Pay-to-play Prayer training

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See also: Free-to-play Prayer training

Prayer is a slow and expensive skill to train just by the burial, offering or processing of bones; however, there are other ways to gain Prayer experience - without the use of bones or coins.

Useful equipment and abilities

Some experience boosting items may not apply to some training methods, for example Perfect juju prayer potion boosts Prayer experience at chapel in player-owned house, but do not boost Prayer experience at the Ectofuntus. This counts for the following:

Prayer specific experience boosts

Item		Description	Requirements
	First age outfit	Provides a 1% experience boost per worn piece of the outfit. Wearing the full set provides a 6% experience boost.	5,000  Ecto-token
	Modified first age tiara	Provides 2% chance to save bones and ashes when buried, scattered, or offered on an altar.	First age tiara 1,000  Ecto-token
	Corruption aura, Harmony aura, Salvation aura	For 60 minutes after activating, any of these auras provides a 1-2.5% Prayer experience boost depending on the aura tier.	5,000 to 111,000 Loyalty Points
	Perfect juju prayer potion, Perfect plus potion	Each dose grants a 5% Prayer experience boost when offering bones or ashes at Gilded altars or Chaos Temple, and when using cleansing crystals in the Hefin cathedral.	None
	Brawling gloves (prayer)	When worn, these gloves provide a 50% Prayer experience boost.	None
	Infernal Puzzle Box	Upgrading the Infernal Puzzle Box to tier 4 provides an additional 25% experience boost to all brawling gloves.	Civil War II (miniquest)
	Auto-sanctifier	Each auto-sanctifier provides a 350% Prayer experience boost when burying bones or scattering ashes (equal experience to offering at a gilded altar). Each auto-sanctifier has 50 charges.	70
	Dragon Rider amulet	When burying (not offering) dragon bones or other dragon-type bones, the wearer receives double Prayer experience.	One of a Kind
	Bonecrusher	When carried in the inventory, pocket slot or tool belt, bones dropped by monsters will be automatically buried, granting regular Prayer experience (can be configured).	21 21 34,000 Dungeoneering tokens
	(Attuned) Ectoplasmator	When carried in the inventory or pocket slot, killing most ghost-like creatures grants varying amounts of Prayer experience.	None
	Prayer urns	When carried in the inventory, these will fill automatically by picking up demonic ashes, providing a 20% bonus on the experience required to fill these.	2 to 62
	Urn enhancer	Invention device unlocked by completing Nomad's Elegy. Increases experience urns give by 25%, consuming a small amount of charges for each urn teleported.	24 Nomad's Elegy
	Powder of burials	When consumed, boosts Prayer experience gained by 250% (350% base experience) when burying bones for 30 minutes.	None

Generic experience boosts

Item		Description
	Clan avatar skilling bonus	Grants a 3-6% experience boost after activating the skilling bonus at the Avatar Control Stone.
	Torstol incense sticks	Each potency level of torstol incense sticks provides a 0.5% base experience boost. The potency level increases every 10 minutes, reaching its maximum at level 4 (+2% to base experience). Overloading consumes 6 sticks, instantly reaching maximum potency.
	Wise perk	Grants a 1-4% experience boost (based on perk rank) while wearing or wielding an item augmented with this perk, up to 50,000 additional experience per day.
	Wisdom aura	This aura increases all experience earned by 2.5% within the activation time of 30 minutes.
	Inspire relic powers	When harnessed, 2% extra experience is earned when training skills relevant to the specific Inspire relic.
	Advanced pulse core	Advanced pulse cores grant a 50% experience boost, exploding after experience equal to a medium prismatic lamp has been accumulated. After exploding, it provides a 2% (stacking up to 5 times for up to 10%) experience boost for 10 minutes.
	Valentine's Slam	Using a charge grants the wielder a 4% experience boost for 24 hours. Nearby players receive a 2% experience boost for 2 hours.
	Refer a Friend boost	Activating the Refer a Friend scroll grants 10% experience bonus for 7 days.
	Yak Track XP Boost	Provides a 2-20% experience boost based on Yak Track progression. Only available during Yak Track events.
	Rock of Resilience	Activating the rock grants a 4% experience boost to the user and a 2% experience boost to nearby players for one hour.

