Prayer

Contents:

Introduction
Bones
Prayers
Prayer Stat Boosters
Training Guide
The Ectofunctus
F.A.Q

Introduction

Prayer is one of the most helpful skills. It can help you regain those precious health points or even keep that extra item when you die. To get a higher prayer level you must bury bones, which you can find from killing various monsters. You can use as many prayers as you want at once, however it will drain your prayer points faster. The higher the drain rate of a prayer, the faster your points go down. To recharge your prayer you have to find an altar and prayer. It is always a good idea to charge whenever you can, as the next altar could be a mile away. Prayer is a hard skill in train in, and is almost impossible to make money off it. Players just usually bury any bone they see.

Bones

Prayer is a 'supernatural' skill, but requires no runes to use, just previous experience. Prayer levels are gained by burying bones which depending on the type, give you a certain amount of experience.

Name	Picture	EXP	Location
Regular Bones		4.5	Most NPCs
Wolf Bones		4.5	Wolves
Burnt Bones		4.5	Bone Yard
Monkey Bones		5	Monkeys
Bat Bones*		5.33	Bats
Big Bones		15	Giants, Ogres
Jogre Bones*		15	Jogres
Zogre Bones*		22.5	Zogres
Shaikahan Bones*		25	Shaikahans*
Baby Dragon Bones*		30	Baby Dragons
Wyvern Bones*		50	Wyverns
Dragon Bones*		72	Dragons
Fayrg Bones*		87	Thieve Ogre Coffins
Raurg Bones*		96	Thieve Ogre Coffins
Dagganoth Bones*		125	Dagganoth Kings
Ourg Bones*		140	Thieve Ogre Coffins

* Members Only

Prayers

Increasing your prayer level rewards you with a number of different assets while fighting. Some can increase all of your combat skills by a certain percentage, while others can render you immune to a certain type of attack. Also, prayers can increase level restoration and let you hold onto another item if you die. The high level prayers target other opponents to drain prayer or restore health.

Name	Picture	Level	Info
Thick Skin		1	Increases your defence by 5%
Burst of Strength		4	Increases your strength by 5%
Clarity of Thought		7	Increases your attack by 5%
Sharp Eye		8	Increases your range by 5%
Mystic Will		9	Increases your magic by 5%
Rock Skin		10	Increases your defence by 10%
Superhuman Strength		13	Increases your strength by 10%
Improved Reflexes		16	Increases your attack by 10%
Rapid Restore		19	Double restore rate for all skills excluding hitpoints and prayer
Rapid Heal		22	Double restore rate for hitpoints
Protect Items		25	Keep an extra item when you die
Hawk Eye		26	Increases your range by 10%
Mystic Lore		27	Increases your magic by 10%
Steel Skin		28	Increases your defence by 15%
Ultimate Strength		31	Increases your strength by 15%
Incredible Reflexes		34	Increases your attack by 15%
Protect from Magic		37	Immune to magic attacks
Protect from Missiles		40	Immune to ranged attacks
Protect from Melee		43	Immune to melee attacks
Eagle Eye		44	Increases your range by 15%
Mystic Might		45	Increases your magic by 15%
Retribution		46	Inflict damage to targets nearby during death
Redemption		49	If your hitpoints lower to under 10% of your maximum, it will heal your hitpoints up to 25% of your prayer level
Smite		52	25% of damage inflicted is drained from opponent's prayer
Chivarly		60	Increases your defense by 20%, strength by 18%, and attack by 15%.
Piety		70	Increases your defense by 25%, strength by 23%, and attack by 20%.

Prayer Stat Boosters

Prayer is a very diverse skill in terms of equipment. Consisting of mostly fancy robes and amulets, there are some armors and weapons that increase it also. The bonus prayer does not increase your level of prayer, but reduces the time in which it depletes when prayer is turned on.

Temple Knight Equipment

The Temple Knight Equipments are aquired by doing the following:
Finish Recruitment Drive to purchase Initiate
Finish Slug Menance to purchase Proselyte
Proselyte Armor gives the best Prayer + Defence in the game so it is best used while fighting Metal Dragons.

