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The RuneScoop Skill Optimization Guide for RuneScape - Herblore - Making Herb Tars - Harralander The RuneScoop Skill Optimization Guide for RuneScape - Prayer - Activity Indexes by Level (P2P)

One of the auxiliary combat skills, Prayer is either a very important or an unimportant skill in RuneScape, depending largely on how you play. Lower level players won’t find much use for it, but at the higher levels it quickly becomes essential. Most typically used to provide protection against one or more attack styles by either monsters or other players, the skill also can enhance enhance your combat prowess, disrupt your opponent’s, let you heal more quickly, or provide certain other interesting benefits.

Regular prayers have been little changed in the game for many years, and maxed out with Piety at level 70. In early December Jagex introduced a completely new “spellbook” for the Prayer skill. These ancient curses, which are a reward for completing the quest The Temple at Senntisen, replace regular prayers and provide a host of interesting effects ranging from level 50 to level 95. Interest in the new ancient curses has sparked a surge in players trying to level up to be able to use them.

Prayer is a notoriously expensive skill, because nearly all of the methods of training it involve the destruction of bones with nothing provided in return except for experience points. The increased demand due to the ancient curses have caused the prices of bones to increase steadily, making the cost even more prohibitive for many players. This is part of why I decided to do Prayer as one of the first skills in the Skill Optimization Guide.

Prayer is a skill available to all players, and like all such skills, it is much more limited in F2P than it is in P2P. However, Prayer is particularly bad when it comes to getting XP on the F2P side. While members have a number of different types of bones to choose from, and features to let them get more XP such as gilded altars and the Ectofuntus, free players only have two kinds of bones available in any quantity, and they can only bury them. This makes training the skill in F2P a real chore.

As with other skills, the cost-effectiveness of Prayer training methods depends on current prices and the availability of bones. Most of the techniques are the same for all types of bones—it takes just as long to bury ourg bones as it does regular bones—so any decision making here generally boils down to a trade-off between speed and cost.

My (bone-based) methods are based on eight types of bones: regular, big, zogre, baby dragon, wyvern, dragon, dagannoth and ourg. In some cases you may find a better deal on more obscure bones, but they usually are not reliably available in quantity.

The RuneScoop Skill Optimization Guide for RuneScape - Herblore - Making Herb Tars - Harralander The RuneScoop Skill Optimization Guide for RuneScape - Prayer - Activity Indexes by Level (P2P)