Sniping (ego)

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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.