Name	Picture	Prayer Bonus	Location
Initiate Sallet		+3	Purchasable after completeing the Recruitment Drive quest.
Initiate Hauberk		+6	Purchasable after completeing the Recruitment Drive quest.
Initiate Cuisse		+5	Purchasable after completeing the Recruitment Drive quest.
Proselyte Sallet		+4	purchasable after completeing the Slug Menace quest.
Proselyte Hauberk		+8	Purchasable after completeing the Slug Menace quest.
Proselyte Cuisse		+5	Purchasable after completeing the Slug Menace quest.
Proselyte Tasset		+5	Purchasable after completeing the Slug Menace quest.

Robes

Robes give the most simple prayer bonus in the game. While Priest Robes and Monk Robes are the only available prayer bonuses in the f2p version of the game, Monk Robes offer the best prayer bonus out of any of the other simple Robes.

Name	Picture	Bonus	Location
Priest Robe Top		+3	Varrock Clothes Shop
Priest Robe Bottom		+3	Varrock Clothes shop
Zamorak Robe Top*		+3	Dropped by Iban Disciples
Zamorak Robe Bottom*		+3	Dropped by Iban Disciples
Druid Robe Top*		+4	Dropped by Druids
Druid Robe Bottom*		+4	Dropped by Druids
Monk Robe Top		+6	Prayer Guild
Monk Robe Bottom		+5	Prayer Guild

*Members Only

Vestments

Vestments are a new type of prayer robes that offer better bonuses then the lesser robes. They are only aquired through Level 2 treasure trails or bought from a player. Vestments come in three varieties which represent each of the Gods.

Name	Picture	Bonus	Location
Mitre		+5	Level 2 Clue Scroll
Stole		+10	Level 3 Clue Scroll
Vestment Top		+4	Level 1 Clue Scroll
Vestment Bottom		+4	Level 1 Clue Scroll
Cloak		+3	Level 2 Clue Scroll
Croizer		+6	Level 3 Clue Scroll

Capes

Not many capes in the game offer a prayer bonus except the Skill Cape and Fire Cape. A skill cape must be trimmed to have a prayer bonus.

Name	Picture	Bonus	Location
Trimmed Skill Cape		+4	Achieve level 99 in any two skills
Fire Cape		+2	Complete the Fight Caves Mini-game

Verac's Equipment

Verac's equipment is obtainable from the Barrows mini-game or from other players. When all the parts of the set are worn, a special activates letting the wearer sometimes hit through prayer. Because of this special, Verac's is a very popular Kalphite Queen hunting armor.

Name	Picture	Bonus	Location
Verac's Helm		+3	Barrows mini-game or buyable from players
Verac's Brassard		+5	Barrows mini-game or buyable from players
Verac's Plateskirt		+4	Barrows mini-game or buyable from players
Verac's Flail		+6	Barrows mini-game or buyable from players

Maces

Maces are only category of weapon that offers a prayer bonus. While not always as powerful or fast as other weapons, the Dragon Mace has a special that does tremendous amount of damage, but is very unaccurate.

Name	Picture	Bonus	Location
Bronze Mace		+1	Flynn's Mace shop in North Falador
Iron Mace		+1	Flynn's Mace shop in North Falador
Steel Mace		+2	Flynn's Mace shop in North Falador
Black Mace		+2	Flynn's Mace shop in North Falador
White Mace		+3	Sir Vyvin (Noble White Knight Level Required)
Mithril Mace		+3	Flynn's Mace shop in North Falador
Adamant Mace		+3	Flynn's Mace shop in North Falador
Runite Mace		+4	Champion's Guild
Dragon Mace		+5	Hero's Guild

White Knight Equipment

White Knight equipment is only aquirable through completion of the Wanted! quest. Then different parts are purchasable after you attain a differeny Knight Rank.

Name	Picture	Bonus	Location	Knight Rank
White Chainmail		+1	Sir Vyvin	None
White Platelegs		+1	Sir Vyvin	None
White Plateskirt		+1	Sir Vyvin	None
White Dagger		+1	Sir Vyvin	Peon
White Sword		+1	Sir Vyvin	Peon
White Medium Helmet		+1	Sir Vyvin	Page
White Square Shield		+1	Sir Vyvin	Page
White Magic Staff		+1	Sir Vyvin	Noble
White Longsword		+1	Sir Vyvin	Noble
White Full Helmet		+1	Sir Vyvin	Adept
White Kite Shield		+1	Sir Vyvin	Adept
White Platebody		+1	Sir Vyvin	Adept
White Boots		+1	Sir Vyvin	Adept
White Gloves		+1	Sir Vyvin	Adept
White Warhammer		+1	Sir Vyvin	Master
White Battleaxe		+1	Sir Vyvin	Master
White Scimitar		+1	Sir Vyvin	Master
White Claws		+1	Sir Vyvin	Master
White 2Handed Sword		+1	Sir Vyvin	Master
White Halberd		+1	Sir Vyvin	Master

Amulets

Amulets offer a nice prayer bonus in terms of the Holy and Unholy symbols. Some of these amulets are easy to aquire, while others, like the Amulet of Fury are very expensive.

