Til you get a team that is nothing but thorn and felwinters...one hits you with the dot, your health takes that much longer to regen, then three people blink-shotty you. No end to blink-shotty. Plus, with the number of people who run shotties in this game, if you actually play intelligently, you're likely going to be kept out of the vast majority of fights if you run sniper. And this is coming from someone with 15+ kills per game and a 2 k/d with sniper/HC...

See I've never had a problem felwinters though I don't own one but if I get killed by one I'll switch my set up I got a custom new monarchy shotgun I got out of Nf that has range finder and almost assist range as felwinters along with a lot of impact. So I can 1 shot from same distance they learn fast. And when they wanna be ass I do the same.. When I wanna troll people I'll run oversoul edict / shotgun / gally and hog heavy just to teach others a lesson

Honestly it's become the only thing that kills me anymore. That's not a bad thing, per se, but the fact that the only counter to blink-felwinters is to pull out a felwinters or equally long-range shotty seems like a bit of an issue to me. That indicates weapon imbalance.