# Old School 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 available 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, even though the entire skill was designed to provide an advantage for people using it.

# 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 "Defense 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.
| Name | Lvl Needed | Advantage | Notes |
| Thick Skin | 1 | Increases your defense by 5%. | Makes your opponent hit less often on you. |
| Burst of Strength | 4 | Increases your strength by 5%. | Makes you hit harder by 5%. |
| Clarity of Thought | 7 | Increases your attack by 5%. | Makes you hit more often by 5%. |
| Rock Skin | 10 | Increases your defense by 10%. | Makes your opponent hit less often on you. |
| Superhuman Strength | 13 | Increases your strength by 10%. | Makes you hit harder by 10%. |
| Improved Reflexes | 16 | Increases your attack by 10%. | Makes you hit more often by 10%. |
| Rapid Restore | 19 | 2x restore rate for all stats except hitpoints and prayer. | If one or more of your stats are lowered (for example, if your attack level is 59/60), then using this prayer spell will make that/those stat(s) recharge twice as fast than the normal restore rate. |
| Rapid Heal | 22 | 2x restore rate for hitpoints stat. | If your hitpoints is lowered (for example, if your hitpoints is 59/60), then using this prayer spell will make it recharge twice as fast than the normal restore rate. |
| Protect Items | 25 | Keep 1 extra item if you die. | When you die, you only keep 3 of the most valuable items in your inventory. However, using this prayer spell will allow you to keep 1 more item, allowing you to keep 4 of the most valuable items in your inventory. However, if you have a skull on you from attacking another player in the wilderness, you will lose all your items except the most valuable. |
| Steel Skin | 28 | Increases your defense by 15%. | Makes your opponent hit less often on you. |
| Ultimate Strength | 31 | Increases your strength by 15%. | Makes you hit harder by 15%. |
| Incredible Reflexes | 34 | Increases your attack by 15%. | Makes you hit more often by 15%. |
| Protect from Magic | 37 | Protection from magical attacks. | Using this prayer will make you invincible against magic. Against other players, they will only do about 40% less damage than normal. |
| Protect from Missiles | 40 | Protection from ranged attacks. | Using this prayer will make you invincible against range. Against other players, they will only do about 40% less damage than normal. |
| Protect from Melee | 43 | Protection from close attacks. | Using this prayer will make you invincible against melee. Against other players, they will only do about 40% less damage than normal. |
| Retribution | 46 | Inflicts damage to nearby targets if you die. | Members only. |
| Redemption | 49 | Heals you if your health falls below 10%. | Members only. |
| Smite | 52 | 1/4 of damage dealt is also removed from opponent's prayer. | Members only. |
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 resistant to prayer and will still hurt you with it on.

# Bone Table

Below is a table with information about burying bones.
| Name | Exp Gained from Burying | Dropped By | Notes |
| Bones | 4.5 | Almost every NPC. | These bones look very small and about 80% of all monsters drop them. Random events also drop them. |
| Burnt Bones | 4.5 | Not dropped. | These bones are located in the wilderness in the northeast near the Greater Demons. They are not rare and give the same exp as regular bones. |
| Monkey Bones | 5 | Monkeys. | These bones are dropped by monkeys on Karmaja around the volcano. |
| Bat Bones | 5.33 | Giant Bats. | Members only. |
| Big Bones | 15 | All giants. | Highest bone that free players can bury. |
| Jogre Bones | 15 | Jogres. | Members only. Give same exp as big bones. |
| Baby Dragon Bones | 30 | Red and Blue Baby Dragons. | Members only. |
| Skeletal Wyvern Bones | 50 | Skeletal Wyverns. | Members only. |
| Dragon Bones | 72 | All dragons. | Members only. |
| Dagganoth Bones | 125 | Dagannoth Kings. | Members only. |

# Ectofuntus

Members can worship the Ectofuntus to gain 4x the experience they would get from just burying a bone. It is located in far northeast Morytania just north of Port Phasmatys. The process of worshipping is much more efficient if the Ghosts Ahoy quest has been completed. Players can go down a trapdoor and several flights of stairs (at 58 agility several shortcuts can be used) to reach a giant pool of ectoslime. Buckets can be used on the pool to collect the slime, one bucket of slime is needed for every worship done. Besides the bucket, the player also has to go upstairs to the "bone grinder" and put their collected bones in there. Several clicks on the machine are needed to process the bones, after which players can collect the bone dust with a pot. Players may worship the ectofuntus using one pot of ground bones and one bucket of slime, after which they can talk to the local ghost disciplines (ghostspeak amulet necessary), to gain ectotokens. Because it is such a tedious process, the Ectofuntus is generally used for high level bones such as dragon or baby dragon bones in which case there is a substantial increase in experience gain.

