Free-to-play Prayer training

Prayer is considered by some to be the hardest skill to train in F2P worlds. It takes money, patience, and effort. In F2P worlds, raising prayer above level 45 is considered to be near useless. However, the higher your prayer level is, the longer you are able to sustain prayers. This can be very handy during PKing and when fighting high-levelled monsters. Prayer also has the highest cost per experience point to power level among all the free skills. While others cost no more than 10 coins per experience point, prayer can cost over 15 coins per experience point.

Beginners
Prayer is relatively straightforward to train, making it slow and boring to train as commented by many free players. The main source of experience is regular bones which yield 4.5 experience each, and worth each if sold to Grand Exchange. Here is a list of things that can help raise prayer slightly more efficiently:

The Restless Ghost
The restless ghost is a quest that gives 1125 prayer experience, allowing a player to raise prayer from level 1 to 9 upon completion. This has no effect on speeding up the training process at higher levels though.

Respawn places
For players not willing to power level prayer, some places must be familiar with, in order to get quick bone drops:


 * Chaos temple

In level 12 wilderness, the chaos temple has 15 bones respawns. Revenants almost never arrive. Few other players train there. It is the best place for poor novices to train prayer.

Deep in the wilderness, there are the Demonic Ruins. In the Demonic Ruins several Burnt bones respawn. The area they are in is safe from Greater Demons, but beware of revenants. The only problem with this is getting to the ruins. You must avoid getting hurt by the Greater Demons and revenants on the way.
 * Demonic Ruins

Many players don't bother to pick up or bury the bones they receive after killing monsters in Lumbridge. Bones are often abundant there for players to pick up.
 * Lumbridge

Edgeville Dungeon is inhabited by hill giants which are the weakest giants to drop big bones. Many players consider hill giants a good target for their drops and big bones, thus the dungeon is often crowded. Due to the excessive amount of people there, finding a hill giant to kill is difficult, and thus not recommended for prayer training. Also, two bones respawn in the dungeon near the hill giants, and four bones respawn in the South of the dungeon as well.
 * Edgeville Dungeon

Low level Al Kharid warriors are often killed by players while training. Bones are often left without being buried or picked up.
 * Al Kharid palace

New players who need money tend to kill cows for their cowhides to be sold at the Grand Exchange. Normally, there would be swarms of players there during busy days in world 1 who would normally leave tons of bones and meat scattered. If you could luckily enter world 1 during that time of the day, you could pick up all the bones you want and bury them right on the spot. It would also be helpful if your inventory is empty when collecting any burying bones.
 * Lumbridge Cows

PvP worlds
Massive amount of bones can be found in Lumbridge on PvP worlds, due to the amount of players dying in the area. Be sure to bank all valuable items. To train Prayer here, simply run around, pick up bones, and then bury them.

Training prayer by killing monsters
Depending on the max hit of a player, different monsters should be trained on for prayer experience. A good prayer training monster should be weak enough to be killed in 1-3 hits for the current ability of player.

No requirement

 * Weak NPCs around busy places
 * Requirements
 * 1) None
 * Advantages
 * 1) Any fighting methods can be used because they are weak enough to be killed even at low levels.
 * 2) Even if NPCs are killed by others, they might leave bones around.
 * Disadvantages
 * 1) Negligible income.
 * 2) Too weak to raise combat experience.
 * 3) Tiring mouse clicks.
 * 1) Negligible income.
 * 2) Too weak to raise combat experience.
 * 3) Tiring mouse clicks.

Weak NPCs are introductory to prayer training. They may be boring to kill, but their bone drops are good enough for low levels.


 * Chickens in Chicken Coops
 * Requirements
 * 1) None
 * Advantages
 * 1) Any fighting methods can be used because they are weak enough to be killed even at low levels.
 * 2) Many players kill chickens for feathers and leave the bones around.
 * 3) Feathers are stackable and are dropped often. They can be sold for at least 5gp each.
 * 4) One hit kills are quite common.
 * Disadvantages
 * 1) Tiring mouse clicks.
 * Disadvantages
 * 1) Tiring mouse clicks.
 * 1) Tiring mouse clicks.

