They are playing [i]correctly.[/i] They are working on their own bounties, and heroic events don’t reward enough to make it worth the extra time. Plus you have new players that don’t know how to do it. It’s on Bungie to make the rewards such that people aren’t motivated to do that.

Lol I just do it which ever way is the fastest. If that happens to be non heroic, so be it. Glad it gets some jimmies rustled too tho hehehe, bonus!

If I see somebody trying to turn it heroic I'll stop killing the boss because I figure they are needing to do it for a quest. I show a little consideration for others. Unfortunately this game is full of toxic twinkle trolls who dont care about anything but themselves. It's the way society has become in general. It's all about me. All the troll responses to this proves my point and about 90 percent of it dont get it and never will because they can't ever see beyond what's in it for me.

Your closing is the answer. Just make the event give better rewards when heroic (small chance at a enhancement core, or even a prism, for example) and a significant XP gain (not huge but in the couple of thousands-ish territory). Make [b]every[/b] quest and bounty requiring PE completions gain 2x progress if a public event is complete on Heroic. You are safer in 90% of situations just doing the normal mode and moving on because there are very few quests or bounties that require only Heroic events whereas pretty much all of them will take a normal completion and may or may not gain bonus progress for Heroic. So technically, it is more considerate to do it normally, as, for most players you’ll be saving time, unless one of three reasons: you [b]have[/b] to for your objective, a quest came out recently that benefits from a Heroic completion (Bastion for example: just help those people on the Tangled Shore out for a week or two and then return to normal melting), or the PE is one of the ones where the Heroic doesn’t take any significant amount longer than the normal mode (Ether Harvest, Injection Rig, Cabal Excavation, etc.). To fix this, make the really bad ones, the ones that take 3x as long if you do them Heroic (Glimmer Extraction, Cryo-Pod), take less time. People are perfectly justified in not bothering to make it Heroic and not wasting their own time if there is no incentive/no consistent incentive to do so and the event takes longer than just loading somewhere else and doing two more normal events in the time it would’ve taken to do one Heroic. Especially given that Timelost Frames (probably one of the main things people are doing PEs for consistently right now) that require PEs do not gain bonus progress for Heroic completions. So basically Bungie needs to: -Increase rewards. -All—no exceptions—bounties, triumphs, quests, and any other similar thing requiring PEs should gain 2x progress for Heroic. -Decrease amount of time spent on specific Heroic events to fall closer in line with base completion speeds. -And then, only after all of that, make it easier for some of these activations to occur. For example, give the Fallen Walker slightly more health but make it weak to Scorch Cannons. Or some gimmick like that, which encourages completing the Heroic activator if melting through the boss (or other equivalent objective) is a problem for people hoping to make it Heroic. Until then, people are perfectly justified in completing events however they see fit, even if mildly annoying when you need the Heroic. You have to respect their time, too. And chances are, you’ll be getting progress toward whatever no matter what.

There's a few PE's you can turn heroic no matter how much the blueberries try to troll. I'd stick with the ones with the Cabal glimmer extractors where you need to shoot down the ship to make it heroic....they can't do anything to stop you making it heroic.

Bungie needs to Award acendent shards via heroics... Problem solved.

Not sure what location you were on for these Public Events, but if you happened to be on the Tangled Shore, keep in mind that Spider's wanted bounties sometimes mean those players are going for the boss kill for their bounty rather than the cryo-freeze. Not every time are people just doing it to intentionally screw you over. Most of them probably don't care enough about you to do that. Lol

YES THIS... I totally agree, it really it frustrating particularly when you've started the event solo and just before you trigger the heroic some moron comes along with a grenade launcher and super and melts the boss in 3 seconds... Bungie definitely needs to make heroic public events much more rewarding than regular ones with things like enhancement chores as part of the reward... Also we should definitely have NEW (themed) public events each season... They should be a major thing, more difficult and more rewarding, and encourage guardians to come in and help each other... I remember so often in D1 flying through an area on ya sparrow en route to an objective and seeing a lower level guardian alone in a public event and racing over to help them and after completing it dancing around etc. But now guardians just usually either completely ignore it and fly on by or melt the boss and their off... 🤪 And also they need to stop with the bounties and quest requirements that put us against each other in a race to get/steal the most kills to get them done... Public events and planets/patrol in general have so much under utilized potential and need some love before we get any more boring new (same shit different smell) activities like Vex offensive and sundial... 😎👍

It's highly likely they were finishing up a different quest or bounty and basically just playing there own game, surely that's allowed. Don't blame the player blame the game.

Why you crying like a little girl? If you don't want other people in your lobby, switch your system time an hour back and load in and play by yourself. It seems thats what you like to do! To expect blueberries to play to your game style is what we call entertainment..