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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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got my first one from playing Control, i had 2 kills, 4 assists and .3 k/d in the entire match
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Lols... I got my first jumping all my chars into the gorgon chest. Second my very first POE run night of expansion drop. And my third from a solo nightfall this past Wednesday. Ya... I "earned" the crap out of those...specially the first and 2nd...well maybe even the 3rd too cause this nightfall was wicked easy this week. Lmao.
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Simple, I did a few weekly heroics got some strange coins and then eventually xur sold it so I bought it with the coins I earned.
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Week 2 nightfall on Xbox Xur on ps4
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A nightfall on sepiks way back in October, didn't realise what was so special about it till February when I maxed it out.
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Edited by Jareco: 8/16/2015 9:29:43 AM1st- Legendary Engram 2nd- Iron Banner
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2 RepliesI got mine from Omnigal arc burn lightswitch nightfall
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Legendary engram
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You know why I'm happy xur sold the gjallarhorn ? Is so I don't shit like this happening again , yeah "earn" my ass
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Rank 50 cryptarch package gave me a legendary heavy engram=Gjallarhorn
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Being a 29 Titan defender and having my friends carry me thru a nightfall
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Got mine from a nightfall this last Tuesday, I fell like Xur knows what I get and he sells it
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Heavy engram after 8 hours of grinding vanguard roc's
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1 ReplyTechnically xür is like bestbuy You work a 40 hour week and then get that paycheck Take that paycheck, cash it, then go to bestbuy and buy something Rng- it's like standing on the corner waving a cup and asking for someone to drop a couple of coins and just maybe one day you get a $100 bill! And...end scene
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first week of trials 9-0 chest
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Gorgon chest last November. My first raid. Died not 30 times did not help my team one bit. So I "earned" it for being so terrible lol
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Skirmish match
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Gorgon chest the first time, second one was CE when I was running sword with a Titan. Haven't played in like 3 weeks and I'm not going to buy the Gjally he's selling since I already have 2 of em.
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I struggled through a level 28 Prison of Elders run. I took damage [i]two whole times[/i] to get that. Seriously, it was scary stuff.
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I got mine after getting my ass handed to me in Crucible. #earnedit
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"Earn"=RNG
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I got 3 of mine in a weird order. My first I got from deathsinger on normal, the next one my friend and I got my second gally on normal crota, and finally I got my last one from deathsinger on hard. When will I get my last one from crota hard? I wonder haha.
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One from Crota hard 6 months after release, another from VoG normal 2 weeks before HOW too. I'm not much for having duplicate items so I thought about dismantling the 2nd one, then decided not to for some reason. Now that it probably wont be the most OP gun out there anymore, I might just keep my 1st one.
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Cryptarch. Oh yeah, so much more earned than any other way.
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I was looking for Xur in the tower, hoping for him to have Red Death since I was nlt able to buy it the previous week. Once I found him two items caught my attention Sunbreakers an Gjallarhorn. I was mainly a Voidwalker back then so I ended up buying Gjallarhorn.
