Prayer is a

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Prayer
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Combat

skill that provides passive bonuses at the expense of prayer points. Prayer points can be gained by burying bones from the Bank. Killing monsters while wearing the Bone Necklace will automatically bury bones and award twice the normal amount of prayer points. During Combat, a maximum of two prayers can be active at once. There is no limit to the amount of prayer points that the player can have. Raising Prayer to

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Level 99

will unlock the Prayer Skillcape for purchase from the Shop.

Prayer experience is earned when dealing damage to monsters while any prayers costing per player attack are active. The amount of Prayer experience earned is [math]\displaystyle{ \frac{1}{30} }[/math] or [math]\displaystyle{ 0.0\bar{3} }[/math] per point of damage dealt multiplied by the prayer point cost per player attack. Note that the 'prayer point cost' is the base cost before any cost modifiers are applied, meaning that methods used by the player to either reduce or increase prayer costs do not affect the experience earned. This experience can be increased by 4% by equipping the Gold Emerald Ring, which along with the 1% increase from Pyro and 5% from Firemaking Skillcape provides a skill XP increase of 10%.

Prayer acquisition rates

Calculations
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Alt.Magic
has the interval of 2 seconds.

With   Amulet of Incantation, the Alt.Magic interval goes down to 1.8 seconds.

The rune expenditure is mitigated by the   Nature's Call Staff and the   Magic Skillcape, leaving only one   Earth Rune per cast. It adds roughly [math]\displaystyle{ 0.85/16/\frac{1}{1-0.8} = 0.0106 }[/math] seconds per a Blessed Offering cast if we consider the maximum preservation, mastery, and mining speed.

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Fishing
with the Dragon Fishing Rod has the catching [math]\displaystyle{ (2.4 + 7.2) / 2 = 9.6 / 2 = 4.8 }[/math] seconds. With the
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Amulet of Fishing
, it's [math]\displaystyle{ (1.8 + 5.4) / 2 = 7.2 / 2 = 3.6 }[/math] seconds. The case of
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Astrology
modifiers not calculated yet. If you want to help with it, please contact the Discord server (link).
Method Prayer points per second Result
Alt.Magic/Blessed offering [math]\displaystyle{ (3 \times 3)/(2 + 0.0106) }[/math] 4.476
Alt.Magic/Blessed offering with the   Amulet [math]\displaystyle{ (3 \times 3)/(1.8 + 0.0106) }[/math] 4.971
Fishing   Raw Skeleton Fish with Dragon Rod [math]\displaystyle{ 3/4.8 }[/math] 0.625
Fishing   Raw Skeleton Fish with Dragon Rod +  
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Level 99
or   Cape
[math]\displaystyle{ 3*2/4.8 }[/math] 1.25
Fishing   Raw Skeleton Fish with Dragon Rod,  
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Level 99
,   Cape, and
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Amulet
[math]\displaystyle{ 3*4/3.6 }[/math] 3.333
End-game
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Slayer
tasks
no definite numbers,
but it's the best option

Bones

Bones can primarily be acquired by killing Monsters that are not in Dungeons. Alternative sources are:

Prayers

All prayers that provide a percentage increase apply multiplicatively, except for

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Stone Skin

which provides a flat 3% increase to Damage Reduction. For example,

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Mystic Might

's +15% Magic Evasion bonus will multiply the player's Magic Evasion Rating by 1.15 rather than directly providing a 15% chance to evade any Magic attack. Likewise, the +15% Magic Accuracy bonus it provides will multiply the player's Magic Accuracy Rating by 1.15 rather than simply adding 15% to their hit chance. Players can view the

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Combat

page for more detail on how hit chance is calculated. The three Protection prayers are worded differently and behave differently from prayers that affect Evasion Rating. For example,

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Protect from Magic

provides a flat 80% chance for the player to dodge any Magic attack, therefore using protection prayers when the monsters's chance to hit is 20% or lower is not advised as doing so would increase the monster's chance to hit.

Reducing Prayer Point Usage

To reduce the number of prayer points used by active prayers, players can take advantage of various sources granting modifiers that reduce the prayer point cost of prayers and/or provide a chance to preserve all prayer points the prayer would have used.

The prayer point cost reduction modifiers can reduce the cost of prayers to a minimum of 1 point per prayer, the only exception to this being that protection prayers are free when the   Gold Diamond Ring is equipped. Any flat prayer point reductions are applied before any percentage reductions, therefore in some specific cases some flat cost reductions provide no benefit. For example, consider a scenario where prayers with an odd prayer point cost are active while both the   Prayer Skillcape and   Priest Hat are equipped - in such a case, the Prayer Skillcape reduces the cost to 2 points regardless of whether the Priest Hat is equipped or not.

The chance to preserve prayer points provides a chance that active prayers will be used for free. The highest possible chance to preserve is currently 78% without

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Astrology

constellations, or up to 93% should the player manage to roll +5% chance to preserve prayer points on all three unique modifier stars within the

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Hyden

constellation.

Skillcape

The skillcape can be purchased from the store for 1,000,000  after the player reaches

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Level 99

.

Regular Skillcape

The   Prayer Skillcape is the skillcape for the Prayer skill. It can be purchased for 1,000,000  from the Shop once the player reaches

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Level 99

in the Prayer skill. The Prayer Skillcape offers the following benefits when worn:

-50% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Cost cannot go below 1)

Superior Skillcape

The   Superior Prayer Skillcape is the superior skillcape for the Prayer skill. It can be purchased for 10,000,000  from the Shop once the player reaches

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Level 120

in the Prayer skill.

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Level 120

can only be reached if the player owns the   Throne of the Herald expansion. Likewise, the superior skillcape can only be purchased if the player owns this expansion. The superior skillcape offers the following benefits when worn:

-75% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Cost cannot go below 1) and +5% Chance To Preserve Prayer Points

Pet

The pet can be unlocked by doing any action that provides Prayer XP.

PetNameDLCEffect
 Monk-ey  +5% Chance To Preserve Prayer Points