The Gjallarhorn is Destiny’s most famous weapon, and it’s not because of its fancy looks. Early on, the piece established itself as a sort of uber-weapon in Destiny 1 and eventually evolved into the meta-OP weapon par excellence. MeinMMO author Maik Schneider remembers the creation of the legend.
Destiny 1 totally got me when it was released in September 2014. My studies were running on the side, Call of Duty didn’t have a stellar – Season with “Ghosts” and I had been looking for a game for a long time with which I could finally completely switch to the PlayStation 4.
Lots of free time and even more of a hankering for gaming. That’s when Destiny came along.
About the author Maik Schneider: The first Destiny determined my whole life for a few months after release. I was as deep in the game as one could be.
A little over 4,000 hours were on the clock at the end and many special experiences I will never forget. Who knows how many more hours there would have been if my squad had not disbanded.
My Fungaming clan suddenly really blossomed again, everyone wanted to play this awesome new shooter. Bought the Limited Edition and quickly got into the adventure.
I was particularly attracted to Exotics right from the start. At the time, Exos were only available as loot, and I had also proven in the first few days that I had the right amount of luck to collect them all.
It even went so far that I didn’t buy a nice rocket launcher from that new crazy merchant Xur. The thing was called “Gjallarhorn” and one of my comrades had already bought the thing from the weird ghost dealer.
“I don’t have to copy all that, I’d rather keep my strange coins together,” I thought to myself. That was the moment when the Gjallarhorn legend began.
Already in Destiny 1 a beauty – the Gjallarhorn.
Gjallarhorn takes over the PvE in Destiny
Xur was only visiting the tower for the second time ever at this point, and was distributing the good item liberally. It would be well over a year before the mysterious merchant distributed the Gjallarhorn again.
And in the meantime, the rocket launcher was the measure of all things PvE. The damage was so fierce that enemy masses, mid-bosses, and even raid bosses capitulated. No matter what you played in PvE back then, everything went faster with Gjallarhorn.
At the latest with the expansion “Darkness Lurks” and the introduction of the raid “Crota’s End”, the part was absolutely meta. The rocket launcher was even considered mandatory equipment in the raid.
What does Gjallarhorn actually mean? As with many of Destiny’s special items, Bungie has drawn on our mythology for the Gjallarhorn.
In Norse mythology, Heimdall, the guardian of the gods, owns the Gjallarhorn. Heimdall blows this horn to warn the gods when the last of all days is coming: Ragnarok.
If you didn’t have your own group playing for the shared experience as well, it was extremely difficult to find strange players if you didn’t have a Gjallarhorn.
That nasty thing knocked out damage so hard that the raid mechanics were almost skipped. You didn’t have to explain much to your teammates. You held on, you saw Crota suffer, someone waved a sword, and you bagged the loot. The End.
Most foreign players just wanted to get through the raid as quickly as possible, not explain anything else. So players without a Gjallarhorn were turned away hard.
The cult of the rocket launcher is born
After word got out about the weapon’s power – as a damage-dealing and raid-entry ticket – everyone wanted the thing. And for the first time, it became apparent how difficult it was to get very specific exotics.
Keepers hunted for the part for months, and not everyone was lucky enough to bag one. Some danced around chests, others downright despaired.
I myself was lucky, as so often in Destiny. I got my Gjallarhorn just a few days after I refused Xur’s. I was very lucky.
But many in the community suffered, waited forever, and in some cases gave up hoping for it. And then there was the “holy shit” moment:
Destiny’s famous “Holy Shit” moment.
On August 14, 2015, Xur had one of his best days. It’s even said that some saw him grinning. Because Xur had the Gjallarhorn with him a second time – what a thing.
To this day, this day is celebrated and August 14 is considered Gjallarhorn Day in the community. G-Day.
And even if the Gjallarhorn currently dominates the activities in Destiny 2 once again – it will probably never be as bad as it was back then, when the rocket launcher was considered a content entry ticket.
I’m also interested in your stories around Gjallarhorn or other exotics. For example, I’ve often been teased for playing the Thunderlord rather than the Horned One. Feel free to leave a comment.
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