# Armor

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

## Free Players' Armor

Below is a table which contains information about the armor free players can wear.
| Name | Prayer Bonus | Notes |
| Priest Gown (top) | +3 | Can be purchased in Varrock's Clothing Store. |
| Priest Gown (bottom) | +3 | Can be purchased in Varrock's Clothing Store. |
| Shade Robe (top) | +5 | Dropped by Shade, a random event. |
| Shade Robe (bottom) | +4 | Dropped by Shade, a random event. |
| Monk's (top) | +6 | Can be obtained in the Monastery's second floor (31 prayer needed). |
| Monk's Robe (bottom) | +5 | Can be obtained in the Monastery's second floor (31 prayer needed). |

## Members' Armor

Below is a table which contains information about the armor members can wear.
| Name | Prayer Bonus | Notes |
| Zamorak Robe (top) | +3 | Dropped by Iban Disciples. |
| Zamorak Robe (bottom) | +3 | Dropped by Necromancer and Iban Disciples. |
| Druid Robe (top) | +4 | Dropped by Druids. |
| Druid Robe (bottom) | +4 | Dropped by Druids. |
| Initiate Full Helmet | +3 | Recruitment Drive quest reward or bought from Sir Tiffy Cashien (in Falador park sitting on a bench) after finished Recruitment Drive. |
| Initiate Plate Body | +6 | Can be bought from Sir Tiffy Cashien (in Falador park sitting on a bench) after finishing the quest Recruitment Drive. |
| Initiate Plate Legs | +5 | Can be bought from Sir Tiffy Cashien (in Falador park sitting on a bench) after finishing the quest Recruitment Drive. |
| White Knight Armour | +1 | Every piece gives a +1 bonus to prayer. It can be worn after completing the quest Wanted! by killing black knights and rising in the White Knights' ranks. |
| Verac the Defiled's Armor | +12 | One of the Barrows armor sets, it also has a special that allows the player to ignore their opponent's armor stats when hitting them (this only works if the player is wielding the full set). |

# Necklaces

There are 3 necklaces that give prayer bonuses, listed below.
| Name | Prayer Bonus | Notes |
| Blessed Holy Symbol | +8 | |
| Unholy Symbol of Zamorak | +8 | Members only. |
| Amulet of Glory | +3 | Members only. |
| Amulet of Fury | +5 | Members only. |

# 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.
| Name | Prayer Bonus | Notes |
| Bronze Mace | +1 | Can be bought in the Mace Shop in Falador. |
| Iron Mace | +1 | Can be bought in the Mace Shop in Falador. |
| Steel Mace | +2 | Can be bought in the Mace Shop in Falador. |
| Black Mace | +2 | Dropped by Dark Warriors in level 13 wilderness. |
| Mithril Mace | +3 | Can be bought in the Mace Shop in Falador. |
| Adamant Mace | +3 | Can be bought in the Mace Shop in Falador. |
| Rune Mace | +4 | Can be bought from the Champion's Guild. |
| Dragon Mace | +5 | Can be bought from the Hero's Guild. The Kalphite Queen also drops it. |
| Obsidian Staff | +5 | Bought from the weapons store in TzHaar for 52,500 Tokkul. Can be used to autocast spells. |
| Verac's Flail | +6 | One of the Barrows weapons, must be worn with full Verac's Armor for the set effect to take place where the player can ignore their opponent's armor stats when hitting. |

# Recharging

There are a number of things that can be used to recharge your prayer if it depletes to 0. One way is to pray at altars.
Altars are all over RuneScape. There are even some in the wilderness. Altars are used to recharge your prayer level. Altars can be found in churches all across RuneScape. In the Monastery, on the second floor, is an altar that will recharge your prayer points plus add another 2 on. The altar in the member quest Nature Spirit also does this.
Prayer potions (also known as "prayer pots" or "pray pots") can also be used if you're a member. They restore just under 40% of your prayer level. If your herblore level is 38, then you can make prayer pots provided you have the materials needed. Super restore potions also restore some prayer besides normal stats.
Free players can only use altars to recharge their prayer level.

# Prayer Books

Members can get Prayer books by completing the quest Horror from the Deep. You can wield them, and they will take up your shield slot. There are 3 prayer books, each based on the RuneScape gods. Each prayer book gives a +5 prayer bonus, as well as other bonuses.
The 3 books are:
* Book of Balance (Guthix)
* Holy Book (Saradomin)
* Unholy Book (Zamorak)
When you first buy them, they will be called a "damaged book". Each book has four pages. The pages can only be obtained from Treasure Trails or purchased from other players. Red pages are Zamorak (250k-300k market value), green pages are Guthix (around 80k market value), and white pages are Saradomin (150k-200k market value). When you've gotten all four pages, use them with the damaged book and they will become a prayer book. You can some things with them, such as say a prayer or bless symbols (you need a prayer level of 50 to do this though). Below is a table with each book's info.
| Name | Stats |
| Book of Balance (Guthix) | +4 Slash Attack, +4 Stab Attack, +4 Crush Attack, +4 Magic Attack, +4 Range Attack, +4 Slash Defense, +4 Stab Defense, +4 Crush Defense, +4 Magic Defense, +4 Range Defense, +5 Prayer |
| Holy Book (Saradomin) | +8 Slash Defense, +8 Stab Defense, +8 Crush Defense, +8 Magic Defense, +8 Range Defense, +5 Prayer |
| Unholy Book (Zamorak) | +8 Slash Attack, +8 Stab Attack, +8 Crush Attack, +8 Magic Attack, +8 Range Attack, +5 Prayer |