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Introduction

The skill we know as prayer can be very advantageous. By calling upon the Gods of Runescape, one can perform such acts as regeneration, superhuman strength and invulnerability to magic, combat and ranging. The ability to call upon these gods must be trained however, and that is the art of prayer. The higher your prayer level, the greater your advantages.

To use a prayer, open the prayer menu and a list of prayers will be shown. Click on the prayer you want to activate. If you want to turn it off again, simply click it one more time.

	Prayer that you have the level to use.
	Prayer that is in use.
	Prayer that you don't have the level to use.

Each of the prayers can be turned on or off individually. When you use a prayer, you are given an advantage depending on the prayer you choose to use. However, you can only use one prayer for each category at a time. For instance you can have 'superhuman strength' (raises strength) and 'incredible reflexes' (raises attack) at the same time, but you cannot use 'improved reflexes' and 'incredible reflexes' simultaneously, since they both increase your attack.

If you are just starting out in Prayer you may want to pay a visit to Yauchomi the Prayer Tutor in the church east of Lumbridge Castle to learn about the different kinds of bones as well as various other tips.

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Prayers

When using a prayer, your prayer level will slowly drain. When your prayer is drained to zero, all prayers will be deactivated and you will need to recharge at an altar (or use a potion) to use another prayer. The rate at which it drains depends on the prayer, and the equipment you are wearing.

List Of Prayers
Pic	Level	Name	Description
	1	Thick Skin	Increases your defence by 5%.
	4	Burst of Strength	Increases your strength by 5%
	7	Clarity of Thought	Increases your attack by 5%
	8	Sharp Eye	Increases your range skill by 5%
	9	Mystic Will	Increases your magic by 5%
	10	Rock Skin	Increases your defence by 10%
	13	Superhuman Strength	Increases your strength by 10%
	16	Improved Reflexes	Increases your attack by 10%
	19	Rapid Restore	2x restore rate for all stats except hitpoints and prayer.
	22	Rapid Heal	2x restore rate for hitpoints
	25	Protect Items	Keep 1 extra item if you die
	26	Hawk Eye	Increases your range skill by 10%
	27	Mystic Lore	Increases your magic by 10%
	28	Steel Skin	Increases your defence by 15%
	31	Ultimate Strength	Increases your strength by 15%
	34	Incredible Reflexes	Increases your attack by 15%
	37	Protect from Magic	Protection from magical attacks
	40	Protect from Missiles	Protection from ranged attacks
	43	Protect from Melee	Protection from close attacks
	44	Eagle Eye	Increases your range skill by 15%
	45	Mystic Might	Increases your magic by 15%
	46	Retribution	Deals damage to targets nearby when you die.
	49	Redemption	If your health falls under 10% of your maximum health, heals you up to 25% of your prayer level.
	50	Bless Symbol	After completing the Horror from the Deep Quest, you can use Prayer Books to bless holy or unholy symbols for 4 prayer points. (This is not in your in-game prayer menu.)
	50	Cure Poison	After completing The Great Brain Robbery Quest, reciting the prayer from this book while wearing a Holy Symbol will cure any poison affecting you for up to 2 prayer points. (This is not in your in-game prayer menu.)
	52	Smite	25% of the damage dealt is drained from your opponent's prayer.
	60	Chivalry	After you complete the King's Ransom quest and defeated the waves of knights in the Camelot training room, this will add 20% to your defence, 18% to your strength and 15% to your attack skills
	70	Piety	After you complete the King's Ransom quest and defeated the waves of knights in the Camelot training room, this will add 25% to your defence, 23% to your strength and 20% to your attack

The magic boosting prayers affect accuracy only, not max hit due to the spell damage limit.

Note that skill boosting prayers cannot be stacked; if you have a prayer that boosts magic by 15%, you cannot also turn on a prayer to boost it by 10%. Similarly, only one Protect prayer can be on at a time.

Higher prayer gives the advantage of being able to use prayers for longer periods of time, an advantage that is invaluable when it comes to dueling, player killing and training.

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Protection Prayers

The 3 protection prayers (Protect from Melee, Protect from Missiles and Protect from Magic) are very important. They allow you 100% protection from NPC attacks. When in use, a little icon will appear above your head.

These prayers can be invaluable when you are in a tight spot, or when you are training. A good training technique against high level monsters that typically do a lot of damage is to wield equipment that gives excellent prayer bonuses such as a mace, Monk's robes and a Holy symbol, and use Protect against melee. Your prayer will drain quite slowly and last a while. Bring prayer potions to keep your prayer from draining totally.

