Can something be done about trolls in guildhest: Hero On The Halfshell

I just recently had a tank troll a guildhest with a mage buddy in the guildhest: Hero On The Halfshell. They kept going into duty and killing the turtle. Which of course fails the run. I explained to them the mechanic and still they killed it. They kept queuing in and doing this everytime. Only way I was able to complete my daily guildhest for roulette was to finally not get that one. I do not know if the 2 players were in roulette or on purpose queueing that run. It is harassment.

I have a suggestion to make the turtle not take damage once it's hp is at 50%. Is that something we can have done to prevent this issue from happening?

I don't see why that would be difficult at all to implement. They could take the mechanic from the floating eye that guards the final boss room in Haukke Manor. When the turtle reaches 50%, it rushes off to the source of the smoke -- maybe they add a "sweet smell" to the powder as bait? -- and then it's naptime.

I don't think it's a good idea. The idea of guildhests is to teach you how to play, that there are other things to consider in battle, not just "DPS the crap out of that ######". Making it automatic win after 50% eiminates the point.
The correct action is to deal with those harassers. Maybe send them the photos of their porn collection and a burning matchstick

Get aggro and lure the turtle.

Tanks do not have access to decent aggro skills at such a low level, so any semi-decent DPS or healer should be able to steal aggro from the tank.

Report them.

Removing the one bit of actual goal-oriented content so that everything is an automatic win even when the group is ignoring any tactics or goals can't be the right solution to this.

Report the trolls. The problem isn't with the content, just with these two jerks who were abusing it.

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Originally Posted by WHS

I explained to them the mechanic and still they killed it.

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Do you know whether they understood your explanation? One other possibility (if they weren't just trolls) is that what's needed is something along the lines of "DON'T kill it!!!" being added to the auto-translate function. (Though unfortunately, its more likely that they know perfectly well what they're supposed to do and not do, and they were just griefing everyone.)

I had a tank doing this during one of my 'hero' roulettes, just flat out ignoring our requests to move it, addressed them by their name, used sounds, even auto translated basic directions.. anything to get their attention and after awhile, .. I told the healer to let them die >.> and when he did, we pulled the turtle over to the smoke :Duty complete:

But if it's a mage and tank combo.. that'd be a lame troll indeed...

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Originally Posted by LordPhantomhive

I had a tank doing this during one of my 'hero' roulettes, just flat out ignoring our requests to move it, addressed them by their name, used sounds, even auto translated basic directions.. anything to get their attention and after awhile, .. I told the healer to let them die >.> and when he did, we pulled the turtle over to the smoke :Duty complete:

But if it's a mage and tank combo.. that'd be a lame troll indeed...

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Did he go on to "stfu nub" or "gtfo of ur basement" or something like that? :D Seeing trolls seethe in anger is the most satisfying

Same thing happened to me this afternoon - real pain in the behind.

People can grief all sorts of content (just look at CT). This is just a somewhat unique way of doing it.

Unfortunately, they can't really stop all the griefers without completely trivializing nearly all the content.

Report them and move on. This is what the report harassment option is there for.

Might also try some auto-translate just in case it was a language barrier, though if you in the off-chance encounter this again I might just recommend de-selecting the more popular languages in your duty finder, it may make the que time longer, but should reduce the chance of encountering the same people again.

This is happening too often with player who don't talk to say anything at all after trying to get their attention. I'm thinking they are bots.

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

People can grief all sorts of content (just look at CT). This is just a somewhat unique way of doing it.

Unfortunately, they can't really stop all the griefers without completely trivializing nearly all the content.

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In this case it's trivial content to begin with. There's nothing lost my making this one untrollable.

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Originally Posted by Alistaire

In this case it's trivial content to begin with. There's nothing lost my making this one untrollable.

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The difficulty level may be trivially easy, but the lesson it's supposed to be teaching is an important one: that you need to pay attention to a quest's objectives and that they won't always consist just of "kill everything". Sometimes killing a mob or letting it die is the failure condition. That's the whole point of this hest, and trolls in it aren't common enough to justify removing its purpose.