Main page/Guides/Skill guides/Prayer

Introduction

Prayer is 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. 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 by Wyvern bones, Frost Dragon bones and Zogre bones.

Dragon bones have a 100% drop rate from any dragon in Grinderscape. 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 Ice 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 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 and 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 an Altar. Using bones on an 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, it's recommended to use them on an 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		200	400	800
Big Bones		600	1,200	2,400
Babydragon Bones		1,200	2,400	3,600
Dragon Bones		2,880	5,760	11,520
Wyvern Bones		4,000	8,000	16,000
Frost Dragon Bones		7,200	14,400	28,800
Dagannoth Bones		5,000	10,000	20,000
Zogre Bones		60,000	120,000	240,000

Ironman And Hardcore Ironman

Bone Type	Image	Ironman XP without Altar	Hardcore XP	Ironman XP with Altar	Hardcore XP
Bones		66	28	133	56
Big Bones		200	85	400	171
Babydragon Bones		400	171	800	342
Dragon Bones		960	411	1,920	822
Wyvern Bones		1,333	571	2,666	1,142
Frost Dragon Bones		3,000	1,285	6,000	2,571
Dagannoth Bones		1,666	714	3,333	1,428
Zogre Bones		20,000	8,571	40,000	17,142

Prayer boosts

Item	Name	Effect
	Bonesack	Collects bones that monsters drop. The limit can be made bigger from vote streak rewards. These are the standard limits: Big Bones - 400 Baby Dragon Bones - 300 Dragon Bones - 200 Zogre Bones - 100 Wyvern Bones - 100 Frost Dragon Bones - 25
	Bonecrusher	Automatically 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).