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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 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.
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#1 Deathsinger normal #2 Crota Hard #3 Xur (making life easier)
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1st engram 2nd nightfall(solo) 3rd iron banner
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Uh...I earned mine by buying the game.
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I think it's all cool its all luck its rng and heck I got my ghorn from an purple engram and I got two from nightfalls I don't care if he's selling it he should sell it so everyone is ready for TTK so you go bungie!
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Crota Hard
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First run on prison of elders. Made my jaw drop lol.
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First one: nightfall second one: crota hard
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1 ReplyEdited by ManBearPigIets: 8/16/2015 4:27:23 AMWeek 3: Hey what's this purple thing on the ground never seen one of those before. Cool it's a legendary heavy engram, let's take it to Rahool and see what it is. Gjallarhorn! Sweet, I didn't have enough coins last week, and I always thought their concept art of this rocket looked pretty cool. I wonder if these wolfpack things are any good, probably won't be worth the exotic slot though once I get any other exotic weapon.
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Edited by RagingPheonix00: 8/16/2015 4:30:57 AMby quit playing for 2 months then a week before HOW drops, I get on to help a buddy through the Vault and it falls out of Atheons ass. but it was RNG so I did not earn it as a guaranteed reward, I did however earn the 2 from Friday as a guaranteed purchase.
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Xûr. Week 2. Shut up.
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Luck. Because that is how the game works.
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I "earned" mine by getting carried as a lvl 28 in hard atheon.
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Edited by Neutrill: 8/16/2015 4:23:44 AMI earned it. You plebs just get to buy it. Absolute bullshit. You know how hard it was to come second in control? I didn't even get the gun until October and all you casuals get to buy it IN AUGUST. Cmon bungie wtf
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Nightfall
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deathsinger as my last exotic(not counting bounty ones).
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2 RepliesBought it happily this morning. Still, really happy the RANDOM number generator blessed you so long ago. Peace be with you...and also with you.
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Edited by Vader Dude 54: 8/16/2015 4:09:40 AMOne from a vanguard eagle strike. The other from a white engram
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I earned two of them by turning on my Playstation and looking for Xur for three minutes, just like most of my other exotics
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My three from nightfalls.
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Well I played the activities that had exotic drop chances, and acquired 1-5 of every exotic in the game. I don't even have very many hours but I've acquired every exotic weapon besides Elder Ciphers (because I stopped playing).
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3 normal crota= 3 ghorns
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Played prison of elders for the first time, today.
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First time through prison of elders on 28.lol. don't really feel like i earned it. Now the thorn. I earned that mother -blam!-er lol. If gjallarhorn had a bounty then i would kind of understand but it doesn't
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The day House of Wolves came out I did POE on level 28 and got it in the chest. Lol. I got my second one from a Dragon Strike.
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Accumulated 190 strange coins over 10 months, bought three from xur yesterday
