thousand yard stare gets that many kills because its one of 3 legendary snipers that can res snipe. One of which is restricted to the hunter class, and the other is locked behind the gunsmith. Everyone gets a well rolled Thousand yard stare from a quest. Thousand yard stare is no different than LDR, her benevolence, Longbow, efrideets, or shadow of veils. It is really the only reasonable sniper rifle that can be expected to be used for the casual player outside of hunters. People on this forum equate overuse to overpowered. MIDA is currently being over used and it will normalize in a few weeks and go back to pulse rifles being the most common weapon type as they are meant to be the jack of all trades master of none class. The last word really is the only competitive hand cannon due to the hawkmoon nerf, thorn would be back to dominating if it was year two (shudder). Thousand yard stare will probably be over used until they add a new sniper of that archetype in the next expansion. The first time Trials launched there were a handful of snipers that could res snipe. We only have 2 right now. The thing that bothers me the most of the Thousand yard stare kills is that 41% of them are headshots. The only thing i think they should do to snipers is make high impact take 3 body shots to kill and low impact take 4. Would actually force players to go for headshots