SORRY FOR THE HUGE WALL OF TEXT. Don't read it if you don't want to. If you are smart and want to gain another point of view on the situation, feel free to read it all. I would hope that all guardians that want to trash talk read this beforehand. I want logical arguements, not stupid, meaningless name calling.
Before I start this, I would like to clarify that I have every exotic weapon in the game (INCLUDING GJALLARHORN) available on xbox. I have used every weapon and can say that icebreaker is my favorite.
I am sick of gjallarhorn elitists on here thinking that they are so much better than everyone else. They kick players out of groups and tease them about it. It really isn't funny or cool. For all of you special snowflakes out there who don't want other people to have what you have, get a grip.
Gjallarhorn isn't as OP as people say it is (for pve it's good but not godly, for pvp truth beats it by a longshot[better tracking+bigger blast radius]). Gjallarhorn only gets targets down really fast on a solar burn nightfall. Other than that, it really doesnt melt bosses as fast as people say it does. Truth is a very close second to gjallarhorn. Its tracking is much better and the damage is fairly close to gjallarhorn's. "Oh but Wolfpack rounds are sooooo goood!" Yes, they do a lot of damage. However, Truth or Hunger of Crota can pretty much do any job that the Gjallarhorn can (eliminate the target). Personally, I am fine with doing the strike for 2 minutes more if I'm not using gjally (it doesn't really make much more of a difference than that). If I don't have it on me in a strike, I'm not going to switch it onto my character with the app. It's not worth it. It's not necessary.
Gjallarhorn is situational as hell. You use it for bosses, and even then you can only use it when you have heavy. To get heavy, you have to get lucky and find it or spend 30 minites on a weekly heroic strike to get strange coins to buy heavy. People say that you can run a whole strike with Gjallarhorn. Sure it is possible, but what kind of moron would do that? It would be more challenging to deal with the reload and finding heavy than just doing the strike normally.
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Now on to the common complaints about Xur selling Gjallarhorn.
1) "Everyone will have it so it won't be as awesome!"
You special snowflakes out there need to think about how childish you are acting. It is a gun in a videogame. Who cares if you have something? No one. Everyone bought this game and has the right to enjoy it. If this means getting gjallarhorn, then everyone has the right to have a fair chance at getting it.
2) "It's going to get nerfed!"
Come on guys, really? Bungie nerfs guns because of pvp, not pve! Gjally is good for pve, not pvp! Duh!! Vex mythoclast was nerfed because people were complaining about getting killed super fast by it. Soon enough, felwinter's lie and the last word will also be nerfed! When people complain, Bungie feels the need to interfere. So why doesn't Bungie nerf guns for pve? BECAUSE THE ENEMIES ARE FREAKING COMPUTER GENERATED! THEY DON'T COMPLAIN! Why is this so difficult to understand?? Therefore, Bungie doesn't feel the need to nerf guns for pve. Also, I don't hear any of us complaining that it is too op in pve. Hmmm I wonder why... oh yea, it is because people like it the way it is! Get it through your head; BUNGIE ONLY NERFS GUNS FOR PVP.
EDIT: People are mentioning the AR nerf. If you were keeping up to date on all of those articles, they nerfed ARs in pve and pvp only to make more people use pulse rifles. That's why they had all of those graphs. It was NOT because ARS were OP in pve. They never were. Imo hand cannons have always been superior in pve. Anyways, the point is that guns aren't nerfed in pve because they are OP.
3) "Xurners didn't earn their gjallarhorns!"
Again with this special snowflake bullshit.
Earn=work
Luck=luck, not work
People who buy guns from xur actually earn them, because they did work to get those strange coins. People who get lucky didn't earn it at all. THEY JUST GOT LUCKY! "But you have to do a raid to have that chance, so you are working." Not all the time! My friend asked if I could give him the gorgons cp. He was a level 23 and had no experience. You know what I watched him get? GJALLARHORN! It pissed me off and it would do the same to any of you. Xurners are earners, most of us, INCLUDING MYSELF, got lucky enough to get gjallarhorn. Also, what about all of those poor souls out there who have put 500+ hours into this game, AND STILL HAVE'NT GOTTEN GALLY?? Don't they deserve it? Everyone should have a chance to get it. I got lucky enough to get mine at 520 hours, but many people aren't as lucky. They deserve gjallarhorn. By the way, gjally isn't off Xur's loot table. He will sell it, and when he does, I will be there to congratulate all of my friends who bought (EARNED) it.
4) "It is going to break crucible!"
You guys obviously haven't experienced the might of truth. It is a force greater than gjallarhon (pvp). With its superior tracking (I have seen it wrap around walls) and it's huge blast radius (wipe out several enemies at once), gjallarhorn cannot compare. "But Wolfpack is so op!" Not in crucible. Many of them run into walls or the floor and don't hit the enemy. I have survived Wolfpack from gjallarhorn many times. Besides, they don't do nearly as much damage in pvp as they do in pve. The masses of people who do try it in crucible if xur sells it will be disappointed, and will switch out that exotic for something much more useful (truth, the last word, thorn, etc.).
5) "Everything will be so easy!"
Why is this even a complaint? Isn't it better to get things done faster? Nuff said there.
EDIT: Some people are saying that it would make crota too easy and that you like a challenge. All it does is help to ensure that crota goes down. Do you guys enjoy wiping or something? Is that your idea of a challenge? A world where crota doesn't always go down seems more annoying than challenging.
