Prayer

When active, aura slowly regenerates the life of you and your party.

Prayer is the Paladin's level 1 Defensive Aura; it has no prerequisite and opens Cleansing. While it is the active aura, you and every ally in its radius are healed a flat amount of life every two seconds, and it is the only Defensive Aura with a mana cost. Two numbers decide it: the heal, 2 life at level 1 and 25 at level 20, and the cost, 1 mana at level 1 and 4.56 at level 20, which is paid twice as often when anyone in range is hurt.

The numbers

The heal is the row's edmn, built from EMin 2 and the five bracket columns: +1 a level to level 8, +1 to 16, +2 to 22, +2 to 28 and +3 past that. That gives 2 at level 1, 11 at 10, 25 at 20 and 47 at 30. The radius is Param1 16 ("Radius baseline") plus Param2 2 a level ("Radius per level"), times two thirds: 10 2/3 yards at level 1, 1 1/3 yards more a level, 36 yards at 20. The mana line is 1 at level 1 and three sixteenths more a level (lvlmana 3 at manashift 4), 4.56 at level 20 and 6.44 at 30. Every line reads lvl, so +skills from gear count and so does the level of an Aura When Equipped item.

How it works

Prayer is an aura with the row's prayer state on the caster and on every ally in range. Its one stat is hitpoints at edns: the heal is added to current life, not to maximum life, and it has no hit check and no damage. The aura ticks on its period (perdelay 50 frames, every two seconds), and the Basin's page sets out how the ticks and the cost behave:

• Healing is applied to the supplier and to allies once every two seconds. A target inside several Prayers of equal level is healed by all of them; otherwise only the highest-level aura heals.
• The mana cost is charged once every two seconds when nobody in range needs healing, whatever their number. When any target in range does need healing, the cost is doubled, so the displayed cost becomes a cost per second, and the supplier does not regenerate mana while that is so.

At level 20 a Prayer that is actually healing someone costs 4.56 mana a second and stops your own mana regeneration; the tooltip's number is the idle cost.

The Basin's page adds that the Combat Desert Mercenary also supplies Prayer, and that +1–3 Prayer can spawn on low-level Paladin scepters.

Synergies and +skills

Prayer has no dsc3 synergy lines and no …SymPerCalc column: nothing feeds it. It feeds three skills:

• Cleansing and Meditation both carry Prayer's heal as a second aura stat (hitpoints at skill('Prayer'.edns)): either aura heals exactly what your Prayer would, at Prayer's level, while it is the active aura. The Basin writes that line as Prayer.lvl, so it follows Prayer's level, not only its hard points.
• Holy Bolt: +20% life healed a hard point (Holy Bolt's Param7, read as blvl).

Prayer's own lines read lvl, so a +skill from gear raises the heal, the radius and the cost exactly as a hard point does; only the Holy Bolt synergy wants hard points.

Against players

Prayer 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

• A hard point in Prayer is worth more to Cleansing or Meditation than to Prayer itself: the heal rides inside both auras at no mana, which is how most Paladins actually use it.
• The heal's growth bends upwards: +1 a level to level 16 but +3 a level past 28, so levels 21–30 from +skills add 22 life a tick, almost as much as the first twenty.
• At 20 hard points Holy Bolt heals +400%; that is the only place Prayer's hard points matter beyond its level.