However, in the wilderness and the dueling arena, the protection prayers work differently. Instead of 100% protection, they protect you 50%, while raising the amount of times you block your opponent's attack. They are a great advantage, and can save your life in tight spots.

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Restoring Prayer Points

There are a few ways to recharge your prayer points when they have run out. The normal solution is simply to find an altar. Altars are found all over the map, mainly in churches. Players with level 31 Prayer have the advantage of using the altar in the Monastery, where you can pray to get an additional 2 Prayer levels to fend off drain. This boost is also available at the Nature Spirit altar in the Grotto of Mort Myre Swamp. Praying at the shrine from the Spirits of the Elid quest restores not only your regular prayer points, but gives a temporary hit point boost.

Praying at an altar

Members have several portable solutions. Using a Prayer or Super Stat Restore potion recharges around 33% of your Prayer per dose. Jangerberries restore only 1 prayer point, but also have other effects.

Pic	Name	Where Found	Effect
	Jangerberries	Ogre Island just west of Yanille. You will need a rope to swing across (level 10 Agility) unless you use the Telekinetic Grab spell. Can also be grown using Farming Skill.	Restores 1 Prayer point and heals 2 hp as well as other effects.
	Prayer Potion	Player made using Herblore.	Restores 7-31 points of prayer power (7-33 if carrying a Holy Wrench, reward from the Rum Deal quest)
	Super Stat Restore Potion	Player made using Herblore.	Restores 8-32 points on all stats except hitpoints.

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Training Methods

Prayer is by far the hardest skill to train up. Each of the "old" skills boasted at least one level 99 before someone finally reached 99 prayer. To help you out, we've listed a few of the best places to train.

The best place is without doubt the Wilderness bone respawn. Go north from Varrock and stop at around level 26-27. There are 25+ normal Bones respawns, 6 Big bones respawns, and also some skeletons you can kill just for the fun of it. A bit more south there is the chaos temple, where you can find 15 bone spawns and an altar as well. Green dragons in the level 13 wilderness northwest of Edgeville are good and fast exp since they are lower levels than blue dragons, and are close to a bank.

If you don't like the Wilderness, the Edgeville Dungeon Hill giants are also good. They drop Big bones, and are the best in F2P. In P2P, some good places include the Blue and Baby blue dragons in the Taverly members dungeon and the Ogres in the Blood rune chest dungeon (northwest of Ardougne). Another good choice in P2P is cremating shades in Mort'ton. You get good experience from cremating shades there, and you'll get a lot of good rewards using the chest keys, too. More information can be found in the Splitbark Armour Guide. Members have also found that the use of a Home Chapel Altar
to sacrifice bones is the quickest method to level up.

Lower level members may also want to talk to the Wise Old Man of Draynor Village for experience. He gives you various tasks and for some of them, you receive prayer experience. Although it won't be much: a maximum of 400. But hey, it's something. And keep in mind that he won't always reward you with prayer exp; he can also give you herbs, seeds, gems and runes.

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Experience

To train prayer, all you have to do is bury bones. Formerly, you would be attacked by a Shade or Zombie about every 50 bones. However, Leo the Gravedigger has been added, and random events have become more ... random. The different types of bones are:

List Of Bones
Pic	Exp.	Name	Dropped by
	4.5	Bones	Dropped by most NPC's.
	4.5	Wolf Bones	Dropped by Wolves.
	4.5	Burnt Bones	Found in the wilderness near the Greater demons.
	5	Monkey Bones (Members)	Dropped by zombie monkeys.
	5	Monkey Bones	Dropped by monkeys.
	5.33	Bat Bones (Members)	Dropped by giant bats.
	15	Big Bones/Jogre Bones	Dropped by ogres, jogres and all giants.
	15	Curved Bone (Members)	Occasional drop from monsters who drop big bones RECOMMENDED THAT YOU DO NOT BURY See note at end of table.
	15	Long Bone (Members)	Occasional drop from monsters who drop big bones RECOMMENDED THAT YOU DO NOT BURY See note at end of table.
	18	Monkey Bones (Members)	Dropped by Monkey Guards.
	30	Baby Dragon Bones (Members)	Dropped by Baby (blue, red or black) Dragons.
	50	Skeletal Wyvern Bones (Members)	Dropped by Skeletal Wyverns in the Ice Caves.
	72	Dragon Bones (Members)	Dropped by all dragons.
	125	Dagannoth Bones (Members)	Dropped by the Dagannoth kings in the Waterbirth Island dungeons.

