Bought an extra just in case we get 4 characters someday (you know it's gonna happen for year 3).

I got mine from a Hard VoG Raid last week. Still way cooler than buying it, though.

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Insurmountable Skullfort is second only to the Stand Asides in Titan exotics that really change the game.

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JK! Yay for G-Horn! My Xbox exotic collection is complete!!!!!

So, I'm sitting here thinking, "gee, should I buy some extra GHorns for my PS characters?" and then I realize, I don't have one on the xbox, and my lvl 6 xbox character is nowhere near SC needed to buy one. Now I'm sad.

It's the beginning of the nerf. Gjallerhorn just lost one of its signature perks--exclusivity.

Who wants to run a bunch of bounties on the PS4?

On the one hand, I'm sort of disappointed-- I liked the idea of there being some guns that Xur would never sell, even if it meant I never had one.

He doesn't sell Monte Carlo, 4th Horseman, or Hawkmoon :-p

My favorite comment in the Xur thread on reddit:

Zavala: Smell that? You smell that?

Ikora: What?

Zavala: Wolfpacks, girl. Nothing else in this star system smells like that. [kneels]

Zavala: I love the smell of wolfpacks in the morning. You know, one time we had the Hellmouth bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' hive body. The smell, you know that solar burn smell, the whole Hellmouth. Smelled like... [sniffing, pondering]

Zavala: ...victory. Someday this war's gonna end... [suddenly walks off]

C'MON MOTHERFUCKERS, C'MON
C'MON MOTHERFUCKERS, C'MON
C'MON MOTHERFUCKERS, C'MON

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All of the exotic helmets have way better stats than the ones I had, so I bought them all. I wouldn't bother for an extra couple points, but they each have 20-30 more points than my old ones.

Oh, and I got my 3rd Gally, of course :)

ALL of my Xbox Coins have gone to Helmet Engrams in the hopes that I can get a Symbiote or LBN... And now Xur sells them both. :P

All I kept getting were freakin' Rams with lower stats than my first one, and the useless Hunter helmets.

on a side note. Can someone buy 10 Gjallys and make a video of them dismantling them all?

If I had the vault space, I'd volunteer XD

I got my 2nd one last week in a nightfall, then my brother who didn't have one got one from an engram. Bunches of people online got them this week, they definitely want everyone to have a chance to burn the world down one last time before the nerf...

The wolf/chest racing increased play in the slow time leading up to expansion, so will this (not to the same amount). Bungee ain't no fool!

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Do I feel foolish buying four more when I already have two maxed out? Yes, foolish that I only have six.

Edit: cuz Swype

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Wolfpack Freedom Pew Pew Pew Celebration Day (or whatever reddit is calling it) is a pretty cool community/social story. It's like Destiny Christmas out there.

This isn't the usual "difference of opinions" that I expect to hear from the gaming community over any title. What I don't understand is "why". I get why some people wouldn't like Destiny. That's fine. But why the blinding rage and complete lack of logic or reason from people who are generally logical and reasonable? I guess Alfred was right. Some people just want to watch the world burn, lol

I can only take a guess and assume that it's a byproduct of the investment system. When posed with the question of why HBO was generally a more positive and creative community than DBO, the only difference really is the game.

I would guess that it has to do with people, well, being TOO invested in items rather than experiences. Bungie wants each gun to have a story, and it would seem that others having the same gun but a different story somehow lessens your own. If all you were concerned about were the experience, someone else having the gun wouldn't matter, since they didn't have the experience.

It's like, I've had quite a few interesting, hilarious, and borderline illegal encounters with famous people. Back in Michigan, when I tell my family that Clint Eastwood was behind me in the popcorn line before Gran Torino, that's like a huge deal even though that's the most banal of my encounters. But out here in LA? Everybody has stories like that and nobody really cares.

When everybody's got a story, nobody does. When everyone is legend, nobody is.

By soloing the starting chest in Crota's End the week after it came out. All of those minutes wiping until it spawned in the first room. :(

What I don't understand is "why". I get why some people wouldn't like Destiny. That's fine. But why the blinding rage and complete lack of logic or reason from people who are generally logical and reasonable?

Even the most seasoned of Voidwalkers couldn't escape if you fell in :)

I know we've talked about this a bit here at DBO recently, but I'm shocked by some of the rampant negativity on twitter today around Xur selling Gjallarhorn. Of course, there's plenty of celebration going around. But I'm seeing a surprising amount of rage and frustration coming from people in my feed... people who I normally think of as being thoughtful, reasonable, and generally positive. Everything from "this is a spit in the face to people who earned Gjallarhorn" (tough to count the number of things wrong with that statement) to "Bungie is just dangling it in people's faces right before they make it useless".

