Members Prayer training

Prayer is a difficult skill to train just by the burial of bones; however, there are other ways to gain prayer experience - without the use of bones or coins.

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; players gain 350% of normal experience when 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; the more expensive marble burners, as of today, provide no further reward.

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 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 (800k per hour using Ourg Bones - not recommended because of its cost).

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. Conversely, however, it is considerably more time-consuming to obtain the Construction level necessary to pray at a gilded altar than it is to access the Ectofuntus for worshipping, especially if monetary considerations are made.

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
 * Penance gloves
 * Agile top and Agile legs
 * 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 utilise the shortcut.
 * Ring of Duelling or Games Necklace or Amulet of Glory for quick banking
 * Dragon bones are recommend 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. After the completetion of the Ghost's Ahoy quest there is no longer any purpose for Ecto-tokens. This means you may drop them to save bank space.

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
 * Some food

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 in the grotto under the small island of the Nature Spirit.

Burying bones
Collecting 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. At this rate it would take around 75–80 hours of this method to obtain 99 Prayer.

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 10 to 11 coins per prayer experience. They give 252 experience each when used on a gilded altar. It takes around 58,000 dragon bones to reach 99 Prayer using 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. Since this is much more expensive than dragon bones, dagannoth bones are rarely used. It takes around 34,000 dagannoth bones to reach 99 prayer using a gilded altar.

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

Good Monsters for Bones

However, collecting a large number of bones to use for prayer can take an extremely long time, and it is advised to buy your bones as in the time you save you could more then make the extra money you have spent back.

Penguin Hide and 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 and seek world, where players can get help from other players. The recommended clan chat for this world is "World60Pengs", "W60 pengies", or "Penguins W60" if the former becomes full.

For tips on penguin spotting, see Penguin Hide and Seek.

Random Event Experience
Often, players will receive random events where they can obtain experience items. It is advised they use it on Prayer, as the experience does accumulate to a lot over time. Using it on Attack or Strength, for example, is not recommended, as those skills are easy to train. One can easily gain 5,000-8,000 Prayer experience in a week doing nothing but random events a few times a day.

However, due to the current rarity of random events, this is no longer an effective way to train prayer.

Pest Control
Especially for players with a high combat level, playing Pest Control and spending points to gain Prayer experience is a great way to level Prayer. This goes especially for players who can go into the Veteran boat (level 100 or higher). Not only can you gain 1-2 levels a day, you will get considerable experience in your combat skills. Note, however, that for every damage you do on Pest Control monsters, you will receive 2 experience instead of the normal 4 experience you normally gain. You will gain full experience, however, by attacking only the portals.

Soul Wars
By spending zeals on Prayer experience, one can quickly gain experience. Achieving 1-2 levels a day is common. Our Soul Wars Guide explains how to play and the rewards you can receive.

Ogre coffins
Ogre Coffin Keys can be used on Ogre Coffins just outside of Jiggig to get Zogre bones, Fayrg bones, Raurg bones, and Ourg bones, all of which giving some of the highest experience in the game. It is also easy to make profit or buy more keys by selling the Fayrg, Raurg and Ourg bones and then burying the zogre bones for experience.

After completing Zogre Flesh Eaters, you may kill Zogres and Skogres to get the keys as drops to help get you more money. However, there is a high chance of Disease, so unless you are willing to buy Relicym's balm, get an Inoculation brace, or spend time in the thermal bath in Oo'glog after doing As a First Resort... it is not recommended.

One method to kill Zogres and Skogres is using the coffins and rocks in Jiggig's basement area as safe spots for range or mage (range is recommended).

If ranging, then a composite ogre bow is recommended along with adamant brutal arrows. Adamant is suggested since it's strong and not too expensive, but you may use any other brutal arrow as well.

If maging, then use the crumble undead spell. This method works; however, ranging is more effective with a higher level.

Prayer Brawling Gloves
Brawling gloves are an excellent method to gain prayer levels providing the character has the gloves from killing other players on bounty worlds. These gloves may be hard to obtain, however the experience gained per hour will double the experience per hour from the ectofuntus. The risk of dying and losing your supplies and possibly your gloves is high, however it would be the fastest method to 99 prayer if the player had the required amount of gloves.

The Brawling gloves give 400% experience (4x) when used in the wilderness on a pvp world. You can also use the gloves outside the wilderness on a normal world to gain 150% experience (1.5x). The use of the brawlers on a gilded altar along with both burners lit will result in a higher rate of experience.