💡 OSRS Prayer XP Calculator
Map bone stacks, altar bonuses, and level thresholds with exact prayer XP math.
| Item | Bury xp | Gilded xp | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bones | 4.5 | 15.8 | starter |
| Big bones | 15 | 52.5 | early |
| Baby dragon bones | 30 | 105 | mid |
| Dragon bones | 72 | 252 | core |
| Wyvern bones | 72 | 252 | alt path |
| Dagannoth bones | 125 | 437.5 | late |
| Superior dragon bones | 150 | 525 | endgame |
| Monkey bones | 5 | 17.5 | tiny stack |
| Method | Bonus | Save | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury on the ground | 100% | 0% | fast clicks |
| POH altar, 1 burner | 300% | 0% | steady |
| Gilded altar, 2 burners | 350% | 0% | best banked |
| Chaos altar | 350% | 50% | risk save |
| Ectofuntus | 400% | 0% | slow grind |
| Level | Unlock | Use case | Grind note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starter prayers | fresh account | lowest gate |
| 31 | Protect Item | safe skilling | early save |
| 43 | Protect from Melee | core PvM | major breakpoint |
| 52 | Smite | PK utility | niche target |
| 70 | Piety route | melee setup | huge upgrade |
| 74 | Rigour route | ranged setup | elite goal |
| 77 | Augury route | mage setup | elite goal |
| 99 | Max cape | completionist | full stop |
| Stack | Trips @28 | Session shape | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 1 | single inv | quick test |
| 56 | 2 | two loads | short run |
| 112 | 4 | four loads | compact |
| 280 | 10 | ten loads | full grind |
OSRS is the official legacy version of RuneScape, the biggest free-to-play MMORPG. Prayer is a special skill because only Hitpoints train by damage, and Prayer is the only one that does not progress by use of itself. Prayer points show how many prayers the player can use, and they appear as a whole number, but in the background it operates as a fraction.
You can reset this fraction by a Rejuvenation pool or death
How to Train Prayer in OSRS
A good start is finishing some quests. The Restless Ghost gives 1,125 Prayer experience, which helps to raise Prayer from 1 to 9. This quest does not have requirements, but decent defensive armor makes it easier.
After The Restless Ghost, Priest in Peril, Recruitment Drive and Holy Grail, that brings 14,531 Prayer experience, which gets level 1 to 30 without real training.
In OSRS you can train Prayer in many ways, which differ by speed, cost and ease. If you offer bones on a gilded altar in your own house with two incense burners burning, you get 350% XP for every bone. That makes it the fastest reliable method for Prayer XP.
Beside the house portal is a guy who buys noted items for 5 gp each, so players can bring noted bones and coins. With menu swap in typical OSRS clients you avoid burying bones by accident, and around 1 million Prayer XP per hour is possible by manual use of bones on the altar.
The Chaos Altar in the Wilderness has a 50% chance to not use bones, which makes it very cheap. Frost dragon bones there with a bulwark give around 750,000 XP per hour, while superior dragon bones reach 1.1 to 1.2 million per hour. Lava dragon bones here are expensive and risky, but the fastest way to train Prayer.
It also lets you practice prayers against other players with little risk.
For free to play, bury big bones while scattering vile ashes, that gives around 100,000 XP per hour, though it costs around 180 million for 99. Bone shards in Varlamore give technically the most XP per hour, but require a lot of effort. Blessed sunfire wines in a libation bowl give 600 XP each and reach 700,000 to 800,000 Prayer XP per hour.
With sunfire splinters a good run lasts around 200 ticks and can reach 1,656,000 XP per hour. From 90 to 99 it costs around 46 million and takes about 5.5 hours with full focus at around 1.4 million XP per hour.
When you think about the real XP rate, the time to make money to buy bones matters. With 1 million GP per hour of money making, big bones give a bit better experience after accounting for time value. But with 1.25 million per hour of moneymaking, dragon bones become a betterchoice.
