It its very suprising to me i was a day one player but took a long break from it for other games after the holidays. When i left it was extremly rare to see a sniper and even if you did you could just kill them with basically what ever weapon you were using. They were not threatening at all. I came back and iron banner was going on and i was gitting sniped left and right I now fear snipers. It did seem like most of the skilled snipers showed up for iron banner though, i dont see to many scary ones in regular crucible. I lve got a good ldr5000 with final round ambush scope that i occasionally pull out for a match or two.