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:
 * Clean 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 or a Ring of kinship 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, however, that is slower.

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 have a friend run back and forth from the bank to get bones to sell to you.

It is possible to use the gilded altar at another player's house. This decreases training speed since you will have to teleport to your house then type in the persons' name before entering. Although now there is a button that can let you enter the last house you visited.

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 230,000 experience and lose about coins per hour (25.3 coins/Experience) with Dragon bones (450,000 experience per hour using Ourg Bones - not recommended because of its gain which is a whopping  coins every hour! (39.9 coins per experience gained)).

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. However, many players will allow their gilded altar to be used by other players in house party worlds.

Items recommended for the Ectofuntus method:


 * Ectophial for teleportation to the Ectofuntus; requires completion of Ghosts Ahoy
 * Ring of Duelling or Games Necklace or Amulet of Glory for quick banking


 * Weight-reducing equipment such as:
 * 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 bones, 9 pots and 9 buckets will allow the most bones used without banking.
 * Some prefer to make separate trips to grind bones, fill buckets and worship the ectofuntus
 * 58 Agility to utilise the shortcut.
 * A Beast of Burden familiar for trips to grind bones
 * Dragon bones are recommend to make 288 xp for each bone used.

Two methods (or a hybrid of the two) are possible:
 * Withdraw bones, empty pots and empty buckets in equal quantities from the bank. (Nine of each can be used with no Beast of Burden familiar; more can be used with one.) Use Ectophial to teleport to the Ectofuntus. Go upstairs to the bones grinder. Right click on the bones you wish to use, then click on the grinder. Once all your bones are ground into bonemeal, use Ectophial to teleport back to Ectofuntus (or run back down the stairs). Go down through the trapdoor, and fill your buckets with the slime (using the Agility shortcut can greatly reduce your trip time). Use the Ectophial to return to the Ectofuntus and click on it to worship it. Speak with the Ghost disciple to collect your Ecto-tokens. Use a teleport method to return to a bank and withdraw bones, then repeat.
 * Begin by withdrawing bones and empty pots in equal quantities from the bank. (Thirteen of each can be used with no Beast of Burden familiar; more can be used with one.) Use Ectophial to teleport 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. Repeat until you have ground all the bones you plan. Withdraw twenty-seven empty buckets and return to the Ectofuntus. Go down through the trapdoor, and fill your buckets with the slime (using the Agility shortcut can greatly reduce your trip time). When your buckets are filled, use your teleport method to return to the bank. Withdraw more buckets and repeat the process until you have all the buckets of slime that you plan. Then withdraw thirteen buckets of slime and thirteen pots of bonemeal and return to the Ectofuntus. Click on it to worship it. When all your pots and buckets are emptied, speak with the Ghost disciple to collect your Ecto-tokens. Teleport back to the bank and withdraw thirteen buckets of slime and thirteen pots of bonemeal, then repeat this portion of the process until all are used.

After the completion of the Ghosts Ahoy quest there is little purpose for Ecto-tokens. This means you may drop them to save bank space unless you wish to keep going to Dragontooth Isle (to hunt penguins, for example).

Type of Bones to use
Big bones give 52.5 experience each when used on a gilded altar, both candles lit. They cost about 14 coins per prayer experience. They are rarely used for P2P prayer training since dragon bones give almost 5 times faster experience, and only are slightly more expensive in terms of coins per prayer experience.

Dragon bones are most commonly used to train prayer in P2P. Using them on a Gilded Altar costs 20 to 24 coins per prayer experience, varying what the price of Dragon Bones are at the time. 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 28 to 30 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.

A list of some good monsters to obtain bones from:

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 than make the extra money you have spent back. Because of the time to collect many bones, you can make money back faster by buying bones, opposed to just collecting them.

Quests
Members have the luxury of being able to breeze through the low prayer levels simply by completing quests.

Low-level quests
Some low-level quests that give prayer experience:


 * Restless Ghost (1125 experience)
 * Priest in Peril (1406 experience)
 * Making History (1000 experience)
 * Recruitment Drive (1000 experience)
 * Mountain Daughter (2000 experience)
 * Ghosts Ahoy (2400 experience)
 * Rag and Bone Man (500 experience)
 * Swept Away (10 bowls of Goulash granting 10x current prayer level)

More difficult quests

 * Spirits of the Elid (8000 experience)
 * Troll Stronghold (2x 10k experience from Experience Lamps, 30 prayer needed)
 * The Temple at Senntisten (10k experience) (50 prayer needed)
 * Holy Grail (11k experience)
 * Blood Runs Deep (450k experience However: requires at least 75 Prayer)
 * Missing My Mummy (6500 experience)
 * Rag and Bone Man wish list (5000 experience)

All of these together (except for The Temple at Senntisten and Blood Runs Deep which have requirements to either use the reward or start the quest.) are enough to bring a player from 1-40 prayer, and each of these quests is relatively quick and easy. In total, it is possible to reach level 47 prayer solely through quest rewards with no additional training; a great way to save money and pad your quest points at the same time.

You may get a lot of experience from directly the quests themselves, but if you want to really boost your experience, complete quests that offer Combat Lamps or Skill Lamps for skills over 30 or 50, you could really boost experience in Prayer.

Alternative Methods
The following methods are less effective than the ones above. They are not recommended for training prayer because they are slower, more expensive, impractical or complicated.

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.

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.

The hassle of filling druid pouches makes Ghasts impractical for prayer training, especially when one considers that the same 30 xp per kill can be obtained by killing Baby blue dragons.

Vyrewatches
Vyrewatches may not be a bad option for those who want to make money while training prayer. Cremating the corpes will give 79 prayer xp and can result in valuable items.

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.

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

Pest Control
Especially for players with a high combat level, playing Pest Control and spending points to gain Prayer experience is a potential way to level Prayer. This goes especially for players who can go into the Veteran boat (level 100 or higher). You gain 1-2 levels a day (depending on prayer level), and you will also get considerable experience in your combat skills. Note, however, that for every damage you do on Pest Control monsters, you will receive half experience that you usually do. You will gain full experience, however, by attacking only the portals. However, how much prayer experience you get with one point varies between the player's level.

Soul Wars
By spending zeals on Prayer experience, one can gain experience. The Soul Wars Guide explains how to play and the rewards you can receive.

Prayer Brawling Gloves
Brawling gloves are a possible drop from killing other players on bounty worlds. Players using them in the wilderness in a PvP world will gain 4x the normal experience; however, the risk of dying and losing supplies (and possibly gloves) is high. Theoretically, this would be the fastest method to obtain 99 prayer with a sufficient amount of gloves.

Brawling gloves can also be used 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 than normal. The brawlers also increase the experience gain of ectofuntus.

Skeletal Horror
This method may be used after completing the second part of the Fur 'n' Seek quest. It invovles fighting a reasonably powerful opponent once a week and gaining 1000 Prayer experience and some Slayer experience as well. Unfortunately the difficulty of the Skeletal Horror means that for lower levelled players, the cost in food will be quite high, but for high level players this is a reasonably attractive option for a weekly bonus to your prayer training. The first time the Horror is fought, it yields 10,000 prayer experience. There are also many other quests that reward a good amount of prayer experience that are much less difficult.

Bonecrusher
Having a bonecrusher, bought from the rewards trader, while killing monsters. This item automatically transfers dropped bones into prayer experience. Fighting baby blue dragons is a great way to use this item. The bones they drop give a decent amount of experience and they are also easy to kill.