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Scattered throughout dungeon floors in Daemonheim are altars that you can use to restore your prayer points. These are rectangular, often blue or reddish in shade, and usually oriented with a tilted surface. Prayer altars are one of the rarer skill stations in Daemonheim. It is quite common to do a small (4x4) map and not find one at all, and I’ve even done medium-sized maps that had no prayer altars.

Finding an altar is usually a matter of random luck and good searching, but I’ve noticed a couple of trends with respect to them. First, if you enter a room and find part of it is segregated from the rest of the room with a partition shaped like a square bracket (“[”) on the minimap, chances are good that there’s an altar in there. Second, I’ve found that altars are frequently located in “dead ends” off the critical path of a dungeon, making them an added bonus for doing bonus rooms.

It may seem strange to think of a prayer altar as being a resource, but in Dungeoneering, they really are one—and a limited one at that. Dungeoneering resources are all designed to be limited in nature, to force players to use them wisely. Prayer is extremely powerful, and so this same condition was imposed on prayer altars: you cannot use them an unlimited number of times the way you can above ground. You are allowed one full restoration of your prayer points per small map, two for medium-sized maps and three for large maps. After that, the altar will cease to function. (You can still make potions to restore prayer, of course, but that’s more work, and also limited in that you need supplies for each one.)

When you click on an altar, it will tell you how many prayer points you have left to restore. For example, since I have a Prayer level of 97, I am allowed to restore a total of 97 points on a small map, 194 on a medium map, or 291 on a large map. You only use up the number of points actually required to boost yourself back up to full. So if I’m on a small map and I click an altar after using up 41 prayer points, I don’t use up all 97 points right therer. I can return to the altar later on to get the remaining 56 points I am “owed”.

If there are multiple altars on a floor, the same prayer point restrictions apply across all of them. That is, finding two altars doesn’t double the number of points you can restore for that level.

Even though the game asks each time you click an altar if you want to restore your points or not, there’s never any reason to say no to this. Even though the number of points you can restore is limited, you should restore whenever you’re able, since you don’t know when or if you’ll get back to the altar. Or, put another way, if I currently have 56 prayer points and the ability to restore a total of 97 using the altar, I’m better having 97 prayer points and only 56 left in the altar.

Since you may need to return to a prayer altar at a later time—perhaps before tackling the boss—it’s a good idea to jot down the location of any altars you find. It is particularly useful in team situations for anyone who finds an altar to immediately announce this so other players can find it when they are in the area. If one team member is keeping track of lock and resource locations, this is an important one to take note of.

Finally, it is not possible to offer bones on a Daemonheim prayer altar to get extra Prayer points for them. Yeah, I tried. :) You also cannot use these altars to switch between prayers and curses.

Locked Chests The RuneScoop Ultimate Skill Guide - Dungeoneering - Skill Stations