Main page/Guides/Skill guides/Prayer

Introduction

Prayer is a relatively simple to train, however, after time it can get tedious and repetitive.

The Prayer skill can be very useful when you are, for example, fighting a very difficult boss monster or fighting other players in any of the many PvP areas. There are two different sets of prayers. The default "modern" prayers are enabled by default, and include prayers up to level 70. For players with higher prayer levels, the Ancient Curses is a much more powerful set of prayers.

Even though Prayer can be very useful, and very rewarding, it is also one of the most expensive skills to train, depending on whether you choose to get the bones required yourself, or buying it from other players.

The faster method would be to buy the bones, which would cost a lot of money, but as mentioned, gets the job done quickly. You can alternatively kill monsters for the bones, which can take weeks of grinding.

• Super Donators can change their Prayers from Normal Prayers to Curses anywhere besides the Wilderness, Minigames, and in Combat situations.

Getting Bones

If you are one of the people that would rather put in some extra work and go slaying for these bones, the following will show you exactly where and how to get them.

Note that, getting the bones yourself may be much more rewarding, but it will also take much longer than buying the bones.

Bones

You can acquire normal bones by killing any kind of low level creatures around Grinderscape.

Unless you have no other option, this method is not recommended, as all types of bones are ranging from marginally to significantly better, and are not very hard to obtain.

A good example of this are men NPCs.

You can find many of these by teleporting home to Edgeville, and walking east to a building resembling a warehouse.

Big Bones

Like normal bones, these bones are also very simple to get.

Some good monsters to kill for these bones are Moss Giants, as they aren't hard to kill.

You can get to Moss Giants by opening your spellbook and clicking on Combat training teleports, and choosing the 'Edgeville Dungeon' option at the top, and then walking south to the NPCs.

Dragon Bones

Dragon bones are some of the best bones for this skill, bested only by Wyvern bones and Zogre bones.

Dragon bones have a 100% drop rate from any dragon in Grinderscape.

Because killing high level or low level dragons makes no difference for the bones, it is recommended to kill Green Dragons.

Killing them in the northern regions of North Neitznot is optimal, as the only other alternative location is near a very popular PKing location, where the risk of being attacked and or killed is very high.

Location:

To get there, go to your spellbook's Neitznot teleports, and click on North Neitznot.

When you arrive, walk north of your initial location after having arrived, and click on the beginning of the broken bridge there (The bridge is broken but still works).

Now walk north once again until you see Green Dragons to the most northern part of Neitiznot.

Wyvern Bones

Wyvern bones are only dropped by one monster in the game; Wyverns.

Wyverns can be found in 'Asgarnian Dungeon ' within the Combat training teleports.

Note though, to get to Wyverns, you will need a crystal key.

These keys are dropped from Fire Giants.

When you arrive in the dungeon, you will soon see a cave entrance to one of the cave's sides.

When you see it, go through the entrance (You will need your crystal key).

Once you enter the sub-cave, you will see the high level monsters.

Zogre Bones

Zogre, or Z Bones are the best bones in the game for training the prayer skill.

Like Wyvern Bones, this type of bone is only dropped from one monster.

This time, they are dropped by the boss monster Mutant Tarn.

You can find out exactly how to get to Tarn, and how to kill Tarn by reading through this guide.

Frost Dragon Bones

Frost Dragon Bones are gained from kill only Frost Dragons. Frost Dragon Bones are great for gaining good Prayer experience. There are 2 ways of which to get to their location, the first of which is through a trapdoor South of Port Sarim.

Another way is through Asgarnian dungeon. This is found in the Combat Training teleport.

Training

Training is pretty straight forward.

To train this skill, all you will need to do is take the bones you have, and bury them in the ground, or by using the on a Gilded Altar.

Using bones on a Gilded Altar gives twice the experience for each bone, that burying it in the ground would give you.

So to be as efficient as possible, and to save as much money as possible if you did buy the bones, I recommend using them on a Gilded Altar.

The altar can be found north of Edgeville Bank.

Get there by teleporting home from your spellbook and walking eastward toward the Wise Old Man.

Experience Table

Bone Type	Image	XP without Altar	XP with Altar	XP with Brawlers
Bones		200xp	400xp	800xp
Big Bones		600xp	1,200xp	2,400xp
Babydragon Bones		1,200xp	2,400xp	3,600xp
Dragon Bones		2,880xp	5,760xp	11,520xp
Wyvern Bones		4,000xp	8,000xp	16,000xp
Frost Dragon Bones		7,200xp	14,400xp	28,800xp
Dagannoth Bones		5,000xp	10,000xp	20,000xp
Zogre Bones		60,000xp	120,000xp	240,000xp

Ironman And Hardcore Ironman

Bone Type	Image	Ironman XP without Altar	Hardcore XP	Ironman XP with Altar	Hardcore XP
Bones		66 XP	28 XP	133 XP	56 XP
Big Bones		200 XP	85 XP	400 XP	171 XP
Babydragon Bones		400 XP	171 XP	800 XP	342 XP
Dragon Bones		960 XP	411 XP	1920 XP	822 XP
Wyvern Bones		1333 XP	571 XP	2666 XP	1142 XP
Frost Dragon Bones		3000 XP	1285 XP	6000 XP	2571 XP
Dagannoth Bones		1666 XP	714 XP	3333 XP	1428 XP
Zogre Bones		20000 XP	8571 XP	40000 XP	17142 XP

Prayer boosts

Item	Name	Effect
	Bonesack	Collects bones that monsters drop. The limit can be made bigger from vote streak rewards. Big Bones 400 Baby Dragon Bones 300 Dragon Bones 200 Zogre Bones 100 Wyvern Bones 100
	Bonecrusher	Automaticly buries bones of monsters you slay. The xp of buried bones will be 50% boosted.
	Brawling Gloves (Prayer)	Gives you X2 Experience for Prayer

Notes

Using the Knowledge pool (Yellow pool) located in Donator zone 1 will double the xp gained for a set time.

The Skillcape

When you reach level 99, you may buy your skillcape from any Wise Old Man in the game, there are a few Wise Old Man NPC's but the easiest one to find is at home, just east of the altar north of the bank. The skillcape will cost you 150.000 coins.

The prayer hood and the prayer cape give you +18 defence bonus (+9 bonus each).