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Edited by Derpbot Alpha:
8/17/2015 4:49:54 PM
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How did you "earn" YOUR Gjallarhorn?
I don't think I need to tell anybody that there's been a lot of salt thrown around recently by folks lamenting the fact that they had to "earn" their Haller Haller Get Gjaller, and now anybody can just buy one.
The thing is though, by definition, if anybody that had one from a drop did actually earn it, they did so only by running the one activity that granted them the drop (and by extension getting to whatever level let them run that activity). That could have been the very first thing they had ever run that could grant you an exotic, and they'd have landed on the Jellyhorn. Nothing else affected the chances, and any belief to the contrary illustrates the Gambler's Fallacy.
That led me to thinking, what did those of us who got Ballerhorn in a drop [i]really[/i] do to "earn" the (until recently) rarest of guns?
So without further ado, I'd like to be the first to recount the legendary tale of how I "earned" my GGhorn.
Comment with your "epic tale" and let's see just how hard we all had to work! ;)
I hopped into a 5 man Normal Atheon fight and died during it.
#Gjallarhorn #IEarnedIt
tl;dr ITT share stories of any low effort "feats" you accomplished that gave you a Gjallarhorn drop, demonstrating the lack of a correlation between effort and reward, thus disproving that RNG counts as "earning" any more than Xûr does.
Edit: Now with 20% more quotation marks so everyone gets the joke
Edit 2: It occurs to me that in the original post I failed to mention the fact that for some, their YOLOhorn dropped after a particularly difficult feat, such that they really do feel that they earned theirs. My point is not to lessen the sense of accomplishment anyone felt after acquiring their Yellerhorn, but rather to highlight the fact that due to RNG, many of us "earned" ours in really easy/silly ways, and to invite the people who are sad/angry/disappointed at everyone's favorite Splatoon cosplayer to think about whether RNG really qualifies as earning something.
Cheers, all, and welcome to the Wolfpack!
Edit 3: Alterations to second paragraph regarding the description of what anyone who got a Gjally drop did that directly resulted in that drop. Also added tl;dr
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I bought it from Xûr :D
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2 RepliesWho cares? Gally gettin nerfed so it's irrelevant now. I don't care how little or how much it gets nerfed, it's ruined in my eyes just like so many other year one exotics.
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I 'earned' it by continuing to play Destiny until RNGeezus blessed Xur with the power to sell it again. #praiserngeezus
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I earned my Valhallahorn by working my 9 to 5 as an analytical chemist.
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Xūrned it ! [spoiler]yup I xūrned my third gjallahorn[/spoiler]
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I joined a vog run a but late and they killed atheon without my help and i got a gjallerhorn
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Edited by GigaChad: 8/19/2015 2:59:43 PMI accepted invite to gorgon chest from friend. I had to work so hard jumping on a couple rocks, running through a tunnel, and gosh holding down that square button at the Chest took all the energy that I had. Poof, gjallahorn, I worker so hard for it!!!! BTW, I've received three more since from same chest. I'm pooped....
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Played since day 1 and ran all the PVE stuff possible and have racked up 35+ ice breakers and dupes of many other exotics but not a single ghorn till xur sold me 3
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1 ReplyI earned mine buying the game last September during launch week. It just took 11 months to get, from xur.
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1 ReplyGot it by getting 9 strange coins from a weekly and doing that for weeks until gally came out and bought it [spoiler]ha I'm just kidding I ain't no xurner I got one from atheon and then one from night fall weekly crucible and PoE 35[/spoiler]
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I earned mine by working a job that makes me money and then I bought the game. That's how I "earned" mine.
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4 RepliesEdited by corujariousa: 8/19/2015 2:43:08 PMI earned mine by: - Playing the game for almost a year now. - Running raids multiple times. - Sucking up the frustration of getting the same exotic multiple times (ii.e.: MIDA Multi-Tool). - Sucking up the frustration of only receiving shards and energy for Nightfall and Raids while others would complain for getting their 5th Gjallarhorn. - Keep playiing Destiny despite all and sticking with it as THE ONLY VIDEOGAME I PLAY. - For having a truck load of Strange Coins from all activities and patiently waiting for XUR to sell something I wanted. - For being lucky when I decided to stay at work while my family enjoyed vacation abroad on the weekend XUR decided to sell Gjallarhorn. I agree. This talk from some folks that believe receiving their Gjallarhorn from a drop makes them more deserving of the weapon than someone who bought it from XUR is completely ridiculous. The only weapons you make for deserving are the ones you have to run Exotic Bounties (Thorn, Bad Juju, Invective, etc.). Even in this case I see unfairness as many are still to receive the bounties. I thank Bungie for finally allowing XUR to sell Gjallarhorn. Even knowing it will be "nerfed", I now play the game with less frustration (and anger). I am happy I was finally able to get the one Exotic I really wanted for my collection. I trully feel lighter from finally removing the frustration I was carrying for a long time. Note: I recently received my 3rd Crux of Crota. I know folks who have dismantled many Gjallarhorns and still do not have that. I do not feel I've :"earned" the right to have Crux of Crota anymore than these folks. There is nothing any player can do to guarantee drops. As I stated previously on other posts, Lottery is more fair than Bungie RNG system. Keep the fight in the game. Peace everywhere else. Help others whenever possible.
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There's no such thing as earning any exotics in this game aside from activity specific weapons ex. Vex Mythoclast, Elder Cipher weapons, Necrocasm. Even then it's just super random. I was the only one of my friends without Gally before Xur sold it recently but I had all of the same accomplishments in the game. It's getting nerfed soon and then everyone's will be useless anyway :,(
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VoG exotic chest and the flawless trials chest. And my third I xurned it xD.
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I got mine from a nightfall but I didn't buy it from xur when he sold it and the crazy thing is that this nightfall I got another gally
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I earned my 3 by play since the beta and spending hours working towards the goal of my Gally. When Xur sold it i felt I had earned 3 by now so that is how many I bought.
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5 RepliesI got it in a trade. I got mine from your sister for the D.
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Who care. Enough of Gjallarhorn posts already! Time to move on
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I haven't 'earned' any one of the nine I have. They were all given to me for free :D
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The day after I bought it from Xur I "earned" it through the prison of elders. Funny I felt like the one I bought took more effort to get...
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I earned my ghorn by running nightfall, the raids, weekly strikes, and other playlists every week on all three characters, which led to my ghorn!!!!! .....From xur!!!!!!! #XurningIsEarning
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Chanced upon my first one in a Crota's End Hard Mode. My other two I bought on the day of the Reckoning.
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Edited by Ruggerri: 8/19/2015 2:44:27 PMFrom xur and anyone saying thats not deserving go -blam!- yourself, college work kids dont let me waste my life unto this game so xur was nice enough to have it! :)
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I bought mine from the shipright last leap year for 2 blueprints
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I played and waited for the day Xur would sell it again. and he did, so I bought it with strange coins that I farmed
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got a purple from the postmaster after I did a public event on the moon. gave the purple to Rahool. 'Horn.
