Snipers flourish in the absence of their natural predator (Destiny)

by Durandal, Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 12:27 (3360 days ago) @ ChaosSociety

Without shotgun rushers to pressure them, snipers have set up on good lanes and honed the skill needed to pop people.

I've outdone snipers with my MIDA, but that's about it. With fusion rifles still in the basement, and the shotguns majorly constrained both by the blink nerfs and the range/handling nerfs, you can snipe more safely from mid range. That results in many more people using snipers, and there are going to be good ones as well as lucky ones like myself.

I've never sniped people out of supers, but I have demolished teams going for heavy and such. I also had a Erine with Luck in the chamber, but after killing a guy by shooting his foot I felt overly pathetic and stopped using it. Like others with practice I could be a good sniper, and there are many others practicing now.

I still rage when I blade dance and someone snipes me down. It is very hard to get more then one kill with my BD these days since you have to run right at them most of the time.