Prayer requirement for combat

• Prayer 92 is sufficient to unlock the following Ancient Curse:
  • Soul Split - heals a player by 10% of the damage dealt, and lowers the enemy's Prayer points by 1 point for every 68 damage.
• Prayer 95 is sufficient to unlock all the following Ancient Curses:
  • Turmoil - boosts the player's Attack level by 10, melee damage by 10%, and Defence level by 10, and drains them from the opponent.
  • Anguish - boosts the player's Ranged level by 10, Ranged damage by 10%, and Defence level by 10, and drains them from the opponent.
  • Torment - boosts the player's Magic level by 10, Magic damage by 10%, and Defence level by 10, and drains them from the opponent.
  • Sorrow - boosts the player's Necromancy level by 10, Necromancy damage by 10%, and Defence level by 10, and drains them from the opponent.
• Prayer 99 is only required if you are purchasing a Praesul codex worth 871,598,803 coins, which unlocks one of these per codex:
  • Malevolence - boosts the player's Attack level by 12, melee damage by 12%, and Defence level by 12, and drains them from the opponent.
  • Desolation - boosts the player's Ranged level by 12, Ranged damage by 12%, and Defence level by 12, and drains them from the opponent.
  • Affliction - boosts the player's Magic level by 12, Magic damage by 12%, and Defence level by 12, and drains them from the opponent.
  • Ruination - boosts the player's Necromancy level by 12, Necromancy damage by 12% and Defence level by 12, and drains them from the opponent.

Methods offering bones and ashes

Levels	Method	Bones per hour	Hourly experience
			Dragon bones	Dragonkin bones	Dinosaur bones	Frost dragon bones
1-99	Burial powders Burying bones at a bank with a Powder of burials active.	4,700	1,184,400	2,632,000	2,796,500	2,961,000
1-99	Gilded altars at Player-owned house Offering bones/ashes at an altar at a player-owned house.	1,524	384,048	853,440	906,780	960,120
1-99	Chaos altar Offering bones/ashes at the Chaos altar in the Wilderness.	1,600	403,200	896,000	952,000	1,008,000
1-99	Fort Forinthry Offering bones/ashes at the altar inside Fort forinthry chapel (tier 3).	1,600	403,200	896,000	952,000	1,008,000
1-99	Ectofuntus Offering bones/ashes at the Ectofuntus in Canifis.	700	201,600	448,000	476,000	504,000

Comparison of bones and ashes

To check the cost efficiency and GP/XP of bones and ashes, please refer to Calculator:Prayer/Bones

The table below includes the total cost per type of bone/ash required to get from level 1 to level 95 or level 99, depending on your goal. All cost and experience does not include any extra benefit and cost saving effects.

Type	Method			Cost
	Normal burial	Gilded altar or Chapel tier 3 or Chaos altar or Burial powders	Ectofuntus	Cost per bone/ash	Total Cost at Gilded altar or Chapel tier 3 or Chaos altar or Burial powders
	Experience multiplier
	1	3.5	4		Cost from 1-95	Cost from 1-99
Impious ashes	4	14	16	1,263	791.3M	1,175.9M
Bones	4.5	15.75	18	95	52.9M	78.6M
Accursed ashes	12.5	43.75	50	531	106.5M	158.2M
Big bones	15	52.5	60	167	27.9M	41.5M
Baby dragon bones	30	105	120	651	54.4M	80.8M
Wyvern bones	50	175	200	9,656	484M	719.2M
Infernal ashes	62.5	218.75	250	696	27.9M	41.5M
Dragon bones	72	252	288	1,791	62.3M	92.6M
Tortured ashes	90	315	360	3,118	86.8M	129M
Dagannoth bones	125	437.5	500	7,869	157.8M	234.4M
Airut bones	132.5	463.75	530	9,066	171.5M	254.8M
Ourg bones	140	490	560	9,806	175.5M	260.8M
Hardened dragon bones	144	504	576	11,146	194M	288.3M
Dragonkin bones	160	560	640	13,114	205.4M	305.2M
Dinosaur bones	170	595	680	15,792	232.8M	346M
Frost dragon bones	180	630	720	26,268	365.7M	543.5M
Reinforced dragon bones	190	665	760	40,468	533.8M	793.2M
Searing ashes	200	700	800	67,977	851.8M	1,265.8M

Time efficiency of bones and ashes

See also: Calculator:Prayer/Bones

Calculations based on offering 1,600 bones per hour using fort forinthry altar with maxed chapel + burners.

• Players who value their time below 6,930,238 coins per hour should use infernal ashes.
• Players who value their time between 6,930,238 coins per hour and 14,016,960 coins per hour should use tortured ashes.
• Players who value their time between 14,016,960 coins per hour and 84,441,600 coins per hour should use dragonkin bones.
• Players who value their time between 84,441,600 coins per hour and 233,712,000 coins per hour should use dinosaur bones.
• Players who value their time between 233,712,000 coins per hour and 502,722,720 coins per hour should use frost dragon bones.
• Players who value their time above 502,722,720 coins per hour should use searing ashes.

