This is the conclusion everyone has come to. Bungie thinks snipers are great how they are right now. I think to myself, have they even played the game? Snipers are ruining PVP. And no, it is not because they are overpowered. But they are easy to use. Let me explain my reasoning. 1. Body shots deal way too much damage. Why are players rewarded for hitting body shots? One body shot with a high impact sniper brings you down to a sliver of health. Meaning anyone in the vicinity will one shot you (usually them switching to primary) and the grenade body shot combo is booming. I don't care how high impact the sniper is, anything but a headshot should do very little damage. Meaning that high impact snipers should take about half (1000 Yard 49%, Eireine 51% and Spindle 63% like impact actually makes a difference) health out. Low impact should take 4. Higher impact 3. Eireine/Spindle 2. Headshots remain one shot kills. Is that a nerf? No. Does it bring the overall TTK's of snipers down to bring them on par with the rest of the weapons? Yes. 2. Too much special ammo Kids wield snipers as primary weapons. Every game, just entire teams of kids with them out, team body shotting and never running out of ammo. Snipers kill way too fast, and they aren't hard to use. There's no sway, there's very little flinching when shot. It's a joke. Have you used shotguns? They are a million times harder to use than a sniper, and don't even try and argue until you use one; even CT-D is garbage. A warlock's Melee is farther range than any shotguns kill radius and I challenge you to test that but that is bullshit. 3. As I mentioned above, very little flinch when shot, and aim assist is too high. When I'm gunning down a sniper, it is ridiculous getting quick scoped, or having them still scoped and still being able to hit head, or any part of the body. That's completely unfair. Low risk? That means you shouldn't be getting shot. When you're getting shot, and can still easily pull off kills, then it isn't doing its intended purpose. Personally, I don't think you should scope out when shot, that would be annoying. But the flinch needs to be massive, so rather than being able to kill someone easily anyways, it forces the sniper to run away and take cover, or stand by and be slaughtered. 4. No more close range sniper scopes Take off Shortgaze. Take off Ambush. Take off the Omolon Red Dot and Normal Scopes. Knock out the short-mid range encounters that make snipers almost into scout rifles. This change alone would be a massive step forward. Make snipers into what they are intended to be; long range. Be honest, would these changes be nerfs? No. But it would make the guns fair. And obviously the special ammo changes applies to shotguns and other special weapons also. So everyone wins on that aspect.