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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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1st: Gorgons Maze (Hard) 2nd: Atheon Normal 3rd: Gorgons Maze (Hard) 4th: PoE 28 on my Hunter
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We still talking about this,peoole need to get over it,its a weapon in a game.......
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PVP drop 4th day of destinys release. That's when everyone was idiots on exotic weapon. "Like wtf is a icebreaker,ghallyhorn,hawkmoon and the last word. I mean come a full auto handcannon,salty players would say he has a modded controller or he hacked the game."
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I got mine from my secondary character on poe guaranteed exotic for first time
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1 ReplySo I walked over to xur and was like "hey dude let me get a gally" and he was like "my will is not my own" and then I payed the man
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from sucking rngesus man titties
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2 from hard Crota. One from the VoG chest and three from xur.
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From xur
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Two times crucible one time nightfall.
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I did horribly and lost a game in the second ever iron banner. For this loss I was awarded a purple engram when most became blues. Rahool made it into YOLOHORN. So earned? Please... Not remotely.
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Once upon a time... I shall never have the Gjallarhorn. Couldn't find a team and don't have enough coins.
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4 RepliesI earned it when I payed for the game.
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Not a insult Joins Crota Hard Kills 1 Knight Crota dies ,gets Gally [b][i]Destiny[/i][/b]
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1 ReplyI earned mine with 17 strange coins
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2 from nightfall 2 from crota 1 from VoG
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Control match a few weeks ago
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Nightfall drop in the first month. I looked at it and kinda said "eh. A rocket" because I used deviant gravity at that point. It didn't even get leveled up until like 2 months later when the gjallarhorn hype hit the community like a freight train. My plan c, my first and favorite exotic got much more use.
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4 Repliesearn? you mean being RNG blessed
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What's better fatebringer or fang of ir yut Low or found verdict Thorn or last word
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Went 33-3 in crucible. I've had it dropped 5 times and that wasn't my first one, but I think I earned that one.
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[quote]Sigma probability states that for any probable event in a random setting (x) the likelihood of desired event (y) occurring is = 0 x infinity + (x)(y). Meaning no matter how much you did to influence the outcome (y) the actual outcome is equal to (x)(y) making any assertion of influenced outcome null. Meaning they had no influence on the outcome at all despite their rigorous attempt at adding more variables into the equation through repetitive efforts. The likelyhood of randomness cannot be influenced regardless of the number you throw in front of it, it will always be nullified. In other words your errand was that of a fool. There is no need to be sympathetic to an arbitrary causation as it was only a cause driven by the ignorance of faith.[/quote]
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I xurned it the first time he sold it and i've had 5-10 drop over the time i've played the game
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1400 hours, 150+ raid completions, Sherpa, personal raid team leader, nightfalls on all characters for almost every week after hard VoG was released, faith, loyalty, and love for the game. Did I earn it? I think I did. Let the record show I got my first after 900 hours right before HoW.
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Edited by Thaddeus Hamlet: 8/15/2015 4:39:07 AMAfter a year of playing, with i don't know how many strikes, not a whole lot of raids, only a few nightfalls... [spoiler]I bought it. Might buy another one[/spoiler]
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Week 1
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Edited by Joker_Karasu: 8/15/2015 4:36:42 AMGot my first Gjallarhorn from a legendary engram in the Loot Cave, didn't even know what it was and the only reason I didn't shard it was because it looked cool, but it still stayed in my vault for months until I decided to level it up. Hard Light which I also got that same night from a legendary from leveling up the cryptarch off the engram that yielded Gjallarhorn got a lot more use. My friend that I had been playing with was pissed, all he got was some warlock armor called Heart of Praxic Fire. Did I earn either of those weapons? Hell no, any fool can shoot into a cave. The only weapons anyone has ever earned are the exotic bounties and the raid weapons such as Vex and Black Hammer. I had to kill Aetheon 23 times and Crota over 30 times.
