• 1.0 - Introduction

• 2.0 - Basics of Praying
  • 2.1 - The Prayer Menu
  • 2.2 - Recharging your Prayer Points
• 3.0 - The Prayers and Drain Rates
• 3.1 - Ancient Curses
• 4.0 - Prayer Apparel
• 5.0 - Training Prayer
  • 5.1 - Player-Owned Altars
  • 5.2 - Bone Burying
  • 5.2.1 - Where to Gather Bones
  • 5.3 - The Ectofuntus
  • 5.4 - Pyre Burning
  • 5.5 - Ghast Killing
• 6.0 - Miscellaneous Information
• 7.0 - Quests for Experience

Prayer is a skill that summons the powers of the RuneScape gods to help you in combat. To train this skill, you must pay tribute to the gods by burying bones. The more bones you bury, the higher your Prayer level will become, allowing you to access more powerful prayers to use at your disposal. However, as you use these prayers, your level will slowly drop (for example, 30/40) until it is at zero (0/40). You then cannot use any prayers until you recharge your Prayer using Prayer potions or altars.

A high Prayer level can be very useful in battles, especially in Free worlds where players cannot access restorative potions. If you want to try to take on a high level monster for better drops, Protect from Melee can save your life. Prayer is invaluable in any quest or areas where there are high level monsters that need to be slain. Also, if you want to test out if you can kill a monster, but you want some kind of back-up, Prayer is the answer. If you are having trouble killing it, Prayer can act as your insurance by either helping you do more damage or protect you long enough for you to run away or teleport.

The Prayer menu is located on the right hand side of your screen right beside the Magic menu. The symbol is a small star. When the Prayer window is open, you will see many symbols. Here is how you can tell their status.

Picture	Status
	This means this prayer is not available for you to use.
	You have the ability to use this prayer; however it has not been activated.
	The prayer has been selected and it is in use.

When a prayer is turned on, the effect will immediately take place. However, if you leave a prayer activated your level will begin to drop. The higher level the prayer being used, the quicker your Prayer will be reduced. Multiple prayers will also cause a significant increase in Prayer reduction. Once your Prayer points reach 0, you will not be able to use Prayer any longer. You must then recharge you Prayer level. There are a few different methods you can use to do this.

These will recharge all of your Prayer points. They are located throughout the churches of RuneScape as well as in many other places and are marked by the icon on the minimap. To pray at an altar, simply click on it and your Prayer points will be restored. Note: You will also find altars in the player-owned homes of some higher leveled players.

Certain altars will even give you a bonus of extra Prayer points. They are:

• Monks Altar (2 Extra points) - Top of Monastery
• Nature Altar (2 Extra points) - Grotto Tree in Filliman Tarlock's Camp, Morytania.
• Elidinis Altar (2 Extra points, as well as 20 Life points over your maximum level temporarily) - Nardah
• Zaros Altar (+15% of your Prayer level) - Temple of Senntisten

Along with the completion of the As a First Resort... quest, you'll gain access to a spring called the Sulphur Pool. This pool recharges your Prayer points and gives you a couple extra Prayer levels depending on your current level.

Jangerberries are the only piece of food that can heal Prayer. They heal 20 Life points and 1 Prayer point.

Potions can be made by RuneScape members using the Herblore skill.

Picture	Name	Effect
	Prayer potion	Restores 7-31 of your Prayer points depending on your level
	Super restore potion	Restores about 40% of your Prayer points and other effects such as restoring your stats if they're lowered.
	Super prayer potion	Restores 7 - 41 of your Prayer points depending on your level

When you turn a prayer on, it will start draining your Prayer points until you have zero, and you will have to recharge your points at an altar or by taking a potion. This chart also indicates how fast each will drain your Prayer points. Note that prayers from Retribution and on are members only.