Note: The curved and long bones can be traded in for both gold coins and construction experience in Dorgesh-Kaan after completing the Death to the Dorgeshuun quest. The prayer experience is nothing in comparison to these rewards.

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Zogre bones (members only)

New higher experience bones were introduced for members in the Zogre Flesh Eater Quest. Kill Skogres (Skeletal Ogres) and Zogres (Zombie Ogres) to get Zogre bones and Ogre coffin keys. Use the Ogre coffin keys, or thieve the Ogre coffins (requires level 20 Thieving) to randomly get the higher level bones. The Zogre tomb map may be helpful.

List Of Bones
Pic	Exp.	Name	Dropped by
	22.5	Zogre Bones	Dropped by Zogres and Skogres.
	84	Fayrg Bones	Thieve Ogre coffins.
	96	Raurg Bones	Thieve Ogre coffins.
	140	Ourg Bones	Thieve Ogre coffins.

As with normal bones you can use them to worship at the Ectofuntus or with a Home Chapel Altar to earn tons of experience!

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Pyre Ship Bonus Experience (members only)

If you have studied the barbarians methods of firemaking, you can release the spirits of fallen barbarian heros by burning their bones on a pyre ship. Doing this will give you a 300% bonus to your prayer experience for a certain number of bones. A message will appear in your chat screen when you have the bonus applied to bones you bury.

Picture	Name of Log	Number of bones with extra exp
	Normal Logs	1
	Achey Logs	1
	Oak Logs	2
	Willow Logs	2
	Teak Logs	3
	Arctic Pine Logs	3
	Maple Logs	3
	Mahogany Logs	4
	Yew Logs	4
	Magic Logs	5

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Ecto-tokens (members only)

In the area of the Ghosts Ahoy quest (completion of the quest is not required), members can train prayer at the Ectofunctus using the same method that is used to get Ecto-tokens needed for the quest. The process is very simple, though tedious due to all of the walking, but the experience gained per bone is far greater than simply burying them. The items required are Pots, Buckets, any type of Bones, and your Ghostspeak amulet (obtained during the Restless Ghost quest). A filled Ectophial (Ghosts Ahoy quest reward) is also helpful to save some walking.

Just to the north of Port Phasmatys (located East of Canifis in the Haunted Woods) is a tower. Located in the centre of this tower is the "Ectofuntus". Prayer experience is gained by worshipping the Ectofuntus. To do this you must have a Pot of ground bones and a Bucket of slime (ectoplasm).

Ground Bones
Upstairs on the north wall is a Bone grinder. First, use your bones with the bone grinder (be careful not to bury them instead!), then left click on the Grinder to "Wind" it, and finally right click on the grinder and select "Empty Grinder" or use an empty Pot on the grinder to fill it with ground bones (bone meal). Repeat this process for as many bones as you have.
Bucket of slime (ectoplasm)
Back on the ground floor of the tower is a trapdoor. Go down the trap door and move to the far side of the circular tunnel to the stairs. Go down the stairs. Unless you have level 58 Agility and can use the Weathered Wall shortcut, you will need to repeat this process for two more levels to reach the pool of Slime at the bottom level. Use your empty Buckets on the pool of Slime to receive a Bucket of slime (ectoplasm). Now Empty your Ectophial to return to the ground floor.

Ectoplasm

Worshipping
Refill your Ectophial and then left click on the Ectofuntus to worship it. This can be done twelve times before you have to talk to a Ghost Disciple to receive your Ecto-tokens. After doing so, continue worship.

Note that the Ghostspeak amulet must be worn at all times in order to speak with the ghosts (you must collect your tokens in order to continue). Ectofuntus gives 4 times the experience of just burying bones. Experience values for most bones are shown below, but the formula applies to all bones.

Ectofuntus xp values
Bone	EXP
Bones/Wolf Bones/Burnt Bones	18
Monkey bones	20
Bat bones	21.33
Big Bones/Jogre Bones	60
Monkey bones(big)	72
Zogre Bones	90
Baby Blue/Red/Black Dragon Bones	120
Skeletal Wyvern Bones	200
Dragon Bones	288
Fayrg Bones	348
Raurg Bones	384
Dagannoth Bones	500
Ourg Bones	560

The whole process involves quite a bit of walking and so it's rather time consuming. Below is a good strategy to use to save some time. You will need to wear a Ghostspeak amulet and a Ring of dueling (enchanted emerald). Start by taking a filled Ectophial, nine Buckets, nine Pots and nine bones of your choosing.