There is currently no range in which any other type of bones or ashes are best to use although this may change and it is recommended to do your own research before deciding which bones to buy.

Please refer to the efficiency article for more information.

Burial powders

Double XP Live has no effect on this method of training.

With the introduction of powder of burials as a reward from Het's Oasis, players can now train Prayer standing at one spot. It is currently the fastest method of Prayer training in the game.

• Players need to purchase 2 Powder of burials for every hour they want to train (each lasts 30 minutes).
• After activating a powder, players can now bury any type of bones and gain 350% total experience (3.5x the normal) in line with the Chaos altar and Gilded altars. Scattering ashes does not benefit from Powder of burials.
• If the bones are added to an action bar and assigned a hotkey, players can bury 4,400-5,000 bones per hour.
• It is recommended to train on World 84 in Lumbridge, Grand Exchange or Fort Forinthry for 10% XP gained from shared advanced pulse core effect and 10% bonus XP gained from shared cinder core effect.
• Burial powders do not stack with the Dragon Rider amulet which means player will not get 7x the normal XP using it, instead it will cancel and override the powder's effects.
• Players can log out at any time, and the powder's countdown timer will pause. Upon logging in, the timer will resume.

Chaos altar

Main article: Chaos Temple (Wilderness)

Double XP Live has no effect on this method of training.

The Chaos altar gives 350% increase for bones and ashes used on it. This puts it on par with using a gilded altar with both incense burners lit in a player-owned house. As it is in the Wilderness, ensure you have not opted into PvP combat.

Players can use Simon who is just on the other side of the temple walls to bank and restock on bones. Roughly 1,600 bones can be offered an hour without the need of a Beast of Burden using this method. This makes it about equal to using a pack yak in a player-owned house. The use of any Beast of Burden will make it the third fastest training method in the game, after burying bones and ashes with powder of burials or in the Chapel.

Players who have completed the hard Wilderness Tasks will be able to un-note bones from their inventory with Harrison who is located within steps of the Chaos altar. Doing so will reduce time per run and increase the bones per hour to roughly 1,900.

The Chaos altar only works if you are logged into a members world. If you are logged into a free world, "nothing interesting happens" appears when attempting to offer bones at the altar.

Fort Forinthry

Main article: Chapel (Fort Forinthry)

Double XP Live has no effect on this method of training.

The altar in tier 3 Chapel in Fort Forinthry gives 350% increase for bones and ashes used on it. This puts it on par with using a gilded altar with both incense burners lit in a player-owned house. The altar in tier 1 and 2 gives 250% and 300% increase in Prayer respectively.

Players can use bank chest which is just on the west side of the temple walls to bank and restock on bones. Roughly 1,900 bones can be offered an hour without the need of a Beast of Burden using this method. This makes it about equal to using a pack yak in a player-owned house. The use of any Beast of Burden will make it the second fastest training method in the game, after burying bones and ashes with using the powder of burials.

Although the 90 Construction requirement of tier 3 Chapel is quite high and it is not sharable to other players (unlike the player-owned house), it gives another benefit to players: a chance of Chapel Burners saving offerings at the altar.

Player-owned house

Main article: Chapel

The official world for Open Gilded Altars is world 31 in Taverley (P2P). Due to a lack of players hosting open altars, it may be more efficient to utilise a different method of prayer training.

A player using a gilded altar at a player-owned house (POH)

Double XP Live has no effect on this method of training.

Members have the ability to build an altar to their respected Gods in their Chapel. This method provides an additional 100% to 250% increase of experience gained depending on the altar, with an additional 50% to 100% increase for lighting one or both burners. Prayer training in this form almost always involves using the highest boost; players gain 350% of normal experience when using a gilded altar with two incense burners lit (or 367.5% with the use of perfect juju prayer potions). If you cannot build a gilded altar, it is recommended to use the altar in someone else's house.

• When a player offers a type of bone to an altar, all bones of the same type in the player's inventory will automatically be offered.
• With a pack yak and player inventory full and an instant bank teleport, a player can expect to offer about 1,524 bones or ashes an hour.
• A proficient player can achieve roughly 33 trips per hour (provided that the gilded altar is located immediately adjacent to the house portal), which translates to an hourly experience of approximately 374,220 using dragon bones, 727,650 using ourg bones and 935,550 using frost dragon bones.

