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The Ancient Curses

A Companion Guide to Alternate Prayers

The Ancient Curses

Written by Blyaunte
Thanks to Maj0r Mike for the GIF’s

Ancient Curses - Interface

Overview:

The Ancient Curses are an alternative to the standard set of regular Prayers for Members only, and are a reward to players who complete The Temple at Senntisten quest. As such, the requirements to obtain the Ancient Curses are those as set out in the Temple of Senntisten quest.


Upon completion of the quest, and having read the Ancient Hymnal provided to you by Azzanadra, you will be given access to the Altar of Zaros. If you destroy or otherwise lose the Ancient Hymnal after the quest, it can be located in any bookcase in your Player Owned House.



The Zaros Altar is located in the Temple of Senntisten, which is found under the Northwest winch, in the Digsite, outlined in red on the map below. This Altar is completed by Azzanadra, with the player's help, during the Temple of Senntisten quest, and is also used by Azzanadra to communicate with Zaros directly.



Praying at the Altar of Zaros will give you a 15% boost to your overall prayer level. When you pray at the Altar, you will also be given an option to switch between the standard Prayers and the Ancient Curses.


When using the Ancient Curses, praying at any altar restores your Prayer Level, as per usual – plus you are also given the option to revert to the standard Prayers. This option may be toggled "off" at the player's own discretion.

You can likewise restore your Prayer level while operating Ancient Curses using potions or a Falador Shield.

After completing of the Elite Falador Tasks, the Ancient Hymnal may be used to change the altar on the second floor of the White Knights' Castle into another Altar of Zaros. To arrange this, the player must first kill the two White Knights in the room – aside from Sir Vyvin. After the two knights are dead, the player may use the Ancient Hymnal on the Altar. After the ritual is completed, this Second Altar will likewise offer the ability to switch from Prayers to Curses.

The Curses:

The Ancient Curses require a Prayer level from 50 to 95. They offer a variety of combat skill boosts, special drainers to your opponents combat skills, and damage recoilers that will deflect your enemies' attacks and inflict damage back upon your opponent.

Each of the Ancient Curses will provide the following abilities or functions:

Protect Item

- Level 50

When activated, this Curse allows you to keep one (1) additional item when you die. As with the standard Prayer "Protect Item", the item retained will be the next "most valuable" non-stackable item in your inventory. However, the item's value is determined by its High Alchemy product and not by its value as set out in the Grand Exchange.

This curse will drain your Prayer at a rate of one (1) point every 18 seconds.

A player activating the Protect Item Curse

Sap Warrior

- Level 50

This curse will drain your enemy’s Attack, Strength and Defence by 10%, increasing to a drain of 20% over time. This curse is very useful to players in PvP circumstances as it attacks all three principal melee skills simultaneously. This curse is likewise effective against monsters.

Sap Warrior will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 2.6 seconds that it is activated.

Sap Range

- Level 52

This curse drains your enemy’s Range and Defence by 10%, increasing to 20% over time. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 2.6 seconds that it is activated.

Sap Mage

- Level 54

This will drain the enemy’s Magic and Defence by 10%, increasing to 20% over time. Likewise, it drains your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 2.6 seconds that it is activated.

Sap Spirit

- Level 56

This curse drains the enemy's special attack energy during combat. It also drains your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 2.6 seconds that it is activated.

The "waves" of sap Curses taking their effect.

Berserker

- Level 59

Any of your “boosted” combat skills (either by means of a potion or other special effect) will last 15% longer while this curse is active.

Beserker drains your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 18 seconds that it is active.

A player activating the Berserker Curse

Deflect Summoning

- Level 62

This curse will deflects any damage caused by enemy familiars – either through their own normal attack or their special attacks from summoning scrolls. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3 seconds that it is active.

Deflect Magic

- Level 65

This curse protects you against damage from Magic attacks and it may deflect back damage upon your attacker. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3 seconds that it is active.

Deflect Missiles

- Level 68

Deflect Missiles will protect you against damage from Ranged attacks and may likewise deflect damage back to your opponent. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3 seconds that it is active.

Deflect Melee

- Level 71

This Curse protects against damage from melee attacks and may cause damage to your attacker. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3 seconds that it is active.

