RS3 Prayer Guide, 1-99 and Beyond Prayer Training Methods

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With so many monsters that deal heavy damage in RS3, you-re definitely going to need some extra protection. If gear and weapons aren-t enough, you might want to check out your Prayers in the game next.

The Prayer skill is one of the most useful in RS3, and getting it to the max level can be tricky and expensive. But of course, we-re here to make that journey of yours much easier if you-re having a bit of trouble.

While this guide below is going to be a big help, you can make your RS3 journey a lot easier by checking out what we have at our RS Store. There-s great deals on RS items, gold, and even special services to help get you by. Now, let-s start this RS3 Prayer leveling guide.

What Is the RS3 Prayer Skill?

The Prayer skill is one of the most crucial skills in the game. It provides you with bonuses for combat and other things in the game. When casting Prayers, Prayer Points are drained, which will determine how long the buffs you have are active. Many of the bosses in the game are best fought with the help of certain Prayers.

Here are the Prayers and Ancient Curses you can use in the game:

RS3 Prayer List

Prayer	Level	Drain (points per minute)	Drain (seconds per point)	Effect	Members
Thick Skin	1	10	6.0	+2 Defence levels (for armour)	Free-to-play
Burst of Strength	4	10	6.0	+2% Melee damage	Free-to-play
Clarity of Thought	7	10	6.0	+2 Attack levels (for accuracy)	Free-to-play
Unstoppable Force	8	10	6.0	+2% Ranged damage	Free-to-play
Sharp Eye	8	10	6.0	+2 Ranged levels (for accuracy)	Free-to-play
Charge	9	10	6.0	+2% Magic damage	Free-to-play
Mystic Will	9	10	6.0	+2 Magic levels (for accuracy)	Free-to-play
Rock Skin	10	40	1.5	+4 Defence levels (for armour)	Free-to-play
Decay	10	10	6.0	+2% Necromancy damage	Free-to-play
Hand of Judgement	10	10	6.0	+2 Necromancy levels when determining accuracy	Free-to-play
Superhuman Strength	13	40	1.5	+4% Melee damage	Free-to-play
Improved Reflexes	16	40	1.5	+4 Attack levels (for accuracy)	Free-to-play
Rapid Restore	19	10	6.0	2x restore rate for all Skills except Constitution, Prayer and Summoning	Free-to-play
Rapid Heal	22	10	6.0	2x restore rate for Constitution	Free-to-play
Protect Item	25	10	6.0	Keep 1 extra item if you die.	Free-to-play
Unrelenting Force	26	40	1.5	+4% Ranged damage	Free-to-play
Hawk Eye	26	40	1.5	+4 Ranged levels (for accuracy)	Free-to-play
Mystic Lore	27	40	1.5	+4 Magic levels (for accuracy)	Free-to-play
Super Charge	27	50	1.2	+4% Magic damage	Free-to-play
Hastened Decay	28	40	1.5	+4% Necromancy damage	Free-to-play
Hand of Fate	28	10	6.0	+4 Necromancy levels when determining accuracy	Free-to-play
Steel Skin	28	100	0.6	+6 Defence levels (for armour)	Free-to-play
Ultimate Strength	31	100	0.6	+6% Melee damage	Free-to-play
Incredible Reflexes	34	100	0.6	+6 Attack levels (for accuracy)	Free-to-play
Protect from Summoning	35	150	0.4	Protect against damage from Summoning attacks and scrolls	Members
Protect from Magic	37	150	0.4	Protection from Magic attacks - 50%. Halves duration of holding spells and Teleblock	Free-to-play
Protect from Ranged	40	150	0.4	Protection from Ranged attacks - 50%. Reduces bolas bind duration by 25%	Free-to-play
Protect from Melee	43	150	0.4	Reduces damage from Attack attacks - 50%	Free-to-play
Redemption	49	150	0.4	Heals a player by 25× prayer level if Constitution drops below 10%	Members
Smite	52	200	0.3	Drains enemy prayer 1 per 40 (26 legacy) damage. Cap 100 drained per hit	Members
Chivalry	60	150	0.4	+7 Attack (accuracy), +7% Melee damage, +7 Defence (armour)	Members
Rapid Renewal	65	100	0.6	5× restore rate for Constitution	Members
Augury	70	200	0.3	+8 Magic (accuracy), +8% Magic damage, +8 Defence (armour)	Members
Rigour	70	200	0.3	+8 Ranged (accuracy), +8% Ranged damage, +8 Defence (armour)	Members
Piety	70	200	0.3	+8 Attack (accuracy), +8% Melee damage, +8 Defence (armour)	Members
Sanctity	70	200	0.3	+8 Necromancy (accuracy), +8% Necromancy damage, +8 Defence (armour)	Members
Eclipsed Soul	75	150	0.4	+4% Crit Chance + heals 10% max HP over 6s per crit	Members
Divine Rage	85	150	0.4	+5% Melee, +5% Ranged, +5% Magic, +5% Necromancy damage	Members

