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Prayer Guide

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The Prayers
Altars
Prayer Equipment
Training Prayer
Alternate Prayer Techniques
- Ghasts
- Ectofuntus
- Funeral Pyres
Extra Prayer Info
Prayer EXP Quest Rewards

The skill that we know as prayer can be very useful. With prayer, a person can perform such acts as regeneration, superhuman strength and invulnerability to magic, combat and ranging. The ability to do so must be trained however, and the higher your prayer level, the greater the advantages you can gain from prayer are.

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

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 skill 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 your Prayer level goes down to 0, all prayers you have activated will be deactivated and you will have to go to an altar to recharge or drink a Prayer Potion.

The Prayers

There are various prayers that gives you different bonuses. Use the below table to see which prayers are which.

Prayer Table
Image	Prayer Lvl	Name	Effect
	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 ranged 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 ranged 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%
	35	Protect From Summoning	100% immune to Familiar 'right-click' abilites; 40% damage reduction from Familiar special attacks
	37	Protect from Magic	100% immune to NPC magic attacks; 50% damage reduction from player magic attacks; 50% time reduction on freezing spells (exlcuding Ancient Magic freezing spells)
	40	Protect From Missiles	100% immune to NPC ranged attacks; 50% damage reduction from player ranged attacks
	43	Protect from Melee	100% immune to NPC melee attacks; 50% damage reduction from player melee attacks
	44	Eagle Eye	Increases your ranged by 15%
	45	Mystic Might	Increases your magic by 15%
	48	Retribution *	When the prayer is active when you die, it deals damage up to 25% of your max prayer level to all nearby foes
	49	Redemption *	When this prayer is active, and your health drops below 10% of your health, then you will be healed for 25% of your max prayer level
	52	Smite *	When this prayer is active while fighting another player, 1/4th of all damage dealt drains the prayer point
	60	Chivarly *~	Increases Defence by 20%, Strength by 18%, & Attack by 15%
	70	Piety *~	Increases Defence by 25%, Strength by 23%, & Attack by 20%

* - None of these prayers can be activated at the same time.
~ - You must have completed the King's Ransom Quest and the training room in Camelot to use these prayers

Prayers Info

Stat Boosting Prayers: You cannot 'stack' these prayers of the same type. For example, if you have activated the Rock Skin Prayer, which increases your defence by 10%, you cannot also activate the Thick Skin Prayer, which increases your defence by 5%

2x Rapid Restore: You restore 1 stat point (attack, strength, etc., excluding prayer and HP) every 60 seconds without this prayer activated. If you activate Rapid Restore, you will restore 1 stat point every 30 seconds until it deactives and restarts the timer

2x Hitpoint Restore: You restore 1 hitpoint every 60 seconds without this. When you activate Rapid Heal, it starts its own timer and you restore 1 HP every 30 seconds. When you turn it off, it restarts the timer and goes back to 1 HP every 60 seconds

Protect Items: You keep one extra item if you die, without a skull (for a total of 4 items kept when you die without a skull). It keeps the top four (or one if you're skulled) most expensive items RuneScape-value in your inventory or equipment. This means that you won't be able to keep a party hat over a wooden shield if you activated this prayer. If you die skulled, Protect Items still works even though you keep only one item

Retribution: Retribution won't hurt other players outside of PvP areas, and it won't hit multiple targets in non-multiway combat zones.

Prayer Equipment

Once you have raised your prayer level, you are going to want to go out and use it. Some prayers can be extremely useful if used properly. Once you activate your prayers, you will realize your prayer level is draining. Instead of walking to an altar each time you need to refill, you can slow it down by equipping items. The table below will link you to two pages containing information on equipment with prayer bonuses.

Page	Basic Info
Prayer Equipment	Lists most prayer boosting equipment
God Equipment	Lists the various god equipment, some of which have prayer bonuses

Holy Wrench

Obtained during the Rum Deal Quest, the Holy Wrench decreases the rate at which prayers drain your prayer points when in your inventory. Thus, you can have prayers activated longer with this wrench in your inventory.

