayers turn off when you run out.

On Roat Pkz you can set your Prayer level yourself, so any account can reach the prayers it needs. A few prayers have to be unlocked first: Rigour, Augury, Preserve, Deadeye and Mystic Vigour come from Prayer scrolls.

Prayers

Prayer		Level	Effect	Drain (one point every)
	Thick Skin	1	+5% Defence	12 seconds
	Burst of Strength	4	+5% Strength	12 seconds
	Clarity of Thought	7	+5% Attack	12 seconds
	Sharp Eye	8	+5% Ranged attack and Ranged strength	12 seconds
	Mystic Will	9	+5% Magic attack and magic defence	12 seconds
	Rock Skin	10	+10% Defence	6 seconds
	Superhuman Strength	13	+10% Strength	6 seconds
	Improved Reflexes	16	+10% Attack	6 seconds
	Protect Item	25	Keep one extra item when you die	18 seconds
	Hawk Eye	26	+10% Ranged attack and Ranged strength	6 seconds
	Mystic Lore	27	+10% Magic attack and magic defence, +1% Magic damage	6 seconds
	Steel Skin	28	+15% Defence	3 seconds
	Ultimate Strength	31	+15% Strength	3 seconds
	Incredible Reflexes	34	+15% Attack	3 seconds
	Protect from Magic	37	Magic attacks: 40% less damage from players, none from most monsters	3 seconds
	Protect from Missiles	40	Ranged attacks: 40% less damage from players, none from most monsters	3 seconds
	Protect from Melee	43	Melee attacks: 40% less damage from players, none from most monsters	3 seconds
	Eagle Eye	44	+15% Ranged attack and Ranged strength	3 seconds
	Mystic Might	45	+15% Magic attack and magic defence, +2% Magic damage	3 seconds
	Retribution	46	If another player kills you from less than 4 tiles away, it hits them back for up to a quarter of your Prayer level + 1 (25 at 99 Prayer)	12 seconds
	Redemption	49	When a hit leaves you alive with a tenth of your Hitpoints or less, it uses up all your Prayer points to heal a quarter of your Prayer level (24 at 99 Prayer)	6 seconds
	Smite	52	Your hits on other players also drain their Prayer by a quarter of the damage	2 seconds
	Preserve	55	Boosted levels drop by 1 every 90 seconds instead of every 60. Unlocked with the Torn prayer scroll.	12 seconds
	Chivalry	60 65	+15% Attack, +18% Strength and +20% Defence	1.8 seconds
	Deadeye	62	+18% Ranged strength. Once unlocked with the Deadeye prayer scroll, it takes the place of Eagle Eye.	3 seconds
	Mystic Vigour	63	+18% Magic attack and magic defence, +3% Magic damage and +5% Defence. Once unlocked with the Mystic vigour prayer scroll, it takes the place of Mystic Might.	3 seconds
	Piety	70 70	+20% Attack, +23% Strength and +25% Defence	1.8 seconds
	Rigour	74 70	+20% Ranged attack, +23% Ranged strength and +25% Defence. Has to be unlocked.	1.8 seconds
	Augury	77 70	+25% Magic attack and magic defence, +4% Magic damage and +25% Defence. Has to be unlocked.	1.8 seconds

The drain times are for one prayer on its own with no prayer bonus; see Prayer points and drain. The Protection prayers page explains the overhead prayers and Protect Item in full.

What the boosts do

• The percentages raise the level that goes into the combat formulas. With +15% Attack your Attack level counts as 15% higher for melee accuracy, and with +15% Strength your Strength level counts as 15% higher for your melee max hit. Ranged attack and Ranged strength work the same way for your Ranged accuracy and max hit, and Magic attack for your magic accuracy.
• Magic damage is added to the magic damage bonus of your equipment, so Augury's +4% works like 4% more magic damage bonus.
• Defence raises your defence against melee and ranged attacks from players and monsters, and against monsters' spells.
• Against other players' spells your defence is based mostly on your Magic level (70%) and partly on your Defence level (30%). Mystic Will, Mystic Lore, Mystic Might, Mystic Vigour and Augury raise this magic defence.

Combining prayers

Turning on a prayer turns off the prayers it can't be combined with:

Turning on	Turns off
Clarity of Thought, Improved Reflexes or Incredible Reflexes	The other Attack prayers, Chivalry and Piety, and every Ranged and Magic prayer
Burst of Strength, Superhuman Strength or Ultimate Strength	The other Strength prayers, Chivalry and Piety, and every Ranged and Magic prayer
Thick Skin, Rock Skin or Steel Skin	The other Skin prayers, Chivalry, Piety, Deadeye, Mystic Vigour, Rigour and Augury
Sharp Eye, Hawk Eye, Eagle Eye, Mystic Will, Mystic Lore or Mystic Might	The other Ranged and Magic prayers, and every Attack and Strength prayer (Chivalry and Piety too)
Chivalry, Piety, Deadeye, Mystic Vigour, Rigour or Augury	Every Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged and Magic prayer
Protect from Magic, Protect from Missiles, Protect from Melee, Retribution, Redemption or Smite	The other overhead prayers: only one can be on at a time

Protect Item and Preserve can be combined with anything.