Name	Picture	Prayer Bonus	Location
Amulet of Power		+1	Players or Crafting
Amulet of Glory		+3	Players or Crafting
Amulet of Fury		+5	Players or Crafting
Salve Amulet		+3	Aquired during the Haunt Mine quest
Blessed Holy Symbol		+8	Players or Crafting
Unholy Symbol of Zamorak		+8	Players or Crafting

Prayer Books

After completion of the Horror from the Deep quest, you are given a book from the god of your choosing. This book has pages missing which can be bought from a player or rewarded from a treasure trails. Once the book is complete, the book gives defence bonuses and you can read from the book in the form of Wedding Rites, Blessing, Last Rites, and Preaching.

Name	Picture	Prayer Bonus	Location
Zamorak Book		+5	Complete the Horror of the Deep Quest and aquire all 4 Pages
Saradomin Book		+5	Complete the Horror of the Deep Quest and aquire all 4 Pages
Guthix Book		+5	Complete the Horror of the Deep Quest and aquire all 4 Pages

Training Guide

There are few places to gain prayer levels in RuneScape, but a few of the better ones are:

Chicken Farm
~ Chickens - One of the fastest ways to gain prayer levels is to kill chickens at either the Lumbridge farms or the farm north of Port Sarim. Another popular area is the chicken area in the Champion's Guild. Chickens should take only 1-2 hits to kill, giving you a lot of bones in a short amount of time.

Giants
~ Giants - Giants are a very good source of experience for the people with a fairly high prayer and can kill giants easily. They are located in the Edgeville Dungeon at the far back. An easier way to get there is to go west of Varrock (east of the river) and find a small building sitting there. You need to have a brass key (get from previous time in dungeon). This area is extremely crowded and you might end up fighting other players for a Giant.

Dragons
~ Dragons - If you are a member, and have a high enough combat level, you can fight dragons and get dragon bones, which are worth 72 experience each. Green Dragons are the most popular of the dragons because they are have the lowest level of the species, they are located in different spots in the wilderness. Another popular dragon to kill is a Blue Dragon located in the Taverly Dougeon, basement of the Hero's Guild, and Ogres' Cave.

The Ectofunctus

Using the Ectofunctus allows you to quadruple the amount of experience gained from bones. That means for example, normal bones give you 18 prayer experience and dragon bones gives you 240 prayer experince.

You must have completed the Ghosts Ahoy quest to access it.

It is just North of Port Phasmatys in Morytania.

You will need:
9 bones
9 pots
9 buckets
Your ectophial
Your Ghostspeak Amulet

What to do:

1. Teleport to the Ectofunctus using your Ectophial. Refill it by using it with the ectofunctus.

2. Go down the trapdoor and go down to the pool. Fill your buckets with with ectoplasm. (Those with 58 agility may use the shortcut at the entrance)

3. Use your ectonphial to teleport back up. Refill it.

4. Go upstairs and grind your bones in the grinder and collect the bonemeal in your pots.

5. Use and refill your ectophial. Now pray at the ectofunctus nine times untill all the bonemeal has been used.

6. Speak to the ghost disciple and he will give you some ectotokens.

7. Go back to the bank in Port Phasmatys, stock up again and repeat.

Home Altars

With the addition of Construction to the game, a new method of prayer training has arisn. In your house, you have the ability to make different types of alters which will multiply your bones exp if a bone were to be used on it. If you don't have the construction level to house a High-Leveled altar, you can easily use a friends. This table shows the different levels need and how much your prayer exp is multiplied. This method does not give more experience then the ectofuntus.

Altar	Picture	Construction Level	Experience with no burners	Experience with one burner	Experience with two burners
Oak		45	100%	150%	200%
Teak		50	110%	160%	210%
Cloth		56	125%	175%	225%
Mahogany		60	150%	200%	250%
Limestone		64	175%	225%	275%
Marble		70	200%	250%	300%
Guilded		75	250%	300%	350%