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The RuneScoop Skill Optimization Guide for RuneScape - Prayer - Burying Bones - Ourg Bones The RuneScoop Skill Optimization Guide for RuneScape - Prayer - Gilded Altar - Regular Bones

One of the many features introduced as part of the Construction skill in 2006 was a superior method for training Prayer. Building a chapel in one's player owned house allows the installation of an altar. This can be used to restore expended Prayer points, like all altars, but it has an important additional ability: you can offer bones on the altar to get prayer experience.

With a sufficiently high level altar, and with accompanying incense burners both lit, you can get up to 3.5 times the normal burying XP for bones. You need a gilded altar to get this maximum XP, which requires level 75 Construction. However, it is possible to make one at level 69, using stat-boosting tea obtained from shelves in a player's kitchen, and the special crystal saw that is a reward for the quest The Eyes of Glouphrie. Unlike most skill boosts that must be repeated each time you train and slowly wear off, you only need to boost up to 75 once to build your altar, and then can use it thereafter even at the lower level. Thus, making one of these altars is strongly advised at level 69. (It is actually possible to do it at 66, but for this you must get very lucky using spicy stews, a notoriously unreliable process.)

Lower-level players have the option of using lesser altars, which reward from 2 times to 3 times normal XP (with both burners lit). However, there's another option as well: using someone else's altar. Many players with gilded altars are willing to let others use them; to find one, look at the end of the official "open altar" thread on the RuneScape "Production Skills" forum (quick code 99-100-851-60171289).

The obvious advantage of using someone else's gilded altar is that you get the full 3.5x Prayer XP for your bones. But there are some drawbacks as well. First, you need to find an open altar, which means you may be forced to do this on someone else’s schedule. Second, to get to the player's house efficiently, yours needs to be in the same town, which may require you to move your house. And finally, each run to the bank takes a little longer. However, I still think it is worth doing this rather than using a lesser altar—it's still faster overall, and bones are expensive! So this is what I've assumed in my descriptions. The amount of extra time per run required for using someone else's house depends somewhat on their house design. I've assumed a reasonably efficient design in my calculations.

Incidentally, comparing using a player owned house altar to the Ectofuntus is a short discussion. You can get 4 times normal XP at the Ectofuntus and only 3.5 times at a player owned house, but using the Ectofuntus is much slower—there really is no contest.

I have methods defined here for each of the eight types of bones available in decent quantities: regular, big, zogre, baby dragon, wyvern, dragon, dagannoth and ourg.

For a complete explanation of these pages, please consult the reference manual.

The RuneScoop Skill Optimization Guide for RuneScape - Prayer - Burying Bones - Ourg Bones The RuneScoop Skill Optimization Guide for RuneScape - Prayer - Gilded Altar - Regular Bones