An emote that says, "hey.... let's not melt the boss, we get more XP and more majors and ultras to kill for increased opportunities for prime engrams and exotics to drop if we make it [u]heroic[/u]" would be great

Destiny's core structure is built to encourage griefing

Why wouldn't you want to complete it faster?

I would feel this if events were the way they were when the game first dropped but What exactly do you gain now from making an event heroic? Extra blues? Planetary materials? ?? ? Any other trivial ass "l o o t" i forgot to mention? ?

The problem is nothing in this game encourages team thinking or working cooperatively. ALL the ‘quests’ encourage all players to serve their own purposes in any activity. There are public events that I always finish on heroic (spider tank(s) on titan for instance) (assuming other players go along), but their are a few that I [b][i]never[/i][/b] go for heroic on. Case in point, on tangled shore [i]kinda[/i] near spider is a public event where a ‘prison of elders’ pod drops and you have to fight an overgrown fallen captain. I never do that one on heroic for two reasons; one it takes much longer to do the heroic version, and two (more importantly) in the heroic version, [b][i]you don’t get to kill the boss![/i][/b] That last point is a deal breaker for me, since any quest I have for killing a boss won’t get triggered by the heroic version. Today I needed sniper precision boss kills for progress on some quest, and had to play very aggressively to kill the boss before the other player flipped it into Heroic mode. Most days I I’m just trying to burn through two public events [b][i]quick[/i][/b] on tangled shore so I can move on to a more beneficial activity. I would love it if someone at bungie would retool the quests in such a way as to [i][b]promote[/b][/i] good team tactics. Of course they would have to figure out what good team tactics are in the first place, and they still don’t know how guns work. Ps. Adding emotes with strong negative meanings would be a bad move imo. I would prefer we sort out the actual cause instead.

Oh no, we got a tough guy over here.

Agree. Sick of the idiots who are trying to show off how big their wiener is by showing how fast their super can kill a group of baddies all huddled together. We're supposed to go "Ooh, that's awesome!" Has exactly the opposite affect on me. These folks are right up there with the idiots who run ahead of everyone else in strikes with no sense of team play.

What exactly are you trying to achieve?