The Benefits Of Prayer

** This is not a religious plug, I just thought the title was funny **

Runescape Skill: Prayer
Available to: All Players (free and members)

As with most skills, the truly cool stuff in the Prayer skill doesn't come for a long time - you have to work and work and work on a skill to get to that cool stuff, although fortunately there's neat stuff along the way, and it's fun to do most of the advancements needed to get to the cool stuff.

At high levels, Prayer is most beneficial to players who like to go for the BIG SCARY monsters, and the players who like to "PK", or Player-Kill, because high level Prayer skills allow for complete protection from specific types of attacks - missiles (bow and arrow/ranged), magic or melee (hand to hand combat) - for a short (but useful) period of time.

At low levels, Prayer runs out quickly and since it can only be recharged at churches, I personally don't find it all that useful on a regular basis.

However, what I do find useful is to both advance my own prayer level so someday I can use those awesome spells, as well as to take advantage of other players' need to advance the skill as well, by collecting bones and selling them for a tidy sum.

As a low-level player on Runescape, however, I suggest you start with building your own prayer points unless collecting bones and bringing them to the bank is extra-convenient. In truth, I generally only sell big bones and dragon bones, not regular bones or bat bones or any of the small bones set.

A lot of players leave their bones laying around, as it's the coins, runes, or other "drops" that they're after, or maybe even just the experience of the battle. Don't be timid! If you can see bones laying around, take some time to pick them up and bury them. Every little bit helps and brings you closer to temporary but COMPLETE protection from specific types of attacks. Very useful in taking on that big dragon or defending yourself when you're in the Wilderness!