The various prayers will aid you in many different ways, from stat restoring and boosting to damage protection. Here is a complete list of the modern prayers you can perform in RuneScape:

Picture	Level	Name	Effect	Drain Rate*
	1	Thick Skin	Increases your defence by 5%	One Prayer point every 12 seconds
	4	Burst of Strength	Increases your strength by 5%	One Prayer point every 12 seconds
	7	Clarity of Thought	Increases your attack by 5%	One Prayer point every 12 seconds
	8	Sharp Eye	Increases your range by 5%	One Prayer point every 12 seconds
	9	Mystic Will	Increases your magic by 5%	One Prayer point every 12 seconds
	10	Rock Skin	Increases your defence by 10%	One Prayer point every 6 seconds
	13	Superhuman Strength	Increases your strength by 10%	One Prayer point every 6 seconds
	16	Improved Reflexes	Increases your attack by 10%	One Prayer point every 6 seconds
	19	Rapid Restore	2x restore rate for all stats except Life points and prayer	One Prayer point every 36 seconds
	22	Rapid Heal	2x restore rate for Life points	One Prayer point every 18 seconds
	25	Protect Items	Keep 1 extra item if you die	One Prayer point every 18 seconds
	26	Hawk Eye	Increases your range by 10%	One Prayer point every 6 seconds
	27	Mystic Lore	Increases your Magic by 10%	One Prayer point every 6 seconds
	28	Steel Skin	Increases your defence by 15%	One prayer every 3 seconds
	31	Ultimate Strength	Increases your strength by 15%	One prayer every 3 seconds
	34	Incredible Reflexes	Increases your attack by 15%	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	35	Protect from Summoning	Reduces the damage dealt through Summoning Scrolls and prevents the use of a Familiar's special attack. This is stackable with protect prayers.	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	37	Protect from Magic	Protection from Magical Attacks	One prayer every 3 seconds
	40	Protect from Missiles	Protection from Ranged Attacks	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	43	Protect from Melee	Protection from Melee Attacks	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	44	Eagle Eye	Increases your range by 15%	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	45	Mystic Might	Increases your mage by 15%	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	46	Retribution	Inflicts damage to nearby targets if you die	One Prayer point every 12 seconds
	49	Redemption	Heals you if your health falls below 10%	One Prayer point every 6 seconds (If used below 10% health, prayer completely drains)
	52	Smite	1/4 of damage dealt is also removed from the prayer of your opponent	One Prayer point every 1.8 seconds
	60	Chivalry	Increases your Defence by 20%, your Strength by 18% and your Attack by +15%. You must have completed King's Ransom and the training room in Camelot and have 60 Defence.	One Prayer point every 1.5 seconds
	65	Rapid Renewal	Restores life points at 5 times the normal rate. Must be purchased as a reward from Dungeoneering.	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	70	Piety	Increases your Defence by 25%, your Strength by 23% and your Attack by 20%. You must have completed King's Ransom and the training room in Camelot and have 70 Defence.	One Prayer point every 1.5 seconds
	77	Augury	Increases your magical attack by 20% and magical defence by 25%. Must be purchased as a reward from Dungeoneering.	One Prayer point every - seconds

After completing The Temple at Senntisten, you will gain access to a new prayer book. Similar to the Ancient Magicks, to activate it, you must pray at the altar in the Senntisten Temple under the Digsite. Doing so will also boost your Prayer by 15%.