Experience by altar type

Type	Method
	Burying	Oak altar	Teak altar	Cloth altar	Mahogany altar	Limestone altar	Marble altar	Gilded altar
	Experience multiplier
	1	2	2.1	2.25	2.5	2.75	3	3.5
Impious ashes	4	8	8.4	9	10	11	12	14
Bones	4.5	9	9.45	10.125	11.25	12.375	13.5	15.75
Accursed ashes	12.5	25	26.25	28.125	31.25	34.375	37.5	43.75
Big bones	15	30	31.5	33.75	37.5	41.25	45	52.5
Baby dragon bones	30	60	63	67.5	75	82.5	90	105
Wyvern bones	50	100	105	112.5	125	137.5	150	175
Infernal ashes	62.5	125	131.25	140.625	156.25	171.875	187.5	218.75
Dragon bones	72	144	151.2	162	180	198	216	252
Tortured ashes	90	180	189	202.5	225	247.5	270	315
Dagannoth bones	125	250	262.5	281.25	312.5	343.75	375	437.5
Airut bones	132.5	265	278.25	298.125	331.25	364.375	397.5	463.75
Ourg bones	140	280	294	315	350	385	420	490
Hardened dragon bones	144	288	302.4	324	360	396	432	504
Dragonkin bones	160	320	336	360	400	440	480	560
Dinosaur bones	170	340	357	382.5	425	467.5	510	595
Frost dragon bones	180	360	378	405	450	495	540	630
Reinforced dragon bones	190	380	399	427.5	475	522.5	570	665
Searing ashes	200	400	420	450	500	550	600	700

Item requirements

Items needed for this method:

• 2 clean marrentill - Used as incense for lighting the burners (unless a prayer cape is worn).
• Bones or demonic ashes - to use on the altar.
• Optional: Harmony/Salvation/Corruption Auras - 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 2.5% bonus experience depending on tier. Alternatively, or in sequence, you could also utilise: Wisdom aura, Festive aura, Enlightenment, Desert pantheon aura and Prime aura.
• Optional: Any pieces of the first age outfit that one may own - Each part gives a 1% experience bonus. Total of 6% bonus if the full outfit is owned.
• The fastest way is to have runners, players who run to and from a bank to a house, hand you unnoted bones for noted bones, but they wouldn't be providing their services without any compensation so you will need to pay them for their services.

Lighting candles or torches in your altar will not provide any bonuses. Incense burners and marble burners both provide the highest bonus; the more expensive marble burners provide no further reward.

Techniques

Teleporting to your house

• You can teleport to your house using a teleport to house tablet or the House Teleport spell.
• Players who have completed Plague's End can move their house to Prifddinas and use the bank in the Ithell district nearby and teleport to the POH portal using an Attuned crystal teleport seed.
• By moving their player-owned house to Taverley players are able to teleport directly to the house portal by changing their House Teleport location to 'At portal' in the house options.
• Players can quick-teleport to the Taverley lodestone using vis wax.

Banking

• There are several methods to obtain additional bones after using them.
• Teleporting to Deep sea fishing Hub with Grace of the Elves is the fastest banking teleport in the game. The character spawns right next to a bank however losing First age amulet from worn slot may make using it not worthwhile.
• Teleporting to War's Retreat using the War's Retreat Teleport is a common fast banking teleport in the game.
• Alternatively use an equipped ring of duelling, amulet of glory, ring of kinship, or a TokKul-Zo to teleport to a bank
• Use an Amulet of glory mounted in a Quest hall, or a portal room. If your house is located in Taverley you could get back by teleporting to the lodestone. It is not recommended to run back and forth from the bank in Taverley as teleporting proves faster.

Beast of burden

• It is recommended to maximise the number of bones that you take with you.
• This can be done by using a Beast of burden, such as a War tortoise or Pack yak.
• When using a War tortoise, the burning time of the burners just about equals the time to offer all bones.

Hosted houses

• It is possible to use the gilded altar at another player's house.
• There are often several players hosting an open altar at Taverley and some may even offer free doses of perfect juju prayer potion, referred to colloquially as "sips".
• The official world for this is world 31.

Ectofuntus

Main article: Ectofuntus

A player praying to the Ectofuntus.

Double XP Live has no effect on this method of training.

One of the methods is to worship at the Ectofuntus, which gives four times the experience of simply burying bones. For example, for every dragon bone used in the 'worship', you receive 288 experience instead of 72. Although the process is slower than burying bones, the experience earned is far better. To make the use of the Ectofuntus most efficiently, it is best to use ashes instead of bones because ashes do not need to be ground.

Compared to using bones on a gilded altar, the Ectofuntus gives ~14% more experience per bone (though aura boosts and sixth age boosts don't work on Ectofuntus, potentially narrowing the gap), but it can be slower. It is considerably more time-consuming (and expensive) to obtain the Construction level necessary to build a gilded altar than it is to access the Ectofuntus for worshipping, although many players allow their gilded altars to be used by other players, notably in the Open Gilded Altars world.

