Pay-to-play Prayer training (2024)

Training Prayer can be quite costly, but it is a very important skill due to its utility in combat. Many quests recommend having 43 Prayer, as this allows a player to use all available protection prayers. Level 70 Prayer is also an important milestone for Piety.

Having a higher Prayer level also allows the player to restore more prayer points per prayer potion/super restore/sanfew serum dose.

Starting off[edit | edit source]

Early levels can be skipped by completing quests that give Prayer experience. Completing The Restless Ghost, Priest in Peril, Recruitment Drive and Holy Grail will grant a total of 14,531 Prayer experience, which will get the player from level 1 to 30. Spirits of the Elid has more requirements, but gives another 8,000 Prayer experience.

Offering bones at a gilded altar[edit | edit source]

The fastest way to train Prayer is to offer bones at a gilded altar in a player-owned house. When both incense burners are lit, the altar gives 350% experience per bone when a bone is offered at it. For example, burying a dragon bone gives 72 Prayer experience, but using it on the gilded altar with two incense burners lit would give 252 experience. While this method is the fastest way to train Prayer, it is also very expensive. Players who seek to save money are advised to offer bones at the Chaos altar in the Wilderness instead, as this is only slightly slower but offers twice as much experience per bone when compared to the gilded altar.

Building a gilded altar requires level 75 Construction, which can be boosted. The tier of incense burner does not matter, as all three types (oak, mahogany, and marble) yield the same experience bonus and remain lit for the same amount of time. Lighting an incense burner requires level 30 Firemaking and a marrentill herb, and both incense burners must be lit for the highest experience bonus. It is also recommended to have level 45 Magic for Camelot Teleport and Teleport to House.

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Use the bank chest near Camelot Castle in a PvP world when offering bones. It is the closest one to a teleport and within a safe area from player killers. Equip a dust battlestaff, and keep a tinderbox and law runes in the inventory. Withdraw 24 bones and two marrentills, teleport to the house, light the incense burners, and offer the bones at the gilded altar. Use each bone manually at the altar to speed up the process. Teleport back to Camelot and repeat.

Players who do not have the Construction level to build a gilded altar can use the altar of a house party host for free. Ironmen cannot use this method as they are unable to access friend POHs. The official worlds for hosted gilded altars are 330 (US East), 465 (Germany) and 512 (UK) at the Rimmington house portal. Take noted bones and unnote them at Phials located in the Rimmington General Store store for 5 coins each.

Experience rates vary depending on the type of bone used and performance. With good banking and accurate clicks, players can offer 2,550 bones per hour when manually using the bones on the altar. This equates to around 1,340,000 experience per hour when using superior dragon bones, or 643,000 experience per hour when using dragon bones. The rates can be increased up to 3,500 bones per hour if using alternative accounts to light the incense burners and bringing bones from the bank, or even higher if hiring runners. If the player is not manually using the bones on the altar, only up to 1,070 bones per hour can be offered.

More information about experience rates and costs can be seen below. Currently, offering superior dragon bones costs 42.29 coins per experience, and dragon bones 17.85 coins per experience.

Offering blessed bone shards to the libation bowl[edit | edit source]

Requiring level 30 Prayer, offering blessed bone shards to the libation bowl within the Teomat is slightly slower, but offers more experience per bone compared to the gilded altar.

The bones players normally obtain as drops must be blessed at the exposed altar, then broken down into blessed bone shards with a chisel; the amount of shards received is dependent on the type of bone blessed. With active effort (clicking chisel and bones) around 4,000 bones can be un-noted, blessed and broken down per hour. With AFK bonebreaking, rates up to 1,000 bones per hour should be realistic. Virilis at the bottom of the altar will un-note bones for 10 gp per item.

Jugs of wine must also be blessed at the exposed altar into jugs of blessed wine, which are then filled at the libation bowl. Alternatively, two sunfire splinters can be used on a jug of wine to convert it into a jug of sunfire wine, which becomes a jug of blessed sunfire wine when brought to the exposed altar. Note that both variants of blessed wine cannot be stored in a player's bank. With active effort, adding sunfire splinters to around 6000 wines per hour can be expected. Automatic creation of sunfire wine takes 2.4 seconds each, so 1500 wines per hour would be the theoretical limit.

