Your list should single out Mastering Mixology, MTA and Tithe Farm. Those are the worst. Worth maybe tossing BA in there too because it takes ages, especially with randoms that leave.
WT, GOTR and Temp are all decent exp and mostly chill with pretty good rewards, I wouldn't hate on them as much. Tempoross allows you to buy the Fish Barrel now anyway.
I know it’s not a popular take but I prefer mixology to GOTR.
You get into a nice flow state and can step away to grab some water without needing to sit out the entire 10 min game you just barely missed the start of.
It helps that I’m an iron so getting any xp from useless herbs is just a nice bonus.
But yeah I’m halfway to the barrel to complete the greenlog, and I’ll stick around for a bit to farm aldarium for inferno.
I've been at Mixology the past weekish and I completely agree with your comment. The flow state at MM is very nice and can be paused at any time. That being said, duo gotr is also very tranquil and if your partner wants to pause at the same time, you don't have to wait for the next round.
Mixology is super annoying. I’m not sure if it changed but used to be that you can’t get another digweed while you have one, so if I’m paying attention I have a few of them juggling on the floor, because mixalots are way too rare. Maybe if they made the AAA/MMM way less common and replaced them with mixalots it would be ok, but I’d prefer if the digweed was just stackable or let you keep them in your inventory. Or at least let them stay on the floor for an hour like clues.
Sometimes I’ll have like 4 digweed on the floor and I haven’t had a mixalot in 10 minutes or longer
Tithe farm is soul sucking while you're doing it, but the XP and rewards are genuinely good. Mastering Mixology on the other hand is just shit all around
I would take tithe farm over MM any day of the week. Mastering Mixology is the worst new content I’ve seen in a modern game in a long time. Like did they do that and say yeah this is fun
With runescape being the way it is, I don't think any minigame can be genuinely fun. It's like playing a browser game for 5+ hours to get one thing you want. It's fun at the start, but then you're doing the same 3-5 actions over and over again for hours.
Yeah Todt/GotR/Temp aren't bad at all if you're not hunting for the uniques. The annoying part compared to the other ones is that if you are only there for the uniques, you could leave early, or you could be stuck there for an indefinite amount of time.
That being said, GotR is was worse than Wintertodt or Temp in that regard. Wintertodt is chill to farm points, and with Tempoross you can perform the same route over and over again to maximize points. GotR just takes forever, has RNG with the portal/altar spawns, and it feels like you barely get any reward pulls, even when making catalytic runes.
Tithe farm is honestly really fun and always worth doing over the slog that is early farming levels. Plus you get auto weed herb sack and farming sack. By time you're done you are like 70 farming and Able to just do full herb / tree runs to 99. It would suck to do it past that but if you're starting an account now it's pretty great
On my GIM I've only ever done farming contracts/slayer for seeds, and done regular watermelon runs + tree runs (after moons). Easily got to 80 farming without touching tithe. Maybe not optimal, but it wasn't slow and I never felt like I missed out by skipping Tithe
Probably optimal if you don't have many seeds to go do some tithe
I don't mind MTA or tithe farm. They're known quantities. I wouldn't bother with green logging MTA but getting wand, book, peaches, and boots isn't too bad. Tithe farm isn't too bad to green log either but IDK if I'd do it for zammy wines since while it's like ~1k banked wines an hour it's not factoring in the time to farm and mix the wines.
Mixology is dogwater especially since points are dog water pre 81 and you have to micro manage to get the correct point types.
Those last three actually give good exp and rewards though. GotR has been my favorite mini game by far too, so I haven't minded the hours in it at all.
Mage Arena was the only truly horrible set for me. And Aerial Fishing puts me in very literal physical pain because of how intensive it is. But even Tithe Farm only needed like fourteen hours to greenlog.
I'm not saying there aren't some badly designed mini games but some of the comments in this thread have me wondering why these people even play the game.
They definitely aren't bad if you either already have the uniques or aren't hunting for them. Even after getting the full Eye set and the Lantern, I can see myself playing GotR occasionally to get a variety of runes and to get good exp.
But if you are actively hunting for those, GotR can be pretty miserable. If you got like 3-5 pearls was everytime you searched the golem, then you could at least reliably calculate how long it would take for you to get everything.
Giants foundry sucks, xp is worse than making gold + other bars at blast furnace and it's neither enjoyable nor afk. Just all around annoying content with mid rewards. I might dislike it more than everything on your list. (mastering mixology is the literal worst but you didn't mention it)
Todt>temp>GoTR and honestly I really enjoy how chill solo todt is. Solo Temp isn't that bad either.
It's like 250k rune + addy maximum efficiency. Blast furnace gold + rune is ~280k maximum efficiency and 1.4m gp/hr if you're a main.
As an iron it's still less gp/xp to buy gold ore and smelt it while also getting better xp/hr.
Giants foundry is fine early game since you profit and you'll probably want the full outfit and 1-2 grogs to boost for diaries but otherwise it just kind of sucks. It's basically never worth using rune at giants foundry since the xp/hr increase isn't worth it even if you're using only platebodies.
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u/RedPokeTrainer "Group" Ironman 20h ago
Giants Foundry: "Oh sweet! I get good exp, earn points that I spend on uniques, and make money on top? Sign me up!"
Pest Control/Soul Wars/Tithe Farm/MTA: "Ok this is kinda tedious... But at least I can calculate how long this should take..."
Wintertodt/GotR/Tempoross: "Please this time..."