Prayer


 * For information on training this skill, see the Prayer training article.

Prayer is a skill in where the player turns on "prayers" to be aided in combat. In the very early days of, Prayer was divided into 2 parts: PrayGood and PrayEvil, both lacking prayers. The two skills were merged into "prayer" in 10 May 2001 and the experience from the type of prayer with the highest experience was kept. The skill with the lower amount of experience was discarded. Former spells on the GoodMagic and EvilMagic spellbooks which had constant use on the player or the target, such as Burst of strength, were placed under "prayer" and new ones incorporated on 24 May 2001.

Prayer is a part of combat, by increasing Attack, Defense, and Strength temporarily. It is also factored into your combat level.

To train Prayer, you must bury bones. Simply pick up the bones dropped by a monster and click on the bones in your inventory to bury them. They will disappear from your inventory and you will gain prayer experience depending on the type of bone that you buried. Prayer is one of the slowest skills to train because of the small experience that bones give.

Prayers
* Monsters will not deal damage to the player, although you can still get poisoned if the monster is poisonous. ** No monsters use Ranged-based attacks in, so this prayer is only useful in PvP combat, particularly in the Wilderness.

Recharging Prayer Points
There are three main ways to recharge prayer points: by praying at an altar, drinking a Restore prayer potion, or by dying. Players will also receive one prayer point upon leveling up the skill.

Praying at an altar or dying will recharge all prayer points and praying at the Monastery altar will even give +2 bonus.

Restore prayer potions recharge prayer by ($$Level \times 0.25 + 7$$) points. To get the maximum Restore prayer potion effect of 31, the player would need level 96 Prayer.

Prayer equipment
Some equipment helps in conserving the player's prayer points by reducing the prayer drain rate. These items increase the player's Prayer bonus:

Killing
A good way to train prayer is to kill monsters, pick up their bones and bury them.

Good monsters for regular bones

It is advised that you kill monsters you can easily one-hit for fast bones.
 * Chickens (lvl 3)
 * Gnome troops (lvl 3)
 * Cows (lvl 8)
 * Rats (lvls 2, 7, 8, 13)

Good monsters for big bones
 * Giants (lvl 37)
 * Baby Blue Dragons (lvl 50)
 * Jogres (lvl 58; will sometimes drop additional bones, too)

Good monsters for dragon bones
 * Blue dragons (lvl 105)
 * Red dragons (lvl 140)
 * King black dragon (lvl 245)

Bat bones are not recommended for training Prayer. They only give 4.5 experience per bone instead of 3.75 from regular bones, but are lvl 32 with 32 Hitpoints, compared to the weak monsters which can be one-hit. If the player wanted to fight a monster that strong, they would be better off fighting giants for 12.5 experience per big bone.



Buying
Another popular alternative is to buy dragon bone certificates from other people, uncert them and then bury them. Sidney Smith, the Herblaw and miscellaneous items certer, is located in Yanille, northwest of the bank.

Quests
 The following quests give Prayer experience rewards:
 * The Holy Grail - $$XP = (Level + 1) \times 250$$
 * The Restless Ghost - $$XP = Level \times 62.5 + 500$$


 * Paralyze Monster was not added from the move to . Instead, it was renamed "Protect from Melee" which still prevents some damage, but the monster can still attack. Exceptions are if the attack is "Magical melee" and if the player is fighting another player, then the Prayer merely increases Defense.
 * Before the magic update that gave the prayer book, the prayer stat had no use.
 * No player was able to achieve level 99 Prayer before the introduction of, which then officially became the main version of the game. Therefore, it is not known who was the first player to achieve 99 Prayer on is.
 * However, getting past 10M experience in the skill, "Lilyuffie88" was the highest ranked player whilst RSC was the main game.