Acient Curses (New Prayer) FACTS

Sylen

All information are either tested by myself and by many others on rs forum.


Berserker
Extra 9 seconds / level boost. Extra 45 seconds for Overload effect.


Sap
Drains opponent stat by 10% right off the bet. And then 1% approximately every 10-15 seconds until 20% total.


Deflect
Protection: 100% vs npc, 60% damage reduction vs players.
Recoil damage: Approximately 10% of what your opponent WOULD HAVE hit, rounded down. The recoil damage is not gauranteed to hit 100% of the time.

Tests on npcs:
Black demon (Lvl 172, max hit 16) - Deflect melee deals 1 damage only.
Mithril dragon (Lvl 304, max hit melee 28) - Deflect melee deals up to 2 damage.
Ket-Zek (Lvl 360, max hit magic 49) - Deflect magic constantly deals up to 3-4 damage.
Kree-arra (Lvl 580, max hit range 69) - Deflect range constantly deals up to 4-6 damage.
Graardor (Lvl 624, max hit range 35) - Deflect range deals up to 2-3 damage.

P.S. Does not damage npc that requires special equipments such as vyrewatch and jade vine. I have not tested it on kurask yet.
P.S.2. Theoratically, it can deal up to 9 damage towards jad.


Leech
Boosts your stat by 5% and drains opponent 10% right off the bet. And then 1% is drained from opponent and added to yours every 10-15 seconds until 10%. The drain goes on til 25% for the opponent.
Also worth noting that the extra boost to your stat will only stay for a short amount of time even if you're still in combat. But it also stays there after you turn off the prayer. For example: I have 10% def boost from using Leech Def, it will constantly drop by 1% every so often before it gets boosted again. If I turn it off, I will still have 5% until the effect fades away over time.


Wrath
Basically an upgraded version of Retribution. Instead of 3x3 area damage, it is 5x5. The damage formula remains the same: 25% of remaining prayer.


Soul Split
Smite + Blood Barrage effect that ISN'T blocked out by protection prayer of your target.
For example:
You vs the Victim.
Victim has protect melee.
You have soul split.
You would have hit the Victim a 40, but your damage is reduced by 16. So you dealt 24 damage.
BUT, 10 will still be deducted from the Victim's prayer and added to your health.
P.S. The healing effect also works on npc.


Turmoil
Boost your atk, def by 15% and str by 23% as soon as you activate the prayer. Then an extra 15% in atk, def and 10% in str from your target opponent, up to 14 in atk and def and 9 in str. Note that the extra boost will not activate until you engage your target.


FACTS

- Overhead prayers cannot stack just like standard prayers.
- Overhead prayers = Deflect, Wrath, Soul Split
- Also, Sap or Leech of the same type, as well as Turmoil cannot stack (Think rock skin and steel skin and piety.)
- When vs npcs, multiple players' Leech DO NOT stack.


COMPARISON

Pros:

- Curse prayer drains slightly slower than their standard equivelant. Turmoil slower than Piety etc.

- Drains opponent

- When the set up is right, Turmoil = 29% atk, 32% str & 29% def boost. Compare piety 20% atk, 23% str & 25% def.

- Soul Split? SOUL SPLAT!


Cons:

- Sap and Leech prayers takes time to activate to their full effect.
- Also no good against npcs with one sided stat. I personally experienced this against Karil while trying to boost my atk with leech... He has no atk for me to drain! (Turmoil will solve this problem, however.)

- In a case of Turmoil vs Piety, take two maxed out player for example, the one using Turmoil will lose the first round in advantage since he needs to actually engage the other before the extra boost kicks in.
- Turmoil only unleash its full potential against strong opponents. Otherwise its weaker than piety.




MY TAKE

Most of these curses' potential depend heavily on how strong your opponent is.
Due to the delayed effect of the sap/leech curses,
Until you can use Turmoil, or at least Soul Split, you're better off with piety while pvm.
Otherwise, sap/leech alone can be VERY useful in pvp situations.
Having Soul Split & Turmoil is simply icing on cake in pvp.
Aside from that, Deflect is simply excellent in pvm.
Yes they don't do much damage, but they hit quite often and consistent and they add up.
Put on deflect range on Kree and beef it with leech defense, he is gonna drop like a rock.

Deadly prayers indeed, if you can use it.

sp_wong

nicely done

kit034

thanks for the useful information.
cruse drains slower than prayer lol

Clmak814

is it copy and paste..?
whatever
still good enough