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Prayer

Introduction

By calling upon the gods of RuneScape, you can perform acts such superhuman strength or invulnerability. As well as using magic spells, you can also pray to the gods of Runescape to give you an higher advantage. However, you have to train this skill. The better prayer level you have, the greater are your advantages.

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Training prayer, bones info

–How to get bones

Using prayer

–Prayers

Prayer Items

–Armour and Robes

–Weapons

–Jewelry

–Shields

Protection prayers

Recharging

Ancient Mace

Training prayer, bones info

Training your prayer level is very easy, but getting experience is very slow. All you have to do, is bury bones from killed animals/monsters/characters. But not all monsters drop bones, such as imps, demons, ghosts and other characters that shouldn't have any bones.
Here are the different types of bones:

Picture	Name	Earned XP
	Bones	4.5
	Burnt bones	4.5
	Wolf bones	4.5
	Monkey bones	5
	Bat bones	5.25
	Big bones	15
	Jogre bones	15
	Zogre bones	22.5
	Shaikahan bones	25
	Babydragon bones	30
	Skeletal wyvern bones	50
	Dragon bones	72
	Fayrg bones	84
	Raurg bones	96
	Dagannoth bones	125
	Ourg bones	140
	Frost dragon bones	180

How to get bones

Now, you know how good each bones are, maybe you're asking yourself: "How can I get all these bones?"

Normally, people are burying the bones they get from character they have killed. But you can also collect and bury the bones in respawn area. However, this is very boring, so if prayer isn't the most important skill for you, you should bury them after killing characters. Monsters like demons, imps, ghosts, scorpions, spiders, insects, animated axes etc will not drop bones.

Bones You can get normal bones from killed animals, all humans, dwarfs, gnomes etc.

Burnt bones Burnt bones can be found some places in wilderness, like Greater Demons hut. Beware of Revenants when you bury these!

Wolf bones Dropped by all wolves: White Wolf, Desert Wolf, Grey Wolf, Big Wolf etc.

Monkey bones Dropped by all monkeys: Monkey, Archer Monkey, Monkey guard etc.

Bat bones Dropped by Giant Bats in all levels.

Big bones Dropped by all giants: Hill Giant, Moss Giant, Ogre, Ice Giant etc.

Jogre bones Dropped by Jogres

Zogre bones Dropped by Zogres and Skogres.

Shaikahan bones Dropped by The Shaikahan

Baby Dragon bones Dropped by Baby Blue Dragon

Skeletal wyvern bones Dropped by Skeletal Wyverns (72 Slayer needed)

Fayrg, Raurg and Ourg bones Can be stolen from Ogre Coffins.

Dragon Bones Dropped by all dragons (not baby): Green Dragons, Red dragons, steel dragons, bronze dragons, black dragons etc.

Dagannoth bones Dropped by the Dagannoth Kings

Using prayer

To view the prayer menu, just click on the prayer icon in the game interface.


When you're using a prayer spell, your prayer level will slowly drain, and when it's at zero, you have to recharge you prayer. The draining rate depends on the prayer, and the equipment you use. Each of the different prayers can be turned on or off, but only one of the different prayer types can be used at once.

The prayers have different icons when they available, in use or unavailable.

	Prayer that you have level to use
	Prayer in use
	Prayer that you don't have the required level to use