Picture	Level	Name	Effect	Drain Rate*
	50	Protect Item	Keep 1 extra item if you die	One Prayer point every 18 seconds
	50	Sap Warrior	Drains 10% of your opponent's attack, strength, and defence, increasing to 20% over time	One Prayer point every 2.5 seconds
	52	Sap Ranger	Drains 10% of your opponent's ranged and defence, increasing to 20% over time	One Prayer point every 2.5 seconds
	54	Sap Mage	Drains 10% of your opponent's magic and defence, increasing to 20% over time	One Prayer point every 2.5 seconds
	56	Sap Spirit	Drains your opponent's special attack energy	One Prayer point every 2.5 seconds
	59	Berserker	Boosted stats last 15% longer	One Prayer point every 18 seconds
	62	Deflect Summoning	Blocks damage from familiars and their special attacks, has a chance of deflecting damage back upon the enemy	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	65	Deflect Magic	Blocks magic damage, has a chance of deflecting damage back upon the enemy	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	68	Deflect Missiles	Blocks ranged damage, has a chance of deflecting damage back upon the enemy	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	71	Deflect Melee	Blocks melee damage, has a chance of deflecting damage back upon the enemy	One Prayer point every 3 seconds
	74	Leech Attack	Boosts your attack by 5%, increasing to 10% over time. Drains enemy attack by 10%, increasing to 25% over time	One Prayer point every 3.5 seconds
	76	Leech Ranged	Boosts your ranged by 5%, increasing to 10% over time. Drains enemy ranged by 10%, increasing to 25% over time	One Prayer point every 3.5 seconds
	78	Leech Magic	Boosts your magic by 5%, increasing to 10% over time. Drains enemy magic by 10%, increasing to 25% over time	One Prayer point every 3.5 seconds
	80	Leech Defence	Boosts your defence by 5%, increasing to 10% over time. Drains enemy defence by 10%, increasing to 25% over time	One Prayer point every 3.5 seconds
	82	Leech Strength	Boosts your strength by 5%, increasing to 10% over time. Drains enemy strength by 10%, increasing to 25% over time	One Prayer point every 3.5 seconds
	84	Leech Energy	Boosts your run energy, and drains your enemy's run energy by up to 10%	One Prayer point every 3.3 seconds
	86	Leech Special Attack	Boosts your special attack energy, and drains your enemy's special attack energy by up to 10%	One Prayer point every 4 seconds
	89	Wrath	If this is active when you die, it deals up to 25% of your prayer level to all nearby enemies. This curse will not hurt other players outside of PvP areas, and it won't hit multiple targets in non-multicombat zones.	One Prayer point every 10 seconds
	92	Soul Split	If this is active when you are fighting another player, they will lose 1 Prayer point (and you will gain 10 life points) for every 50 damage you do to them. This curse is not affected by your victim's protection prayers.	One Prayer point every 2 seconds
	95	Turmoil	Increases your attack and defence by 15%, plus 15% of your opponents attack and defence, as well as your strength by 23%, plus 10% of your opponent's strength. Note that the attack and defence boosts are limited to 14 levels, and the strength boost is limited to 9.	One Prayer point every 2.2 seconds

Note: Drain rates were tested at +0 Prayer bonus. The higher the bonus, the slower your Prayer points will drain.

When you wear clothing that has Prayer properties, your Prayer equipment bonus will rise. Your Prayer equipment bonus is located in the equipment stat window. The higher your Prayer equipment bonus, the longer it takes for you to run out of Prayer points. This means you will be able to use prayers for longer without having to recharge your Prayer points.

Below is a table that shows the other equipment that gives you a Prayer boost:

Prayer Gear
Head	White med helm, White full helm, Armadyl helmet, Initiate sallet, Helm of neitiznot, Verac's helm, Proselyte sallet, Guthix mitre, Saradomin mitre, Zamorak mitre
Neck	Witchwood icon, Amulet of power, Amulet of glory, Salve amulet, Berserker necklace, Amulet of Fury, Holy symbol, Unholy symbol, Guthix stole, Saradomin stole, Zamorak stole
Chest	White chainbody, White platebody, Armadyl chestplate, Bandos chestplate, Dagon'hai robe top, Priest gown, Zamorak top, Druid's robe, Guthix robe top, Saradomin robe top, Zamorak robe top, Shade robe, Verac's brassard, Monk's robe, Initiate platebody, Proselyte hauberk
Shield	White sq shield, White kiteshield, Spirit shield, Falador shield 1, Blessed spirit shield, Spectral spirit shield, Arcane spirit shield, Elysian spirit shield, Divine spirit shield, Damaged book, Book of balance, Holy book, Unholy book, Broodoo shield, Falador shield 2, Falador shield 3
Legs	White plateskirt, White platelegs, Armadyl plateskirt, Bandos tassets, Dagon'hai robe bottom, Priest gown, Zamorak bottom, Druid's robe, Shade robe, Guthix robe legs, Saradomin robe legs, Zamorak robe legs, Verac's plateskirt, Monk's robe, Initiate platelegs, Proselyte tasset, Proselyte cuisse
Feet	White boots, Bandos boots
Hands	White gloves
Ring	Explorer's ring 1, Explorer's ring 2, Explorer's ring 3
Cape	Ardougne cloak 1, Fire cape, Guthix cloak, Saradomin cloak, Zamorak cloak, Ardougne cloak 2, Prayer cape (t)*, Ardougne cloak 3, Soul wars cape (blue), Soul wars cape (red)
Maces	Bronze mace, Iron mace, Steel mace, Black mace, White mace, Mithril mace, Adamant mace, Ancient mace, Rune mace, Granite mace, Dragon mace, Corrupt dragon mace, Void knight mace
White weapons	White dagger, White sword, White battleaxe, White scimitar, White halberd, White claws, White longsword, White 2h sword, White warhammer, White magic staff
Other weapons	Black cane, Keris, Saradomin sword, Zamorakian spear, Adamant cane, Rune cane, Ivandis flail, Toktz-mej-tal, Wolfbane, Guthix crozier*, Verac's flail, Bandos godsword*

* = Note that other forms of this item give the same bonuses.

There are a few ways you can get Prayer experience. One of the most popular and cost-effective methods of training prayer is using bones on a player-owned altar or the Ectofuntus. You can also get prayer experience by killing monsters, picking up their bones, and then simply burying them. Another way, exclusive to members, is by burning the remains of Shades. Some quests will reward a player with Prayer experience. One last way, also for members only, is by killing Ghasts.

With the release of Construction came the ability for players to make special altars where you are able to worship bones. This practice has been dominating the Ectofuntus technique, as it is much less of a hassle if you have a higher level altar at which to worship. The best location to travel to and from a bank would be Yanille. The bank is just east of the POH portal, making it far easier than having to teleport around when using the Ectofuntus.

There are three types of burners: Regular, Mahogany and Marble. See the Construction guide for information on how to construct them. Dependant on your altar type and the amount of incense burners you have lit, you will be awarded more Prayer experience for the bones you worship. The values shown in the table below are based on using Marble burners, although each of the incense burners give the same bonus. Where it shows "##%" below, simply divide the percentage by 100, then multiply the regular bone experience given by the resulting number. Example: Divide 225% by 100 (or just put a decimal point after the first number) to get 2.25, then multiply that by the regular bone XP to get the XP given when worshipping.

Picture	Name	No burners lit	One burner lit	Two burners lit
	Oak altar	-	150% of XP	200% of XP
	Teak altar	110% of XP	160% of XP	210% of XP
	Cloth altar	125% of XP	175% of XP	225% of XP
	Mahogany altar	150% of XP	200% of XP	250% of XP
	Limestone altar	175% of XP	225% of XP	275% of XP
	Marble altar	200% of XP	250% of XP	300% of XP
	Gilded altar	250% of XP	300% of XP	350% of XP

Gilded altars with 2 burners are by far the most effective altars to use because they give the most experience bonus. The amount of experience you would get per bone is as follows:

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Picture	Bone Name	Experience	Efficiency (Cost/Exp)*
	Regular bones	15.75	168
	Big bones	52.5
	Zogre bones	78.75	1,178
	Babydragon bones	105	1,888
	Wyvern bones	175	5,116
	Dragon bones	252	5,491
	Fayrg bones	294	6,594
	Raurg bones	336	8,433
	Ourg bones	490	19,500

If you have your own gilded altar, it would be best to have 2 marrentill herbs in your inventory, runes for "Teleport to House," a duelling ring equipped, and the rest of your inventory (and an optional Beast of Burden) filled with bones. Simply teleport, light the burners, use all of your bones, bank at Castle Wars, and repeat.