Ancient Curses

Prayer	Level	Drain (points per minute)	Drain (seconds per point)	Effect	Members
Sap Melee Attack	50	100	0.6	-2 to -6 enemy Attack levels (for accuracy)	Members
Protect Item	50	10	6.0	Keep 1 extra item if you die.	Members
Sap Ranged Attack	52	100	0.6	-2 to -6 enemy Ranged levels when determining hit chance	Members
Sap Ranged Strength	53	100	0.6	-3% to -9% Ranged damage (PvM) -2% to -6% Ranged damage (PvP)	Members
Sap Magic Attack	54	100	0.6	-2 to -6 enemy Magic levels when determining hit chance	Members
Sap Magic Strength	55	100	0.6	-3% to -9% Magic damage (PvM) -2% to -6% Magic damage (PvP)	Members
Sap Adrenaline	56	100	0.6	Drain 10% enemy adrenaline every few hits	Members
Sap Defence	57	100	0.6	-2 to -6 enemy Defence levels (for armour)	Members
Sap Melee Strength	58	100	0.6	-3% to -9% Melee damage (PvM) -2% to -6% Melee damage (PvP)	Members
Berserker	59	50	1.2	Boosted stats last 15% longer	Members
Sap Necromancy Attack	60	100	0.6	-2 to -6 enemy Necromancy levels (accuracy)	Members
Sap Necromancy Strength	61	100	0.6	-3% to -9% Necromancy damage (PvM) -2% to -6% (PvP)	Members
Deflect Summoning	62	150	0.4	Protects and deflects damage from Summoning	Members
Deflect Magic	65	150	0.4	Protects and deflects Magic damage	Members
Deflect Ranged	68	150	0.4	Protects and deflects Ranged damage; bolas duration reduced by 25%	Members
Deflect Melee	71	150	0.4	Protects and deflects Melee damage	Members
Deflect Necromancy	73	150	0.4	Protects and deflects Necromancy damage	Members
Leech Melee Attack	74	200	0.3	+2 to +5 Attack -4 to -8 enemy Attack	Members
Leech Ranged Attack	76	200	0.3	+2 to +5 Ranged -4 to -8 enemy Ranged	Members
Leech Ranged Strength	77	200	0.3	+2-8% Ranged damage -6-12% PvM -4-8% PvP	Members
Leech Magic Attack	78	200	0.3	+2 to +5 Magic -4 to -8 enemy Magic	Members
Leech Magic Strength	79	200	0.3	+2-8% Magic damage -6-12% PvM -4-8% PvP	Members
Light Form	80	300	0.2	Doubles Seren spell effect trigger chance	Members
Leech Defence	80	200	0.3	+2 to +5 Defence -4 to -8 enemy Defence	Members
Dark Form	80	300	0.2	Doubles Ancient spell effect trigger chance	Members
Leech Melee Strength	82	200	0.3	+2-8% Melee damage -6-12% PvM -4-8% PvP	Members
Leech Necromancy Attack	83	200	0.3	+2 to +5 Necromancy -4 to -8 enemy Necromancy	Members
Leech Run Energy	84	200	0.3	Drains and restores Run Energy (10% every few hits)	Members
Leech Necromancy Strength	85	200	0.3	+2-8% Necromancy damage -6-12% PvM -4-8% PvP	Members
Leech Adrenaline	86	200	0.3	Drains and restores enemy Adrenaline	Members
Chronicle Attraction	87	100	0.6	Auto-captures chronicles while training Divination	Members
Soul Link	88	300	0.2	Shares 50% healing and damage with nearby linked player	Members
Teamwork Protection	89	300	0.2	+5% damage reduction +1% reflection per nearby user (max 5)	Members
Wrath	89	200	0.3	Deals AoE damage upon death	Members
Superheat Form	91	100	0.6	Auto-burn logs, faster smelting, heat boost for smithing	Members
Soul Split	92	300	0.2	Heals 10% of damage dealt, drains enemy prayer 1 per 66 (45 legacy) damage	Members
Fortitude	94	300	0.2	+15% Defence, +10% HP, +3% DR, better Bash/Debilitate, regen works in combat	Members
Turmoil	95	300	0.2	+10 Attack, +10% Melee, +10 Defence, drains enemy stats and damage	Members
Torment	95	300	0.2	+10 Magic, +10% Magic, +10 Defence, drains enemy stats and damage	Members
Anguish	95	300	0.2	+10 Ranged, +10% Ranged, +10 Defence, drains enemy stats and damage	Members
Sorrow	95	300	0.2	+10 Necromancy, +10% Necromancy, +10 Defence, drains enemy stats and damage	Members
Malevolence	99	400	0.2	+12 Attack, +12% Melee, +12 Defence, drains enemy -6 to -10 Attack, -8 to -12 Defence, -15% PvM, -10% PvP	Members
Desolation	99	400	0.2	+12 Ranged, +12% Ranged, +12 Defence, drains enemy stats and damage	Members
Ruination	99	400	0.2	+12 Necromancy, +12% damage, +12 Defence, progressive drain to -10/-15%	Members
Affliction	99	400	0.2	+12 Magic, +12% Magic, +12 Defence, drains enemy stats and damage	Members

