Why even remove it? Why did it take 1 month to fix then? Took you 1 month to realize its broken or inauthentic?
inb4 madcuzbad players; if you’re skilled enough to do it why not?
breaks up the monotony of killing monsters
Hello and welcome to the forum!
Prayer flicking has not been removed. It remains viable, and the drain delay is still much more forgiving than OSRS.
Early RS2 is lost media. Hardly any comparison points exist anymore. The best sources we have are old HyperCam 2 videos. So yes, it takes time and careful research to ensure we have everything correct – this is a big part of what beta is for!
The dev team has been working on prayers for a little while now. Drain delays were tweaked last week: refactor(prayer): Early RS2 videos indicate prot prayers draining after 5 ticks, and non prot prayers draining after 6 ticks by tannerdino · Pull Request #1423 · 2004Scape/Server · GitHub
The only part that’s changed with the authenticity update today is that you must now click the monster again after changing prayers. Monsters with 4-tick attack speeds will be especially easy to do this with, since auto retaliate will put you back in combat without needing to click again.
Thanks for beta testing 
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if it makes you feel better, ive seen footage from 2005 where prayers dont interrupt actions 
so just have to wait a year to get them back
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Not that it really matters, could you link it here?
Because in the commit, tannerdino provided this jad fight video from 2006. And it shows that overhead prayer interrupts hes attacks.
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I’ll try to look for it, it may have been a 2006 video
Its definitely 2006 as there is b2p in his mage tab at the end (sometime before the home tele was added),
but at 2:20 and 2:40 he turns on prayer and still attacks afterwards, the one at 2:20 i thought it was possible it was just auto retaliate, but on the 2:40 one he prays and his acc continues to look as the guy he is attacking runs up after he activates prayer
Watch chrome_2025-03-16_17-51-28.mp4 | Streamable boosts & prot if you align attack with a 4t monster, also works with 1t-flicking
for 5t and above, click attack after each flick
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