I'm looking at how beneficial it is to Bungie that Gally isn't sold for a while. Players need an carrot on a stick to chase. Gally is very appealing for many reasons. I know many players that have grinded hundreds of hours for their first one to drop. If xur sold it a second time, Destiny's average player and daily players' play time count would drop drastically. So what does Bungie do? They hold out on selling their "carrot on a stick" exotic and sell exotics that no one really wants most of the time. Sure randomness can throw out certain results more often than others, but it's ridiculous if you think about how coincidental beneficial it is to Bungie. I understand completely about your struggle with vex. I completed around 30ish some hard runs before TDB dropped as a lvl 29 to get my first vex to drop. I however don't see how this is relevant since we are debating about xur and gallyhorn. It's confirmed that the only way to get vex is from beating hard mode atheon. Why even mention the vex since it's not in xur's loot table? You talk about how ppl wouldn't abuse the heavy ammo glitch as if no one abuses other glitches. How many times was atheon and Crota cheesed? How many times have ppl cheated in this game? The majority of this gaming community will do just about anything to make the game easier for themselves. Why would the heavy ammo glitch be an exception? Oh and please man, everyone knows how op the gallyhorn is. Look at statics. The majority of fireteams want it for a certain reason. Not because it looks cool or that it's "rare." It's because it's a dps monster. Just like thorn, it's desired/used by many just because it's op.