Main page/Skill guides/Regular mode/Prayer

What is 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.

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.

NPC	Bone drop
Bones	A lot of NPC's, like skeletons, bandits and dust devils
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 the altar.

Altar

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.

Donator Zone altar

You can find an altar east of the donator zone (::dz) to use all types of bones on for more than 4x experience than when you bury them.

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.

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.

Experience table for regular mode

Bone type	Image	XP for burying	XP with altar (Home)	XP with gilded altar (Donator Zone)
Bones		174	580	696
Big Bones		464	1,682	2,030
Babydragon Bones		580	2,030	2,436
Dragon Bones		1,392	4,872	5,800
Shaikahan Bones		1,508	5,394	6,496
Fayrg Bones		1,624	5,684	6,786
Raurg Bones		1,856	6,496	7,772
Ourg Bones		2,088	7,424	8,932
Wyvern Bones		2,320	8,120	9,744
Dagannoth Bones		2,610	9,106	10,962
Lava Dragon Bones		2,900	10,150	12,180
Zogre Bones		7,192	25,230	30,276
Superior Dragon Bones		8,236	28,884	34,626

Experience table for classic mode

Bone type	Image	XP for burying	XP with altar (Home)	XP with gilded altar (Donator Zone)
Bones		58	174	174
Big Bones		116	522	638
Babydragon Bones		174	638	754
Dragon Bones		406	1566	1914
Shaikahan Bones		464	1740	2088
Fayrg Bones		522	1856	2204
Raurg Bones		580	2088	2552
Ourg Bones		638	2436	2900
Wyvern Bones		754	2668	3190
Dagannoth Bones		812	2958	3596
Lava Dragon Bones		928	3306	4002
Zogre Bones		2320	8294	9976
Superior Dragon Bones		2668	9512	11426

Useful items and boosts

Item/Boost	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

The skilling cape

If you reach level 99, you will get the skillcape and hood automatically. When you lost it, you can get it from the skillcape store for 27m or the (t) for 45m. Run to north west of Edgeville bank or use ::shops and run west to get there. The skillcape doesn't give more prayer xp. The prayer skill doesn't have a skilling master and also not skilling tasks.

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