Protect Item

Members only?	No/Yes for Ancient Curses
Level	25 (Standard Prayer), 50 (Ancient Curses)
Prayer book	Standard Prayers and Ancient Curses
Drain rate	33.3 points per minute (1 point per 1.8 seconds)
Effect	Keep 1 extra item upon Death

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Protect Item is a prayer in both the standard prayer list and the Ancient Curses. When it is active, the user will keep one extra item if they die. This means that if the player is in the Wilderness, they will still keep one item and if they are outside the Wilderness, they will keep four items. At the moment, it is the only known way to keep more than three items on death outside of a safe activity, besides the fury shark.

Use in PvPEdit

Protect Item can be used in the Wilderness, except for High-risk worlds. It is common to see players Player-killing with only one item, such as a Dragon dagger. They can use the Protect Item prayer to avoid the effect of the Wilderness and keep their weapon. This tactic is despised amongst many PKers in general and is commonly referred to as "1 iteming."

TriviaEdit

• Protect Item is unique in that it is the only prayer that appears on both the standard prayer list and the Ancient Curses list. The two versions are not completely identical however, as they require different levels and the Ancient Curses icon has two glowing rings around it, and appears smaller.
• Members who depend upon one-iteming are advised to bring a Prayer potion as player killers often use spells and prayers to drain their victims' prayer points before they kill them.
• Protect Item is one of several curses that do not have a verbal incantation in the ancient hymnal.

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Protection	Summoning • Magic • Missiles • Melee
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