If you do not have your own altar, searching the Runescape Official Events Forum often has offers for "open" altars free for anyone to use. Just make sure that the incense burners are lit or you will miss out on significant experience.

When you kill monsters in RuneScape, you will usually get a set of bones. To bury bones you must have picked them up so that they are in your inventory. Then you can either right click on the bones and select "Bury" or simply left click them.

Different types of bones give different experience values. Unlike other skills, there is no Prayer requirement for burying different bones, so no matter what your level is you can bury any types of bones you like. Here is a list of all the bones you can find in RuneScape:

Picture	Bone Name	Experience	Efficiency (Cost/Exp)*
	Regular bones	4.5	168
	Wolf bones	4.5	885
	Burnt bones	4.5	557
	Small monkey bones	5	N/A
	Monkey bones	5	363
	Bat bones	5.2	231
	Big bones	15	643
	Long bone1	15	N/A
	Curved bone1	15	N/A
	Jogre bones	15	976
	Big monkey bones	18 - Monkey guards without beards 20 - Monkey guards with beards	N/A
	Zogre bones	22.5	1,178
	Shaikahan bones	25	1,068
	Babydragon bones	30	1,888
	Wyvern bones	50	5,116
	Dragon bones	72	5,491
	Fayrg bones	84	6,594
	Raurg bones	96	8,433
	Dagannoth bones	125	11,600
	Ourg bones	140	19,500

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If you wish to bypass the extreme cost of buying your own bones, you can save a lot of money, at the cost of even more time, by killing your own monsters. Here are some tips on which NPCs would be most effective depending on your Combat skills.

Free Players: The best places for you are "Chicken Coops". Both these places give good prayer XP/hour. The monsters are easy to kill and provide relatively good combat XP up to, and even beyond level 39. Again, do not rely on just training sessions here to gain prayer XP; pick up every bone you see and bury it.
Members: Due to your low combat level, "Chicken Coops" are still the best place to train. However, since you are on a members server you should have less people crowding you so you should gain XP quite a bit faster.

Free Players: Although you could still train at Chicken Coops and get relatively good XP, it is recommend to go to the Giant's Cavern which is in the Edgeville Dungeon. Simply kill Hill giants there and bury the Big bones.
Members: Khazard Battlefield is a very good place to train. There are plenty of bones to bury and the Khazard warriors are fairly easy to kill. You could also opt to kill Moss giants northwest of Ardougne, Hill giants in the dungeon west of Varrock, or Baby blue dragons in the Taverley Dungeon.

Free Players: You should train at the Chaos Temple in the wilderness because there are over ten bone spawns there. Beware of the Revenants that lurk in the wilderness. You should try to bring just 3 items and a some food so that you do not lose anything important. However, if you have at least 37 Prayer then keep Protect from Magic on at all times to prevent any damage from the Revenants. Don't worry about your Prayer points falling, though, because there is an altar nearby to recover them.
Members: Here you can continue to fight level 48 Baby blue dragons in the Taverley Dungeon, or you can check out Green dragons in the wilderness which drop plenty of bones; just be careful of Revenants. You can also move on to Blue dragons in Taverley Dungeon or the Heroes' Guild if you feel you are strong enough.

The Ectofuntus is an extremely worthwhile method of training your prayer, but only if you can afford to buy and grind a lot of Dragon bones. This is because it multiplies the number of experience you normally get by four; so for a dragon bone, you get 288 XP instead of 72 XP. This method involves collecting buckets of slime, grinding your bones, and worshipping them at the Ectofuntus in Port Phasmatys. There are many methods that you can use to worship your bones efficiently, but the one revealed below is known to be the most efficient.

This method involves buying 65 pots, and 150 buckets (or less depending on how many bones you're going to grind). These can be bought easily from the Port Phasmatys general store, although you need an Ghostspeak amulet to speak to the general store owner. You will also need an Ectophial and a number of rings of duelling - at least 10 - so you can teleport to and from the Castlewars arena.