Most Useful Items For RS3 Prayer Leveling

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First Age Outfit

This outfit, when worn, provides a flat experience boost to your Prayer. You can get the individual pieces by purchasing them from the shady ghost for 1K ecto-token each. Wearing each piece will provide a +1% prayer experience boost. If you wear the entire set you will receive the set bonus and the experience boost will be +6%.

Additionally you can purchase the first age tiara add-on and combine it with your tiara for additional bonuses.

Bonecrusher

You can purchase this item from the Daemonheim reward shop for 34K tokens. After buying it you can place it in your toolbelt and it will automatically turn bones you get from monsters into prayer experience.

Ectoplasmator (Attuned)

Regular version of this item, provides you with Prayer experience whenever you kill a ghost. Attuned version also scatters demonic ashes that you get as a drop. Basically the ash version of the bonecrusher.

Prayer urns

When carried in the inventory these urns will fill automatically by picking up demonic ashes. After they are full they yield 20% bonus experience required to fill them.

1-99 and Beyond Prayer Training

There are a lot of different ways to train your Prayer in this game, lets go over them:

Burial Powders (Fastest Method)

Powder of burials is an item that grants the player 350% base Prayer experience when burying bones for 30 minutes. You can purchase this item from Grand Exchange or get it as a reward from the Het-s Oasis. Keep in mind that double xp live has no effect on this method.

Add your bones to your action bar to bury them faster.
Do this on World 84 in Lumbridge,Grand Exchange or Fort Forhintry to receive 10% EXP boost from shared advanced pulse cores.
Do not wear a Dragon Rider amulet as the effect of that amulet will override your experience buff.

Chaos Altar

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Double xp live has no effect on this method as well.

Chaos altar is an altar that is located in low level Wilderness. Offering bones or ashes on the altar will provide you with the same 350% increase in experience. You can use the NPC called Simon near the altar to restock on your bones or ashes.

If you have hard Wilderness Tasks completed however you can simply un-note your bones by using them on Harrison, which is significantly faster than using Simon.

Keep in mind that this altar is in a PVP zone.

Fort Forinthry

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This method also does not benefit from Double EXP live.

If you have a tier 3 Chapel in Fort Forinthry it will yield the same 350% experience boost to your prayer if you use ashes or bones on it. You can use the bank chest on the west side to restock. If you use a beast of burden like a pack yack here this method becomes the second fastest method in the game for Prayer training. Another benefit of this altar is the fact that it can save your offerings, saving you money and yielding more experience per trip.

Player Owned House

This method also does not benefit from Double EXP live.

You can build altars in your player owned house to train your prayer. These altars each have different experience modifiers for Prayer, the best one being the Gilded altar. Offering bones or ashes to your Gilded altar will yield, you guessed it, 350% more Prayer experience.

It is possible to get 900K+ EXP with this method if you are using a beast of burden with frost dragon bones. The downside of this method is the fact that you have to light the incense burners to have a full experience boost effect.

The fastest way to use this method is to hire another player to bring you bones so you do not have to move at all.

You can also use other players' houses to train on their altar.

Ectofuntus

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This method also does not benefit from Double EXP live.

This method is great for people that do not want to grind and pay for a gilded altar. Ectofuntus gives 4 times the experience per bone or ash rather than the usual 3.5x but the process is slower than burying bones. Compared to a gilded altar it gives 14% more experience per bone.

There are two methods one is bones the other ashes. Ashes are far superior as you do not have to grind them.