Prayers

Picture	Name	Needed level	Description	Prayer type
	Thick Skin	1	Increases your defence by 5%	Defence
	Burst of Strength	4	Increases your strength by 5%	Strength
	Clarity of Thought	7	Increases your attack by 5%	Attack
	Sharp Eye	8	Increases range by 5%	Range
	Rock Skin	10	Increases your defence by 10%	Defence
	Superhuman Strength	13	Increases your strength by 10%	Strength
	Improved Reflexes	16	Increases your attack by 10%	Attack
	Rapid Restore	19	2x restore rate for all stats except life points and prayer.	Restore
	Rapid Heal	22	2x restore rate for life points.	Healing
	Protect Item	25	Keep 1 extra item if you die.	Item protection
	Hawk Eye	26	Increases range by 10%	Range
	Mystic Lore	27	Increases magic by 10%	Magic
	Steel Skin	28	Increases your defense by 15%.	Defence
	Ultimate Strength	31	Increases your strength by 15%.	Strength
	Incredible Reflexes	34	Increases your attack by 15%.	Attack
	Protect from Summoning	35	100% Immunity to familiars' right-click abilities, 40% damage reduction from familiars' special moves	Protection
	Protect from Magic	37	100% Immunity to monsters' Magic attacks, 40% damage reduction from player Magic attacks, 50% reduction in effect of player spells	Protection
	Protect from Missiles	40	100% Immunity to monsters' Ranged attacks, 40% damage reduction from player Ranged attacks	Protection
	Protect from Melee	43	100% Immunity from monsters' Melee attacks, 40% damage reduction from player melee attacks	Protection
	Eagle Eye	44	Increases your ranged by 15%	Ranged
	Mystic Might	45	Increases your magic by 15%	Magic
	Retribution	46	If this prayer is active when you die, it deals damage of up to 25% of your max-Prayer to all nearby enemies*	N/A
	Redemption	49	If this prayer is active when your health drops below 10% but doesn't reach 0 life points, you will be healed for 25%*10 of your maximum Prayer	N/A
	Smite	52	If this prayer is active when you are fighting another player, they will lose 1 Prayer point for every four points of damage you do to them**	N/A
	Chivalry	60	Increases your defence by 20%, your strength by 18% and your attack by 15%***	Attack, Strength and Defence
	Piety	70	Increases your defence by 25%, your strength by 23% and your attack by 20%***	Attack, Strength and Defence

* This prayer won't hurt other players outside of PvP areas, and it won't hit multiple targets in non-multiway combat zones

• • This prayer drain effect isn't affected by your victim's protection prayers
    
    • Knights Wave training ground must be complete to use these prayers (King's Ransom)

Prayer items

There are many different armours, shields and weapons that you can wield to make your prayer better. The best combination, however, is monks robe (bottom and top), the best mace you can wear, holy symbol, and a book (members can use this as shield).

Armour and Robes

Image	Name	Prayer bonus
	Monk's robe (top)	+6
	Monk's robe (bottom)	+5
	Shade robe (top)	+5
	Shade robe (bottom)	+4
	Druid robe (top)	+4
	Druid robe (bottom)	+4
	Zamorak robe (top)	+3
	Zamorak robe (bottom)	+3
	Priest gown (top)	+3
	Priest gown (bottom)	+3
	Saradomin/Guthix/Zamorak robe top	+4
	Saradomin/Guthix/Zamorak robe bottoms	+4
	White knight armour (any)	+1
	Initiate sallet	+3
	Initiate hauberk	+6
	Initiate cuisse	+5
	Proselyte sallet	+4
	Proselyte hauberk	+8
	Proselyte cuisse	+5
	Proselyte tasset	+5
	Helm of neitiznot	+3
	Verac's helm	+3
	Verac's brassard	+5
	Verac's plateskirt	+4
	Bandos chestplate	+1
	Bandos tassets	+1
	Bandos boots	+1

Weapons

Image	Name	Prayer bonus
	Bronze mace	+1
	Iron mace	+1
	Steel mace	+2
	Black mace	+2
	Mithril mace	+3
	Adamant mace	+3
	Rune mace	+4
	Dragon mace	+5
	White knight weapons (any)	+1
	TokTz-Mej-Tal	+5
	Verac's flail	+6
	Saradomin sword	+2
	Zamorakian spear	+2
	Godsword (any)	+8
	Ancient mace	+3
	Saradomin/Guthix/Zamorak crozier	+6
	Black cane	+2
	Adamant cane	+3
	Rune cane	+4
	Wolfbane	+5
	Keris	+2
	Blessed mithril axe	+2
	Ivandis flail	+5

