Cleansing

When active, aura reduces the length of time you and your party will remain poisoned or cursed.

Cleansing is the Paladin's level 12 Defensive Aura; it requires Prayer and, with Defiance, opens Vigor and Meditation. While it is the active aura, the time left on every poison and every curse on you and your party is cut by a percentage every two seconds, and everyone in range is healed for whatever your Prayer would heal. One number decides it: the cut, 39% at level 1 and 80% at level 20.

The numbers

The cut is the row's dm34, a diminishing curve from Param3 30 ("Poison Length % Reduction Min") towards Param4 90 ("Poison Length % Reduction Max"). The Basin writes it out, and gives the same curve for curses:

length reduced % = min(30 + [60 × [110 × lvl ÷ (lvl + 6)] ÷ 100], 90)

It reads 39% at level 1, 60% at 5, 70% at 10, 76% at 15, 80% at 20 and 84% at 30; the Basin's table only reaches the 90 cap at level 60. The radius is Param1 16 plus Param2 2 a level, times two thirds: 10 2/3 yards at level 1 and 36 at 20. The aura costs no mana. Both lines read lvl, so +skills and the level of an Aura When Equipped item count.

The tooltip's third line is "Life Healed Every 2 Seconds" at skill('Prayer'.edmn): not a number of Cleansing's own but Prayer's heal, which is why it is not in the table. It is 0 with no Prayer, 2 at Prayer level 1, 25 at Prayer level 20; the full ladder is on Prayer.

How it works

Cleansing is an aura with the row's cleansing state on the caster and on every ally in range, refreshed every two seconds (perdelay 50). It has no hit check and no damage. Its stats are item_poisonlengthresist at 100 − dm34 and hitpoints at skill('Prayer'.edns), Prayer's heal carried whole. The Basin's page sets out what the cut does and does not do:

• The reduction is applied once every two seconds to the remaining poison and curse length, so a long poison is cut again and again while you stand in the aura.
• It is applied after the Poison Length Reduced on items and after Fade, which are applied only once, when you are first poisoned or cursed. The two rules do not add; the aura works on what is left.
• Unlike item poison-length reduction, the difficulty resistance penalties and the 75% ceiling do not apply to the aura's cut.
• It does not shorten the bleed of Open Wounds.
• The healing is applied to the supplier and allies once every two seconds. It adds to the healing of Prayer and Meditation auras, but among several Cleansings only equal-level auras add; otherwise only the highest-level Cleansing heals.

The cut is to remaining length, not to poison damage per second. A short, heavy poison does most of its damage before the first tick; the aura is for long poisons and curses.

The Basin lists the current game's Cure helm as an aura-when-equipped source at level 1 and Plague at level 13–17, and +1–3 Cleansing can spawn on Paladin scepters.

Synergies and +skills

Cleansing has one synergy line, and it is unusual: "Prayer: Life Healed Every 2 Seconds" reads Prayer's heal at Prayer's level (skill('Prayer'.edmn); the Basin writes it as Prayer.lvl), so +skills that raise Prayer raise the heal inside Cleansing. Cleansing feeds one skill, read as hard points (blvl):

• Sanctuary: +7% magic damage a point (Sanctuary's Param8).

Cleansing's own cut and radius read lvl, so a +skill from gear is worth a hard point to the aura.

Against players

Cleansing deals no damage and is applied only to you and your party, so the player-versus-player rule has nothing to act on; see Player versus Player.

Build notes

• Level 20 reads an 80% cut every two seconds in 36 yards; from level 10 (70%) on the line is nearly flat, so a level 1 Cure helm's 39% is a third of the way to a maxed aura for the cost of a helm.
• Points in Prayer are the aura's healing; Cleansing itself heals nothing without them.
• Twenty hard points are +140% to Sanctuary's magic damage, the only reason to put more than one point in a Cleansing you intend to run.