Start off at the Castlewars bank chest and withdraw your Ectophial, a ring of duelling, and 26 empty buckets. Empty your Ectophial, refill it at the Ectofuntus, then open the trapdoor. Climb down, and head to the bottom floor (use the Agility shortcut if you can). Fill all your buckets with slime (fill one and it will automatically fill the rest), then use your ring of duelling to get back to the Castlewars arena. Repeat this process until all your buckets are filled with slime.

Once you've done this, clear your inventory and withdraw your filled Ectophial, ring of duelling, 13 empty pots and 13 of your bones. Teleport to the Ectofuntus, refill your Ectophial, and then head up the stairs. Right click your bones, and use them with the bone grinder. Then wind the wheel to grind the bones. Now empty the ground bones into one of your pots. Due to an update with the Ectofuntus, you may now choose to automatically grind up all of the bones in your inventory without having to click each time. Continue this process until your pots are full of bonemeal, then teleport to the Castlewars arena. Bank, repeat, and withdraw a new ring of duelling as your old ones disintegrate.

When you have filled all 65 pots, clear your inventory again at the Castlewars bank chest. This time withdraw 13 buckets of slime, 13 pots of bonemeal, your Ectophial, and a ring of duelling. Teleport to the Ectofuntus with your Ghostspeak amulet on. Refill your Ectophial and worship at the altar ten times, then drop an empty bucket and collect your tokens from a ghost disciple. Then worship the remaining three pots, and teleport back to the Castlewars arena. Bank and repeat, keeping your pots and buckets for future use.

Below is a table listing the amount of experience you would receive from using bones with the Ectofuntus:

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Picture	Bone Name	Experience	Efficiency (Cost/Exp)*
	Regular bones	18	168
	Big bones	60
	Zogre bones	90	1,178
	Babydragon bones	120	1,888
	Wyvern bones	200	5,116
	Dragon bones	288	5,491
	Fayrg bones	336	6,594
	Raurg bones	384	8,433
	Ourg bones	560	19,500

The burning of the shades at Mort'ton is rather slow Prayer experience, but you can get cool rewards by using the keys that appear after burning shades. By burning the remains of shades at the dungeon in Mort'ton, you can gain both Prayer and Firemaking experience. This is for members only. Here is a table of how much each of the shade remains gives you after you burn it:

Picture	Shade Name	Experience
	Loar	33
	Phrin	46.5
	Riyl	59.5
	Asyn	82.5
	Fiyr	100

An alternative to ghasts would be slaying the Vyrewatch. They can only be killed with an Ivandis flail, so it may take longer than ghasts, but the rewards are greater. Their corpse can only be burned in the The Paterdomus Columbarium after completion of the Legacy of Seergaze quest.

Picture	Name	Experience
	Vyrewatch	78

Refer to our Shades of Mort'ton guide for more information.

Upon the completion of the Nature Spirit quest, you will have the ability to slay ghasts. Killing one ghast will reward you with 30 Prayer XP. This is a decent method of training Prayer for lower leveled players. The recommended equipment and inventory to take for this method are listed below:

• » Torag platebody
• Alternative: Rune platebody
• » Torag platelegs
• Alternative: Rune platelegs
• » Helmet of Neitiznot
• Alternative: Berserker helmet, Dragon med helmet, Rune full helmet
• » Flail of Ivandis
• Alternative: Blessed sickle
• » Dragon sq shield
• Alternative: Rune kiteshield
• » Recipe for Disaster gloves
• Alternative: Fist of Guthix gauntlets
• » Dragon boots
• Alternative: Rune boots, Climbing boots
• » Cape of achievement
• Alternative: Obsidian cape, Fremmenik cloak
• » Amulet of glory
• Alternative: Amulet of power

• Filled druid pouche
• Fishing rod
• Bait
• Shark, monkfish, or lobster

Note: You cannot equip a shield when using the flail of Ivandis.

