Combat skill
Prayer training
Provides protection prayers, stat boosts and overheads. Trained by burying bones or, far faster, offering them at a gilded altar.
Methods
19
Ranked by xp/hr
Top xp/hr
1,338,750
Fastest listed
Best gp/hr
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Most profitable
Milestones
4
Key unlocks
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Why train Prayer?
Prayer supplies the protection prayers and stat boosts that make hard PvM survivable. A single milestone here can matter more than ten levels elsewhere.
ScapePath flags Prayer as a breakpoint skill: you train it in expensive bursts to a specific unlock, then stop. It's rarely a slow grind and almost never trained 'for the level'.
43 grants the Protect prayers, 70 is Piety, and 74 opens Rigour and Augury with the matching quest unlock. Because bones are costly, plan the exact level you need and train to it in one sitting.
Milestones
The levels that actually change what you can do — link your account above to see how close you are.
- Level 43Protect from Melee/Missiles/Magic
- Protection prayers
- Level 44Retribution / Redemption
- Retribution / Redemption
- Level 70Piety
- Piety
- Level 74Rigour / Augury (with quest unlock)
- Rigour / Augury
Important unlocks
What levelling Prayer opens up across the game.
Utility
- Protection prayersLv 43
- Retribution / RedemptionLv 44
- PietyLv 70
- Rigour / AuguryLv 74
Training methods
Ranked by xp/hr. gp/hr is signed — green earns, red is the cost to train. Figures are conservative experienced-player estimates.
Superior dragon bones — gilded altar
Requires 70 Prayer (unboostable). 525 XP each with both burners lit (150 buried) — the fastest practical Prayer XP, and the most expensive.
1,338,750
xp/hr
Superior dragon bones — Chaos Altar
Requires 70 Prayer (unboostable). 525 XP per bone with ~50% saved — the fastest Prayer XP for roughly half the gilded-altar cost. Wilderness risk applies.
1,250,000
xp/hr
Ourg bones — gilded altar
490 XP each with both burners lit (140 buried). From General Graardor / Ogre burial mounds.
1,249,500
xp/hr
Dagannoth bones — gilded altar
437.5 XP each with both burners lit (125 buried). Dropped by the Dagannoth Kings.
1,115,625
xp/hr
Raurg bones — gilded altar
336 XP each with both burners lit (96 buried). From the Ogre burial mounds.
856,800
xp/hr
Lava dragon bones — gilded altar
297.5 XP each with both burners lit (85 buried). Often the best XP-per-gp bone for irons who farm them.
758,625
xp/hr
Fayrg bones — gilded altar
294 XP each with both burners lit (84 buried). From the Ogre burial mounds (Rag and Bone Man).
749,700
xp/hr
Dragon bones — gilded altar
252 XP per dragon bone with both burners lit (72 buried). The standard, cost-effective Prayer method.
642,600
xp/hr
Wyvern bones — gilded altar
252 XP each with both burners lit (72 buried) — identical XP to dragon bones; price is the tiebreaker.
642,600
xp/hr
Dragon bones — Chaos Altar
252 XP per bone (350%), but ~50% of bones are saved — roughly half the gp of a gilded altar. Wilderness: bring only what you can lose.
600,000
xp/hr
Wyrm bones — gilded altar
175 XP each with both burners lit (50 buried).
446,250
xp/hr
Babydragon bones — gilded altar
105 XP each with both burners lit (30 buried). A cheaper stand-in for dragon bones.
267,750
xp/hr
Big bones — gilded altar
52.5 XP per big bone with both burners lit (15 buried). Cheap and a big step up from normal bones.
133,875
xp/hr
Dragon bones — Ectofuntus
288 XP per dragon bone (4× burying) — the most XP per bone, but very slow (grind bones, collect slime, worship). Best for ironmen or the very cost-conscious.
120,000
xp/hr
Bones — gilded altar
15.75 XP per bone with both burners lit (4.5 buried). Cheapest, but very slow — only for low levels or clue steps.
40,163
xp/hr
Vile ashes — scattered
25 XP each when scattered. Gained from lesser demons; not altar-boosted.
—
xp/hr
Malicious ashes — scattered
65 XP each when scattered. Gained from black demons and similar.
—
xp/hr
Abyssal ashes — scattered
85 XP each when scattered. Gained from abyssal demons.
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xp/hr
Infernal ashes — scattered
110 XP each when scattered. The highest-XP ash; from greater/hellhound-tier demons.
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xp/hr
Money-making methods
Ways this skill can earn while — or after — you train it.
Bosses that need this skill
Encounters Prayer unlocks or eases — a reason to hit that next level.
Requirements, milestones and unlocks are verified against the OSRS Wiki. xp/hr and gp/hr are conservative experienced-player estimates that vary with gear, efficiency and live Grand Exchange prices — use them to compare methods, not as exact quotes. Personalized recommendations are derived from your public RuneScape Hiscores. ScapePath is a fan-made companion and is not affiliated with Jagex.