This method requires completion of the Ghosts Ahoy quest for the Ectophial. About 700 bones can be used per hour, including the time to collect buckets of slime and grinding bones with the powder of pulverising.

Bones method

In most cases it is more efficient to use the ashes method instead of the bones method.

Recommendations for the Ectofuntus method:

• Ectophial for teleportation to the Ectofuntus (requires completion of Ghosts Ahoy)
• Morytania legs 2, 3, or 4 all grant a few daily teleports to the slime pit. This can be used to gather large quantities of buckets of slime ahead of time.
• Any method of quick banking, such as: Grace of the elves to Deep sea fishing hub, War's Retreat Teleport, Max cape, TokKul-Zo, Desert amulet 2, 3 or 4, Ring of kinship, Drakan's medallion, Ring of duelling, Games necklace, Amulet of glory
• Weight-reducing equipment, such as:
  • Boots of lightness
  • Spotted cape, Spottier cape, Wicked cape
  • Penance gloves
  • Agile top and Agile legs
  • Or alternatively Wicked robe top and Wicked legs
• No empty pots or buckets are required. An inventory with one Ectophial, a teleport item, and 13 bones or ashes and 13 empty slots is most efficient. Filled bonemeal pots will replace bones at the bonecrusher, and filled buckets are provided by the slime pool. These are returned to the Ectofuntus after use.
• Some prefer to make separate trips to grind bones, collect slime and worship the Ectofuntus
• 58 Agility to utilise the slime shortcut
• A beast of burden familiar for trips to grind bones

To use the Ectofuntus to train Prayer, maximise the efficiency of each trip between the bank and the Ectofuntus:

1. With an empty inventory, teleport to the Ectofuntus using the Ectophial.
2. Go to the Slime Pool and collect an inventory full of buckets of slime.
3. Teleport to a bank using the fastest means possible (e.g. TokKul-Zo, War's Retreat teleport, or Burthorpe lodestone).
4. Deposit all Buckets of Slime into your bank.
5. Withdraw 13 Buckets of Slime and 13 Bonemeal Pots.
6. Teleport to the Ectofuntus using the Ectophial.
7. Worship the Ectofuntus until your inventory is empty.
8. Repeat steps 2-7 until there is at least as many Buckets of Slime in your bank as there are Bonemeal Pots.
9. Collect Buckets of Slime and Bonemeal Pots at the bank and then use them at the Ectofuntus, until you have no Buckets of Slime or Bonemeal Pots left.

Ashes method

An often overlooked but reasonably efficient prayer training method is to use infernal ashes at the Ectofuntus.

Using ashes instead of bones:

• Ashes do not need grinding, and thus saving time per trip.
• An inventory with an Ectophial and 13 ashes will allow the most ashes per trip.
• Using infernal ashes will give 3,250 XP per trip, while using dragon bones will give 2,592 per trip if you grind the bones at the same time as collecting buckets of slime.

Preparation:

1. Withdraw 13 ashes and Ectophial.
2. Teleport to Ectofuntus using Ectophial.
3. Go down the trapdoor, take the agility shortcut if you can and go to the slimepit.
4. Collect buckets of slime.

Training:

1. Teleport to Ectofuntus using Ectophial.
2. Worship the Ectofuntus.
3. Go down the trapdoor.
4. Collect buckets of slime.
5. Teleport to bank.
6. Withdraw 13 ashes (use a load-out to save time.)
7. Repeat.

(The worship-slime-bank trip may seem reverse, but it only needs two teleports per trip.)

Burying bones

Collecting bones and burying them for experience is not recommended. A maximum of about 2700 bones can be buried per hour, giving 2/7 the experience they would give if used on a gilded altar. As it is possible to use well over (2/7) * (2700) = 770 bones per hour on a gilded altar, using bones on a gilded altar will give faster experience per hour than burying bones, and cost far less. At this rate it would take around 75–80 hours of this method to obtain 99 Prayer.

With the use of an auto-sanctifier, one can now achieve the same buff as the gilded altar gives, while still being near a bank.

Efficient methods

Killing Vyres with Sunspear

A player killing vyres with a sunspear (standing on the correct square).

Players can train Prayer in combat by killing Vyrelords and Vyreladies in Darkmeyer with an augmented Sunspear.

• Using this method, players can expect to gain approximately 400,000 Prayer experience per hour with Morytania legs 4 (266,000 Prayer XP an hour without it), in addition to 600,000 experience in their chosen combat style, 200,000 Constitution experience, 270,000 Firemaking experience, 140,000 Farming experience (if using Seedicide), and Invention experience from siphoning.
• Players should also reap approximately 5,000,000 coins in profit per hour from the vyres' consistent drops of Herblore ingredients, runes, and alchable Rune items.
• Though it has relatively high requirements, this method requires little effort for over 1.6 million total experience per hour, can be very lucrative, and saves a large amount of coins that would be required to train Prayer using other methods.

