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've paid a total of 180 dollars (including the pre ordered Taken King) for the game, then did the weeklies until I had the coins, and bought it from Xur. Totally earned.
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28 poe first time I played
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I got my 3 from the nightfall
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I earned mine the day I bought the game. I just had to wait for RNG to give me it.
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Bought it week 2 when he first sold it. I was kicking myself for not buying the red death the first week & low & behold the gally in week 2
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Crota and a nightfall
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1 nightfall 2 hard Crota run
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Week before xur sold it got it in crota raid at the death singer
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Legendary Engram in Week 2. The Sunday Xûr left after having sold it the first time.
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Got my last 1 on vog after killing atheon
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Nightfall, it was Archon Priest with solar burn. It was fate.
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I got ghorn by: #1 Gorgon Chest #2 Crota Hard mode #3 Iron Banner #4 Bought it just so I can say I got ghorn every way possible.
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I got mine from my one and only Vault run. But I don't feel special or anything that I [b]randomly[/b], I could care less about how you get a weapon. It really shouldn't matter, and if it does to you, then find something better to do with your time.
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I was doing solo Crota each week with a fraction of lost hope for hawkmoon. I hit the jackpot and got g horn from death singer twice in a row from different characters. On the next character however, the hawkmoon dropped. Happiness and joy. But that wasn't the first time I got it. The first time was during Sepiks void burn. First time with void burn. That's when me and my buddy I met in patrol destroyed the servitor. He got a thunderlord. I got the Gjallarhorn. I did not know its power back then. And was more into the thunderlord. That is until I unlocked the exotic Wolfpack rounds. There, I knew how powerful this beast is.
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I got my first Ghorn from an engram that I got through a nightfall! And I got my second and Atheon NM ^^
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It was a dark and stormy night. My friends list gray save for one guardian in a nightfall. I needed said nightfall but I was hesitant to join uninvited. My need for the reward from RNGeezus would not be denied I hit join fireteam. My anticipation was killing me, questions flooding my mind, where will it start me at? Is there a chance he has made it to the end? I hoped he had because the archon priest had sent me packing the day before and vengeance would be mine. My ship makes a nose dive time stood still the screen fades and reapers and I see mission reward screen the guardian who had soloed it got 9 strange coins and a blue engram while I emerged victorious having earned my first of 6 ballerhorns
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Earned it when I paid for Destiny.
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Normal Crota
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Who cares? 3 weeks before the nerf, they already lost.
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i didnt earn it i got it from RNG from deathsinger
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I killed Crota :) (was sword bearer so I see it as justified)
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Edited by Brickanics: 8/16/2015 6:41:07 PMBy earning strange coins and purchasing it instead of a random RNG giving it to me for free.
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[quote]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, everybody that had one from a drop earned it only by running the one activity that granted them the drop. 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 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![/quote] I got 2 from rng drops then deleted all my dudes 3 weeks ago as I had everything so when xur was selling it i gave him some of those coin that the nightfalls gave me insead of droping me a ghorn or other exotic . Earned it . And it has not broken the game big shock
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Xur week two
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Edited by SmoovDougie: 8/16/2015 6:44:43 PMI grinded countlessly for almost a year for strange coins. Then when rng didnt bless me with what i wanted after nearly a year of playing. I "earned" my gally from xur
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Was feeding a infant as my friend 4 maned hard deathsinger lol