Sniping (ego)
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Trunk-only: This article pertains to a feature of Crawl which is being tested. It will likely change before the next release, and may even be removed entirely.
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| It increases your damage by an additional 50% with ranged and thrown weapons against incapacitated (asleep, paralysed, petrified, confused or netted) targets. |
Sniping is an ego found only on hats and helmets that increases your damage against incapacitated opponents when using ranged or thrown weapons.
Desirability
Even with a modicum of stealth, you should be able to get off full screen sleep snipes on a large number of enemies. Combined with hexes, mephitic cloud, or sphinx sisters this can drastically increase the firepower of a ranged character.