Training Prayer

Training Prayer can be done in a variety of ways, but the traditional method is to bury bones usually obtained from killing NPCs or Players. This is also the only method of training Prayer available to Freeplayers. There are a large variety of bones in Runescape, some giving different amounts of Prayer experience than others. All can be buried at any Prayer level. A table containing information on the various types of bones is below:

Image	Name	Experience	How to Obtain
	'Shaking' Bones	3	Located in the cave part of Monkey Madness
	(Normal) Bones	4.5	Dropped by Most NPCs and all Players
	Wolf Bones	4.5	Dropped by Wolves
	Burnt Bones	4.5	Found in certain places, such as the Demonic Ruins in the wilderness
	Monkey Bones	5	Dropped by Karamja Monkeys
	Small Zombie Monkey Bones	5	Dropped by level 82 Zombie Monkeys on Ape Atoll
	Large Zombie Monkey Bones	5	Dropped by level 129 Zombie Monkeys on Ape Atoll
	Bat Bones	5.375	Dropped by Bats
	Big Bones	15	Dropped by Ogres, Trolls and all Giants
	Jogre Bones	15	Dropped by Jogres
	Small Ninja Monkey Bones	16	Dropped by level 86 Ninja Monkeys on Ape Atoll
	Medium Ninja Monkey Bones	18	Dropped by level 149 Ninja Monkeys on Ape Atoll
	Gorilla Monkey Bones	18	Dropped by level 167 Monkey Guard on Ape Atoll
	Bearded Gorilla Monkey Bones	20	Dropped by level 167 Monkey Guard(bearded) on Ape Atoll
	Zogre Bones	22.5	Dropped by Zogres and Skogres
	Shaikahan Bones	25	Dropped by The Shaikahan lion
	Baby Dragon Bones	30	Dropped by Baby Blue, Baby Red, and Baby Black Dragons
	Skeletal Wyvern Bones	50	Dropped by level 140 Skeletal Wyverns in Ice Warrior Cave
	Dragon Bones	72	Dropped by all Dragons
	Fayrg Bones	84	Found in Ogre Coffins
	Ruarg Bones	96	Found in Ogre Coffins
	Dagannoth King Bones	125	Dropped by Dagannoth Kings
	Ourg Bones	140	Found in Ogre Coffins

Besides burying bones, there are other methods of training Prayer. These are given in the sections below.

Alternate Prayer Techniques

There are some alternate ways to level prayer, as well as extra prayer info, that you should know while leveling prayer. Info on all of this is covered below.

Ghasts

When doing the Nature Spirit quest, you will encounter level 30 creatures named Ghasts. They are located all over Mort Myre Swamp. To kill a Ghast, you must have a Druid pouch, a Sickle(b), and have lots of prayer remaining. Use the Sickle(b) to cast bloom next to logs, branches, or bushes. Once they have bloomed, they will produce fungi, little buds, or pears. Filling your Druid pouch with these items enables you to distract a Ghast rotting your pouch instead of your valuable food. Killing a Ghast grants you 30 experience points each.

Ectofuntus

The most cost-effective way to train prayer is to use the Ectofuntus just outside Port Phasmatys in Morytania. This involves a long but worthwile procedure. The Ectofuntus is a shrine which is part of the Ghosts Ahoy quest. You will have to complete Ghosts Ahoy to be able to do this process effectively.

First collect a bucket of slime from the slime pool several floors below the Ectofuntus. Do this by using a bucket on the slime pool.

Then head to the floor above the Ectofuntus. Use a bone to fill the bone grinder in that room, and then operate it. Collect the bonemeal from the grinder in a pot.

Then return to the Ectofuntus and choose the 'Worship' option.