Experience is gained by sacrificing the shards at the libation bowl. Each blessed bone shard provides 5 Prayer experience, or 6 if blessed sunfire wine was used to fill the libation bowl. Up to 100 shards can be sacrificed with a single action and doing so also requires 2 prayer points. AFK sacrificing takes 4 ticks, but with active effort, sacrifices can be made on every tick. One jug of wine is needed for every 400 bone shards.

Lastly, the zealot's robes are highly recommended for sacrificing shards, as the preservation chance is calculated for an individual shard, rather than the entire set of 100 for every action, though this still uses a "charge" of the libation bowl.

Aside from monster remains, there are alternative ways of obtaining blessed bone shards. For example, mining Calcified rocks in the Cam Torum mine is a relatively AFK method of receiving bone shards; around 2,200 shards can be banked per hour (including trips to break down calcified deposits), netting around 11,000 to 13,200 banked Prayer XP per hour. With optimal gear, levels and focus, upwards of 20,000 banked Prayer XP per hour can be obtained.

General strategy[edit | edit source]

1. Break down the desired amount of bones into blessed bone shards. You will need noted bones, coins, and a chisel.
   1. Take noted bones to Virilis at the Teomat, who charges 10 coins for each bone un-noted.
   2. Bless the bones at exposed altar.
   3. Break the bones down into blessed bone shards using a chisel. You can substantially speed this by repeatedly using the chisel on the bones.
2. Offer the blessed bone shards to the libation bowl.
   1. Get out blessed bone shards and fill your inventory with jugs of wine.
   2. Optional: Make jugs of sunfire wine by using sunfire splinters on a pestle and mortar with the wines present in your inventory. This process can also be sped up by using the sunfire splinters on the pestle and mortar repeatedly.
   3. Go to the Teomat.
   4. Bless the wines at exposed altar.
   5. Sacrifice at the libation bowl. You can repeatedly click the libation bowl to perform sacrifices faster.
   6. Restore prayer as needed at the Shrine of Ralos or use a prayer potions for higher efficiency.
   7. Bank and repeat.

Experience rates[edit | edit source]

As the whole process of gaining experience is quite complex, the experience rates below are very rough estimates. While shards may be acquired from other game content, wines have to be prepared and shards sacrificed regardless of how shards are acquired.

By using existing shards[edit | edit source]

As prayer points are drained while sacrificing, recharging prayer periodically is required. Player's prayer level determines how many recharge trips are required to use up one inventory of wine. Recharging at the nearby altar and returning to the bowl takes ~25 seconds. Assuming that replenishing supplies (banking for wine, blessing it and recharging prayer) takes around 65 seconds, it is not efficient to do another prayer recharge run if less than 40% of one prayer bar worth of wine is left - it is more efficient to bank.

As mentioned earlier, prayer recharge is a major component of the entire cycle time, by using prayer potions there is no need to leave the bowl and even higher rates can be attained. Rates up to 1,620,000 could be realistic with 24 sunfire wines per trip.

Effect of preparing sunfire wines[edit | edit source]

Assuming active effort is used and 5500 wines per hour, creation of sunfire wines adds around 16 seconds to the total trip time. So trip length is 5-10% longer, but considering it adds 20% XP per shard, it is worth it in terms of efficiency.

Making shards[edit | edit source]

If player produces their own shards from bones, the experience rates drop depending on the bones used. Assuming 4000 bones are processed per hour and 25 wines per inventory (10,000 shards) are used, some example times penalties can be found in the table below. The table shows that with dragon bones, the shard preparation time is quite similar to the time taken to do a full shard sacrificial trip at levels 62-99 when including sunfire wine preparation - meaning that for the aforementioned setup, all-in-all XP rate is about half of what is shown in the table above.

