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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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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.
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Same way everyone did. I BOUGHT THE -blam!-ING GAME!!!
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Gorgon chest x 1 Xur x 2
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1 ReplyMy psn buddy earned his, dont know where he got it from though. But he really earned his, bcz he has helped so many, including me, by doing nightfalls, raids and teaching others. Moosh, u earned yours ;)
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2 RepliesXur, he's my boy
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1 ReplySome Notable "earns" Tlw, fourth horseman -first chest in crota(before patch) Icebreaker -purple engram on patrol G-horn-deathsinger...dead from shrieker blast, so I watched as my friends finished her. Thunderlord-.56 crucible finish. I could go on, but I think you get the picture; )
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Bought one today...
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I got my first one from a values tuarc nightfall and two others from various other nightfalls then three more from raids
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Nightfall
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I got a Legendary Engram from the Daily Heroic late in TDB...
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2 Replies[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[/quote] I just got it from poe 3 days ago & now xur has it for sale...o well..think he should've sold it long ago.
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I earned my gjally by grinding and grinding and grinding since day one and finally... XUR sold it.
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5 hours into the game in week one, random drop. Does that mean I earned it. Lol.
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1st was nf and 2nd was exotic chest
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Xurnes my first one, 3 from crucible, 2 from atheon, 2 from crota, 1 from nightfall.
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Atheon normal right after how dropped
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I've never earned the Gjallerhorn. I received all three from random drops. I dismantled two out of boredom.
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Well let's see, I logged in, then ran over and bought it from xur with my earned strange coins
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Well let's see. I earned the chance for an exotic. That happened to be gjally. Almost as if I actually did earn it. Not taking away from xurners but don't you dare attack me for 18 days of gameplay to get it during Atheon. I earned this weapon. Don't even try to take that away from me. Xurners earned it as well, but I prefer mine solely for the reaction.
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I'll tell you the way I [b]found[/b] my first one [spoiler]lol[/spoiler] 2 manning Crota (normal) with me at 31 and friend at 32 (pre HoW) and I got it at deathsinger, I was happy!
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I bought it. Smd
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I got 3 in less than 1 minute
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I got 3 on xbox one in one week. I got 1 in a nightfall and i completely lost it. I think my family thought about calling the ward. Afew days later i ran normal crota with a friend who was pissed i had one and me and a buddy jokingly said i was gonna get another on deathsinger and turns out number 2 came haha. The the same night i switched to another toon and on crota hard and killed crota. Got a third one with my friend still in the party i dont think i have ever heard pure screaming and a xbox turn off on my life haha
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Legendary engram, not from Rahool though, Ives all day! Funny thing was that I had just started a group for players without the Horn... Related?
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From xur
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Nightfall on The Summoning Pits
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