Prayer
Equipment - Money, famailiar pouches, bones and more bones, you'll need a glided marble atlar with incense burners well.
Lvl 1-99
=NOTE= - There is no required lvl to bury any bones so it completely depends on how rich you are or how high of a combat lvl you are. These methods are simply the most common to go about at these lvls.
Method 1 Lvls 1-99: Dragon Bones - If you have enough money or a high enough combat lvl, find yourself some dragon bones. You can either kill dragons and bank them [fairly good profit], or you can buy them from another player. Very expensive, but of course very fast. Now if you're wondering why you want to save your d bones and not bury them on the sport it's because you can get 3.5x the exp per bone [or 4x using the ectofungus, but that is not recommended].
XP: 200-400k xp/hr GP: -3.9-7.9M gp/hr
Method 2 Lvls 1-99: Frost Dragon Bones - Frost dragon bones are also very good. They are almost 3 times faster than dragon bones, but they are extremely expensive so they are only recommended if you make at least 4.4M gp/hr.
XP: 500k-1M xp/hr GP: -12.6-25.2M gp/hr
Method 2 Lvls 1-99: Frost Dragon Bones - If you do not have the money or combat level for dragon or frost dragon bones, then you can just kill lower level things. Start with cows and chickens for normal bones, then once you get a higher combat level, move up to something that drops big bones such as hill giants. Laters you can start killing baby blue dragons for the baby dragon bones. Once you get to about level 50 or so, though, this starts to get more inefficient and it is really suggested to do dragon or frost dragon bones.
==BEST OPTION== Remember--- Use familiars to carry extra D bones for you! Use the knowledge base to find out which one you can summon that carries the most items.
==INTERESTING TIP== - You can respawn in your house very quickly using either of two methods. One is having players inside your house while you train prayer benefits you massively! You spawn into your house about 5-10 seconds faster, and your nicense burners stay lit 2x as long! So if you can, get players to visit you and advertise your altar. Obviously it's a little tricky to get players to stay inside your house all the time, so there is another way to spawn in your house quickly without anybody visiting you! After a lot of research, I found out that you can "quick spawn" in your house if NOBODY ELSE IN YOUR WORLD is in their house while you bank. It's sort of a confusing concept, but basically the less people using their houses in your world = a better chance you'll spawn quickly in your house. People using their houses while you bank is easy to avoid if you go to a PVP (Player versus Player) world, so try it out
Using a gilded altar with incense burners is by far the best option to get prayer exp. You get fast exp [like over 200k per hour doing this] although you'll need to supply yourself with d bones which will be expensive.
If you don't have a gilded altar yourself [made in your house] then you can use somebody else's if they're having a house party or something. The best place to do it I think is in Yanille, correct me if there's a faster way (use the form in the Contact Me page since you can't really contact him).
The best option [and extremely recommended] is using rings of dueling to bank and house tele-tabs to get to your altar. If you haven't built your altar yet, remember to build it in the closest room possible to the spawn portal! Actually training prayer with d bones is very straightforward. Just use your d bones on the altar, quickly go to the "all" option, and wait while your d bones are used up. Bring the best beast of burden you can summon and store d bones in it too.
Also, house tabs are fairly expensive compared to regular teleports to your house. If you're wielding and earth/air staff and carry law and the other rune you need for teleing, it's actually more efficient than using house tabs. House tabs can be 400-600 gp more per tele and it only allows 1 more bone to be carried! That means if you use a spirit terrorbird, that's 39 trips you would have to make before you save an inventory's worth of space, which accounts for about 20 seconds at the very most [banking/teleing time to your house]. 39 trips equals 15,600-23,400gp more using tele tabs. Is 20 seconds worth 20k? The obvious answer is no, unless you're making more than 3.6M per hour.
TIPS WHEN USING FAMILIARS: Using familiars while training prayer has its own trick. When using a familiar, first remember to make sure that the left click option for the summoning button is set to "take BoB". Fill your summoning familiar with bones [best would be pack yak]. Put in your inventory the 2 marrentils, ring of duelling [worn], and either house tele tab [recommended] or teleport runes. You can get up to 52 total bones doing this. With the new update to the make-X, you now only have to left click Make-All and it will include the bones in your familiar. You just have to make sure that when you are almost out of bones in your inventory, select "Take BoB". If you do this right, the bones will appear in your inventory without interrupting the process, and they will get used as well without having to re-click anything. [This technique also works while Smithing].
==2ND BEST OPTION== - I would say ectofuntus really shouldn't ever be used any more now that there's gilded altars because you save sooooo much time at the gilded altar. You get almost 10x the exp rate at gilded altars then you get at ectofungus....although the ectofuntus is 4x the exp per bone instead of the gilded altar which is 3.5x exp ber bone. It still isn't worth it though. You'll be saving something like 10k per hour if you use ectofuntis, isn't worth it at all.
And of course, use the best summoning monster you can to...(cut-off)
Speed - Expensive but very fast if you use the dragon bones way. This skill is very hard to train though if you don't spend money, so if you spend money probably a 9 on speed, but if you don't, like a 3.
Uses - This skill is VERY important to have especially to lvl 43. Almost all the hard quests require protect from melee, which is lvl 43, and protect prayers can be very useful during slayer and in Dungeoneering.
Misconceptions - The general store method [used in Rimmington] no longer works. Dragon bones sell for 0gp to the general stores for some reason now, and when you but them back, they're almost as high of a price as you originally bought them at! So you'd be paying twice the price for each d bone.
Also, butlers or demon butlers CANNOT withdraw bones for you from the bank, so forget that dream.
