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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First one was from a Rainbow Burn Nightfall during TDB, it was Archon Priest and I literally threw my controller at my wall. Second was from Deathsinger literally minutes after I finished 331 my first one. Third and last because I only need 3 was from the Solar burn Valus nightfall.
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I xurned it. I'm ready for the hate
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Iorn banner
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Got mine from my first 28 poe run. Earning the coins would have been harder.
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I happily handed 17 strange coins over that I earned and saved up. I didn't get no RNGesus to hand me mine on a silver platter.
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With 17 strange coins lol
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I bought mine from week 2 Xûr like a champ.
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I got my first horn from Atheon My second one dropped in a nightfall strike
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The son of Oryx gave it to me :D
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I've had 3 in VoG 3 in crota 2 in ToO and 1 from a legendary engram that dropped from a thrall
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I didn't "earn" my gjallarhorn.....i got lucky and it dropped off atheon, just like everyone else I got lucky.
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I was the swordbearer for crota raid. 1 sword crota normal just to help some friends get gear to level up. I didn't have one and had become content without it. I read the feed but it didn't show my name and my heavy weapon slots were full so when my buddy said that I had gotten it I thought he was just bs'n me. Go to orbit. Bam. There it was. After that, couldn't be bothered for about 2 hours while I maxed it out. :)
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Too package
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By earning an ass load of coins and buying 3 of them
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Crota hard 2nd week, nobody in my 4 man team had gally and I had a oneway ticket
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Nightfall , joined last minute lol
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Well i got[b][i][u]lucky[/u][/i][/b]getting it on crota hard and again on vog exotic chest but i dismantled that one then got two new ones from xur
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~(.-.)~ Im upside down git gud
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1) Legendary Engram 2) Gorgon Chest 3) Nightfall 4) Atheon 5) Nightfall 6) Crota 7) Ir Yut 8) Ir Yut 9) 34 PoE Chest 10) 35 PoE Chest 11) Lighthouse Chest 12) Ir Yut 13) Nightfall 14) Xur And yet, I still haven't got a Pocket Infinity.
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Bought it from xur at like 4 in the morning yesterday then just got it maxed out this morning.
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Did shit all at the end of PoE 28... Like a boss
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From a blue engram at launch,it's almost an antique now :)
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Got all three from Xur lolololol how mad are you
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I've grinded weekly heroics, nightfalls, and raids in hopes of getting one since October, but I just decided to buy it because the RNG in this game is bullshit.
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I bought 3 this weekend! Greatest feeling ever to finally have every exotic. Gjallarhorn has never dropped for me and I don't think it ever will. I've carried noobs through nightfalls and they've gotten it, I've seen many people get it out of atheon chest and deathsinger. I've had the person that was dead the whole crota on hard encounter get the damn gun! This gun seems to mock me in every way rngesuslly possible but finally I have it and can say FK YOU GJALLAHORN!
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Got it from a legendary engram, got so excited I screamed and everyone in the house got mad.