You will gain 4x the Prayer experience that you would by simply burying the bone. The table below lists the experience values of using different kinds of bonemeal when worshipping the Ectofuntus:

Image	Name	Experience
	(Normal) Bones	18
	Wolf Bones	18
	Burnt Bones	18
	Monkey Bones	20
	Small Zombie Monkey Bones	20
	Large Zombie Monkey Bones	20
	Bat Bones	21.5
	Big Bones	60
	Small Ninja Monkey Bones	64
	Gorilla Monkey Bones	72
	Medium Ninja Monkey Bones	72
	Bearded Monkey Bones	80
	Zogre Bones	90
	Shaikahan Bones	100
	Baby Dragon Bones	120
	Skeletal Wyvern Bones	200
	Dragon Bones	288
	Fayrg Bones	336
	Ruarg Bones	384
	Dagannoth King Bones	500
	Ourg Bones	560

Funeral Pyres

Another way to train prayer is to do Funeral Pyres, which is an unique method involving burning remains to free the spirit from the earthly world. For doing this, you gain prayer and firemaking experience.

Once you have completed the Shades of Mort'ton Quest, you can use the Firemaking skill in making Pyres in the town of Mort'ton to raise your Prayer skill. This requires olive oil (bought in the town's general store), a log of your choice, and the remains obtained by killing one of the various 'shade' monsters that roam around Mort'ton, or in the dungeon to the north-west of the town. Using the olive oil on the fire altar (located in the temple to the north of town) makes the oil sacred, and can then be added to the log(s) you have in various quantities, depending on the type of log. After that, you move to one of the many Funeral Pyres surrounding the town, use the Logs on the pyre, then the shade remains, and light the pyre with your Tinderbox.

This gives you a key that can be used in the dungeon to the north-west of Mort'ton, some of the more advanced keys yield treasure including material to make Splitbark armour for mages. Prayer experience obtained by this method varies for different log types, and for different types of shade remains. Details of experience gained from Funeral Pyres is shown below:

Loar Remains
Image	Type of Logs	Prayer Experience
	Regular	25
	Oak	33
	Willow	33.5
	Teak	33.75
	Maple	34
	Mahogany	34.25
	Yew	34.5
	Magic	35

Phrin Remains
Image	Type of Logs	Prayer Experience
	Regular	37.5
	Oak	45.5
	Willow	46
	Teak	46.25
	Maple	46.5
	Mahogany	46.75
	Yew	47
	Magic	47.5

Riyl Remains
Image	Type of Logs	Prayer Experience
	Willow	61
	Teak	61.25
	Maple	61.5
	Mahogany	61.75
	Yew	62
	Magic	62.5

Asyn Remains
Image	Type of Logs	Prayer Experience
	Yew	79.5
	Magic	80

Fiyr Remains
Image	Type of Logs	Prayer Experience
	Magic	100

Extra Prayer Info

There are some other, extra things that you should know about while raising prayer:

Construction and Chapels

When you have Level 45 Construction, you will be able to create your own Chapel with it's own altar and incense burners. You can offer bones to the altar and gain experience, but when you light one or two of the incense burners, you can gain even more experience! For more information, see the Construction Guide.

Prayer Guild

The Prayer Guild is found in the Monastery west of Rimmington. It requires level 31 prayer to enter. Inside, there are various things that may assist you with your prayer. See the Prayer Guild Guide for more info.

Cape of Accomplishment

The ultimate reward for getting level 99 Prayer is not only the great ability you will have in the skill, but the Cape of Accomplishment that you will have the oppurtunity to purchase. For more information on Capes of Accomplishment, see the Skill Capes page.

Related Links

The following links may help you with your Prayer.

Prayer EXP Rewards in Quests:

Quest	Exp
Rag and Bone Man	500 exp
Making History	1000 exp
Recruitment Drive	1000 exp
Restless Ghost	1125 exp
Priest In Peril	1406.2 exp
Land of Goblins	2000 exp
Mountain Daughter	2000 exp
Ghosts Ahoy	2400 exp
Another Slice of H.A.M.	3000 exp
Rag and Bone man (wishlist)	5000 exp
Dealing With Scabaras	7000 exp
Rum Deal	7000 exp
Spirits Of The Elid	8000 exp
Swan Song	10000 exp
The Holy Grail	11000 exp