Teleport to the Ectofuntus temple by emptying your Ectophial.
Use the Ectophial on the Ectofuntus to "recharge" it.
Grind the bones in the bone grinder.
Go down to the third level to fill up your buckets with Ectoplasm.
Teleport back up to the top of the temple by emptying your Ectophial.
Use the Ectophial on the Ectofuntus to "recharge" it.
Worship the Ectofuntus nine times.
Collect your Ecto-tokens from a Ghost Disciple.
Operate your Ring of dueling and teleport to the Castle Wars arena. Bank. Repeat

Note : You can also fill your buckets before worshipping. Say you have 50 bones. Make 2 trips with 26 buckets, ectophial and dueling ring. Fill them all at the bottom. And then just grind and worship, so you don't have to walk down every time. You can do the same with grinding, but there the difference is way smaller because of the pots needed. You can find a stock of 100 buckets in the Port Phasmatys shop!

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Home Chapel Altars (members only)

Player-owned houses have brought a new concept to Prayer - the home chapel. Depending on the type of altar built and the burners used, one can earn anywhere from 100% to 350% of the experience normally obtained for burying bones. 100% means exactly the same experience as just burying. Note that the highest possible level (350%) does not exceed the 400% from the ectofuntus - however, there is no tedious bucket hauling and bone grinding.

Getting the maximum prayer out of a home altar is dependent on using incense burners. (Mahogany and marble burners give the same bonus as the basic oak incense burner.) A single lit burner boosts the experience by another 50% of the normal amount; two lit burners increase the basic altar experience by an amount equal to the normal experience (100%). The information for each altar with or without burners is included in the table below. Burners are used by carrying two marrentill and a tinderbox with you, and simply clicking the burner. (Note that a lit burner has no "Light" option.) Then right click each bone and use it on the altar. Be careful not to bury them accidentally! In general, the burning marrentills give out around the time you arrive with another load of bones from the closest bank.

Home Altar exp Multipliers
Pic	Altar Name	No burners lit	One burner lit	Two burners lit
	Oak	100%	150%	200%
	Teak	110%	160%	210%
	Cloth	125%	175%	225%
	Mahogany	150%	200%	250%
	Limestone	175%	225%	275%
	Marble	200%	250%	300%
	Gilded	250%	300%	350%

Note that torches and candlesticks offer no bonus!

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Ghasts (members only)

The only creatures in Runescape that can be slaughtered for immediate prayer experience (30 xp each) are level 30 Ghasts, located in Mort Myre Swamp. The Nature Spirit Quest is required to enter the Swamp and to obtain the proper equipment: the blessed Silver sickle(b) and a Druid pouch. Use the Silver sickle(b) to Cast-bloom (right-click the sickle while equipped or in inventory and select "Cast-bloom" or "Operate") while standing near rotten logs, branches or bushes in Mort Myre Swamp, causing Mort myre fungi, pears or branches to bloom. Pick up these items. Click on your Druid pouch to Fill it with these items. When a Ghast attacks you (or you attack it), one item from your Druid pouch is automatically used up to make the Ghast solid and attackable. At 40 HP, they aren't hard to kill. The only drawback to training in Mort Myre Swamp is that when your Druid pouch is empty, attacking Ghasts will quickly rot your food. It is a good idea to keep the mushroom-shaped fungi so you can use them in Herblore.

If you are escorting a band of travelers in the Temple Trekking|Burgh de Rott Ramble minigame, you may run into higher level ghasts. On rout 1, level 79 Ghasts will award you 80 exp. On rout 2, level 109 Ghasts will award you 110 exp. And on rout 3, level 140 ghasts will award you 140 exp.

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Shade Cremating (members only)

By playing the Shades of Mort'ton (Splitbark Armour) mini game you can earn prayer experience, although it is rather slow but you can get some rewards in the process. You must have completed the Shades of Mort'ton Quest in order to play and it will also be useful to have completed the In Aid of the Myreque Quest so you can use the Burgh de Rott bank just south of Mort'ton.

List Of Prayers
Pic	Shade Name	Log Required to Burn	Exp. for Burning
	Loar	Any	33
	Phrin	Oak or higher	46.5
	Riyl	Willow or higher	59.5
	Asyn	Yew or higher	82.5
	Fiyr	Magic or higher	100