Leech Attack

- Level 74

This curse will boost your own Attack by 5%, gradually increasing to a 10% boost over time and, at the same time it will drain your enemy’s Attack by 10%, increasing to a drain of 25% of your enemy’s Attack over time. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3.6 seconds that it is active.

Leech Ranged

- Level 76

This curse boosts your own Range by 5%, gradually increasing to a 10% boost over time. Meanwhile, it will drain your enemy’s Range by 10%, gradually increasing to a drain of 25% of your enemy’s Range over time. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3.6 seconds that it is active.

Leech Magic

- Level 78

This boosts your Magic by 5% with a gradual increase to your Magic to a 10% boost over time. At the same time, it will drains your enemy’s Magic by 10%, increasing gradually to 25% drain on your enemy’s Magic over time. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3.6 seconds that it is active.

Leech Defence

- Level 80

As with the other Leech curses, this curse boosts your own Defence by 5%, with an increase to 10% of your Defence, over time, and at the same time it drains your enemy’s Defence by 10%, gradually increasing to 25% over time. Likewise, it will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3.6 seconds that it is active.

Leech Strength

- Level 82

Likewise, this curse boosts your Strength by 5% -- increasing to 10% over time – and it drains the enemy’s Strength by 10% and increases to a drain of up to 25% of your enemy’s Strength over time. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 3.6 seconds that it is active.

Leech Energy

- Level 84

This curse will boost your run energy and drain your enemy’s run energy by up to 10%.

Leech Special Attack

- Level 86

This boosts your own special attack energy and drains the enemy’s special attack energy by up to 10%.

The "arrows" of leech Curses taking their effect.

Wrath

- Level 89

If activated, when you die, the Ancient Wrath Curse will inflict damage of up to 2½ times (250%) your maximum Prayer level to all nearby enemies within a 5 × 5 area of effect. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 18 seconds that it is active.

Wrath will not harm other players outside of PvP areas, and it will only hit multiple targets in multi-combat zones.

The awesome effect of the Wrath Curse

Soul Split

- Level 92

When activated, this curse will cause your opponent to lose one prayer point, and will restore one (1) Life Point to youm for every five (5) Life Points of damage you do to them. It will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 2 seconds that it is active.

The Soul Split Curse in action.

Turmoil

- Level 95

This curse will increase Attack and Defence by 15% – plus an additional 15% of your enemy's Attack and Defence – and increase your Strength by 23%, plus 10% of your enemy's Strength. The net result of Turmoil is the more powerful your opponent, the more power it will provide to you. Turmoil will drain your prayer at a rate of 1 point of prayer for every 2 seconds that it is active.

A player activating the Turmoil Curse

General Comments

• As with the “Protection” series of Prayers, the “Deflection” curses will stop 100% of all damage caused by NPCs, and 60% of damage caused by other players in Player vs Player conditions.


• Like the Protection prayers, only one Deflection curse can be employed at any one time, with the exception of the "Deflect Summoning" curse, which can be combined with any one of the other Deflection curses.


• The Deflection curses will deal back some of the damage that would have hit you, onto your original attacker – in much the same manner as a Ring of Recoil. However, monsters that can only be damaged with specific attacks, or weapons, cannot be hurt using a Deflection curse – e.g. the Jade Vine, or monsters with a specific Slayer level requirement.


• Sap and leech curses will drain your opponent's respective combat accordingly.


• You can use multiple sap or leech curses at the same time, however, you cannot combine the sap and leech curse of the same type at the same time.


• You can only employ Soul Split or Wrath at any one time.


• Turmoil cannot be used with any of the leech or sap curses. The Turmoil, Sap and Leech curses’ affects applies to both NPC’s and players.


• Only the Protect Item, Berserker and Turmoil curses show animations when they have been activated. The Deflection, Sap and Leech curses have no animations when activated, but they do provide animations during combat.


• As a general rule, despite having higher level requirements for Prayers of similar effect, the Curses do not appear to drain any faster than the corresponding Prayers of the same type or effect.


• The deflection Curses are effective against Revenants of all types, and upon activation may even discourage the Revenant from pressing its attack.