When to do Tears of Guthix

[baileydafrog]

So yeah, as above, when is the best time or world to do them? I've tried highly populated worlds and it's been slow and low populated and it's been fast, but also the opposite and in between, is there any way to make this easier or just luck of when you're there? cheers :)

[Hedgehog]

Hop between full worlds until you get into a good instance, I guess

[Quasar]

>implying there are full worlds

[Hedgehog]

Highly populated worlds, sorry.

[shasta_sms]

Are we taking the divine tears or Guthix tear minigame?

[baileydafrog]

ahh bugger, forgot about that, Tears of Guthix!

[shasta_sms]

Ok that is what I had initially thought.

 

The strategy that I found works well (~160 tears) is to react purposely slow. When you see a blue wall move from under you do not move to a new one right away, a lot of time you will see that a new blue will appear right on you again. Though of course if you see a green move on you to move immediately.

 

Regarding worlds I cant say I ever bothered paying much mind with it. My thought would be that the more populated world the worse it would be, by the convention that higher worlds have faster spawn rates which to me means that the tears would also hop around more. But I cannot say I ever looked at it enough to see if it effects tear movement.

 

NOTE:

 

If you want to stay longer collecting tears then the more quest points you have the longer you can stay. Also you can make another bowl which boosts your xp gained.

 

"

If the player has 80 Mining and 80 Crafting, Juna will allow you to craft a new bowl for collecting tears. Make your way across the chasm to the mining area as in the quest, and mine a rock to obtain the larger rock. This can be crafted on the spot to create a new ornate bowl. Talk to Juna again (you can jump down to her area of the cave from the mine) to give her the new bowl, which you will always use on every attempt of the game from this point.

The upgraded ornate bowl increases experience rewards by a factor of 5/3, increasing the experience per tear from 180xp to 300xp. Mining the larger rock may take a number of attempts, and use of a high-level pickaxe is advised."

[baileydafrog]

i have quest cape and the upgraded bowl :) i usually get over 160, but sometimes it's above 200 and super early and trying low inhabited worlds didn't seem to change the speed sadly and just seems sporadic

[purpieman2]

Been away for some time. How do you upgrade the bowl and what does it do?

[Quyneax]

Been away for some time. How do you upgrade the bowl and what does it do?

Talk to Juna, she'll explain.

 

Essentially, when you hit 80 crafting & mining you can repeat the bowl-making in the quest, getting a bigger bowl. You'll get 5/3 of the xp you gained with the small bowl using the large bowl.