Prayer

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The prayer skill allows you to pray to the Gods of RuneScape for aid when combating tough monsters or enemies. Depending on your prayer level, you will be able to boost your combat abilities, make yourself invulnerable to certain forms of attack or deal extra damage to your opponents should they manage to kill you first.

Your prayer level will be slowly drained for as long as you have any prayers active. Several prayers can be stacked together, for example to boost your strength, attack and defence, but the drain-rates of those prayers will be combined, meaning you will lose prayer points quickly. You can pray at one of the many Altars scattered around RuneScape to fully restore your prayer points (the altar in the Monestary and the Nature Altar give you 2 extra prayer points), or drink either a Prayer Potion or Super Restore Potion (made using the herblore skill) to partially restore your prayer points.

Contents 1 Prayers 2 Bones 2.1 Ectofuntus 2.2 Player House Altars 3 Prayer Equipment 3.1 Basic Robes 3.2 Symbols 3.3 Maces 3.4 Verac's Equipment 3.5 Prayer Books 4 Skillcape

Prayers

Icon	Name	Level Required	Effect
	Thick Skin	1	Boosts your defence by 5%
	Burst of Strength	4	Boosts your strength by 5%
	Clarity of Thought	7	Boosts your attack by 5%
	Sharp Eye	8	Boosts your range by 5%
	Mystic Will	9	Boosts your magic accuracy by 5%
	Rock Skin	10	Boosts your defence by 10%
	Superhuman Strength	13	Boosts your strength by 10%
	Improved Reflexes	16	Boosts your attack by 10%
	Rapid Restore	19	Doubles the restore rate of all your stats except hitpoints, prayer and summoning
	Rapid Heal	22	Doubles the restore rate of your hitpoints
	Protect Item	25	If you die while this prayer is active, you keep 1 extra item
	Hawk Eye	26	Boosts your range by 10%
	Mystic Lore	27	Boosts your magic accuracy by 10%
	Steel Skin	28	Boosts your defence by 15%
	Ultimate Strength	31	Boosts your strength by 15%
	Incredible Reflexes	34	Boosts your attack by 15%
	Protect from Summoning	35	Partial immunity from summoning scroll attacks
	Protect from Magic	37	Immunity from NPC magic attacks Partial immunity from player magic attacks
	Protect from Missiles	40	Immunity from NPC range attacks Partial immunity from player range attacks
	Protect from Melee	43	Immunity from NPC melee attacks Partial immunity from player melee attacks
	Eagle Eye	44	Boosts your range by 15%
	Mystic Might	45	Boosts your magic accuracy by 15%
	Retribution	46	If you die while this prayer is active, you will deal damage to nearby enemies
	Redemption	49	When your health falls below 10% of your max hitpoints and you're not killed, you will be healed up to 25% of your max prayer level
	Smite	52	When fighting an enemy player, 25% of the damage you deal is deducted from their prayer points
	Chivalry*	60	Boosts your attack by 15%, strength by 18% and defence by 20%
	Piety*	70	Boosts your attack by 20%, strength by 23% and defence by 25%

Bones

The most common way of training prayer is to bury bones. Most monsters throughout RuneScape drop a type of bone every time they are killed, and since burying is a one-step process, it's very easy to train prayer while killing monsters. Experience from most bones is quite low, so it takes quite a while to train if you just bury the bones of the monsters you kill.

Pic	Name	Burying Exp	Obtained from
	Bones	4.5	Most small/average sized enemies in RuneScape, including men, women, goblins and spiders
	Burnt Bones	4.5	Level ? Wilderness, by the Chaos Alter
	Wolf Bones	4.5	Wolves on White Wolf Mountain, Feldip Hills
	Monkey Bones	5	Monkeys on Ape Atol, Ardougne Zoo
	Bat Bones	5.3	Bats, Giant Bats and Albino Bats
	Big Bones	15	All Giants, Trolls, Ogres and other large monsters
	Jogre Bones	15	Jogres in eastern Karamja
	Long Bone	15	Rare drop from certain monsters Advised NOT to bury (see below)
	Curved Bone	15	Rare drop from certain monsters Advised NOT to bury (see below)
	Zogre Bones	22.5	Zogres and Skogres
	Baby Dragon Bones	30	Baby Blue, Red and Black Dragons
	Shaikahan Bones	37	The Shaikahan in southern Karamja
	Skeletal Wyvern Bones	50	Skeletal Wyverns
	Dragon Bones	72	All adult dragons, including regular dragons, metal dragons and the King Black Dragon
	Fayrg Bones	84	Stolen from Zorge Coffins
	Raurg Bones	96	Stolen from Zorge Coffins
	Dagannoth Bones	125	Dagannoth Kings
	Ourg Bones	140	Stolen from Zorge Coffins

Long and Curved bones can be given to Bartak in Dorgesh-Kaan in exchange for 1k coins and (if your construction level is above 30) 1,500 construction experience. This reward is comparatively better than the 15 prayer experience you gain from burying the bones.

Ectofuntus

After partially completing the Ghosts Ahoy quest, you can use the Ectofuntus to receive four times as much prayer experience compared to just burying the bones. This training method is quite time consuming, but the advantage is not having to spend as much time or money gathering four times as many bones.

Player House Altars

Players with high enough Construction levels can build a Chapel in their house, and inside it place an altar and burners. When using bones on the best alter with the best burners lit, you will receive 3.5x as much experience as just burying bones.

Prayer Equipment

Basic Robes

Pic	Name	Prayer Bonus	Obtained from
	Monk Robe Top	6	Monastery
	Monk Robe Bottom	5	Monastery

Symbols

Silver symbols can be made using the crafting skill using a silver ban and symbol mould.

Pic	Name	Prayer Bonus	Obtained from
	Holy Symbol	6	Crafted by players, blessed by Brother Jerred in the Monastery
	Unholy Symbol	5	Crafted by players, blessed by the Spirit of Scorpius, south-west of Ardougne

Maces

All maces give a slight prayer bonus when used in combat.

Pic	Name	Prayer Bonus	Obtained from
	Bronze Mace	1	Smithed by players
	Iron Mace	1	Smithed by players
	Steel Mace	2	Smithed by players
	White Mace	?	Purchased from Sir Vyvin after the Wanted! quest
	Black Mace	2	Dropped by certain monsters
	Mithril Mace	3	Smithed by players
	Adamant Mace	3	Smithed by players
	Rune Mace	4	Smithed by players
	Dragon Mace	5	Purchased from the Heros' Guild

Verac's Equipment

Verac is one of the six Barrows brothers, and his armour and weapon each provide a prayer boost.

Pic	Name	Prayer Bonus
	Verac's Helmet	3
	Verac's Brassard	5
	Verac's Plateskirt	4
	Verac's Flail	6

Prayer Books

After completing the Horror from the Deep quest, you can choose one of three damaged prayer books from Jossik. Each book has four missing pages, which can be obtained as Treasure Trial rewards. Once you have placed all four pages into the book, it becomes either a Holy Book, Unholy Book or a Book of Balance which can be used to bless certain Prayer Symbols. Once you've completed one book, you can go back to Jossik to buy another.

Pic	Name	Bonuses
	Holy Book	+8 to all Defence bonuses +5 Prayer bonus
	Book of Balance	+4 to all Defence bonuses +4 to all Attack bonuses +5 Prayer bonus
	Unholy Book	+8 to all Attack bonuses +5 Prayer bonus

Skillcape

Those who dedicate themselves enough to the Gods to reach level 99 prayer will be able to purchase a Prayer Skillcape from Brother Jerred in the Monastery. See the Achievement Cape page for more details.