Item		Number of Shards	Base Bone GP/XP	Jug of blessed wine			Jug of blessed sunfire wine
				XP per bone	Base XP increase	GP/XP	XP per bone	Base XP increase	GP/XP[a]
	Blessed bones	4	-20.00	20	444.44%	-4.50	24	533.33%	-4.21
	Blessed bat bones	5	-79.62	25	471.7%	-16.88	30	566.04%	-14.53
	Blessed big bones	12	-22.47	60	400%	-5.62	72	480%	-5.14
	Blessed zogre bones	18	-34.84	90	400%	-8.71	108	480%	-7.72
	Blessed babywyrm bones	21	-26.71	105	500%	-5.34	126	600%	-4.92
	Blessed babydragon bones	24	-42.40	120	400%	-10.60	144	480%	-9.30
	Blessed wyrm bones	42	-45.92	210	420%	-10.93	252	504%	-9.58
	Sun-kissed bones[b]	45	N/A	225	N/A	N/A	270	N/A	N/A
	Blessed wyvern bones	58	-61.90	290	402.78%	-15.37	348	483.33%	-13.27
	Blessed dragon bones	58	-62.46	290	402.78%	-15.51	348	483.33%	-13.39
	Blessed drake bones	64	-64.79	320	400%	-16.20	384	480%	-13.96
	Blessed fayrg bones	67	-66.17	335	398.81%	-16.59	402	478.57%	-14.29
	Blessed lava dragon bones	68	-72.39	340	400%	-18.10	408	480%	-15.55
	Blessed raurg bones	77	-87.30	385	401.04%	-21.77	462	481.25%	-18.60
	Blessed hydra bones	93	-90.23	465	422.73%	-21.34	558	507.27%	-18.25
	Blessed dagannoth bones[c]	100	-114.10	500	400%	-28.53	600	480%	-24.24
	Blessed ourg bones	115	-375.59	575	410.71%	-91.45	690	492.86%	-76.67
	Blessed superior dragon bones	121	-148.01	605	403.33%	-36.70	726	484%	-31.05
	Blessed bone statuette[d]	125	N/A	625	N/A	N/A	750	N/A	N/A

Offering bones at the Chaos Temple[edit | edit source]

Offering bones at the altar within the Chaos Temple in the Wilderness is a slightly slower but a much cheaper alternative to the gilded altar. The temple is located in level 38 Wilderness, in a multi-combat area, so great caution must be exercised while employing this training method. The temple has an altar which grants 350% experience per bone offered at it (the same experience as a gilded altar with two burners lit), but also gives a 50% chance for the bone not to be consumed. This effectively doubles the amount of experience received per bone. However, using the altar comes at the risk of having to face player killers who frequently like to hop between worlds at the location.

Players can take noted bones and un-note them at the Elder Chaos druid just outside of the temple for 50 coins per note (except on Deadman Mode worlds, where his service is not offered to Deadmen^[1]). While convenient, this also increases the amount that the player is risking to player killers. Players who wish to minimise risk can take only an inventory of unnoted bones at a time and suicide to bank for more bones.

The fastest way to get to the altar is to use Ghorrock Teleport (or the respective house portal or the teleport tablet) and run south.

• Alternatively, players who have an Ancient Obelisk in their player-owned house and have completed hard Wilderness Diary can use it to teleport to level 44 Wilderness and then run south.
• Another option is to use Cemetery Teleport on the Arceuus spellbook or the respective house portal and run north. This is a slightly slower method, but it has lower requirements.
• Using the burning amulet to the Lava Maze entrance and running south-west is not recommended, except for players using the suicide strategy below. The Lava Maze entrance is often crowded by player killers due to its proximity to Revenant Caves and King Black Dragon Lair.

Experience rates vary depending on the bone used and the number of player killers. When bringing noted bones and manually using the bones on the altar, players can gain up to 1,800,000 experience per hour with superior dragon bones or 860,000 experience per hour with dragon bones. Higher rates can be achieved by using runners. If suiciding for every inventory of bones, players can offer up to around 2,000 bones per hour. This would equate to 1,050,000 experience per hour with superior dragon bones and 500,000 experience per hour with dragon bones.

Strategies[edit | edit source]

As the altar can also be used to recharge Prayer points, players can keep Protect from Magic and Augury prayers up while offering bones and pray at the altar when needed.

Planning to die[edit | edit source]

Players who wish to minimise the risk can travel to the altar from the bank for every inventory of bones, and suicide to get to the bank faster. While this is less risky than bringing noted bones to the altar, it is also slower.

For this method, it is strongly recommended to have the respawn point in Ferox Enclave or Edgeville. They are the closest respawn points to a bank, but also cost 5,000,000 coins to unlock. Alternatively, players can use PvP worlds, which have a bank chest right next to a respawn point.

