My Y1 Benevolence was 80. +5 is barely a difference. My Eye of Sol was 81. These high values are and have been common since HoW was released. Oh right! So that means you will have already read the post. Apologies for re-linking you with it - I can't remember every name that comments!

I gotcha :D The difference is, imo, that Her Benevolence and Eye of Sol have low impact. Low Impacts in general have high AA, but 1k Stare is really high Impact AND has that Aim Assist to boot. Maybe it's also just me, but my 1k games have been way better than any of my other sniping matches. Probably the scope that's helping, I'm very picky with my scopes xD Gotta have a small dot in the center and nothing else distracting me, lol.

I think you have your snipers mixed! Her Benevolence was also a 31 impact archetype, one of many that could snipe a res in Y1. The worst AA suspect in Y1 was Shadow of Veils (which had a locked roll, but had shortgaze in there), I can't remember the base AA stat but it was over 60 for sure, so there's another 31 impact sniper with over 80! Personally I can see a lot of complaints rooting from the ease of obtaining such a weapon, being so few of this archetype and also the fact shotgun range was nerfed heavily. The main focus was on the Shotguns so snipers never received much hate, but now those shotgunners are trying to get their own back it seems! Haha. It's a vicious circle on this forum. Edit: about the scopes, I feel ambush and shortgaze are the best because they have the lowest zoom, I can't use any others! I feel like I should be on battlefield with some of the scopes in this game, up to 8x!