Introduction

Prayer is a skill which works best alongside your primary combat style (be it magic, melee or ranged). Through the use of prayer you can temporarily increases stats, reduce damage, and protect against various attacks.

To view what prayers are available to you in game, simply click on the prayer icon . This can be found on the top right hand corner of the in game menu. You should now have a list of all the prayers, with those currently available to you being lit up, and the rest darkened.

Listed below are all the prayer effects currently available within RuneScape and what level of prayer you will need in order to use them:

⁺ These prayers will not stack with better versions of themselves (i.e. no Rock Skin + Steel Skin)
^* These prayers cannot be used at the same time as each other.
^~ Hold time is not reduced against Ancient Magick ice spells.

Each of the prayers can be turned on or off individually and whilst in use will grant your character the advantages as listed above. To activate a prayer, just left click on the icon in question and it will have a light appear around it, which lets you know that the prayer is in use. To deactivate it, simply click on it again.

At any one time you may have a single protect prayer active, as well as one of the following options:

• Strength and Attack prayers (only one of each at a time)
• One Magic prayer
• One Ranged prayer

So you can only use one attack-method prayer at a time (Attack and Strength combined count as melee-style here), and only one defence prayer.

Whilst any of your prayers are active, your prayer points will start to slowly drain towards zero. The more prayers you use at once and the more powerful they are, the faster your points will be drained. Once you have completely run out of prayer points, all prayers will automatically stop working and you will need to either pray at an altar or drink a prayer potion before you are able to use them again (if you die this will also reset them). As your level increases the amount of prayer points you have available to you will also increase.

Unlike other skills, you do not gain experience in prayer through the act of praying (i.e. using prayer or praying at an altar). Instead, you gain experience by burying the bones of creatures you (or another) have killed.

Once you have obtained your bones, you can bury them by left-clicking on the bones in your inventory. This will automatically bury the bones under the spot you are standing on. Alternatively, you can right-click on the bones within your inventory and select the Bury Bones option.

Different monsters may sometimes drop different types of bones which will give you higher experience.

If you have started the Zogre Flesh Eaters Quest, then you will be able to use that area of the map to get more bone types from, as shown in the table below:

The Zogre Bones are obtained by killing zombie and skeleton ogres, of which there is a plentiful supply within Gu’Tanoth.

The other bones can only be obtained through picking the locks, or using appropriate keys on caskets found strewn throughout the area. It will require a thieving skill of at least 20 to successfully pick the locks on these coffins. Be warned, failure will result in your thieving skill being temporarily drained, as the dead wreak their vengeance upon you.