Requirements

• River of Blood quest for access to Darkmeyer and reforged augmentable Sunspear

Method

• Players should stand between the building south of the bank and the tree immediately to its west, one square south of the corner of the nearby path (see image).
• In this spot, a minimum of 6 vyre spawns are within attack range.
• As vyres are permanently aggressive towards players who are not wearing a darkmeyer disguise, players can pay very little attention, only needing to drink potions and drop an item below their character to area loot once every 90 to 120 seconds.
• Any of Sunspear's combat styles will work - players should use a Revolution++ bar which includes all AoE abilities for their combat style: Chain, Corruption Blast, Dragon Breath, and Sunshine for magic, Ricochet, Corruption Shot, and Death's Swiftness for ranged, and Cleave, Hurricane, Quake, and Meteor Strike for melee.
• Players using melee should be especially careful to stand in the correct spot, otherwise the vyres will not walk into melee distance and will drag the player around the area.
• Players using magic or ranged should add the Caroming 3 perk to their Sunspear in order to maximize damage output.

Boosts

• Elite Morytania achievements for Morytania legs 4 which increases Prayer experience gained by 50%.
• Prayer 92 and The Temple at Senntisten for Soul Split - players who cannot use it will need to pay much more attention, eat food, and bank more frequently.
• Players can equip an Amulet of zealots and use the Leech Melee Strength, Leech Ranged Strength or Leech Magic Strength curse, as the amulet provides a huge boost to the curse's effectiveness (increasing damage in the respective combat style by 18%, up from 8%), making them the best damage boosting curse, as you are 100% accurate against vyres with a Sunspear anyway.
• Use of auras like the Greater harmony, Greater corruption and Greater salvation aura as well as Penance aura will allow a player to completely sustain prayer points without the need for prayer restoring potions, as the auras either restore prayer points on gaining prayer XP (from the Sunspear) or upon taking damage.
• Using the totem of auras allows a player to rotate those four auras continuously with no downtime. The tier 2 (greater) auras should be sufficient with use of holy overload potions, however players can also bring an ancient elven ritual shard if they feel the prayer regeneration isn't keeping up.

Cleansing crystals

Main article: Cleansing crystal

This method does work in Double XP Live.

With the release of the Hefin Clan in the elf city of Prifddinas, players can go to the Hefin Cathedral and purchase cleansing crystals from one of the Hefin monks inside. Each crystal costs 110,000 coins and will provide 9,800 experience, a cost of 11.22 coins per experience. The use of a perfect juju prayer potion or a perfect plus potion rewards an extra 5% experience, and cleansing the crystal during the Hefin voice of Seren grants an additional 20% experience. Unlike with offering bones on a gilded altar or the Ectofuntus, players do not spend time running to and from a bank. Each crystal takes 2 minutes to use up, resulting in up to 294,000 experience per hour without Voice of Seren nor other experience bonuses.

Alternative methods

Adding ashes to incense sticks

The methods in this guide may involve considerable risk, including (but not limited to): loss of money/items, unstable prices, and/or slow GE resale.

Adding ashes to incense sticks produces low amounts of Prayer XP and some Firemaking XP. Although not fast, this can be a profitable way of training Prayer, dependent upon grand exchange prices.

Having unlocked the Quick-cense upgrade from Sydekix's Shop of Balance significantly speeds up this process. Rates per hour with this upgrade unlocked are shown in parentheses in this table.

Level	Inputs	Outputs	Experience						Profit/Loss
			Per stick	Per hour (with Quick-cense)	Per stick	Per hour (with Quick-cense)	Total per stick	Total per hour (with Quick-cense)	per experience	per experience	Total per experience	Total per hour (with Quick-cense)
1	1x Wooden incense sticks 2x Impious ashes	1x Impious incense sticks	16	17,888 (44,048)	8	8,944 (22,024)	24	26,832 (66,072)	225	450	150	4,024,800 (9,910,800)
20	1x Oak incense sticks 2x Impious ashes	1x Impious oak incense sticks	24	26,832 (66,072)	10	11,180 (27,530)	34	38,012 (93,602)	−44.54	−106.9	−31.44	−1,195,142 (−2,942,957)
30	1x Willow incense sticks 2x Impious ashes	1x Impious willow incense sticks	36	40,248 (99,108)	12	13,416 (33,036)	48	53,664 (132,144)	130.89	392.67	98.17	5,268,016 (12,972,136)
40	1x Maple incense sticks 2x Accursed ashes	1x Accursed maple incense sticks	54.2	60,595.6 (149,212.6)	20	22,360 (55,060)	74.2	82,955.6 (204,272.6)	46.24	125.3	33.77	2,801,708 (6,899,018)
48	1x Acadia incense sticks 2x Accursed ashes	1x Accursed acadia incense sticks	56	62,608 (154,168)	22.5	25,155 (61,942.5)	78.5	87,763 (216,110.5)	107.98	268.76	77.03	6,760,546 (16,647,391)
65	1x Yew incense sticks 2x Infernal ashes	1x Infernal yew incense sticks	81	90,558 (222,993)	100	111,800 (275,300)	181	202,358 (498,293)	62.58	50.69	28.01	5,667,142 (13,954,957)
75	1x Magic incense sticks 2x Infernal ashes	1x Infernal magic incense sticks	121.5	135,837 (334,489.5)	125	139,750 (344,125)	246.5	275,587 (678,614.5)	40.41	39.28	19.92	5,489,380 (13,517,230)