This method goes as follows:

1. Take bones, a teleport to the Wilderness, and optionally a locator orb or a dwarven rock cake from the bank.
2. Teleport to the Wilderness, and run to the Chaos Temple. Offer the bones at the altar.
3. Lower Hitpoints with the locator orb or the dwarven rock cake, and suicide to the wine of zamorak spawn. Alternatively, let the Chaos Fanatic kill you.
4. Run from the respawn point to the nearest bank for more bones. Repeat the process.

Players can optionally wear a piece of defensive equipment, such as the Dinh's bulwark. This way, players have a better chance of surviving player killers long enough so they can use up all their bones before dying.

Alternatively, players can wear Zealot's robes when using the suicide strategy. The bone-saving effect of the altar stacks with the Zealot's robes, and wearing them would give slightly more value out of the bones. The Zealot's robes are protected over the bones on death.

Logging out[edit | edit source]

If a player wishes to avoid encounters with player killers, an option is to keep the logout menu open with the cursor placed over the logout button. Consider using the ::renderself chat interface setting to hide your character model on your own client, allowing you to see anyone who logs in beneath you. With careful attention, the player can quickly log out before being attacked. One disadvantage to this method is that it offers lower XP/hr than manually using the bones on the altar.

Bringing noted bones[edit | edit source]

Bringing noted bones is riskier, but a lot faster than using the suicide method. However, it is only viable for either high-level or very low-level players.

The Elder Chaos Druid located outside the Chaos Altar unnotes bones for 50 coins each.

Very low-level players (combat level 3–20) are often too low-levelled to be targeted by player killers. Such players can usually bring higher amounts of noted bones with lower risk. However, some low-level combat pure player killers can sometimes be found at the altar, so some caution should still be given.

High-level players should wear good defensive gear while 3- or 4-iteming more expensive armour pieces, and bring some Saradomin brews along with sanfew serums or super restores to have a higher chance of escaping player killers. Players will also have very limited space for supplies, as it is best to have as much inventory space as possible for the bones.

Gear setups can vary depending on how much money the player has available. It is generally best prioritise Magic defence while having decent defensive bonuses against Melee and Ranged attacks. When choosing protected items, the fortified Masori body or the Armadyl chestplate, a tank shield such as elysian/spectral spirit shield or dinh's bulwark, and staff of the dead (if using an off-hand shield) are considered the best options. The rest of the equipment should consist of fairly cheap or easily replaceable items.

If the player is confident using Protect Item, the serpentine helm or the fortified Masori chaps (or the Armadyl chainskirt) can be brought as the extra item. It is still possible to get smited, so it may be a good idea to keep the smite risk reasonable. In a certain death situation prioritise having enough Prayer points to keep Protect Item active.

Smite risks for certain items:

• Serpentine helm: 5,014,674
• Staff of the dead: 10,801,629
• Slayer helmet (i): 1,265,486
• Karil's leatherskirt: 923,298

Generally it is best to wear a phoenix necklace to reduce the chance of getting combo-ed out along with a ring of wealth, which offers a teleport out of the Wilderness while not taking up inventory space. With certain setups it may be better to bring a ring of suffering (i) and an amulet of glory for extra defence, although the player will miss out on the phoenix necklace's healing effect.

Using the staff of the dead with a powerful off-hand shield (such as the elysian or spectral spirit shield) offers the highest escaping potential. Having a very high Magic defence helps at not getting frozen inside the multi-combat area, thereby significantly increasing the chances of surviving. Players should keep the risk at a reasonable level, as it is still fairly likely to die to a larger team of player killers. Choose 3 pieces of equipment (4 if confident using Protect Item) that will be protected on death and some low-value equipment that you do not mind risking.

Recommended equipment for High Magic defence

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Serpentine helm	Slayer helmet (i)	Helm of neitiznot	Bearhead
	Phoenix necklace	Amulet of glory	N/A	N/A
	Cape of Accomplishment	God capes	Cape of legends	N/A
	Masori body (f)	Armadyl chestplate	Karil's leathertop	Black d'hide body
	Masori chaps (f)	Armadyl chainskirt	Karil's leatherskirt	Black d'hide chaps
	Staff of the dead / Staff of light	Ancient staff / Trident of the seas	Lunar staff	Staff of water
	Elysian spirit shield	Spectral spirit shield	Dragonfire ward / Twisted buckler	Dragonfire shield
	Rada's blessing 4	God blessing / Rada's blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A
	Black d'hide vambraces	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Silly jester boots	Mystic boots	Fremennik sea boots 4	N/A
	Ring of wealth [n 1]	Ring of suffering (i)	N/A	N/A

1. ^ Ring of wealth is used to teleport out of the Wilderness, and it saves an inventory space when wearing a phoenix necklace.

