It doesn't make nooby players better, it makes talented players unstoppable. You still have to get your two quick head shots to win with it. When someone has practiced so much that they can drill a dude from across the room so fast that, to the target, it looks like your health just dropped in one motion to terminal level, that no noob. That's an uber using a gun for uber players. Lower the fire rate for thorn, so these users will have to fight it out again.

Hawkmoon for days son

Thorn has been nerfed before. But because it was nerf so hard, the only use for it was keeping enemies shields down, and with this, it didn't feel like an exotic weapon so then it was buffed. There are a lot of hand cannons though that can 2 headshot kill enemies. Hawkmoon is capable of one-shoting an enemy without a headshot. Now the bounty to obtain this weapon was a bit easy but the crucible part challenged [b]some[/b] people so I do agree with you on this part so I do find it beneficial if the bounty is even more rare to find and collect. And having it be a 3 headshot kill weapon makes it fair, yet 2 headshots will guarantee the kill if you have the Mark Of The Devourer perk equipped but you will have to wait a few seconds before you get the kill allowing to have your "kill" stolen. The stats on it balance it out as a hand cannon though. The reload speed is slow and the magazine size, one bullet larger than the last word, is still balancing the weapon out. So overall, all I think this gun should be nerfed on, is the rarity of encountering the bounty.