Urns

Main article: Urns

Urns can be a good way to get some additional Prayer experience. Some urns, such as infernal urns, can be used to give extra experience to prayer when killing different types of demons. They gather ashes automatically when having them in your inventory and killing creatures that drop ashes. When full they can be teleported for bonus experience. There is an urn for each type of demonic ashes (impious, accursed and infernal) and each urn can be made with the Crafting skill. Good monsters to kill for ashes are:

• Abyssal demons (requires 85 Slayer)
• Nechryael (requires 80 Slayer)
• Lesser demons
• Black demons
• Imps

The different urns are:

• Impious urns give 120 Prayer XP upon teleporting.
• Accursed urns give 375 Prayer XP upon teleporting.
• Infernal urns give 1,875 Prayer XP upon teleporting.

Prayer brawling gloves

Main article: Brawling gloves

Prayer brawling gloves are a possible drop from killing revenants, the Chaos Elemental or from the Wilderness shared loot table. Brawling gloves can also be used to gain 150% experience (1.5x). This stacks with the gilded altar in a player-owned house. Ectofuntus is not affected by any boosts to experience.

Bonecrusher

Main article: Bonecrusher

This item automatically transfers dropped bones into prayer experience. Fighting green dragons with a Dragon Rider amulet equipped is a great way to use this item. This results in 144 Prayer experience per kill due to the Dragon Rider amulet's dragon bone experience boosting effect. The bonecrusher can be purchased from the rewards trader for 34,000 Dungeoneering tokens.

Another fairly effective method of getting Prayer experience with the bonecrusher is to use a dwarf multicannon in any area with blue dragons with a Dragon Rider amulet equipped. While this isn't particularly cost effective, it trains Prayer, Ranged and/or Defence at the same time and very quickly.

Alternatively, one may want to use bonecrushers on Slayer tasks, to get a slow but steady flow of experience while also getting combat experience, charms and potentially valuable drops.

There is also an equivalent item for ghost-like creatures called the ectoplasmator or attuned ectoplasmator, giving prayer experience upon killing ghastly creatures.

The auto-sanctifier is an invention device unlocked at 70 invention through the dwarven tech tree. It is a consumable device with 50 charges that increases the Prayer experience gained from burying bones and scattering ashes by 250%, giving the same experience as a gilded altar with both burners lit. Each bone buried or ash scattered consumes one charge. Once all charges are used, the auto-sanctifier is destroyed.

The following table has approximate XP/hr rates.

Monster	XP/Hour	Additional Info
Frost dragons with a Dragon Rider amulet equipped	300 kills 189,000 with auto-sanctifier 108,000 with Dragon Rider amulet	Each kill with a Dragon Rider amulet equipped rewards 360 Prayer experience, or 630 with an auto-sanctifier.
Green/blue dragons with a Dragon Rider amulet equipped	250 kills 63,000 with auto-sanctifier 36,000 with Dragon Rider amulet	Each kill with a Dragon Rider amulet equipped rewards 144 Prayer experience, or 252 with an auto-sanctifier.

Blessing spirit shields

Main article: Spirit shield

As a last alternative, at level 85 Prayer players can bless spirit shields which gives 1,500 experience per shield. This requires a vial of holy elixir and a plain spirit shield. Provided the player has sufficient money to buy a large amount of shields and elixirs, this is by far the fastest method of training prayer.

Currently, the player gains a profit of 227,455 coins for every blessed spirit shield created. However, both blessed and normal spirit shields have a Grand Exchange buy limit of 1.