Bones Method

What you need:

Ectophial for teleporting
Morytania legs 4, to teleport to the slime pit
Any teleport or method for quick banking.
Weight reducing equipment
An inventory with an ectophial, one teleport item and 13 bones/ashes and 13 empty slots is the most efficient inventory.
58 Agility to use the slime shortcut
A beast of burden familiar for trips to grind bones.

The method steps:

Empty your inventory and teleport to the Ectofuntus.
Head to the slime pool and collect a full inventory of buckets of slime.
Teleport to a bank.
Deposit your slime and withdraw 13 buckets of slime and 13 bonemeal pots
Teleport to the Ectofuntus.
Worship Ectofuntus until your inventory is empty.
Repeat

Ashes Method

Using infernal ashes instead of bones is much better, here is what you need:

An inventory with an Ectophial and 13 ashes.

Preparation:

Withdraw 13 ashes and Ectophial
Teleport to Ectofuntus.
Go down the trapdoor and head to the slime pit.
Collect buckets of slime.

Training:

Teleport to Ectofuntus.
Worship it.
Go down to the slime pit and collect slime.
Teleport to a bank.
Withdraw 13 ashes.
Repeat.

Cleansing Crystals

This method works in double xp live.

To access this method you first need to have access to the elven city of Prifddinas. Head to the Hefin Cathedral and purchase cleansing crystals from one of the Hefin monks. During cleansing you can use a perfect juju prayer potion or a perfect plus potion to receive an extra 5% experience. Additionally you can cleanse the crystals while the voice of Seren is active granting you additional 20% experience. This method is extremely AFK.

Killing Vyres with Sunspear

This method is an amazing method that can yield a lot of experience while being extremely AFK.

Requirements

Rivers of Blood quest for access to Darkmeyer and reforged augmentable sunspear.
Elite Morytania achievements for Morytania legs 4. (Increases your prayer experience by 50%)
A lot of AOE abilities of the style of your choice.
If you are using magic or ranged augment your Sunspear with the Caroming 3 perk.
Soul split for healing.
Using greater harmony, greater corruption, greater salvation and penance auras will allow you to completely sustain your prayer points without the need of a potion.
Totem of auras will allow you to rotate these 4 auras without any downtime.

Method

Stand between the building south of the bank and the tree immediately to its west, one square south of the corner of the nearby path. This spot will have 6 vyre spawns that are within the attack range.

If you are using melee be careful to stand in the correct spot as vyres will not walk into melee distance. Turn on your auto retaliate with Revolution++ and soul split and enjoy. Done properly, you get the following:

Prayer EXP/H: 400K (with Morytania legs)
Combat EXP/H: 600K
Constitution EXP/H: 200K
Firemaking EXP/H: 270K
Farming EXP/H: 140K (If you are using a seedicide)
GP/H: 5M

RS3 Quests That Reward Prayer XP

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If you-re done or sick and tired of the method above, the next best thing to do would be to do some quests that reward Prayer XP. Other than that, you can get some neat items by doing these quests below:

Quest	Members	XP reward (Prayer)	Prayer Requirement	Other Requirements
Eye for an Eye (miniquest)	Members	Medium Prayer XP lamp	N/A	90 Mining
One Piercing Note	Free-to-play	250	N/A	N/A
The Death of Chivalry	Free-to-play	250	N/A	N/A
Rag and Bone Man	Members	500	N/A	N/A
Missing, Presumed Death	Free-to-play	500	N/A	N/A
Making History	Members	1,000	N/A	N/A
Recruitment Drive	Members	1,000	N/A	3 Herblore
The Restless Ghost	Free-to-play	1,125	N/A	N/A
Priest in Peril	Free-to-play	1,406	N/A	N/A
Fur 'n Seek	Members	1,500	N/A	25 Slayer
Mountain Daughter	Members	2,000	N/A	20 Agility
Land of the Goblins	Members	2,000	30 Prayer	36 Agility, 36 Fishing, 36 Thieving, 37 Herblore
Ghosts Ahoy	Members	2,400	N/A	25 Agility, 20 Cooking
Another Slice of H.A.M.	Members	3,000	25 Prayer	15 Attack
Rebuilding Edgeville (miniquest)	Members	5,000	50 Prayer	N/A
Spirit of Summer	Members	5,000	35 Prayer	19 Summoning, 26 Farming, 40 Construction
Vessel of the Harbinger	Members	5,000	40 Prayer	46 Necromancy
The Great Brain Robbery	Members	6,000	50 Prayer	16 Crafting, 30 Construction
Missing My Mummy	Members	6,500	35 Prayer	35 Construction, Cooking, Crafting, Magic
Rum Deal	Members	7,000	47 Prayer	40 Farming, 42 Crafting, 50 Fishing, 42 Slayer
Dealing with Scabaras	Members	7,000	N/A	21 Firemaking, 50 Agility, 60 Thieving, 60 Strength
Spirits of the Elid	Members	8,000	N/A	33 Magic, 37 Ranged, 37 Mining, 37 Thieving
In Memory of the Myreque (mini)	Members	10,000	42 Prayer	N/A
Summer's End	Members	10,000	55 Prayer	23 Summoning, 35 Hunter, 37 Woodcutting, 45 Mining, 47 Fire
Swan Song	Members	10,000	N/A	66 Magic, 62 Cooking, 62 Fishing, 45 Smithing, 42 Fire, 40 C
The Temple at Senntisten	Members	10,000	50 Prayer	N/A
Holy Grail	Members	11,000	N/A	30 Attack
Hopespear's Will (miniquest)	Members	13,750	40 Prayer	N/A
Plague's End	Members	50,000	75 Prayer	75 in 9 other skills
The Light Within	Members	90,000	80 Prayer	80 in 6 other skills
The World Wakes	Members	250,000	80 Prayer	N/A
Total	—	521,181

