Money making guide/Making prayer potions

Making prayer potions

Requirements
Skills
38 (60 recommended)
Items
Alchemist's amulet recommended Prescription goggles recommended
Quest
Druidic Ritual
Other
Hard Desert Diary recommended
Results
Profit	Experience gained
1,030,188, after tax	218,750
Inputs (16,653,125)	Outputs (17,683,313, after tax)
2,250 × Snape grass (2,430,000)375 × Alchemist's amulet (charged) (65,625) (Charges)2,500 × Ranarr weed (13,642,500)2,500 × Vial of water (15,000)500,000 × Coins (500,000) Zahur's fees	1,969 × Prayer potion(4) (17,683,313)

Making prayer potions can often be a profitable way to train Herblore. With banking, one can expect around 2,500 made potions per hour.

To maximise profit, one should equip a charged Alchemist's amulet and Prescription goggles. These are obtained from the Mastering Mixology minigame, which requires 60 to participate in. Players without the Alchemist's amulet may wish to use the amulet of chemistry instead, although this can significantly lower profits or even result in losses.

After completion of the Hard Desert Diary, Zahur, located in Nardah, can combine your vials of water and (clean) ranarr weeds for a fee of 200 coins each. This can often be much cheaper than buying unfinished potions directly. Using a desert amulet is the best way to get there.

When you've finished making potions, have Bob Barter decant all the remaining potions into 4-dose versions for easier selling on the Grand Exchange.

The calculator in this guide assumes you meet all the requirements for the best possible profits. The table below displays estimated profits for alternative, less profitable methods.

Method	Profit	Profit/h
Alchemist's amulet and Prescription goggles, unfinished potions bought from the Grand Exchange	261.08	652,687.50
Amulet of chemistry, unfinished potions from Zahur	88.28	220,687.50
Amulet of chemistry, unfinished potions bought from the Grand Exchange	−62.72	−156,812.50
No Herblore equipment, unfinished potions from Zahur	−6.50	−16,250.00
No Herblore equipment, unfinished potions bought from the Grand Exchange	−157.50	−393,750.00