See Also

Members Prayer training

The elysian spirit shield is the best option for overall tanking due to its damage reduction effect. However, the spectral spirit shield is much more affordable and arguably almost as good due to its considerably higher Magic defence bonus. Wearing the spectral spirit shield makes it a lot less likely to get frozen inside the multi-combat area, but should this happen, the elysian spirit shield offers much better survivability.

The staff of the dead has fairly high Magic defence and also offers a useful special attack, which halves the all Melee damage of your opponent(s) (all opponents that hit you in the time of the special attack) for one minute. A staff of light or staff of balance can also used instead as they have the exact same bonuses and special attack. Should the player not be able to use the staff of the dead, any other staff with high Magic defence bonus should be used instead.

Recommended skills[edit | edit source]

• 90+ (75 required)
• 90+ (75 required)
• 75
• 70
• 77 (Augury)

Inventory[edit | edit source]

500
	25000

• Noted bones
• Coins
• Teleport to house tablet or some other method to get to the altar
• 1 stamina potion
• 4–6 Saradomin brews
• 2–3 blighted super restores
  • If not wearing a serpentine helm, bring 2–3 sanfew serums instead for curing potential venom
  • If sanfew serums are not available, bring a 2-dose anti-venom+ (optional)
• 1–2 blighted anglerfish or manta ray for combo healing (optional)
• Rest unnoted bones

This setup uses the Dinh's bulwark for Melee and Ranged defence and other equipment for Magic defence. It is usually more affordable than the previous setup and it offers higher Ranged and Melee defences, at the expense of some Magic defence. Players should keep the risk at a reasonable level, as it is still fairly likely to die to a larger team of player killers.

Recommended equipment for Dinh's bulwark

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Serpentine helm	Slayer helmet (i)	Helm of neitiznot	Bearhead
	Phoenix necklace	Amulet of glory	N/A	N/A
	Cape of Accomplishment	God capes	Cape of legends	N/A
	Masori body (f)	Armadyl chestplate	Karil's leathertop	Black d'hide body
	Masori chaps (f)	Armadyl chainskirt	Karil's leatherskirt	Black d'hide chaps
	Dinh's bulwark	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Rada's blessing 4	God blessing / Rada's blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A
	Black d'hide vambraces	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Silly jester boots	Mystic boots	Fremennik sea boots 4	N/A
	Ring of wealth [n 1]	Ring of suffering (i)	N/A	N/A

1. ^ Ring of wealth is used to teleport out of the Wilderness, and it saves an inventory space when wearing a phoenix necklace.

Recommended skills[edit | edit source]

• 90+ (75 required)
• 90+
• 75
• 70
• 77 (Augury)

Inventory[edit | edit source]

500
	25000

• Noted bones
• Coins
• Teleport to house tablet or some other method to get to the altar
• 1 stamina potion
• 4–6 Saradomin brews
• 2–3 blighted super restores
  • If not wearing a serpentine helm, bring 2–3 sanfew serums instead for curing potential venom
  • If sanfew serums are not available, bring a 2-dose anti-venom+ (optional)
• 1–2 blighted anglerfish or manta ray for combo healing (optional)
• Rest unnoted bones

Reanimating ensouled heads[edit | edit source]

Reanimating ensouled heads and killing the reanimated monsters near the Dark Altar is a relatively slow training method, but it requires less effort than manually offering bones at a gilded altar or the Chaos altar. This method is mainly recommended for players who wish to save money on Prayer training and do not wish to go to the Wilderness, as offering bones at the Chaos altar offers a lot faster experience and is usually comparable in terms of cost.

