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. Prayer was called Necromancy in the extremely early stages of RuneScape and was the last of the original skills in which players were able to reach the maximum skill level of 99.

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 points, 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. Drinking Prayer potions can also restore prayer points. If a Holy wrench is in a player's inventory, an additional 1-2 prayer points is added when drinking a prayer potion.

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. See Equipment section for more information.

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. **Protection Prayers provide 100% immunity against monsters and 50% immunity against other players.

Burying 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. To bury bones, players simply have to click on them or right-click the bury bones option.

Worshipping the Ectofuntus
Doing the Ghosts Ahoy quest allows players to learn to worship the Ectofuntus in Port Phasmatys. At the Ectofuntus, players can bring bones to it to receive 4 times the normal experience they would receive 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 Ectofuntus.


 * 1) Collect slime - Players must take empty buckets and enter the trapdoor near the ectofuntus 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. Members can buy up to 10 slime buckets from any charter ship crew.
 * 2) Crush bones - Players next must take their bones and some empty pots and go up the stairs near the Ectofuntus. They can then the bone grinder to grind their bones and collect the contents in the pots.
 * 3) Worship the Ectofuntus - With buckets of slime and pots of bonemeal, players can then click on the Ectofuntus and they will begin to worship it to get prayer experience. After 12 worships, players need to talk to the disciples when the ectofuntus is full in order to worship further; they also receive ectotokens a currency used in Port Phasmatys. After this, players can repeat the steps and worship again.

Shades of Mort'ton
After completing the Shades of Mort'ton quest, players will then be able to to cremate Shades to earn some prayer experience as well as some rewards. To learn more, see Shades of Mort'ton (minigame).

Ghasts
After completing the Nature Spirit quest, players can kill ghasts and earn prayer experience. However, they will need a blessed silver sickle and a druid pouch full of flowers, gathered by using the sickle. Once a player has these items, they can simply walk around Mort'ton until one of them attacks. Killing a ghast earns 30 prayer experience.

Player Owned Houses
Members can also offer bones to their altar they made in their houses by the construction skill.

The experience ranges from 100% to 250% depending upon the type of altar with an additional 50% or 100% for lighting 1 or 2 burners for a maximum of 350% for the best altar and burners. The ectofuntus gives 400% experience compared to burying bones. See Runescape Knowledge Base

Use a marrentill herb on each burner to light it, while a tinderbox is in your inventory. The burners will stay lit for two minutes, or untill you leave your house.

The below bonuses are based on having Marble incense burners. If you have a lower level burner, you'll get less experience.

Quests
Many quests in RuneScape give a player experience points in Prayer. The following quests give a player Prayer experience.
 * Holy Grail: 11,000xp
 * Priest in Peril: 1,406xp
 * The Restless Ghost: 1,125xp
 * Rum Deal: 7,000xp
 * Swan Song: 10,000xp
 * Spirits of the Elid: 8,000xp
 * Recruitment Drive: 1,000xp
 * Rag and Bone Man: 500-5,000xp
 * Mountain Daughter: 2,000xp
 * Ghosts Ahoy: 2,400xp

Armour and weapons
Initiate armour, Proselyte armour, white weapons and armour give small prayer bonuses. However, they are only available to members. Initiate armour can be bought from Sir Tiffy Cashien after completing the Recruitment Drive quest, and Proselyte can be bought after finishing Slug Menace, while white armour and weapons can be bought after completing the Wanted! quest. All white items give a +1 prayer bonus.

Maces
All maces also give a small prayer bonus. However, the dragon mace is only available to members.

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.