Prayers Will Make RS3 Easier

With that done, raids and endgame bosses in RS3 will be a lot easier on your end. Now, to make your character even more powerful with some spells, here-s an RS3 Magic training guide that will help you max out your level as quickly as possible.

What-s the fastest way to train Divination in RS3?

The fastest method to train Divination is to skip wisp gathering entirely and go straight to Hall of Memories and converted energy turn-ins:

1-70: Train at wisp colonies (Chronicle Fragments for boosts).
70-99: Hall of Memories — insane XP/hour, especially with DXP and BXP.
99-120: Continue Hall of Memories or turn in converted energy at Incandescent Wisp Colony using enhanced enriches.

XP boosters to use:

Divination Outfit: +6% XP.
Memory Crux Boost: One-time free XP.
Enriched Memories: More XP when banked.
Chronicle Fragments: 10% bonus XP once collected.
Wisp Abilities: Toggle to deposit memories faster (after 85).

What is the Hall of Memories and why is it so good for training Divination?

The Hall of Memories is unlocked after completing Sliske's Endgame. It-s the best Divination XP/hour in RS3.

Key mechanics:

Harvest memory strands from moving nodes.
Fill your memory storage bot for extra XP.
Use enhanced pulse cores, Wise aura, and bonus XP for maximum effect.
Bonus XP scales with your level and action rate — so stay active!

Expected XP/hr:

300k-500k at 99+ with boosts.
Even higher during Double XP Live.

Hall of Memories is also semi-AFK, making it perfect for long sessions or passive gains.

What-s the most AFK way to train Divination in RuneScape 3?

If you're after chill training, these are your best bets:

Wisp Colonies: AFK at high-tier wisps (Elder/Incandescent).
Divine Locations: Place your own and harvest others-.
Anachronia Totems + BXP: Use passive totem XP (like Totem of Introspection).
Crystallise on Hall of Memories bots: Slows progress but boosts XP per action.

Tips:

Use deposit XP toggle to auto-store memories.
Stack Chronicle Fragment buffs, portables, and training dummies.
Combine with scrimshaws of sacrifice or corruption if doing combat-based div.

AFK XP/hr: ~150k-250k depending on level and setup.

How do you train Divination as an Ironman or on a budget?

Ironman-friendly and budget Divination paths rely on gathering and careful XP planning:

Wisp Gathering: Stick to your level range — no shortcuts.
Use Energy Efficiently: Save for invention/summoning not just XP.
Convert Enriched Memories for better XP: unlocks at 70+.
Hall of Memories still works — just gather memory strands slowly.

Extra tips:

Chronicles give free XP and unlock Boons (10% faster XP).
Boons should always be crafted when hitting new tiers.
Familiar boosts and aura stacking are even more important for solo players.

What boosts and items increase Divination XP gains?

Maximizing XP/hour requires stacking multiple buffs. Best ones include:

Divination Outfit: +6% set bonus, includes energy-saving perks.
Bonus XP + Double XP Live: Multiplies everything — save your energy!
Wise Aura: 2.5-3% more XP/hr.
Enhanced Pulse Core: +2-10% depending on proximity and timing.
Memory-Crushing Scrimshaw: Faster memory turn-ins.
Portable Deposit Box (Daemonsheim): Faster conversions at colonies.
Chronicle Fragments: Collect for up to 10% bonus XP burst.

Training Dummies and Crystallise spells can help in side scenarios.

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RS3 Prayer Guide, 1-99 and Beyond Prayer Training Methods