RuneScape/Skills/Prayer

Prayer is a skill which allows players to bury bones dropped by monsters. It is a very slow skill to raise, as bones do not give high exp, but can be very beneficial against monsters and other players.

=Intro=

If you want to use a prayer spell, click on the prayer menu, which is to the right of the equipment menu. This menu show you what prayers you can use. Prayers avialable for use are highlighted, while prayers you cannot use are dark. When you click on a prayer, a circle will appear around it, showing you that you are using it. However, using prayer lowers your prayer level. So say your prayer level is 5. You select "Thick Skin" in the prayer menu. If you watch your prayer level in the skill menu, you will see it slowly drop down.

You need certain levels to use different prayer spells. Prayer can be used to help you. It can give you a great advantage over monsters and players in the wilderness, however using prayer on other players many consider "noobish", or stupid. Many players insult players using prayer because they see it as cheating or giving you an advantage over them.

=Prayer Bonus=

If you click on the menu to the right of the inventory menu, you'll see what you have equipped. If you look at the bottom of this menu, there will a small black box with the words "Attack Bonus" and "Defence Bonus" in yellow, and more words in gray underneath with plus signs and negatives. These are known as "bonuses" and help you fight.

In prayer, there is only one bonus, a "prayer bonus". A prayer bonus affects the rate your prayer level drops, because when you use a prayer spell, your prayer level will drop. Having a high prayer bonus makes your prayer level drop slower, which is very good if you want to use prayer for a long time.

=Prayer Spells=

Below is a table with info about prayer spells. "Lvl Needed" means what prayer you need to use that spell.

It is important to note that if you are using Protect Items, you will only keep the items that can be sold for the most amount of gp at general stores, not street prices. So say you have a Blue Party Hat and a Rune Plate Body, you have a skull, and you die. Even though the party hat is worth over 200 million gp and the plate only worth about 85k, you will only keep the Rune Plate Body, as if you try to sell it to a General Store, you will get around 20k for it, but if you try to sell a Blue Party Hat to a General Store, you will only get around 1 gp.

Also, the Protect spells will only reduce damage by other players by half. But if you are fighting monsters, they will not even hurt you. However, some high levelled monsters and quest monsters are resistan to prayer and will still hurt you with it on.

=Types of Bones=

To raise prayer, you need to bury bones. However, there are different types of bones which give different exp. You can be any level to bury any bone. Listed below are the types of bones that can be buried.

Free Players' Bones
These bones are available for free players.


 * Bones
 * Burnt Bones (located in the wilderness, around the Greater Demons)
 * Monkey Bones
 * Big Bones

Members' Bones

 * Bat Bones (members only)
 * Jogre Bones (members only)
 * Baby Dragon Bones (members only)
 * Skeletal Wyvern Bones (members only)
 * Dragon Bones (members only)
 * Dagannoth Bones (members only)

=Exp Table=

Below is a table with information about burying bones.

=Armour=

Some things that you can wear give a prayer bonus, thus they can be called "armour".

Free Players' Armour
Below is a table which contains information about the armour free players can wear.

Members' Armour
Below is a table which contains information about the armour members can wear.

=Weapons=

Maces give a prayer bonus. So if you want to attack or use prayer longer, why not use a mace? Below is a table with info about maces.