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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got a purple from the postmaster after I did a public event on the moon. gave the purple to Rahool. 'Horn.
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Funny story.... I called it....I bought my Ghorn after months and months and months of running all raids/nightfalls/etc on (at the time was my 2 characters)......and then it drops for the first time on one of my nightfall runs this week. My friend and I burst out laughing....because this embodies my luck in Destiny.
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I earned my GHorn by waking up early Saturday (something like 11:00), wandering around the last city trying to find Xur, then buying the GHorn.
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Tried to melee A.P. during nightfall when I thought he was already dead. Had to do the entire nightfall again. Once completed it gave me one
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I sat on a ledge and shot rockets at an oversized knight when this dude told me to.
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1. Ran a vanguard roc strike on the archon priest, was told by a random guy, if I get a legendary heavy weapon engram, I'll get a gjallarhorn 2. Deathsinger 3. Atheon 4. First POE ever 5. Trials lighthouse chest
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Soloed a phogoth nightfall soon after the dark below release back in December. Got a second one later, ran some Atheon hard checkpoints to help my friend get a vex mythoclast, (he still doesn't have one), found a Gjallarhorn waiting at the postmaster.
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I earned mine by playing the game. I got lucky with three random drops.
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I killed something.
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I never got it! *Cries*
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Day one player never got it to drop so I bought 3
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Home invasions. Took 12 houses. 4 PlayStation, 2-360s and one Xbox one. Before I found a house with an account that had gallerhorn
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i earned the hell out of it when xur came last weekend lols
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People who get Gjallarhorn as RNG earn it because they put time into doing that activity or even the game its self.
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If you bought it then you "earned it" there is no where in this game that states you are promised a ghorn for doing anything.. There is a chance at it dropping so there for you don't earn it..you do your thorn bounty now that is "earning it" cause that is promised for completing the bounty!
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The problem with the "earned it" philosophy is that other activities such as Nightfalls are not remotely challenging. The people who look down on "xurners" are the first to bitch when there is no burn on a Nightfall, it takes more than ten minutes to complete, and doesn't give them exactly what they want. Access through Xur is balanced in the context of trivial Nightfalls, gorgon chests, and cheeseball raids such as Crota's End.
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Dose it really matter how you obtain any weapon? You either get one or don't. Either from RNG or xur. Either way you put time in on crusable or from grinding for coins or any other way to obtain it. It just comes down to time spent and luck.
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I didn't it randomly landed in an area of the game I was in one day
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I earned my strange coins not random like you know not a random generator
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2 nightfall drops and one PoE chest drop. All within the past 4 or 5 weeks.
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Nightfall Defeating crota on hard
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I didn't earn mine it dropped in a nightfall
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Grinding a billion strikes and such. Many strange coins later...Xur ended the misery.
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Free crota chest 2 days before it stopped dropping exotics. Crota Deathsinger Crota Nightfall
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1. Nightfall 2. CE Hard Deathsinger 3. Legendary Engram from Dragon Strike
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Skirmish, led the team with a 1.2 I think and we won. I've also seen a guy go 2 kills and 8 deaths in clash and get one.