Main page/Skill guides/Classic mode/Prayer

About Prayer

Prayer is trained by either burying bones, or using them on altars, or training with the bonecrusher. Different bones give different amounts of experience. Prayers are unlocked as the level in the skill goes up, these prayers are used to aid the player in combat. The prayers can help boost attack, defence, strength, ranged, and magic. When prayers are activated, your prayer points will start to drain until the prayer is turned off or all prayer points are used. To restore these, either drink a potion that restores prayer, or pray at an altar.

Note: These xp rates are based on a maxed player.

All of the prayers are listed here.

The only prayers that you can't unlock with leveling up, are Rigour, Preserve and Augury. You can buy the scrolls at the blood money shop (Leagues Tutor) at Edgeville (home).

Getting bones

There are three ways to get bones:

• Get them from NPC's;
• Buy them at the high priest store;
• Buy them from players.

Bone drop	NPC(s)
Bones	A lot of NPC's, like skeletons, bandits and dust devils
Small Ninja Monkey Bones	Monkey Guards
Big Bones	Dark beast, hill giants, ice giants
Dragon Bones	All kind of dragons, like green dragons and rune dragons
Ourg Bones	Slash bash
Fayrg Bones	Black knight titan
Zogre Bones	Mutant tarn
Superior Dragon Bones	Greater skeleton hellounds, Vorkath

Even though prayer can be very useful, and very rewarding, it is also one of the most expensive skills to train, especially when you buy the bones from the shop or players. The fastest method is to buy them from the high priest store, but it's also the most expensive way. Prayer is relatively simple to train. However, it is very expensive unless you are getting the bones yourself.

You can find the high priest store at north west of bank at Edgeville or use ::shops and walk to the west.

How to train prayer?

Once you have the bones, training is pretty simple. There are three ways to train this skill:

• Take the bones you have and bury them in the ground;
• Use them on an altar;
• Bury them with the bonecrusher.

Bury

Burying bones is the fastest way, but it give less xp than when you offer the bones on an altar.

Altar

Home altar

You can find an altar north of Edgeville bank (just beside the Home teleport location) to use all types of bones on for around 3.5x more experience than when you bury them.

Platinum Members Zone altar

You can find the altar north of bank at home, right outside the bank of the Platinum Members Zone to use all types of bones on for more than 4x experience than when you bury them.

Ectofuntus

Using your bones on Ectofuntus gives the best prayer xp. To get there, either buy an ectophial from the slayer shop for 50 slayer points, or use the teleport via the Ancient wizard.

To get there via the Ancient wizard, teleport to the Experiments, climb the ladder and run east beyond the farming patch until you reach the Ectofuntus.

Bonecrusher

If you kill a NPC that drops bones, the bonecrusher will drop that bones automatically. It gives around 3 times more xp than when you bury bones, but less than when you offer the bones on an altar.

You can buy the bonecrusher at Borat for 250 participation points. He stays in the bank at Edgeville (home).

You have to charge the bonecrusher with ecto-tokens. You can buy them at the general store. The bonecrusher is untradeable.

Prayer master

The prayer master (Brother Jered) can be found at the shops of Edgeville (use the command ::shops). He can give you your skilling cape for free when you reach level 99. In addition, he can give you skilling tasks to obtain prayer points or money (you will also get participation points when you finish your task). Finally, you can see his master's shop where you can spend your prayer points.

Experience table for classic mode

Bone type	Image	XP for burying	XP with altar (Home)	XP with gilded altar (Ruby Members Zone)	Ectofuntus	Chaos Altar (Wilderness)
Burnt Bones		50	120	170	200	170
Bones		50	120	170	200	170
Small Ninja Monkey Bones		125	300	425	500	425
Big Bones		150	370	520	600	520
Shaikahan Bones		250	620	870	1,000	870
Zogre Bones		230	570	800	920	800
Babydragon Bones		300	750	1,050	1,200	1,050
Dragon Bones		720	1,800	2,520	2,880	2,520
Wyvern Bones		720	1,800	2,520	2,880	2,520
Lava Dragon Bones		850	2,120	2,970	3,400	2,970
Fayrg Bones		840	2,100	2,940	3,360	2,940
Raurg Bones		2,400	6,000	8,400	9,600	8,400
Hydra Bones		1,100	2,750	3,850	4,400	3,850
Dagannoth Bones		1,250	3,120	4,370	5,000	4,370
Ourg Bones		1,400	3,500	4,900	5,600	4,900
Superior Dragon Bones		1,500	3,750	5,250	6,000	5,250
Gilded Bones		2,650	6,620	9,270	10,600	9,270

Useful items and boosts

Item/Boost	Image	Effect	How to obtain?
Voting		Gives you 25% more prayer xp for 1 hour	When you redeem your vote, you will get a boost xp for 1 hour. See here how to vote
Prayer cape		Gives you 10% more prayer xp	Get it from the skillcape store or the prayer master
Prayer hood		Gives you 5% more prayer xp	Get it from the skillcape store or the prayer master

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