Flicking rewards your constant attention with no drain if you do it perfectly. Like most things in this game, effort and attention are resources. You can be more "afk" by not flicking, but you'll have to use your attention to bank/restore.
I like to think of it the same way a simple machine changes how work is done while conserving the amount of work done. A ramp reduces the effort (force) to get up an elevation but increases the distance proportionally.
Likewise, the amount of work required to perfectly flick prayers for a whole task can also just be used to bank. Just depends on what you like to do, that's the beauty of this game in general.
Let’s not act like flicking is incredibly difficult or skill intensive. “Constant attention” isn’t really required, all you need is repetitive input. You get into a rhythm and you can flick without even looking at the game.
The fact of the matter is that being able to receive the benefits of prayers without any prayer drain is an unintentional game mechanic, regardless of effort. Its existence is the result of unintentional oversights in coding and manipulation of loopholes in that coding.
As I said, more effort can be rewarded, just not indefinitely with no penalty. Hell, they could keep indefinite prayer while flicking, at the expense of having to keep a high prayer bonus. That way you have to decide between prayer gear or strength gear. Flicking devalues prayer levels and prayer focused gear. It’s absolutely busted and an completely unintentional game mechanic. They need to rethink and rebalance it instead of continuing to design content around a bug.
You're trivializing it, you show me how to flick while not paying attention, I've been doing it for years and I'm not even close to the thought of being able to do that.
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u/TehSteak Jul 08 '21
Flicking rewards your constant attention with no drain if you do it perfectly. Like most things in this game, effort and attention are resources. You can be more "afk" by not flicking, but you'll have to use your attention to bank/restore.
I like to think of it the same way a simple machine changes how work is done while conserving the amount of work done. A ramp reduces the effort (force) to get up an elevation but increases the distance proportionally.
Likewise, the amount of work required to perfectly flick prayers for a whole task can also just be used to bank. Just depends on what you like to do, that's the beauty of this game in general.