Why do so many people just use a shotgun as they are better with it because it takes less skill to learn and they haven't taken time to practice with a sniper? In Iron Banner in most games there have been no snipers on the enemy team to battle with. Everyone is using thorn and a shotgun, most of them using blink (unless they're a Titan, then they just use shoulder charge). The few snipers that I've come across have all been fairly unskilled, and I have beaten most of them with my LDR. Every few days in the crucible, I will run into someone who is really good at sniping, and kills me a couple of times. I then try to snipe them, because I know if I beat them with my sniper I have outplayed them, and it is much more satisfying knowing that my opponent is thinking 'GG' than 'stupid blink shotgun scrub' or 'thorn scrub'. TL;DR People don't use snipers because they are bad and are massive shotgun noobs. Edit: Woah! Loads of replies guys! This was just a salty rage post written after facing full teams of shotguns in IB. I was kind of hoping this post would die.