Ancient Curses



The Ancient Curses are a set of prayers that is obtained as a reward after completing The Temple at Senntisten. It consists of prayers ranging between levels 50 - 95 Prayer. Prayers of this set include combat skill boosts, special attack energy drainers, and damage recoilers. When players complete the quest, they will be given access to the Altar of Zaros which works similarly to gaining access to the Ancient and Lunar spellbooks for Magic. The altar is located at Senntisten Temple (under the Digsite). When a player switches to the Ancient Curses they also gain a 15% boost to their overall prayer level.

A book called the Ancient Hymnal, given to players by Azzanadra, gives an overview of the effects of the prayers.


 * Like the 'Protect from' prayers, Deflect curses stop 100% of damage caused by NPCs(EDIT: It doesn't stop 100% of the damage) and 60% of damage caused by other players (in PvP). In addition, they also have a chance of deflecting some of the damage they would have caused back onto the attacker. As with the 'Protect from' prayers, you can only deflect one style of combat at a time (Magic, melee or Ranged). Creatures that can only be damaged in a specific way (for example, the vyrewatch can only be damaged by the Ivandis flail) cannot be hurt using a deflect curse.


 * You can have multiple sap or leech curses active at the same time (e.g. Sap Mage, Sap Warrior and Sap Ranger), but you cannot have the sap and leech curse of the same type active at the same time (e.g. you cannot have Sap Ranger and Leech Ranged active together).


 * You can only have either Soul Split, Wrath or one deflect curse active at any one time.
 * Turmoil may not be used with any leech or sap curses.
 * The effects of the Turmoil curse apply to monsters, as well as players.
 * The curses Protect Item, Berserker and Turmoil all have animations associated with them being activated, though the Sap and Deflect curses have no animation.



Trivia

 * On the day of the release multiple glitches were found including players who had completed Dwarf Cannon having it appear in the in progress area of the quest guide. This has since been fixed.
 * This Ancient curses was released on the 3rd of December 2009 along with the quest The Temple at Senntisten.