Members Prayer training

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There are more options available for Members for Prayer training, including more Bones and two different methods of gaining more experience per bone buried.

Helpful Quests:
 * Priest in Peril - Allows access to Morytania and to the Ectofuntus
 * Ghosts Ahoy - Allows access to the Ectofuntus and Ectophial for faster burying.
 * Shades of Mort'ton - Allows access to Shades of Mort'ton (minigame) and the burning of Shades for Prayer experience.
 * Nature Spirit - Allows for the ability to kill Ghasts.

Player owned house
With the release of the Construction skill, members have the option to build an Altar to their respected Gods in their Chapel. This method provides an additional 100% to 250% percent increase of experience gained depending on the altar, with an additional 50% to 100% increase for lighting one or both burners. Prayer training in this way almost always involves using the highest boost, the +250% boost of using a gilded altar with two incense burners lit.

Items needed for this method:
 * Marrentill - Used as incense if you light the burners.
 * Tinderbox - To light the burners
 * Bones - to use on the altar.

Lighting candles or torches in your altar will NOT provide any bonuses. Incense burners and marble burners both provide the highest bonus; thus, the most expensive marble burners are purely for show.

There are several methods to obtain additional bones after using them. The fastest option without runners is to use a worn Ring of duelling or Amulet of glory to teleport to a bank, then teleport back to your house using a House teleport tablet or the Teleport to house spell. An alternative way to teleport to a bank is to use an Amulet of glory mounted in a Quest hall. A way without any teleporting at all is to have your house located in Yanille and walk to the bank, but that is quite slow.

The absolute fastest way is to have runners hand you unnoted bones for noted bones, but they wouldn't be providing their services without any compensation so it would be difficult to find anyone to run for you.

Maximise the number of bones that you take with you. This can be done by using a Beast of burden, such as a War tortoise or Pack yak. When using a War tortoise, the burning time of the burners just about equals the time to offer all bones.

It is possible to use the gilded altar at another player's house. This decreases training speed, however.

After the prayer update allowing players to use a X-number of bones on an altar, when using the Teleport to House spell, and the Ring of duelling teleport to Castle Wars, and a War tortoise to bring extra bones, a player will get approximately 230k experience per hour with Dragon bones.

Ectofuntus
After the completion of Priest In Peril, players have the ability to worship the Ectofuntus. By doing so, the experience one would gain from burying the bones will be multiplied by four. An example would be for every Dragon bone used in the 'worship', a player would receive 288 experience instead of 72. Although the process is slower than just burying the bones, the experience earned is far better than just by burying the bone.

In comparison to using bones on a gilded altar, the Ectofuntus will give 1/7 more experience per bone, but is far slower, so therefore the Ectofuntus is rarely used to train prayer.

Items recommended for the Ectofuntus method:


 * Ectophial for teleportation to the Ectofuntus.
 * Ghostspeak Amulet No longer required as a right click option was added.
 * Boots of Lightness
 * Spotted Cape or Spottier Cape
 * As many pots and buckets for bones you wish to use. An inventory with one Ectophial, 9 pots and 9 buckets will allow the most bones used without banking.
 * 58 Agility to utilize the shortcut.
 * Ring of Dueling or Games Necklace for quick banking
 * Dragon bones are recommened to make 288 xp for each bone used.
 * completed Ghosts Ahoy for fast banking

Begin by withdrawing your bones and pots and head to the Ectofuntus. Go upstairs to the bone grinder. Right click on the bones you wish to use, then click on the grinder. Once all your bones are ground into bonemeal, return to the bank. Withdraw your buckets and return to the Ectofuntus. Go down through the trapdoor, and fill your buckets with the slime (using the Agility shortcut and the Ectophial can greatly reduce your trip time). When your buckets are filled, return to the Ectofuntus (again, if you use the Ectophial you can greatly reduce the time used) and click on it to worship it. When all your bones and slime buckets are emptied, speak with the Ghost disciple to collect your Ecto-tokens. If you used the Ectophial to get back there, use it with the Ectofuntus to refill it for when you need it again.

Ghasts
This provides a player with an ability to obtain combat and prayer levels, as each Ghast slain provides 30 experience. Ghasts can be found in Mort Myre Swamp and Mort'ton. Completion of Nature Spirit is a prerequisite to obtain the Silver sickle(b) and Druid pouch necessary to defeat the ghasts.

Inventory needed:
 * Silver sickle(b)
 * Druid pouch
 * Food - Lobster or above.
 * One-Click teleport in case of emergencies: (Ectophial, Teleport crystal)

Remember that you must cast Bloom on logs in the Mort Myre swamp to obtain charges for your Druid Pouch. Ghasts will not become visible unless you have charges in your pouch. When a charge is used on a Ghast, it will become visible. Upon dispatch, you will gain 30 prayer experience. Repeat as necessary. The main issue with ghasts is they stop being aggressive, and running to them becomes too much of an overhead. Remember that casting Bloom spends Prayer points, so when you run out of points, recharge in the altar located under the small island where Filliman used to be.

Burying bones
Buying bones and burying them for experience is not recommended. A maximum of about 2700 bones can be buried per hour, giving 2/7 the experience they would give being used on a gilded altar. As it is possible to use well over (2/7) * (2700) = 770 bones per hour on a gilded altar, using bones a gilded altar will give faster experience per hour than burying bones, and cost far less.

Type of bones to use
Big bones give 52.5 experience each when used on a gilded altar. They cost about 7 coins per prayer experience. They are rarely used for P2p prayer training since dragon bones give almost 5 times faster experience, and only are a little more expensive in terms of coins per prayer experience.

Dragon bones are most commonly used to train prayer. Using them on a gilded altar costs 9 to 10 coins per prayer experience. They give 252 experience each when used on a gilded altar.

Dagannoth bones give 437.5 experience each when used on a gilded altar, but cost 15 to 18 coins per prayer experience, much more expensive than dragon bones, so are rarely used.

Ourg bones are even more expensive than dagannoth bones and are even more rarely used.

Wise Old Man
The Wise Old Man in Draynor can be used to obtain Prayer experience. To do this just talk to him and ask for a job, he will the tell you to gather a random amount of some common items. Bring the items to him and he will reward you some money and Prayer experience.

Penguin Hide & Seek
Penguins can be spotted for Penguin points, which can be exchanged for experience in any skill. Some people choose to use this experience on prayer since prayer is an expensive skill. This method costs almost nothing and gives a decent amount of experience. This method gives more experience the higher a players prayer level is. This makes it a better option for high level players.

Players are recommended to go to world 60, the unofficial penguin hide & seek world, where players can get help from other players. The recommended clan chat for this world is "Penguins W60".

For tips on penguin spotting, see Penguin Hide and Seek