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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a {{Icon|Combat}} skill that provides passive bonuses at the expense of prayer points. Prayer points can be gained by burying bones from the [[Bank]]. Killing [[monsters]] while wearing the {{ItemIcon|Bone Necklace}} will automatically bury bones and award twice the normal amount of prayer points.  During [[Combat]], a maximum of two prayers can be active at once. There is no limit to the amount of prayer points that the player can have. Raising Prayer to {{SkillReq|{{PAGENAME}}|99}} will unlock the {{ItemIcon|Prayer Skillcape}} for purchase from the [[Shop]].

{{PAGENAME}} experience is earned when dealing damage to [[monsters]] while any prayers costing per player attack are active. The amount of {{PAGENAME}} experience earned is <math>\frac{1}{30}</math> or <math>0.0\bar{3}</math> per point of damage dealt multiplied by the prayer point cost per player attack. Note that the 'prayer point cost' is the base cost before any [[#Reducing Prayer Point Usage|cost modifiers]] are applied, meaning that methods used by the player to either reduce or increase prayer costs do not affect the experience earned. This experience can be increased by 4% by equipping the {{ItemIcon|Gold Emerald Ring}}, which along with the 1% increase from {{PetIcon|Pyro}} and 5% from {{ItemIcon|Firemaking Skillcape}} provides a skill XP increase of 10%.

{{Skill|Fishing}} with the Dragon Fishing Rod has the catching <math>(2.4 + 7.2) / 2 = 9.6 / 2 = 4.8</math> seconds.

With the {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Fishing}}, it's <math>(1.8 + 5.4) / 2 = 7.2 / 2 = 3.6</math> seconds.

{{Skill|Alternative Magic|Alt.Magic}} has the interval of 2 seconds. With {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Incantation}}, the Alt.Magic interval goes down to 1.8 seconds.

The earth rune expenditure can be mitigated by using the {{ItemIcon|Staff of Earth}} leaving two {{ItemIcon|Nature Rune}}s per cast. It adds roughly <math>(1.3+2)/16/\frac{1}{1-0.8} = 0.04125</math> seconds per a Blessed Offering cast if we consider the maximum preservation, mastery, mining without the [[Shop#God_Upgrades|God Upgrades]]

The rune expenditure can be mitigated further by the {{ItemIcon|Nature's Call Staff}} and the {{ItemIcon|Magic Skillcape}}, leaving only one {{ItemIcon|Earth Rune}} per cast. Using the [[Shop#God_Upgrades|God Upgrades]], It can be sped up to roughly <math>(0.85+1.7)/16/\frac{1}{1-0.8} = 0.0319</math> seconds per a Blessed Offering cast.

In {{Skill|Astrology}}, we take 10% doubling and 10% interval reduction because the higher rolls require too much dust.

Aside from the cape, the final doubling modifier for the Bone Fish method is 1+{{MasteryReq|Raw Skeleton Fish|99}}+{{ItemIcon|Aorpheat's Signet Ring|Aorpheat}}+{{ItemIcon|Fishermans Potion IV|potion}}+{{ItemIcon|Fishing Hook|hook}}+{{Skill|Astrology|Astrology doubling}} is <math>1 + (99-1) \times 0.004 + 0.12 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 1.812</math>

{{ItemIcon|Sailor's Top}} is not accounted for because otherwise you would have to redo all Bone Fish formulas with accounting for the special chance, which will complicate them too much.

For {{Skill|Slayer}} calculation in [[Combat Simulator]], the following setup was used:<br>

Full {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Helmet|Glacia set}}, {{ItemIcon|Skull Cape}}, {{ItemIcon|Elite Amulet of Magic}}, {{ItemIcon|Cloudburst Staff}},<br>

Level 95 in all skills, Hardcore mode, and either {{Icon|Water Wave|type=spell}} or {{Icon|Water Surge|type=spell}}.<br>

The time of {{Icon|Water Wave|type=spell}}, adjusted by cooking {{ItemIcon|Whale (Perfect)}} and crafting runes, turned out to be better by 3 seconds per 1k Slayer coins, resulting in 24.81k Slayer coins per hour. By {{Icon|Standard Resupply}} or {{Icon|Generous Resupply}}, the Slayer coins are converted to prayer points by a ratio of 2:1, so it's 12.41k prayer points per hour or 3.45 prayer points per second.

