Deflect Magic

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Deflect Magic



Release						3 December 2009 (Update)
Members						Yes
Prayer level						65
Book						Ancient Curses
Drain						150 points per minute (1 point per 0.4 seconds)
Description						Provides 50% damage reduction against magical attacks and can deflect some of the damage back to the attacker.
Effect details						Protects against damage from attacks and can deflect some damage back onto the attacker.
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Deflect Magic is an Ancient Curse accessible at level 65 Prayer. When used, the player receives a 50% (40% in PvP) damage reduction against Magic attacks with a 67% chance to reflect damage back at your attacker. The damage reflected is 10% of the damage the attack would have done if not blocked by the deflect curse. This is potentially an extremely potent curse against users of ancient magicks. This curse can reduce the time of binds from Binding spells and Ice spells and the time from Teleport Block by half. This curse has no effect against Vengeance.

The deflection curses are another reason for players to switch from the normal prayer set to the curses, as they have the same drain rate as the protection prayers from the regular book and can deal additional damage back.

In order to use this curse, you must have the Ancient Curses activated, which requires completion of The Temple at Senntisten quest.

Exceptions to prayers and curses blocking 50% damage

Protection prayers and curses give 50% damage reduction in most scenarios. However, there are a number of exceptions that are outlined in the charts below.

Abilities, items, and perks
Modifier	Type	Damage reduction %	Notes
Devotion	Ability	100% (75% in pvp)	Lasts for 10 seconds when activated and can be extended by an additional 10 seconds.
Amulet of souls	Item	+10%	Adds an additional +10% damage reduction to any scenario. In most cases this makes Protect/Deflect prayers block 60% damage.
Essence of Finality	Item	+10%
Pontifex shadow ring	Item	+10%	Adds an additional +10% damage reduction against Arch-Glacor's basic attacks. Stacks additively with amulet of souls or Essence of Finality.
Powder of protection	Item	+10%	Adds an additional +10% damage reduction to any scenario. In most cases this makes protection prayers/curses block 60% damage. Does not stack with amulet of souls or Essence of Finality.
Devoted	Perk	100% (75% in PvP)	Has a chance to activate for 3 seconds every time you get hit.
Enhanced Devoted	Perk	100% (75% in PvP)	Has a chance to activate for 3 seconds every time you get hit. Greater chance than Devoted.

NPCs
NPC name	Damage reduction %	Notes
Arch-Glacor	65%	Protect/Deflect prayers are 65% effective against the Flurry special attack instead of the normal 50%.
Balance Elemental	100%
Balfrug Kreeyath	100%	He is K'ril Tsutsaroth's minion that attacks with Magic.
Blink	15%	Protect and Deflect Ranged block 15% of the damage of Blink's magic attack.
Brutish dinosaur	~72%	Special attack deals melee damage and Protect/Deflect Melee reduces damage by ~72%.
Corporeal Beast	25%	Unconfirmed/needs testing
Demon boss	0%	Protect/Deflect prayers do not reduce any damage. Additionally, using any prayer increases the damage they deal by 200% as well as their accuracy.
Giant mole	0%	On hard mode, if she attacks a player that is trapped in mud deals around 3,000 melee damage that is not reduced by Protect/Deflect Melee.
Kalphite King	Varies	Reduces normal Melee and Ranged attacks by 70%. Reduces double-mage ball Magic attack by 0%. The reduction from the melee "green" attack is much less than 50%, probably 0%.
Kerapac	Varies	The more enrage Kerapac gains during the 4th phase of the fight, the less effective your Protect/Deflect prayers are.
Legiones	0%	Their lightning area-of-denial attacks deal Magic damage but are not reduced by Protect/Deflect Magic.
Memory of Nomad	0%	Gielinor's red bomb attacks deal Magic damage but are not reduced by Protect/Deflect Magic.
Nex		Unconfirmed/needs testing
Nightmare	75%	Special attack deals Ranged damage and Protect/Deflect Missiles reduces damage by 75%.
Nodon artificer	0%	Their "Feel the flames..." special attack deals Magic damage but is not reduced by Protect/Deflect Magic.
Nodon engineer
Nodon enforcer
Siege engine	50%	Despite dealing cannonball damage, Protect/Deflect Missiles reduces damage by 50%.
Ogre shaman	0%	Interacting with them before completing the Watchtower quest without the magic ogre potion deals Magic damage but is not reduced by Protect/Deflect Magic.
Raksha	60%
Scopulus	>50%	One of the minions spawned at Vorago. Unconfirmed/needs testing
TzTok-Jad	100%	Praying the correct protection prayer against TzTok-Jad, TokHaar-Jad, or TzekHaar-Jad blocks their damage completely.
TokHaar-Jad
TzekHaar-Jad
Tormented demon	100%

Monsters that use Deflect Magic

Currently only one monster, Nex, is capable of using Deflect Magic. This blocks 100% of Magic damage instead of the usual 50%.

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Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

patch 22 July 2019 (Update):
- Magic protection prayers and other damage reduction/negation abilities will now work against Muspah's magic attacks.

patch 4 February 2014 (Update):
- An issue where using a hotkey would not activate Deflect Magic and Deflect Melee from the action bar has been resolved.

patch 6 December 2011 (Update):
- Deflect Magic no longer hits incredibly high when wearing Veracs equipment.

patch 24 June 2010 (Update):
- Adjusted the curse deflect animations to be faster. This was an animation issue only; running/walking is still the same with or without curses active.

update 3 December 2009 (Update):
- Added to game.

Trivia

According to the ancient hymnal, Deflect Magic's verbal incantation is "Arceto impetum magorum."^[sic] (I hinder the attack of magical things.)