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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 it from a legendary engram, got so excited I screamed and everyone in the house got mad.
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Bought it week 1 or 2
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By it taking days of playtime, countless vanguard strikes, nightfalls, raids, engrams, etc. Then getting it in a nightfall like 4 weeks ago...
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Legendary engram. Twas a good week. I got Icebreaker gally and fatebringer all in one week =)
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I bought it week 2
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I joined the nightfall just at the end and got lucky Second was from solo nightfall
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Like a bitch xurning it haha just kidding
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I didn't earn it i just got lucky that's all
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DeeJ point of view Wow those 2 weekly heroics I grinded were really hard. I defiantly earned that gjallerhorn Half of the community's pov Wow those 2 weekly heroics I grinded were really easy. I probably don't deserve this but meh
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My first "Row Row Fight the Powahorn" came from a Legendary Engram from a Roc Strike. And then from VOG Normal when my team was going for Flawless Raider, and then some others along the way of forgotten time. And most recently my 7th came from a Nightfall last week. #Humblebrag
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1st one dropped on Atheon a month ago 2nd VoG exo chest 3rd this week's Nightfall
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Well I got my first from vog chest, then in the same raid I got the vex too
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3 from 28 POE and 1 from Nightfall
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1 ReplyWas running around in the starting zone on Earth during a patrol. I was just shooting random Fallen all over the place, something I tend to do when I'm bored. A Dreg near the crashed ship dropped a legendary engram, which I decided was worth a trip to the Tower for. Lo and behold, it decoded into a Gjallarhorn.
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Got my first from opening exotic cheat for the first time and got another from killing crota
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Ohhhh noooo!!!! I'm sorry for you at least it didn't happen like it did to me with getting a gun. Past two weeks I had gotten the gun a day before zur sells it. Number 1 point get over it he sold it once why can't he sell it again. Might as well let the new players play with it before the nerf.
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:3 PoE. RNG was kind to me.
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You jackasses understand that there is no such thing as earning a weapon the only way of earning a weapon will be when taken king comes out and your hunting for fifty parts of a weapon
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Earned one with a Crota kill Earned another from xur with coins
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I "earned" mine from Being lucky with RNG
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1 Reply#IEarnedIt [spoiler]got my first one on my first poe run[/spoiler]
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Phogoth nightfall I logged on to destiny saw my two friends were doing it so I joined them. Landed into the strike, moved three steps then the mission ended and I had GJALLAHORN. Earned it after 0 kills 0 assists 0 deaths 0 orbs 0 nothing. Lulz
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From crucible. Rumble match.
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By completing weeklies and then visiting my favorite vendor! [spoiler]im looking at you xur :D [/spoiler]
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2nd nightfall
