Yayyy!! It'sa bonus experience weekend!!! Or not. It worked for me to get levels in Farming, Magic and Fletching within an hour or so. Great. So next I thought I'd get a Prayer level. I have a marble altar with two incense burners in my Player Owned House. I'm used to this giving me 300% (ie 3 times) the base exp rate for whatever I sacrifice there. So dragon bones, for instance, which have a base rate of 72 points, give me 216 points when I sacrifice them at the altar in my POH when I have the burners going.

 

So I thought, "Wow, if I can usually get 216 for dragon bones, then I should get over 450 when the bonus multiplier works!". My bonus multiplier is at 2.2 right now. So I troop off with my dragon bones, two marrentil and a tinderbox, go to my chapel, light two burners, start sacrificing bones, and get ... 158 xp for each one. That's right, I got the weekend bonus multiplier times the base rate, with no bonus for using the POH altar. So I got less than I'd get normally. I tried it with infernal ashes too; same result. Less than I'd get normally, no apparent effect from the POH altar.

 

So, unless someone can tell me something I'm doing wrong, the moral of the story is: don't waste bones or ashes at your POH altar at the moment.

/facedesk

Yayyy!! It'sa bonus experience weekend!!! Or not. It worked for me to get levels in Farming, Magic and Fletching within an hour or so. Great. So next I thought I'd get a Prayer level. I have a marble altar with two incense burners in my Player Owned House. I'm used to this giving me 300% (ie 3 times) the base exp rate for whatever I sacrifice there. So dragon bones, for instance, which have a base rate of 72 points, give me 216 points when I sacrifice them at the altar in my POH when I have the burners going.

 

So I thought, "Wow, if I can usually get 216 for dragon bones, then I should get over 450 when the bonus multiplier works!". My bonus multiplier is at 2.2 right now. So I troop off with my dragon bones, two marrentil and a tinderbox, go to my chapel, light two burners, start sacrificing bones, and get ... 158 xp for each one. That's right, I got the weekend bonus multiplier times the base rate, with no bonus for using the POH altar. So I got less than I'd get normally. I tried it with infernal ashes too; same result. Less than I'd get normally, no apparent effect from the POH altar.

 

So, unless someone can tell me something I'm doing wrong, the moral of the story is: don't waste bones or ashes at your POH altar at the moment.

 

 

The bonus has never applied to altar.... there's even a giant sticky saying what it does and does not apply too...

Well, they did say in their blog that altars would not work during the weekend, so it's kinda your fault...

TEHEHEE

It's clearly stated in the articles that only burying bones will give bonus prayer xp.

lol.

Yeah the dev blog clearly listed altars as not working.

And its well known anything tht usuall gives bonus xp does not work.

tragic

/facedesk

mine's working fine, idk whats wrong with yours

in before lock.

 

Seriously, it's never worked, it's always been brought out by jagex and clearly stated that bonus xp(like the altar) isn't multiplied. If you haven't got that yet, you either can't read(unlikely) or are stupid.

I'm going to lock this to save you from future "/facedesk" etc. comments. Your question/complaint has been answered and there's not much else left to say.