You will notice that you can't harm ghasts but they can harm you. To change this, use the 'Bloom' option on your sickle while standing nearby some hollow logs. When you cast the spell, mushrooms will appear on the logs, and you will need to pick them up. Place them inside your druid pouch, and when a ghast attacks you, it will revert to its attackable form. Now you can attack it with your flail of Ivandis or your blessed sickle. Keep in mind though that everytime you cast 'Bloom' it will drain three Prayer points away. If you are running low on those then you can use the altar inside of the Grotto to the south (Picture).

Another thing to to watch out for is your food supply. Ghasts like to turn your food rotten, so to prevent this, you can fish in the swamps nearby (Picture). This will give you an unlimited source of food for fighting them. Ghasts also drop bait, so you shouldn't ever have to bank for more.

If you want to save time at the cost of more money, you can buy Morytania mushrooms from the Grand Exchange to fill your pouches quickly instead of gathering the supplies yourself.

The "Protect from" Prayers and the higher leveled members prayers (Retribution, Smite, Chivalry, Piety and Redemption) can team with any prayers except themselves, e.g, Protect From Melee can team with Rapid Heal, but it can not team with Smite or Protect from Ranged. Note that if you do team prayers, the drain rate will increase dramatically.

"Prayer Flashing" refers to the process of quickly turning Protection prayers on and off in an attempt to save Prayer points, reduce Prayer potions consumed, and save money overall. This is done by turning prayers on just as the monster's attacking animation begins and turning it off right after. This process needs to be repeated for each attack to prevent damage. Please note that this can be quite risky, as you will most likely take damage from being slow to turn prayers on occasionally, and requires complete attention. Nevertheless, this is often used to finish off a Slayer task or camping trip when you've run out of Prayer potions and don't want to bank, for example.

When you use the Ancient Mace Special attack it increases your Prayer points, allowing you to use your prayers longer. It makes the numerator of your prayer (the top part) higher based on what you hit, so lets say you have 52/52 Prayer. When you use the mace's special attack and hit an 80, it will rise to 60/52 Prayer (+8 bonus). This is great to use before an important war, if you have low prayer, or before you go to a difficult boss or activity.

Although there is no specific guild for people with high Prayer, there is a special area in the Monastery (north-east of Falador) for people with higher-than-average Prayer. If you have level 31 or higher Prayer you can enter the second floor of the Monastery, which is often referred to as the Prayer Guild. In this guild you can find a Monks robe respawn (both top and bottom), a special altar which gives +2 extra Prayer points when you recharge there (so if you pray at it with 33/44 Prayer, your Prayer recharges to 46/44), and Brother Jered, who will enchant your Holy symbols of Saradomin as well as sell the Cape of Accomplishment for the Prayer skill.

Upon completion of the Rum Deal quest, you will receive a Holy Wrench. The Holy Wrench will restore an additional 1-2 Prayer points when drinking a Prayer potion. It may also slow Prayer drain. It is a very useful item when PKing, "Barrowing", finishing Fight Caves, or any other action that requires Prayer or Prayer potions.

Through the use of the Crafting skill, players have the ability to craft unblessed Holy and Unholy symbols. These symbols can be enchanted by players using a Prayer book. The Holy symbol can be blessed using a Holy book (Saradomin). Likewise, an Unholy symbol can be blessed using an Unholy book (Zamorak). A Book of Balance (Guthix) has the ability to bless both symbols. Blessing a symbol requires a Prayer level of 50.

Upon the death of a friend, a gravestone appears. A player then has the ability to either Repair or Bless the gravestone. Reparing a gravestone requires a Prayer level of 2, while blessing a gravestone requires a Prayer level of 70. When repaired, a gravestone lasts for 5 minutes, at the expense of 5 Prayer points. If the player repairing the gravestone has less than 5 Prayer points, the gravestone will not last as long. Blessing a gravestone allows it to last for up to an hour at the expense of almost all of your Prayer points. More details on gravestones can be found in the Getting Started Guide.