For this method, using fairy ring code CIS for faster access to the Dark Altar, and a fast access to fairy rings, such as the fairy ring in the POH, quest point cape, or using the Salve Graveyard Teleport. Having the rune pouch is strongly recommended to save inventory space. It is also recommended to buy the ensouled heads in advance, as most of them have a low trade volumes on the Grand Exchange.

Experience rates vary depending on the type of ensouled head used and combat stats. With high combat stats, players can reanimate up to 220 ensouled heads per hour. This equates to around 343,000 experience per hour when reanimating ensouled dragon heads. Higher rates can be achieved by using a cannon to kill the reanimated monsters faster, but this makes the method slightly more expensive. Players will also gain some passive combat and Magic experience from this method.

More information about experience rates and costs can be seen below. Currently, reanimating ensouled dragon heads costs 6.81 coins per experience.

Experience rates and cost[edit | edit source]

The Prayer experience rate calculator attempts to calculate how quickly a player can "earn" experience points for each bone type, depending on the location where they are performing the task.

Offering bones at a gilded and the Chaos Altar[edit | edit source]

For information about the cost per experience, see Calculator:Prayer/Bones

• The below table assumes the player manually uses the bones on the altar. This way, the player can offer 2,550 bones per hour at a gilded altar, and 2,000 bones per hour at the Chaos altar.
• Experience rates do not assume using alternative accounts for running bones and/or lighting burners. If using one, the player can expect to get 20–25% increased rates at a gilded altar and 40–45% at the Chaos altar.
• Experience per bone assumes a gilded altar with two burners lit.
• GP/XP for the Chaos altar assumes effectively getting twice the experience per bone. It also includes the 50 coins unnoting fee per bone (which effectively only applies to half the bones), but does not include the cost of teleports, supplies and potential loss to player killers.

	Bones	XP/bone	XP/h (Gilded altar)	XP/h (Chaos altar)	GP/XP (Gilded altar)	GP/XP (Chaos altar)	GP/h (Gilded altar)	GP/h (Chaos altar)
	Bones	15.7	40,162.5	31,500	-5.73	-4.44	−229,500	−140,000
	Wolf bones	15.7	40,162.5	31,500	-31.15	-17.11	−1,246,950	−539,000
	Burnt bones	15.7	40,162.5	31,500	-29.81	-16.44	−1,193,400	−518,000
	Monkey bones	17.5	44,625	35,000	-28.91	-15.89	−1,290,300	−556,000
	Bat bones	18.5	47,302.5	37,100	-22.81	-12.72	−1,076,100	−472,000
	Big bones	52.5	133,875	105,000	-6.42	-3.69	−859,350	−387,000
	Jogre bones	52.5	133,875	105,000	-17.89	-9.42	−2,394,450	−989,000
	Wyrmling bones	73.5	187,425	147,000	-7.63	-4.16	−1,430,550	−611,000
	Zogre bones	78.7	200,812.5	157,500	-9.96	-5.30	−1,999,200	−834,000
	Shaikahan bones	87.5	223,125	175,000	-83.33	-41.95	−18,592,050	−7,341,000
	Babydragon bones	105	267,750	210,000	-12.11	-6.30	−3,243,600	−1,322,000
	Wyrm bones	175	446,250	350,000	-13.12	-6.70	−5,854,800	−2,346,000
	Wyvern bones	252	642,600	504,000	-17.69	-8.94	−11,365,350	−4,507,000
	Dragon bones	252	642,600	504,000	-17.85	-9.02	−11,467,350	−4,547,000
	Drake bones	280	714,000	560,000	-18.51	-9.34	−13,216,650	−5,233,000
	Fayrg bones	294	749,700	588,000	-18.90	-9.54	−14,172,900	−5,608,000
	Lava dragon bones	297.5	758,625	595,000	-20.68	-10.43	−15,690,150	−6,203,000
	Raurg bones	336	856,800	672,000	-24.94	-12.55	−21,371,550	−8,431,000
	Hydra bones	385	981,750	770,000	-25.78	-12.95	−25,308,750	−9,975,000
	Dagannoth bones	437.5	1,115,625	875,000	-32.60	-16.36	−36,370,650	−14,313,000
	Ourg bones	490	1,249,500	980,000	-107.31	-53.71	−134,084,100	−52,632,000
	Superior dragon bones[n 1]	525	1,338,750	1,050,000	-42.29	-21.19	−56,615,100	−22,252,000

Reanimating ensouled heads[edit | edit source]

For information about the cost per experience, see Calculator:Prayer/Ensouled heads

• Experience rates assume 220 reanimated monsters are killed per hour. Slightly higher rates can be achieved by using the dwarf multicannon to kill reanimated monsters faster.
• GP/XP includes the cost of the ensouled head and the runes required to cast the respective spell. It does not include the cost of supplies (such as super combat potions) or teleports.

