The rate of appearance of tears always was extremly low on retail server too. There are about 40 spots in 4 locations (Verteron, Elthen, Heiron,Theobomos ) and tears only spawn at 3-5 spots. So you have to be extremly lucky to get a tear during the night. Especialy if you do it solo - there is a lot of runing, returning, clever binding, kisk, teleport to be done to visit as many spot as you can in 10 minutes. This quest was always a pain this way. But at times when aion servers were more populated and many people did this quest - all spawn spots were watched by people, and at 23 the people from spots that got tear linked the place into world - and everybody went there and took it. it was easier back then.