If you want to have access to free bone spawns but do not want to risk running into Revenants, the Edgeville Dungeon is filled with bone respawns that allow for slow but cheap Prayer experience.

Those possessing adequate Firemaking and Crafting levels, Chewed or Mangled bones, and sufficient Barbarian training can make funeral pyre ships to receive a 300% experience bonus for a certain amount of bones you bury. Simply head to the whirlpool south of the Barbarian Outpost with logs, your bones, a hatchet, and a tinderbox to create your ship. The higher the log you use, the more bones you can bury for an experience boost:

Picture	Name	Required Firemaking/Crafting Level	Bones Buried Withholding Enchantment
	Normal log	21	1
	Achey log	21	1
	Oak log	35	2
	Willow log	50	2
	Teak log	55	3
	Artic Pine log	62	3
	Maple log	65	3
	Mahogany log	70	4
	Eucalyptus log	78	4
	Yew log	80	4
	Magic log	95	5

Refer to our Firemaking Guide for more information.

The efficiency column is very useful in deciding which method you want to train and which bone you want to use. As a general rule, the lower the efficiency, the lower the cost of training. So, from the tables in the training section, we see that the Ectofuntus is the cheapest method, followed by Gilded altars and plain burying. One other thing that has to be taken into account is the time required. The Ectofuntus requires a lot of preparation time, making it less efficient overall (even though it is cheaper). The best method of training is Gilded altars

Time also plays a factor in bone choice. Although the lower leveled bones are cheaper to use, you would need to bury a lot more of them. Try to get a balanced mix of cost efficiency and time efficiency based on your abilities to find the best bone to train with for you. Use this guide and our Prayer calculator to help you.

After completing Fur 'n' Seek quest, you can kill the Skeletal Horror once every 6 days. The first time you kill it, you will receive 7,000 Prayer experience. You will receive 1,000 Prayer experience every time you kill it after that

Quests with a Prayer Experience Another Slice of H.A.M.: 3,000 XP Dealing with Scabaras: 7,000 XP Ghosts Ahoy: 2,400 XP Great Brain Robbery, The: 6,000 XP Holy Grail: 11,000 XP Land of the Goblins: 2,000 XP Making History: 1,000 XP Mountain Daughter: 2,000 XP Priest in Peril: 1,406 XP Rag and Bone Man: 500-5,000 XP Recruitment Drive: 1,000 XP Restless Ghost, The: 125 XP, 5 Ancient Bones which can be buried for 200 Prayer experience each. Rum Deal: 7,000 XP Spirit of Summer: 5,000 XP (+10,000 from miniquest after quest) Spirits of the Elid: 8,000 XP Summer's End: 10,000 XP Swan Song: 10,000 XP Temple At Senntisten, The: 10,000 XP

Quests with a choice of Experience Blood Runs Deep: 150,000 - 450,000 XP (3 x 150,000 lamps for any combat skill over level 75, excluding Summoning). Contact!: 7,000 - 14,000 XP (2 x 7,000 lamps in any combat skill of your choice over level 30). Darkness Of Hallowvale: 6,000 XP (3 x 2,000 lamps for any skill of your choice). Fairy Tale Part II, A: 2,500 XP in any skill of your choice over level 30. Great Brain Robbery, The: 5,000 XP for any skill of your choice over level 30. Legacy of Seergaze: 7,500 XP (3 x 2,500 tomes for any skill of your choice). Legends' Quest: 7,650-30,600 XP (4 x 7,650 is given to 4 skills from a list of skills). Meeting History: 2,500 XP in any skill of your choice over level 25. One Small Favour: 10,000-20,000 XP (2 x 10,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30). Recipe for Disaster: 20,000 XP for any skill of your choice over level 50. Tail Of Two Cats, A: 2,500-5,000 XP (2 x 2,500 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30). Troll Stronghold: 10,000-20,000 XP (2 x 10,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30). While Guthix Sleeps: 100,000-400,000 XP (4 x 100,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 65). Love Story: 10,000 XP in any skill of your choice over level 60.