Level	Ensouled head			Required runes		Total cost	XP	XP/hr	GP/XP
	Head		Price	Runes	Price
16		Ensouled goblin head	312	4 2	254	566	130	28,600	-4.35
16		Ensouled monkey head	512	4 2	254	766	182	40,040	-4.21
16		Ensouled imp head	1,381	4 2	254	1,635	286	62,920	-5.72
16		Ensouled minotaur head	627	4 2	254	881	364	80,080	-2.42
16		Ensouled scorpion head	724	4 2	254	978	454	99,880	-2.15
16		Ensouled bear head	828	4 2	254	1,082	480	105,600	-2.25
16		Ensouled unicorn head	1,174	4 2	254	1,428	494	108,680	-2.89
41		Ensouled dog head	1,267	4 3 1	559	1,826	520	114,400	-3.30
41		Ensouled chaos druid head	858	4 3 1	559	1,417	584	128,480	-2.24
41		Ensouled giant head	1,098	4 3 1	559	1,657	650	143,000	-2.38
41		Ensouled ogre head	1,759	4 3 1	559	2,318	716	157,520	-3.08
41		Ensouled elf head	1,925	4 3 1	559	2,484	754	165,880	-3.15
41		Ensouled troll head	1,843	4 3 1	559	2,402	780	171,600	-2.94
41		Ensouled horror head	2,268	4 3 1	559	2,827	832	183,040	-3.26
72		Ensouled kalphite head	1,858	1 3 2	1,034	2,892	884	194,480	-3.27
72		Ensouled dagannoth head	2,489	1 3 2	1,034	3,523	936	205,920	-3.76
72		Ensouled bloodveld head	3,145	1 3 2	1,034	4,179	1040	228,800	-4.02
72		Ensouled tzhaar head	3,683	1 3 2	1,034	4,717	1104	242,880	-4.27
72		Ensouled demon head	4,824	1 3 2	1,034	5,858	1170	257,400	-5.01
72		Ensouled hellhound head	5,263	1 3 2	1,034	6,297	1200	264,000	-5.38
90		Ensouled aviansie head	4,778	2 4 4	1,846	6,624	1234	271,480	-5.37
90		Ensouled abyssal head	5,167	2 4 4	1,846	7,013	1300	286,000	-5.39
90		Ensouled dragon head	8,782	2 4 4	1,846	10,628	1560	343,200	-6.81

Offering spells[edit | edit source]

With the upgraded Arceuus spellbook from A Kingdom Divided, players can offer bones or demonic ashes from their inventory, offering simultaneous Magic experience.

Sinister Offering[edit | edit source]

Bones		XP	Magic XP	GP/XP	XP/Hr[n 1]
	Bones	4.5	13.5	-22.79	24,300
	Monkey bones	5	15	-48.24	27,000
	Bat bones	5.3	15.9	-40.23	28,620
	Big bones	15	45	-12.33	81,000
	Jogre bones	15	45	-25.70	81,000
	Zogre bones	22.5	67.5	-14.84	121,500
	Shaikahan bones	25	75	-100.12	135,000
	Babydragon bones	30	90	-16.55	162,000
	Wyrm bones	50	150	-16.76	270,000
	Dragon bones	72	216	-21.83	388,800
	Wyvern bones	72	216	-21.64	388,800
	Drake bones	80	240	-22.50	432,000
	Fayrg bones	84	252	-22.92	453,600
	Lava dragon bones	85	255	-24.98	459,000
	Raurg bones	96	288	-29.86	518,400
	Hydra bones	110	330	-30.74	594,000
	Dagannoth bones	125	375	-38.62	675,000
	Ourg bones	140	420	-125.71	756,000
	Superior dragon bones	150	450	-49.82	810,000

Demonic Offering[edit | edit source]

Since the three highest level Slayer masters assign at least 120 abyssal demons as a minimum, one can expect at least of 30,600 Prayer experience per task if casting the demonic offering spell on abyssal ashes, making that particular task a great passive training method for players who melee the monsters. Also, one may collect abyssal ashes from the floor in worlds where there is another player barraging, for a low intensity and cheap method.