Chickens are great for beginners and are very common and close to Lumbridge. Chickens can be killed very easily.


 * Monkeys and snakes near Karamja volcano
 * Requirements
 * 1) None
 * Advantages
 * 1) Very uncrowded.
 * 2) Monkeys drop monkey bones with slightly more prayer experience.
 * 3) Easy to kill.
 * Disadvantages
 * 1) No profitable drops
 * 2) Very far from bank:
 * 1) No profitable drops
 * 2) Very far from bank:

An alternative to mainland NPCs is Karamja inhabitants. They have slightly more hitpoints and more experience to give, but convenience is sacrificed.


 * Dark wizards around stone circle
 * Requirements
 * 1) Combat 41
 * Advantages
 * 1) Similar to the weak NPCs, bones are often left on floor.
 * 2) Doesn't need expensive metal armour to fight.
 * 3) Good supply of runes.
 * 4) Close to Varrock west bank.
 * Disadvantages
 * 1) Many players tend to kill the level 7 wizards, making killing wizards harder.
 * 2) Level 20 wizards are hard to defeat until high levels.
 * 3) Often crowded.
 * 1) Many players tend to kill the level 7 wizards, making killing wizards harder.
 * 2) Level 20 wizards are hard to defeat until high levels.
 * 3) Often crowded.

Dark wizards can be killed, as they no longer are aggressive towards the player. Bones on the ground can be also be picked up and buried. Beware of the requirement: Combat 41, which indicates a player lower than combat 40 will be attacked by the level 20 wizards, who can hit quite accurately.


 * Skeletons, Zombies, Minotaurs
 * Requirements
 * 1) Combat 51
 * Advantages
 * 1) Fair drops
 * 2) Low defence and hitpoint level
 * 3) Not very crowded
 * Disadvantages
 * 1) Far from bank
 * 2) Drops not stackable and excessive
 * 1) Far from bank
 * 2) Drops not stackable and excessive

Skeletons and Zombies can be killed in several dungeons, and Minotaurs can be killed in the Stronghold of Security. Because minotaurs are popular with rangers, and as they are weak, bones can be found on the ground quite often in busy worlds. Aside from their rather common bronze and iron arrow drops, they mainly drop non-stackable bronze items, which should not be picked up.


 * Hill giants
 * Requirements
 * 1) Combat 28
 * Advantages
 * 1) Good drops
 * 2) Big bones
 * 3) Respawn of bones on floor
 * 4) Close to Grand Exchange
 * Disadvantages
 * 1) Very crowded
 * Disadvantages
 * 1) Very crowded
 * 1) Very crowded

Hill giants in Edgeville dungeon drop big bones, and two bone respawns are available there. Hill giants drop limpwurt roots which sell for coins each. A brass key is needed to quickly access the dungeon from Grand Exchange, which can be obtained by entering the dungeon from the Edgeville entrance. Hill giants are very popular training monsters, and as such, finding a hill giant to fight can be quite difficult.

Leveling Using the Prayer Tutor's Antique Lamps

To obtain exp lamps from the prayer tutor that 2000 prayer exp to a player with level 80 prayer, deliver the following noted items to her as a job task: ordinary logs, oak logs, willow logs, cowhides, leather gloves, cooked sardines, pizzas, cakes, or unstrung holy symbols. Players might have to bury bones in the lumbridge graveyard. Players must perform 15 tasks, 6 for every hour playing runescape, to recieve the reward.

Power levelling by purchasing bones
There is only one way to power level prayer: burying regular bones bought from Grand Exchange. However, burying regular bones or burying big bones makes all the  difference between cost factor and speed.

Bones are currently sold coins each, yielding 4.5 experience when buried. To power level prayer using regular bones, coins per experience is lost, meaning  coins is needed for 1000 experience. To attain level 45 from zero experience merely by power levelling, 13670 bones are needed, costing coins.

Big bones are currently sold coins each, yielding 15 experience when buried. To power level prayer using big bones, coins per experience is lost, meaning  coins is needed for 1000 experience. To attain level 45 from zero experience merely by power levelling, 4101 big bones are needed, costing coins. GP to experience wise, normal bones are the best value for money, but they take a while to buy and also to bury.