Prayer

Prayer is a skill that allows players to use spells to their advantage in combat. It is one of the slowest skills to raise, though can be invaluable against opponents.

Overview
To increase a player's prayer level, they must bury bones. Non-members are only limited to this, though members have other options that are faster.

Similar to magic, prayer has its own spells. To use a prayer spell, players can click on the prayer menu, to the right of the equipment menu. Prayer spells available for use are highlighted, while prayers unavailable are dark. When a player clicks on a spell, a circle will appear around it, indicating that they are using it.

Using a prayer spell lowers the player's prayer level, causing the spells to be temporary. To increase the time, players simply have to increase their prayer level. Once the player's prayer level reaches zero, the spell will be stopped, and they will not be able to use another spell until they recharge their prayer points. To recharge, players must pray at an altar.

Prayers are great in combat because they give players advantages. For example, some spells improve a player's combat skills, while others can protect them, and others can damage opponents.

Prayer bonus
To the right of the inventory menu is the equipment menu. Here, players can see their bonuses. These bonuses give players advantages and disadvantages in combat.

Players have a prayer bonus. The higher the prayer bonus is, the longer a player can use a prayer spell. To have a prayer bonus, players have to wear certain types of armour, clothing, weapons, and jewellery.

Prayers
Members have access to all 24 prayer spells, while non-members cannot use the last three. Players can also use some prayers at the same time with others, though doing so will drain their prayer faster.

*These prayers cannot stack with better versions of themselves. For example, a player cannot use Rock Skin and Steel Skin at the same time **These prayers cannot be used at the same time with another.

Bones
There are many types of bones that players can bury, giving them some prayer experience. However, most of them are only available to members.

Ectofunctus
Doing the Ghosts Ahoy quest allows players to learn to worship the Ectofunctus in Port Phasmatys. At the Ectofunctus, players can bring bones to it to recieve 4 times the normal experience they would recieve from burying those bones. It is a fairly long method, but the experience earned is much better than slowly burying bones. Below are steps to worship the Ectofunctus.


 * 1) Collect slime - Players must take empty buckets and enter the trapdoor near the ectofunctus and then travel down the stairs. There is also an agility shortcut here that will shorten the journey considerably. At the bottom of the stairs is a pool of slime, where players must use their empty buckets with it.
 * 2) Crush bones - Players next must take their bones and some empty pots and go up the stairs near the Ectofunctus. They can then the bone grinder to grind their bones and collect the contents in the pots.
 * 3) Worship the Ectofunctus - With buckets of slime and pots of bonemeal, players can then click on the Ectofunctus and they will begin to worship it. Players can talk to the disciples when the ectofunctus is full to receive ectotokens. After this, players can repeat the steps and worship again.

Other

 * Killing Ghasts in Mort-Myre swamps earns 30 experience for every one dispatched.
 * Burning Shades in Mort'ton earns decent prayer experience too.
 * After completing Zogre Flesh Eaters quest players have access to Zogre bones, some of them give even more experience than dragon bones, but these are not easy to obtain.
 * If players offer bones on your altar in your house (made using the Construction skill), players can gain prayer bonuses faster than if using the ectofunctus, but cannot gain as much experience as if players did.

Random events
Burying bones can result in two "guardian" type of events, a Zombie or Shade attack, as with all of this type of monster, it's level is related to, and higher than yours.

The Zombie is vulnerable to the "Crumble undead" spell, and may drop some good stuff (especially for members), but most commonly drops a large quantity of fishing bait.

The Shade can drop shade robe top or bottom, bones, or nothing at all - they also seem to be a tough fight, at least at some points on the level scale.

Besides the "guardian" random events, it is possible to trigger the Leo the Gravedigger random event, where a player is teleported to a remote area and told to reorganize caskets into their proper burial site. The event normally yields special "zombie" items and emotes.

These can kill you, especially if some door slamming joker traps you in a confined space with them, otherwise you can always run away. They can strike when you bury a single bone, and getting suckered like that leaves you furious. Never bury bones in a small room, you have been warned! It is much better to bury in a bank, as nobody can close its doors.