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Also, for the next raid, who knows what will be a key weapon. For atheon cp, it was icebreaker (to all of those who say "but gally downs atheon is 17 seconds!" please be more realistic. You know you don't do this every time you fight atheon). For crota cp, it was gjallarhorn. For the next raid, who knows what will be good! I personally think that it will be thunderlord. Fallen tend to have arc shields, and everyone knows that one of the best arc weapons is thunderlord.
EDIT: A lot of people are saying that buying guns from xur isn't as exciting as getting it as a drop. If you are one of these people, then don't buy gjallarhorn from xur when he sells it! Buying guns is a CHOICE! If you prefer waiting to get lucky enough to get it as a drop instead of having a guaranteed way of getting it, go right ahead and do that. However, this is no reason to not want xur to sell it.
EDIT: People are saying that Xur isn't random so they are keeping him from selling ghorn. He definitely is. They randomized it before the game released and planned xur to sell those guns in the order they appeared after being randomized. After megaman figured out the plan, they had to randomize it again. Ghorn is still in his loot table and will be sold.
The gjallarhorny fools out there are just going through a phase. It will be over soon enough. Xur should and will sell Gjallarhorn eventually. Try not to cry too hard guardians.
TL;DR- Xur will and should sell Gjallarhorn. It is not OP in pve, it is beat out by truth in pvp, it will not be nerfed if it is sold by Xur, people who buy it from Xur will have earned it, and the special snowflakes out there need to get a grip.
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Oh my God JUST STOP with these!
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TL;DR. Just because it's not good in PvP doesn't mean it's not good in PvE. It is God-tier in PvE. That's pretty much all I read, and this is what I'll reply. TL;DR: [spoiler][i]No.[/i][/spoiler]
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Guess what this games main premise is RNG. Get used to it or move on, also it's not impossible. People like me have gotten all the exotic weapons and Ghorn more then enough times
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Stop whining and get it from a drop like everyone else, thanks
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Omg shut the frak up I'm so tired of these posts
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I mean I guess you can post on my post to get people to look at urs. But ghorns wolf pack rounds truly are what make it way better than any rocket....even truth. The wolf pack is like a second rocket so in case the tracking didn't get it on the first try it will in the wolf pack. Stop hatin for no reason. U just looking for attention. #donationsaccepted
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They judge the game by playing time,meaning they want you to play and grind for the weapon(s) you're rooting to get.As you see last Tuesday bungie decided to decrease valus taurc health by 1/3.Why?Because there wasn't many people doing that strike and it took 22 minutes for the normal mode.So they want you to grind for those weapons people want it's playing time and the more you play the more weapons you'll get.
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Also I think the whole ghorn thing is really funny bc I got it on my very first drop in vog....Lol. that game loves me
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I agree I joined Crota with my friend and one of the members playing with is asked if I had a Ghallarhorn, and I said no (which is the truth), he responded by saying "kick him right now" I was like wtf dude you don't have to use the G-horn and he's like your stupid and then tells the host kick him right now, then I pointed out that my friend who has a max G-horn wasn't using his, he told the host my friend was stupid and should be kicked also, the moral of the story is that G-horn is overrated and people need to realize it's not necessary for raids and Destiny in general
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May as well with no new raid haha guess it's fun to shoot on patrol.
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I have Jellyhorn and I think he should sell it also, but these posts are tired old and really not needed.....soooo..... ヽ. Oh Look \\ _ \( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) < ⌒ヽ Another / へ\ / / \\ レ ノ ヽ_つ Gjallarhorn / / / /| ( (ヽ | |、\ | 丿 \ ⌒) | | ) / `ノ ) Lノ Thread (_/
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no gjalli = das kick!
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Xur should sell a raid instead.
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Good post. I agree with it all. I have 3 x lvl 32's and hundreds of hours of play time. There are 4 exotics that I'm missing. Invective and Thorn I have the bounties for, I don't like PVP so haven't got round to completing them (there are 2 of the 4 that I'm missing). The 4th horseman ... I only want this for the grimoire card. AND you've guessed it.... The jellyhorn. Every week I run 6 raids and 3 nightfalls and watch as others pick up the jellyhorn. I host gorgon checkpoints and sit on the rock near the water crying as low lever n00bs get the gun and ask "is this any good?". It makes jumping into the water and shooting myself in the foot something to look forward too. Every week I run to Xur holding my breath in anticipation, only to be handed another bag of dicks..... But, there is always next week.... Cry
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He should sell ghorn to cheer us up because we faced a decent amount of disappointment today lol
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TRUTH
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its almost certin after todays new update ... it wont get sold.
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"BECAUSE THE ENEMIES ARE FREAKING COMPUTER GENERATED! THEY DON'T COMPLAIN!" Man, that's awesome. You get a high five
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I hope Xur never sells the Gjallarhorn again so people who don't have one can cry about it not being sold
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-blam!- sell Gally now. No reason not to with no new raid on HoW.
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Edited by TechRonin: 4/13/2015 10:22:44 PMAlso when firing Gally at crota wolfpack ALWAYS get "immune" in stead of a damage number. This tell me the thier should be zero difference using Truth or Gally on crota
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It's the one weapon I always thought shouldn't be sold again. I just got mine yesterday and it is actually one of the few exotics I have not bought from xur.
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So you said things being too easy and pve being easy would be a good thing and it wont be nerfed for pve? Bungie will realize how insanely fast raids+strikes are done over the whole community. They dont want shit being done too quickly or easily. God xur should just sell no land beyond forever
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Xur shouldn't sell anything. All exotics are devalued as everyone can get them with pretty much no effort. You want an exotic, you should work for it.
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I really like this guy.