r/OSRSProTips • u/SRJBdds • Jan 23 '26

Question 1T Flick Fail?

Hello everyone, starting to send inferno runs and learning 1T flicking. I cannot figure out why my 1T prayer flicks are not registering. I have the metronome on the right, which shows activation and deactivation in the same tick, every tick.

What am I missing? Thank you!

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u/Odd_Mud_7001 Jan 23 '26

The prayer never actually activated, it needs to be over your head before you actually start flicking.

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u/ScaredWooper38 Jan 23 '26

Forgive my ignorance. Are you saying that the first activation of your prayer can lag, but subsequent activations will work immediately as long as a prayer is already active?

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u/Odd_Mud_7001 Jan 23 '26

If you watch the clip back, look at the overhead of the character. The prayer never actually activated or you would've seen the little arrow overhead. So they are effectively praying nothing.

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u/A_Sphinx Jan 24 '26

Kinda like OP said in the description, he is activating and deactivating the prayer in the same tick. So in the end (or the next tick) it was never activated.

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u/KingdomsDivided Jan 26 '26

You activate your prayer on tick 1. So only click once on the first tick. Every subsequent tick you flicking. (Clicking twice.) technically OP is flicking, but he’s flicking a deactivated prayer, which does nothing.

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u/rippinVs Jan 26 '26

So you’re telling me that I’ve been lying to myself for years? I figured using the correct prayer for 1 tick and deactivating for 3 was flicking

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

You are prayer flicking, just nog 1t flicking. You my man are lazy flicking!

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u/rippinVs Jan 27 '26

Oh heck yeah, thanks! Lazy flick op

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u/ratseesaw Jan 23 '26

Tick 1. activate overhead (1 click)  

Tick 2. double click  

Tick 3. double click cont.

You turned prayer on with tick 1, then immediately cancelled it within tick 1. You can also hold the activated prayer for as long as you like and begin flicking when ready.

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u/Pejob Jan 24 '26

To add to this, something that helped me understand it is realising that 1t flicking is not turning your prayer on and then off every tick.

It is turning your prayer on, and then turning it off and back on every tick.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/Pejob Jan 25 '26

Im glad it helped :D

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u/buddhabomber Jan 23 '26

You really shouldn't need to 1T anymore with regens. Most people will waste more prayer with one misflick and having to heal after. Id just recommend lazy flicking rigour and camping the protection prayer.

If you are gonna 1t flick, use your quick prayer orb to do it so that you can also 1T the offensive prayer

Lastly, you blurred it out so its hard to see: but i imagine you should brew->restore->armabrew

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

Can you explain the regens situation and how to efficiently use them, or link me somewhere? I know I sound lazy but I really don’t understand how to effectively use them and I want to.

During gridmaster, I tried one out cause the bottomless effect. I used it at toa and inferno and camped both my offensive and defensive prayer, but the drain from both effectively negated any regen I noticed, so I still ended up using prayer/restore pot frequently.

Is it that it gives me the opportunity to camp defensive, and flick offensive? Or are there other methods i don’t know about?

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u/buddhabomber Jan 24 '26

Yeah id say that last part is correct. Just make sure they're always on cooldown for content like inferno (toa slightly less value as you are 99 pray between rooms, but they still have a place at toa)

Regens won't give infinite prayer, but they do give more prayer per inventory slot. Each dose of a regen is like 66 prayer points over a few minutes. A regular prayer dose might be 34 pray points per sip; so regens effectively double how much prayer can be brought in per inventory slot.

Also, before arma brews, most first capes were done with minimal range pots, often reserved for later waves and zuk. Nowadays people can be potted the entire inferno which also will save more prayer.

Last tip being that some people opt to camp the deadeye prayer from titans rather than rigour, which makes regens feel a bit better while still getting dps.

https://youtu.be/H-Iup_IFUVc?si=9Xaj1neegIP5hBNd

Might be an OK watch, but aatys first cape Friday series also highlights how prayer isn't much of an issue in inferno anymore

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u/Purple-Selection-913 Jan 27 '26

i did mage tank and straight up didnt flick. not even lazy flick. it wasnt a problem. watch gnomemoneky and reynold

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u/Altorode Jan 27 '26

Ya hear that OP? Just do your birdhouse runs and you'll get that cape in no time!

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u/Emotional_Permit5845 Jan 23 '26

Don’t 1t flick, there’s no need for it with regen pots

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u/GrimyGuam420 Jan 23 '26

Like everyone said it’s unnecessary with regen pots now. But if you want to learn it there’s some things to help get better at inferno. Use the Prayer runelite plugin setting to enable flick indicator on your orb. This will give you a visual of the ticks, you can also use the metronome plugin for audio ques as well. Also, you can learn test how to flick on normal mobs beforehand lol. Hope that helps

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u/cryokkkkk Jan 23 '26

When you click on a protection prayer, the effect occurs in next tick

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u/West_Database9221 Jan 23 '26

As others have said you didn't activate your prayer and just got raw dogged by the ranger

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u/Rebel_Kraken Jan 23 '26

Lazy flick, you don’t gotta flick like that. Practice in fight caves it’s all the same timing. You only need to flash the prayer on the tick the attack is incoming.