Quick-prayers: you can save a set of prayers as your quick-prayers from the Prayer orb next to the minimap. Clicking the orb turns them all on at once; clicking it again turns all your prayers off.

Prayer points and drain

Your Prayer points start at your Prayer level and go down while prayers are on. Each prayer has a drain rate, the number of points it uses every 36 seconds (60 game ticks), and the rates of all the prayers you have on add up. The table above shows the same rates as one point every so many seconds.

Your equipment's prayer bonus slows the drain: your prayers last (1 + prayer bonus ÷ 30) times as long, so +30 prayer bonus makes them last twice as long.

Prayers on	How long 99 Prayer points last
	+0 prayer bonus	+10	+20	+30
A protection prayer	4 min 57 s	6 min 36 s	8 min 15 s	9 min 55 s
Piety, Rigour or Augury	2 min 58 s	3 min 58 s	4 min 57 s	5 min 57 s
Piety, Rigour or Augury and a protection prayer	1 min 52 s	2 min 29 s	3 min 6 s	3 min 43 s
Piety, Rigour or Augury, a protection prayer and Protect Item	1 min 45 s	2 min 20 s	2 min 55 s	3 min 30 s
Eagle Eye, Steel Skin and a protection prayer	1 min 40 s	2 min 13 s	2 min 45 s	3 min 19 s

• When your Prayer reaches 0 all your prayers turn off: You have run out of prayer points!
• All your prayers also turn off when you die, and you come back with full Prayer points.
• Prayer points do not come back on their own over time.
• Prayer doesn't drain at all in Last Man Standing, or while you train on the combat dummies at home.

Things that drain your Prayer

• An opponent's Smite drains a quarter of the damage they deal you.
• Sapphire dragon bolts (e) drain your Prayer when their effect triggers (see Enchanted dragon bolts).
• The Ancient mace special attack drains as many points as the damage it deals and gives them to the attacker.
• Some bosses drain or turn off your prayers with their attacks; see each boss's page.

Restoring Prayer points

Source		Prayer restored
	Altars	Pray at an altar to refill your Prayer points: You recharge your prayer points.
Restoration pools at ::home		Refill your Prayer, Hitpoints and run energy and cure poison and venom. Not in PvP areas.
::hp (Legendary Donator and above)		The same as the pools. Not in PvP areas, minigames, raids, duels, Barrows or dangerous PvM areas, or while you are under attack.
The Prayer orb, or the Restore Prayer key in ::keybinds (Royal Donator and above)		Refills your Prayer, with the same limits as ::hp.
	Prayer potion	7 + 25% of your Prayer level: 31 points at 99
	Super restore	8 + 25%: 32 points at 99, and your other drained stats
	Sanfew serum	4 + 30%: 33 points at 99, your other drained stats, and it cures poison and venom
	Saradomin godsword special attack	A quarter of the damage, when the hit deals 20 or more
	Ancient mace special attack (players only)	As many points as the damage it deals, taken from the target. This can take you above your Prayer level.
	Eldritch nightmare staff special attack	Half the damage dealt, up to 120 Prayer points
	Holy kodai wand (monsters only)	Half the damage of every hit
	Holy scythe of vitur (monsters only)	All your Prayer points (and Hitpoints) back for every 200 damage you deal

The three potions never take your Prayer above your Prayer level, and they restore a little more with a Prayer cape or Max cape, or an imbued Ring of the gods (see Potions).

Unlocking prayers

• Rigour and Augury: learn them from the Dexterous and Arcane Prayer scrolls, rent them from the Prayer Tutor (::prayer) for 3,000 PK points an hour or 20,000 PK points a day, use them while your clan has the Holy clan perk, or use them for free in Last Man Standing.
• Preserve: learn it from the Torn prayer scroll.
• Deadeye and Mystic Vigour: learn them from their prayer scrolls. They replace Eagle Eye and Mystic Might: once you know them, clicking Eagle Eye turns on Deadeye and clicking Mystic Might turns on Mystic Vigour.

See Prayer scrolls for where to get the scrolls.

Setting your Prayer level

Click Prayer in the Skills tab and type the level you want, from 1 to 99. You have to be in a safe area and not under attack, and you can't change levels during raids, duels or minigames. If you lower your Prayer level, any prayer that needs a higher level turns off, and you can't go below the Prayer requirement of the equipment you are wearing.

Where prayers are limited

• Protect Item can't be used as a Hardcore PvP player or in the Risk Zone (see Protect Item).
• F2P zone (::f2p): Retribution, Redemption, Smite, Chivalry, Piety, Rigour, Augury, Deadeye and Mystic Vigour can't be used, and they turn off when you enter the dangerous part.
• Last Man Standing: Prayer doesn't drain and everyone can use Rigour and Augury, but Retribution, Redemption, Smite, Preserve, Deadeye and Mystic Vigour can't be used.
• Duel Arena: a duel can be set to No Prayer.
• Tournaments: some tournaments don't allow certain prayers.
• After a Dragon scimitar special attack injures you, you can't turn on an overhead prayer for 5 seconds. While a Dragon spear special attack stuns you, you can't turn prayers on or off at all.

See also

• Protection prayers
• Rigour and Augury
• Prayer scrolls
• Potions
• Freezing
• Poison