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| Alt. Magic/{{Icon|type=spell|Blessed Offering}} with {{ItemIcon|Staff of Earth|Staff}}

| Alt. Magic/{{Icon|type=spell|Blessed Offering}} with {{ItemIcon|Nature's Call Staff|Staff}}, {{ItemIcon|Magic Skillcape|Cape}} and [[Shop#God_Upgrades|God Upgrades]]

| Alt. Magic/{{Icon|type=spell|Blessed Offering}} with {{ItemIcon|Nature's Call Staff|Staff}}, {{ItemIcon|Magic Skillcape|Cape}}, {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Incantation|Amulet}} and [[Shop#God_Upgrades|God Upgrades]]

| 4.91

Slayer tasks do not directly generate many bones. Instead, the Prayer points are acquired by spending the {{Icon|Slayer Coins}} earned at the [[Shop]] on either {{Icon|Standard Resupply}} or {{Icon|Generous Resupply}} packs, which contain {{ItemIcon|Magic Bones|qty=500}} and {{ItemIcon|Magic Bones|qty=1000}} respectively. (The {{Icon|Basic Resupply}} provides a worse rate than the other two and should be avoided)

 

Both the Standard and Generous Resupply packs allow converting Slayer Coins into Prayer Points at a rate of {{SC|2}} per Prayer Point. This means Slayer tasks begin generating 5 prayer points per second once the player can gain at least {{SC|36000}} per hour.

 

All prayers that provide a percentage increase apply multiplicatively, except for {{PrayerIcon|Safeguard}} and {{PrayerIcon|Stone Skin}} which provide flat increases to [[Damage Reduction]]. For example, {{PrayerIcon|Mystic Might}}'s +15% Magic Evasion bonus will multiply the player's [[Combat#Magic Evasion Rating|Magic Evasion Rating]] by 1.15 rather than directly providing a 15% chance to evade any Magic attack. Likewise, the +15% Magic Accuracy bonus it provides will multiply the player's [[Combat#Magic Accuracy Rating|Magic Accuracy Rating]] by 1.15 rather than simply adding 15% to their hit chance. Players can view the {{Icon|Combat}} page for more detail on how hit chance is calculated.

The three Protection prayers are worded differently and behave differently from prayers that affect Evasion Rating. For example, {{PrayerIcon|Protect from Magic}} provides a flat 80% chance for the player to dodge any Magic attack, therefore using protection prayers when the monsters's chance to hit is 20% or lower is not advised as doing so would increase the monster's chance to hit.

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=== Reducing Prayer Point Usage ===

To reduce the number of prayer points used by active prayers, players can take advantage of various sources granting modifiers that reduce the prayer point cost of prayers and/or provide a chance to preserve all prayer points the prayer would have used.

The prayer point cost reduction modifiers can reduce the cost of prayers to a minimum of 1 point per prayer, the only exception to this being that protection prayers are free when the {{ItemIcon|Gold Diamond Ring}} is equipped. Any flat prayer point reductions are applied before any percentage reductions, therefore in some specific cases some flat cost reductions provide no benefit. For example, consider a scenario where prayers with an odd prayer point cost are active while both the {{ItemIcon|Prayer Skillcape}} and {{ItemIcon|Priest Hat}} are equipped - in such a case, the Prayer Skillcape reduces the cost to 2 points regardless of whether the Priest Hat is equipped or not.

The chance to preserve prayer points provides a chance that active prayers will be used for free. The highest possible chance to preserve is currently 78% without {{Skill|Astrology}} constellations, or up to 93% should the player manage to roll +5% chance to preserve prayer points on all three unique modifier stars within the {{Icon|type=constellation|Hyden}} constellation.

Damage dealt by failed {{Skill|Thieving}} attempts does not currently count as an Enemy Attack for the purposes of spending prayer points, allowing the prayers {{PrayerIcon|Safeguard}}, {{PrayerIcon|Stone Skin}}, and {{PrayerIcon|Protect Item}} to be active while thieving for effectively zero cost as long as you have enough prayer points to turn them on. This may be a bug.  

{{ModifierTable|FlatPrayerCostReduction,PrayerCost,ChanceToPreservePrayerPoints|Prayer Cost Reduction|true}}

== Skillcape ==

The [[Skillcapes|skillcape]] can be purchased from the store for {{GP|1000000}} after the player reaches {{SkillReq|{{PAGENAME}}|99}}.

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