Snipe

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SnipeAttack, Projectile, Channelling, Physical, Bow
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (4-5) Mana
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 50%
Cooldown Time: 0.05 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Attack Speed: 180% of base
Requires Level 34Channel to charge up your bow, gaining stages. Release to trigger one supported bow skill for each stage gained. If there are no supported skills, but at least one stage was gained, this skill will fire its own arrow instead. Cannot be used by Totems.Maximum 6 Stages
This Skill's Arrows deal (50-80)% more Damage with Ailments per Stage
This Skill's Arrows deal (70-108)% more Damage with Hits per Stage
Supported Skills deal 40% less Damage
Supported Skills deal (70-108)% more Damage with Hits per Snipe Stage
Supported Skills deal (50-80)% more Damage with Ailments per Snipe Stage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
+(0.05-1) Maximum Stages
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Acquisition
Drop level: 34
Vendor Offer
1x Scroll Fragment
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemChannelledSnipe

Snipe is a skill gem that supports linked bow skills. It is a channelling bow attack that gains stages while channelling. When released, it triggers a linked non-channelling bow skill for each stage stored and deals more damage per stage. If Snipe is not linked to any applicable skills, it instead fires its own arrow.

Skill functions and interactions

The gem has two functions:
As Snipe:

  • Channel to charge up your bow, gaining stages. Release to trigger one supported bow skill for each stage gained. If there are no supported skills, but at least one stage was gained, this skill will fire its own arrow instead. Cannot be used by Totems.
    • Maximum 6 Stages
    • This Skill's Arrows deal (70–108)% more Damage with Hits per Stage
    • This Skill's Arrows deal (50–80)% more Damage with Ailments per Stage

The lines referring to "This Skill's Arrows" are only relevant if no compatible bow skills are linked to Snipe, causing it to use default arrows instead.

As Snipe Support:

  • Supports bow attack skills. Cannot support channelled skills, instant skills, Vaal skills, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
    • (50–80)% more Damage with Ailments per Snipe Stage
    • Supported Skills deal 40% less Damage
    • Supported Skills deal (70–108)% more Damage with Hits per Snipe Stage

Supported skills also have a 50% cost/reservation multiplier and a cooldown time of 0.05 seconds (50 ms).

Mechanics

  • Higher attack speed reduces the time it takes for Snipe to reach maximum stages.
  • Snipe cannot be supported by Ballista Totem SupportBallista Totem SupportBow, Projectile, Support, Totem
    Icon: R
    Level: (1-20)
    Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%
    Requires Level 8Supports any bow or wand attack skill, causing it to summon a ballista totem that uses the skill for you.Supported Attack Skills cannot be used with Melee Weapons
    Supported Skills deal (32-24)% less Damage
    Supported Skills will summon a Ballista Totem which uses that Skill
    Totem lasts 8 seconds
    Supported Skills have +2 to maximum number of Summoned Ballista Totems
    Supported Skills have 50% less Attack Speed

    Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
    Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Totem Placement speed
    This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
    .
  • Snipe cannot be supported by Arrow Nova SupportArrow Nova SupportBow, Attack, Support, Projectile
    Icon: G
    Level: (1-20)
    Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%
    Requires Level 8Supports bow attack skills that fire arrows forwards as projectiles. These skills will instead fire a payload arrow into the air to land at a targeted location. The supported skills' arrows will then fire out in a circle from where it lands. Cannot support skills that already fire arrows into the air, channelled skills, or skills that create Minions.Supported Skills deal (30-16)% less Projectile Damage
    Supported Skills fire a Payload Arrow into the air
    Projectiles from the Supported Skill Fire from where the Payload Arrow lands
    Supported Skills Fire Projectiles in a circle
    Supported Skills fire 4 additional Projectiles
    Supported Skills can only be used with Bows

    Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
    Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Projectile Damage
    This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
    , but it can support bow skills triggered by Snipe.
  • At 2 or more stages, if 2 or more bow skills are linked to snipe, each skill (up to the number of stages) will fire simultaneously.
  • When combined with Mirage Archer SupportMirage Archer SupportBow, Attack, Support, Duration
    Icon: M
    Level: (1-20)
    Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%
    Requires Level 4Supports attack skills that can be used with bows. Supported skills can only be used with bows. Cannot support Vaal skills, minion skills, movement skills, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.Maximum 1 Summoned Mirage Archer
    When you Hit an Enemy with an Arrow from a Supported Skill, Summon a Mirage Archer which uses that Skill
    Mirage Archer can use Triggered Attacks as though they were not Triggered
    Mirage Archer uses Supported Skill with 60% less Attack Speed
    Mirage Archer lasts 4 seconds
    Mirage Archer deals (40-31)% less Damage with Supported Skills

    Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
    Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Attack Damage
    This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
    , if also linked to another bow skill, the Mirage Archer will use the last bow skill triggered by Snipe, unable to benefit from Snipe stages. (Only Supported Skills deal 40% less Damage applies.)
  • Minions summoned by skills supported by Snipe cannot benefit from stage modifiers, but are affected by the 40% less damage modifier.[1]