Blessing extra fine sand

Main article: Blessed sand

Extra fine sand can be blessed at any Saradominist altar (such as the one in the Lumbridge church) to turn it into blessed sand. Both types of sand stack in the inventory, so no banking is required, and up to 60 sand can be blessed with one click. Each blessing takes 2 ticks (1.2 seconds), or 72 seconds for 60 sand, making this a very low-intensity method of Prayer training. In addition, the cost of blessed sand is often higher than extra fine sand, making this one of the very few methods of prayer training that is cost-neutral or even profitable. The downside is that blessing sand grants only 7 Prayer experience each, or 21,000 per hour, making this method much slower than most others. Blessing extra fine sand requires 20 Prayer.

Timelocked methods

Nemi Forest

Main article: Nemi Forest

Each day a full run of the Nemi Forest can be done to earn Prayer experience. There is a dedicated Friends Chat.

Skeletal horror

Main article: Skeletal horror

This method may be used after completing the second part of the Fur 'n' Seek quest. It involves fighting a reasonably powerful opponent once a week and gaining Prayer experience based on your level in Prayer and some Slayer experience as well. Unfortunately the difficulty of the skeletal horror means that for lower levelled players, the cost in food will be quite high, but for high level players this is a reasonably attractive option for a weekly bonus to your prayer training. The first time the horror is fought, it yields 7,000 Prayer and 10,000 Slayer experience. The skeletal horror can then be fought each week for several thousand Prayer and Slayer experience, with experience rewarded depending on one's levels in those skills.

God Statues

Main article: God Statues

Once per month the player can build up to five statues paying tribute to one of five gods at five locations. Building the statue to the god that the locals of that area worship will grant the same experience in Prayer as a medium experience lamp.

Jack of trades

Jack of trades is an excellent source of Prayer experience once per day. It gives between 99 and 9703 experience depending on your current level, which can save a significant amount of money compared with the cost of bones or ashes, especially if you are getting the larger amount of XP at higher levels.

Penguin Hide and Seek

Main article: Penguin Hide and Seek

Penguins can be spotted for penguin points, which can be exchanged for experience in any skill. Some people choose to use this experience on Prayer as Prayer can be a very expensive skill to train. This method costs nothing and gives a somewhat decent amount of experience. This method gives more experience the higher a player's Prayer level is, which makes it a better option for high level players.

Quests for Prayer experience

Main article: Quests/Experience rewards § Prayer

Quest	Members	Experience reward	Prayer requirement	Other requirements
Eye for an Eye (miniquest)		Medium Prayer XP lamp	N/A	90 Mining
One Piercing Note		250	N/A	N/A
The Death of Chivalry		250	N/A	N/A
Rag and Bone Man		500	N/A	N/A
Missing, Presumed Death		500	N/A	N/A
Making History		1,000	N/A	N/A
Recruitment Drive		1,000	N/A	3 Herblore
The Restless Ghost		1,125	N/A	N/A
Priest in Peril		1,406	N/A	N/A
Fur 'n Seek		1,500	N/A	25 Slayer
Mountain Daughter		2,000	N/A	20 Agility
Land of the Goblins		2,000	30	36 Agility 36 Fishing 36 Thieving 37 Herblore
Ghosts Ahoy		2,400	N/A	25 Agility 20 Cooking
Another Slice of H.A.M.		3,000	25	15 Attack
Rebuilding Edgeville (miniquest)		5,000	50	N/A
Spirit of Summer		5,000	35	19 Summoning 26 Farming 40 Construction
The Great Brain Robbery		6,000	50	16 Crafting 30 Construction
Missing My Mummy		6,500	35	35 Construction 35 Cooking 35 Crafting 35 Magic
Rum Deal		7,000	47	40 Farming 42 Crafting 50 Fishing 42 Slayer
Dealing with Scabaras		7,000	N/A	21 Firemaking 50 Agility 60 Thieving 60 Strength
Spirits of the Elid		8,000	N/A	33 Magic 37 Ranged 37 Mining 37 Thieving
In Memory of the Myreque (miniquest)		10,000	42	N/A
Summer's End		10,000	55	23 Summoning 35 Hunter 37 Woodcutting 45 Mining 47 Firemaking
Swan Song		10,000	N/A	66 Magic 62 Cooking 62 Fishing 45 Smithing 42 Firemaking 40 Crafting
The Temple at Senntisten		10,000	50	N/A
Holy Grail		11,000	N/A	30 Attack
Hopespear's Will (miniquest)		13,750	40	N/A
Plague's End		50,000	75	75 Agility 75 Construction 75 Crafting 75 Dungeoneering 75 Herblore 75 Mining 75 Ranged 75 Summoning 75 Woodcutting
The Light Within		90,000	80	80 Agility 80 Crafting 80 Divination 80 Herblore 80 Slayer 80 Woodcutting
The World Wakes		250,000	80	N/A
Total		516,181