Tears of Guthix


 * Did you mean the minigame Fist of guthix?



Tears of Guthix is a short minigame, playable once a week. The player must have completed the Tears of Guthix quest, and gained at least 100,000 total experience or one Quest Point since the last time they played the minigame.

To play the minigame, a player must go to the Lumbridge Swamp Caves and tell a story to the snake Juna, who is the guardian of Guthix's tears. Since the Swamp Caves is dark, players require a lightsource to play this minigame. Both hands must be free in order to hold the bowl that is used to collected the Tears of Guthix (i.e. no weapons or shields.)

Juna will not let a player in, if it has been less than one week since the last time they played. However, before the may 2008 update, entrance could be gained if a player tried within one hour before the one week time limit (167 hours instead of 168 hours).

Playing the Game
Players then need to collect the blue tears flowing from the inner walls, increasing their collected tear count. Players need to avoid collecting the green tears, as these decrease the tear count. The locations of the tears changes randomly. At all times there are 3 spots with green tears and 3 spots with blue tears.

The game relies heavily on the player's quest points. The more quest points a player has, the longer the player is able to collect tears, and therefore the more experience the player gets. The formula is believed to be every quest point, players get 0.5 - 1 more second above a base time limit (45-60 seconds?). 43 quest points are required for the Tears of Guthix quest. A player with 235 quest points has about 2 minutes 35 seconds (or 155 seconds).

Checking Eligibility
Players need to use the Quest Journal of the Game Interface, and choose Tears of Guthix to find out if they are eligible to play the game. Players will be able to check how many days, and how many quest points (or experience points) are needed before being allowed to play the minigame. The journal describes the time left in whole number of days, rounded down, until players are allowed to again access to the caves guarded by Juna. If a player can return within 2 days, the time until they can return is to the nearest hour (example: "1 day 7 hours"). If a player can return within 4 hours, the time remaining is given to the nearest minute (example: "2 hours 36 minutes"). This is displayed in the Quest Journal, and also if a player visits Juna, she will tell them.

Rewards
After the minigame is complete, the player receives experience based on the number of tears collected. The experience is added to their lowest skill. The amount of experience per tear increases as the player's level increases, until they reach level 30. Once level 30 is reached, the player receives a maximum of 60 experience for each tear collected.

Experience per tear
The experience per tear is based on the current experience of the lowest level skill, and is calculated according to the following formula:


 * XP per tear = MIN((100 + FLOOR(current xp / 27)) / 10, 60)

The experience per tear is capped at 60 per tear.

Note: Experience in RuneScape is recorded to the 1/10th of an experience point, but players do not see the fraction part of the experience in the game interface.

Messages
Players receive a message indicating which skill they received the experience for.

Trivia

 * Players can use this minigame to level up their lowest skill without having to train that particular skill.
 * With the release of Summoning, many players who found Summoning hard to level up, used this minigame to raise their Summoning level.
 * The maximum number of tears collected is reported to be around 178.
 * Each time a story is told to Juna, players relate the story based on a quest that they have completed.
 * Prior to the Level-up Messages update on 21 May 2008, the number of days until a player could collect tears was rounded up to the nearest day. For example, "Tomorrow" would mean a player could collect tears again within 48 hours, and similarly "Later Today" would mean tears could be collected again within 24 hours. Also, players could visit Juna and collect tears up to an hour earlier than they were supposed to, i.e. tears could be collect 167 hours after they had last been collected, rather than the 168 hours in a week.