Mana manipulation

By reserving a large portion of mana and having insufficient mana regeneration to channel past the first stage, it is possible to make Snipe repeatedly fire after the first stage, providing a massive bonus to attack speed.[2]

  • The first stage of Snipe has a hidden interaction that causes it to take half the time to channel compared to subsequent stages, providing an effective 360% modifier of base attack speed if channelling stops at the first stage.[3]
  • Snipe has a cooldown of 0.05 seconds, rounded up to the nearest server tick, providing a cooldown of 0.066 seconds. This results in a default maximum of 15.15 triggers per second.
  • At the next cooldown threshold breakpoint (52% increased cooldown recovery rate), the maximum trigger rate is 30.3 per second.

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelRequired DexterityMana
Cost
Damage with AilmentsDamage with HitsExp.Total Exp.
13479450%70%00
23683451%72%252595252595
33888453%74%314394566989
44092454%76%388734955723
54296456%78%4774371433160
644100458%80%5837862016946
746104459%82%7103592727305
848109461%84%13555114082816
950113462%86%11388775221693
1052117464%88%13682336589926
1154121466%90%16383388228264
1256125567%92%195664810184912
1358130569%94%365518413840096
1460134570%96%301732716857423
1562138572%98%357623220433655
1664142574%100%916473129598386
1766146575%102%1786142847459814
1868151577%104%4603238693492200
1969153578%106%87248039180740239
2070155580%108%157972052338712291
2172159582%110%N/AN/A
2274N/A583%112%N/AN/A
2376N/A585%114%N/AN/A
2478N/A586%116%N/AN/A
2580N/A588%118%N/AN/A
2682N/A590%120%N/AN/A
2784N/A591%122%N/AN/A
2886N/A693%124%N/AN/A
2988N/A694%126%N/AN/A
3090N/A696%128%N/AN/A
3191N/A697%129%N/AN/A
3292N/A698%130%N/AN/A
3393N/A698%131%N/AN/A
3494N/A699%132%N/AN/A
3595N/A6100%133%N/AN/A
3696N/A6101%134%N/AN/A
3797N/A6102%135%N/AN/A
3898N/A6102%136%N/AN/A
3999N/A6103%137%N/AN/A
40100N/A6104%138%N/AN/A

Gem quality

TypeAdditional Effects per 1-20% QualityWeight
Superior+(0.05-1) Maximum Stages1

Item acquisition

Snipe can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Snipe can be created from the following recipes:

AmountPartDescriptionMeta
6The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
- Ezomyte Proverb
Random level 20 gemA
3Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem
Quality: +20%
"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Random gem with 20% qualityA
1Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item
Item drops after killing {0} monsters
Right click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random gem with 1–20% qualityA
1The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.Random divination card set exchangeA

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class →WitchShadowRangerDuelistMarauderTemplarScion
Quest ↓
Breaking the Seal
Act 4

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →WitchShadowRangerDuelistMarauderTemplarScion
Quest ↓
Breaking the Seal
Act 4
Petarus and Vanja
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Snipe.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

NameFor generated item/monster modifiers the minimum item/monster level respectively. Some generation types may not require this condition to be met, however item level restrictions may be raised to 80% of this value.LabyrinthStatsSpawn Weighting
Enchantment Snipe Attack Speed 166Merciless Labyrinth10% increased Attack Speed with Snipehelmet 100
Enchantment Snipe Attack Speed 275Eternal Labyrinth15% increased Attack Speed with Snipehelmet 100
Enchantment Snipe Maximum Stacks75Eternal Labyrinth+1 to maximum Snipe Stageshelmet 100
Enchantment Snipe Stun Avoidance 166Merciless Labyrinth35% chance to Avoid being Stunned while Channelling Snipehelmet 100
Enchantment Snipe Stun Avoidance 275Eternal Labyrinth50% chance to Avoid being Stunned while Channelling Snipehelmet 100

Alternate skill effects

Snipe has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemEffect(s)

Monster version

The following monster also use monster skills similar to Snipe:

Version history

Version Changes
3.23.0
  • Quality now provides +0-1 Maximum Stage, instead of 0-10% increased Attack Speed.
3.21.0
  • Introduced to the game as a skill gem.
3.10.0
  • Introduced to the game as a skill granted by AssailumAssailum
    Sinner Tricorne
    Evasion: (719-925)Requires Level 64, 138 DexGrants Level 30 Snipe Skill
    Socketed Non-Channelling Bow Skills are Triggered by Snipe
    Socketed Triggered Bow Skills gain a 0.05 second Cooldown
    +(350-500) to Accuracy Rating
    +(350-500) to Evasion Rating
    +2 to maximum Snipe Stages
    +(14-20)% chance to Suppress Spell Damage while Channelling
    A moment of calm before the battle can end the war.
    . [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]