Ashes		XP	Spell XP	GP/XP	XP/hr[n 1]
	Fiendish ashes	10	30	-10.47	54,000
	Vile ashes	25	75	-6.97	135,000
	Malicious ashes	65	195	-6.53	351,000
	Abyssal ashes	85	255	-8.97	459,000
	Infernal ashes	110	330	-13.12	594,000

Passive training[edit | edit source]

Passive training can be the cheapest Prayer training method, and take no additional time, especially when combined with Slayer training or in the Nightmare Zone or similar areas where players plan to stay for a long time without banking their drops.

Offering bones at the Ectofuntus[edit | edit source]

Worshiping the Ectofuntus gives 400% the normal experience. Although this is the second-highest guaranteed per-bone prayer bonus in the game, this is much less than the 700% theoretical average experience at the Chaos Altar. This is due to the 50% chance of the Chaos Altar not consuming bones. The libation bowl will either match the 400% increase in xp per bone, or exceed it, depending on the bone sacrificed and whether or not sunfire wine is used.

The Ectofuntus is a less common method of training prayer due to it being much slower and not much cheaper than gilded altars, but it can be sped up considerably with the daily rewards provided by the Morytania Diaries.

Bonecrusher[edit | edit source]

With the bonecrusher or bonecrusher necklace, when charged with ecto-tokens, if the player kills a monster that drops bones, the bonecrusher will automatically crush them, granting the player half the Prayer experience they would have received from burying the bones themselves, or full amount of experience if the elite Morytania Diary is completed, and consuming one charge.

Ash sanctifier[edit | edit source]

With the ash sanctifier, when charged with death runes, if the player kills a monster that drops ashes, the sanctifier will automatically scatter them, granting the player half the Prayer experience they would have received from scattering the ashes themselves, or full amount of experience if the elite Kourend & Kebos Diary is completed, and consuming one charge.

Reanimating ensouled heads[edit | edit source]

Ensouled heads can be reanimated to passively train Prayer during Slayer tasks from monsters that drops them, such as Bloodvelds or Abyssal Demons. Reanimation spells can be directly cast on ensouled heads dropped on the ground from monsters as long as the player do not bank them. In addition, reanimated monsters counts toward Slayer tasks, with the exception of Reanimated dragons.

Ectoplasmator[edit | edit source]

With the ectoplasmator, if the player kills a spectral creature such as an aberrant spectre, the player receives Prayer experience equal to 20% of the monster's max health, rounded down. The ectoplasmator requires 40 Prayer, and it is a reward from the Soul Wars minigame for 250 Zeal Tokens. In addition, the ectoplasmator stacks with the bonecrusher when killing a spectral monster that also drops bones, like ankou.

Bird's Eggs[edit | edit source]

Occasionally, while woodcutting or emptying Bird houses, a bird's nest containing red, green, or blue bird's eggs can be obtained. These can be offered to the shrine at the woodcutting guild for 100 prayer xp each, allowing some passive experience while training other skills.

Quests rewarding Prayer experience[edit | edit source]

Quest	Experience reward	Prayer requirement	Other requirements
Rag and Bone Man I	500	-	-
Making History	1,000	-	-
Recruitment Drive	1,000	-	12
The Restless Ghost	1,125	-	-
Priest in Peril	1,406	-	-
Mountain Daughter	2,000	-	20
Ghosts Ahoy	2,400	-	25 , 20
Another Slice of H.A.M.	3,000	25	15
Rag and Bone Man II	5,000	-	40 , 20
The Great Brain Robbery	6,000	50	16 , 30
Rum Deal	7,000	47	42 , 50 , 40 , 42
Spirits of the Elid	8,000	-	37 , 33 , 37 , 37
Swan Song	10,000	-	100 , 66 , 62 , 62 , 45 , 42 , 40
Holy Grail	11,000	-	20
His Faithful Servants (miniquest)	20,000	-	-
Hopespear's Will (miniquest)	38,750	50	-
Total	118,181

References[edit | edit source]