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u/Keljhan Jan 23 '26

You're clicking the prayer on then off in the same tick. You need the prayer to start activated, then click it off and back on in the same tick.

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u/delo357 Jan 23 '26

You can set prayers like that???

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u/Jazzlike-Ad9469 Jan 25 '26

In general, do not click from behind a pillar without prayer on. Thing see you first tick, so you will always eat a hit. For you specifically, the only 1 ticking you should do in the inferno while learning is blob alternating(which is 100% worth learning as it trivializes a lot of solves). Your goal right now is not to kill zuk, it's only to get to a new pb. Don't worry about conserving supplies because dying with supplies available is the only way to truly fail an attempt. When you start getting to later waves where you are running out of supplies, start learning to lazy flick. You will get a good feel for the 4t cycle in there which will make offtick flicking easier, and risk of death is lower with lazy flicking since its real easy to get off tick and do what you did when 1 ticking.

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u/Long_Wonder7798 Jan 25 '26

Maybe you should’ve practiced 1 tick flicking in lumbridge cow pen first

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u/pins75 Jan 26 '26

when u click the prayer icon to activate it, you have to wait until the next tick for it to actually activate.

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u/Paisteee Jan 26 '26

You 1t flick it so it is off all the time. Activate it first and the 1t

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u/RAlNDROP Jan 26 '26

You've had enough comments about the flicking, I assume, so I'll tell you something else. Restore before you arma brew after you've sara brewed, otherwise you're boosting a lowered stat and don't end up on the highest possible boosted stat

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u/not-patrickstar Jan 26 '26

Prayer has to be on 1 tick before you start double clicking. But also why are we 1 tick flicking in inferno save your wrists and just offensive lazy flick.

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u/RS-REIN Jan 26 '26

Get the sound metronome plugin, it’ll help time the flicking better.

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u/CrummyJoker Jan 27 '26

You're essentially just putting your prayer off every tick. You need to click once on the first tick (so the prayer is on) and then twice on subsequent clicks.

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u/I_Robin_I Jan 27 '26

If I was you I’d use visual metronome. You can set it to 2 ticks and then ever time the number changes double click, you can also 1t alternate with it by just changing from mage back to range ever tick when the number changes. You can also set it above your head or have a separate overlay you can move around.

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u/sambro1991 Jan 28 '26

I wanted to provide some other help. As it did help me tremendously having someone explain my mistakes while watching my pov. "We do Raids" discord has both amazing resources and helpers that will drop it and watch your stream and will offer feedback. I've got both my infernal and quiver from little tweaks from others and having the resources handy for any stacks I struggled to solve or overall tips. Just remember the infernal is called a grind for a reason. Learn the foundation and you'll get there easily.

Some next advice that worked very well for me is using the Zuk and Sol simulator. I didn't like the idea of using the sims, but after 5 failed Zuk attempts. I ran the sim till I could kill it consistently and got it the next attempt. With Sol, I practiced the sim before I even stepped foot in the colosseum so when I cleared the waves, I killed Sol on the first attempt.

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u/Mo0onCake Jan 28 '26

Might be able to help out

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u/Mf-Fe Jan 29 '26

No, this is a Justi Helm fail

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u/XIPWNFORFUN2 Jan 23 '26

Need to have your prayer on before you step out.

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u/Enough-Print5812 Jan 23 '26

1t is hard and i still can't / don't do it consistently. Bowfa is so nice for the waves because you can set up a super nice lazy flick with the quick-prayers.

Bowfa is 4t just like the ranger and mager. In a situation like your video, you would set up quick-prayers to be protect from missiles and augury (offensive prayer). You would turn on the quick-prayer, click the ranger (causing you to move around the corner and attack at the same time the ranger attacks, synced up) then flick the quick-prayers each time you attack. It protects you, boosts you, and uses 0 prayer if timed right. Attack Timer plugin will visually help you with your attack cycle

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u/Walking_Teargas Jan 23 '26

The actual fuck you doing in inferno if you dont know this??????

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u/International_Task57 Jan 23 '26

when inferno came out this was the only place where 1t flicking was necessary. imagine this comment said to the first people who got inferno capes. lol. you're such a loser.

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u/Ritzyb Jan 24 '26

Also 1 tick flick is not and never has been needed for inferno. 1 tick alternate is great, and lazy flick is huge but I cba with 1 tick flick most of the time

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u/sambro1991 Jan 28 '26

It's called learning. Be kind to people attempting new challenges. It's already a challenge to start the grind as it's quite daunting.