It seems like there is a portion of the gaming community that is so angry about Destiny that they will find a way to complain about literally any piece of news or info. This has always been somewhat true of many games, but I feel like it is getting a bit crazier lately. I had a discussion with someone a few days ago who said he had stopped playing Destiny because "there was no point to playing PvE because PvP players got all the best gear" (???!!!). Another friend of mine said he couldn't forgive Bungie for selling House of Wolves as DLC because the brief clip of the Reef social space in a trailer a couple years ago is proof that the content was finished before the game launched (WTF?!).

What I find frustrating yet fascinating about all of this is the level of insanity and flagrant misinformation that Destiny haters seem to cling to. Even Arthur Gies at Polygon (who I generally admire and have loads of respect for) was raging at Destiny a few weeks ago for only having "about 15 missions", when it is actually closer to 30, not including strikes, raids, quests, etc.

This isn't the usual "difference of opinions" that I expect to hear from the gaming community over any title. What I don't understand is "why". I get why some people wouldn't like Destiny. That's fine. But why the blinding rage and complete lack of logic or reason from people who are generally logical and reasonable? I guess Alfred was right. Some people just want to watch the world burn, lol

I've got a theory that extends beyond gaming and goes into areas that aren't really suitable for discussion here. I'll still try to describe it briefly: It's not always easy for anyone to understand what precisely is bothering them. I think many people are mad or anxious about a lot of things in the world. If they're angry, I think it's because they had a belief that things would be better if this and that happened, but the reality is in contrast to that. There's a lot of anxiety regardless, and now we have the means to express ourselves to many other people simultaneously, so we get a steady diet of others' anger, anxiety, outrage over the injustice du jour, and so on, and just as we've talked about with the DBO culture, that tends to affect everyone and everyone's judgment. A lot of unhappy people get their unhappy feelings validated by other unhappy people. First impressions probably count more than ever in that they quickly are disseminated, and Bungie has had their work cut out for them considering the initial reception of Destiny.

TL:DR: It's the g**d*** 70s again, except this time the Internet is here to magnify our malaise.

I know we've talked about this a bit here at DBO recently, but I'm shocked by some of the rampant negativity on twitter today around Xur selling Gjallarhorn. Of course, there's plenty of celebration going around. But I'm seeing a surprising amount of rage and frustration coming from people in my feed... people who I normally think of as being thoughtful, reasonable, and generally positive. Everything from "this is a spit in the face to people who earned Gjallarhorn" (tough to count the number of things wrong with that statement) to "Bungie is just dangling it in people's faces right before they make it useless".

Don't forget that the exact same thing happened when he first sold Icebreaker. We had a great tale of Sammy getting hers from our first ever Raid, and everybody was jealous and in awe of the look and sound of it... Then, Xur sold it, and she was like "well, poop". But folks on the internet were furious. How dare he sell such a coveted weapon?

That's where the whole "earned" nonsense first popped up, and it hasn't stopped yet. I do think that it stems from a sense of elitism, and the sadness that comes with no longer being "special", even if it's something that will benefit you and your groups.

*shrug* who knows. Actually, I knows. I had a Gally the second week that the game came out, a Vex before anyone that I knew, and a Hawkmoon before the first major Hand Cannon nerf, so I cherish those memories and such, and the fact that those stories have slowly gone from being "whoah" to "who cares?" is a bit of a bummer, but that's what happens in a game where people slowly learned that "how" you got a weapon really doesn't matter, thanks to RNG and Xur's sales. Sure, you earn the ability to hit the loot pool, but ultimately, when a guy who goes .05 in Crucible gets a Hawkmoon that took you thirty Nightfalls to get, the value of obtaining the weapon is altogether gone.

To a lesser extent, you see all the folks that have the Skolas shader, and you simply assume that they got it during the Gjallarhorn burn, rather than suffering through the current setup (or the nigh-impossible Arc Burn). It's all about the "How" for some folks...

That's why I'm looking forward to TTK's greater focus on quests. People will truly "earn" their weapons (and gear?), and maybe the salty folks on the forums will have little to complain (heck, most of them might not have what it takes to get the most coveted weapons).

I lost it at Agent of the Nine (Eleven).

That was great.

I also enjoy that the Destiny subreddit has gone club penguin/gjallerhorn crazy!