Thanks for the replies it's been 5x better since oryx statue went away the other day. After reading wiki for like 3 hours I found out that to make events spawn and appear on the map, you have to do realm events like ents, cyclops gods, etc. And you will usually see the quest portrait change a lot faster if you do those events and make them spawn compared to farming in Glands and seeing the spawn text from Oryx.
If you kill an Ent and another is close by, it will block whatever event spawned unless you teleport to someone closer to the event.