Answered Bones p/h @ gilded alter

[Samaster]

Title says it all.

Will be comp'd when I get round to this (120 prayer) so assume Yak etc...

Any more efficient ideas / tips welcome.

[Arceus]

Assuming that there weren't any major advances to help speed things up in the last few years, it would seem to be around 1400/hr. Probably you can bump that up a little higher by taking advantage of bank presets for inventory and BoB. Using your own house is also more efficient apparently, something I thought was the other way around until I looked it up :P.

[Samaster]

So gilded alter is still 'the best' method of training prayer?

[Arceus]

Yeah, while I hesitate to use the qualifier 'best' it does still seem like the way to go. Cremation comes close with a 250% bonus instead of 350%/bone, but processing the bones, for lack of a better word, takes much longer, i.e. like over a minute for a full inventory vs the 25 seconds or whatever for the altar. And aside from the AFK component of it being convenient, as a future comped player you are probably wasting a lot in terms of opportunity cost if you go that route.

[cowmaster187]

if you are planning to do this during bxp you will be disappointed. they usually do not allow gilded altars to work.

 

~~~legoman187~~~

[puretppc]

I was capable of offering 1500+ bones per hour using a War Tortoise. However, this could be a bit more with a Yak. I used the Yanille Open Altars since you do not need to relight the altar yourself.

 

As Arceus said, you can alternatively use Cremation, which even though it's only 250% more exp compared to 350% with Altars, it is actually fairly quick due to not having to teleport (and risk teleport lagging). Even though it's more costly, you still gain a good amount of Firemaking experience; in fact probably more than bonfiring elder logs since it only takes 3 ticks to drop a bone on the fire. 

 

Also, neither Cremation nor Gilded altar will work on double weekend. 

[Arceus]

They said that before with Cremation, but you still got the regular amount of Prayer xp (250%, not 200%) and the Firemaking xp was in fact doubled. We'll see what happens this time.

[Samaster]

Im not going to be doing this for dxpw. Thats reserved for dung.

 

Thanks for all the info. This will come in handy when I start going for 120. :D