Main page/Guides/Ironman & Hardcore/Skilling 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 longest skills to prepare for as you have to get the bones yourself, 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

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 a great choice for this skill, although they do not give the best XP, there are a lot of dragons located around Grinderscape which makes collection them very quick.

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. A decent place to find lots of dragons is the Chaos Tunnel, but be careful as you will have to enter the wilderness to get there.

To get there, teleport to edgville, run east until you are north of around the middle of Grand Exchange. Once there run north, until you see a rift that you can enter around level 10 wilderness.

There are a lot of Dragons found inside the Chaos Tunnel so just search around for them.

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, however they have a very low drop rate and can take a while to get.

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 only dropped by Frost Dragons. They offer a large amount of XP and if you have decent gear are relatively easy to kill. The only problem is that they are highly dangerous.

Frost Dragons are located in 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, it's recommended to use them on an Altar. The altar can be found north of Edgeville Bank or in Donor Zone #2.

Experience Table

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

Useful Items

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).