Capes

Image	Name	Prayer bonus
	Saradomin/Guthix/Zamorak cloak	+3
	Fire cape	+2
	Skill cape (t)	+4

Jewelry

Image	Name	Prayer bonus
	Blessed Holy Symbol	+8
	Unholy Symbol of Zamorak	+8
	Saradomin/Guthix/Zamorak stole	+10
	Amulet of power	+1
	Amulet of glory	+3
	Amulet of fury	+5
	Berserker necklace	+3
	Explorer's ring 1-3	+1

Shields

Image	Name	Prayer bonus
	Holy book	+5
	Unholy book	+5
	Book of balance	+5
	Broodoo shield (any)	+5
	Falador shield 1	+3
	Falador shield 2	+5
	Falador shield 3	+7
	Spirit shield	+1
	Blessed Spirit Shield	+3
	Arcane Spirit Shield	+3
	Divine Spirit Shield	+3
	Elysian Spirit Shield	+3
	Spectral Spirit Shield	+3

Protection Prayers

The protection prayers (Protect from Summoning, Magic, Missiles and Melee) are very useful. These can protect you 100% against all monsters, so they will only hit you 0. However, you can only use one of these at once. The protection prayers doesn't protect you from Dragon Breath.

These are very useful if you are fighting high level monsters, who normally do a lot of damage. Like the other prayers, it will drain slowly when you're using it. Remember that if you are training with a protection prayer, bring Prayer Potions to keep your prayer from draining totally.

Against other players, you won't get 100% protection. Therefore, in Castle Wars, Duel Arena and Wilderness, you will only get 40% protection from other players. Even if it's only 40%, it can be very useful in some situations.

Recharging your prayer

When you use prayer, the prayer rate will slowly drain. To recharge it, you have to pray at an altar. Altars are found all over RuneScape, mainly in churches.

A small map where you can find all altars to recharge on is shown to the right. Check the main map to find them.
If there is not an altar nearby, you may drink or eat special items to recharge your prayer:

Picture	Item	How to get	Effect
	Prayer restore potion	Made by mixing Ranarr weed and Snape grass with Herblore	Restores 30% of your prayer points. (2 extra prayer points are restored if you are carring the Holy Wrench from Rum Deal)
	Super stat restore potion	Made by mixing Snapdragon and Red spider's eggs with Herblore	Restores 38.33% of your prayer points.
	Jangerberries	Spawns on the Ogre Island slightly west of Yannile, can also be farmed.	1 Prayer Point.
	Falador Shield (1-3)	Falador achievement diary reward.	Restores a percentage of your prayer once per day. 25% (1), 50% (2), 100% (3)

Ancient Mace

During the quest Another Slice of H.A.M., you are given the Ancient Mace. Besides giving a prayer bonus, it has a special attack that adds the damage you do to your prayer points. These points you gain can go over the maximum and do not go away like a stat boosting potion.

For example, if you hit a 13 with 64/64 prayer, you would have 77/64 prayer that you keep until you use it up, die, or have it reset some other way.

The prayer bonus it gives is great for boss fights where a few extra points could give you an edge or save a spot that would otherwise be occupied by a prayer restore potion. Also, since the special takes 100% of the meter to use, here are some things that can help you get the most out of it.

• Use the special a while before you go into a fight so that your meter can recharge for you to use special attacks on a weapon with a better special attack.
• Recharge your prayer points before you use the special.
• Equip as many items with +strength that you can.
• Attack a monster that is easy to hit and has a decent amount of life points. (look for something with 150-200 life points)
• Activate a prayer with a strength bonus just long enough for the special attack and then deactivate it quickly afterward. Charging your prayer at the monastery would be a good idea for this for the additional 2 points so that you do not use up any points. Piety and chivalry are good choices for prayers because they also give an attack bonus.
• If you want, drink a dose of a strength and maybe attack potion before you do the special to do even more damage.

The Ancient Mace also counts as a Bandos item for the God Wars Dungeon.

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