Sniper (formerly Rifleman)
Profession Overview
Sniper is one of the advanced professions in Restoration, branching from the Marksman and Scout basic professions. As a Sniper, your primary role is to engage targets from extreme ranges, deal massive single-target damage, and debilitate enemies with powerful critical hits. Snipers excel at positioning, stealth, and precision, making them lethal on the battlefield, especially when targeting high-value enemy players or NPCs.
Sniper Mastery Tree
Novice Sniper
The starting point for any aspiring Sniper, providing basic accuracy and rifle speed as well as some defence to begin your journey.
Abilities
- Head Shot: Head Shot This ranged attack causes a targeted hit to the head and has a slight accuracy penalty.
- Knee-cap shot: Knee-cap Shot This ranged attack slows an opponent's movement rate for a short period of time.
Skill Mods
- Melee Defense: 5
- Ranged Defense: 5
- Rifle Accuracy: 20
- Rifle Speed: 10
Sniping I
Sniping I teaches the basics of long range sniper techniques.
Abilities
- Head Shot: Head Shot This ranged attack causes a targeted hit to the head and has a slight accuracy penalty.
- Knee-cap shot: Knee-cap Shot This ranged attack slows an opponent's movement rate for a short period of time.
Skill Mods
- Rifle Accuracy: 5
- General Ranged Accuracy: 5
Novice Sniper
The starting point for any aspiring Sniper, providing basic accuracy and rifle speed as well as some defence to begin your journey.
Abilities
- Sniper Shot: This armor-piercing attack takes a long time to set up but delivers a significant amount of damage from long ranges. You must be prone to use this ability. Does bonus damage with rifles.
Skill Mods
- Rifle Accuracy: 5
- General Ranged Accuracy: 5
Abilities and Skill Mods
Abilities
- Improved Head Shot: Improved Head Shot This enhancement to the Head Shot ability reduces the amount of the accuracy penalty and increases the amount of damage the attack does.
- Improved Sniper Shot: Improved Sniper Shot This enhancement to the armor-piercing Sniper Shot ability increases the amount of damage done to an opponent. You must be prone to use this ability. Does bonus damage with rifles.
- Cover Up: Cover This ability allows you to take cover using obstructions in the immediate area. While under cover you will be very difficult to see and will not appear on the radar. You must be prone and remain prone to stay under cover and almost all normal actions will break the cover.
- Conceal Shot: Conceal Shot This ranged attack ability allows you to shoot while under cover with low probability of revealing your location. It comes with a high accuracy bonus.
- Improved Conceal Shot: Improved Conceal Shot This enhancement to the Conceal Shot ability causes more damage to an opponent. It comes with a high accuracy bonus.
- Startle Shot: Startle Shot This ranged attack directed in front of an opponent an sweeping towards them causes minimal damage but will force them up a posture level.
- Dizzy Recovery: Dizzy Recovery This ability allows you to recover immediately from being dizzy if you have enough ability points.
Skill Mods
- Rifle Accuracy: Increases your chance to hit your target, especially at long ranges.
- Critical Hit Chance: Boosts your likelihood of landing critical strikes, increasing your overall damage output significantly.
- Sniper Rifle Range: Extends the effective range of your rifle, allowing you to engage enemies from a greater distance.
- Concealment: Reduces the chance of being detected while using stealth, allowing for more strategic positioning and safer sniping.
- Rifle Speed: Decreases the cooldown and charge time of your rifle abilities, enabling faster follow-up shots.
- Burst Run Efficiency: Allows quicker movement while maintaining accuracy, useful for repositioning without sacrificing damage potential.
Master Sniper
Reaching the pinnacle of the Sniper profession allows you to fully exploit your abilities with maximum range, deadly accuracy, and unmatched stealth. A Master Sniper is a terror on the battlefield, capable of eliminating key targets and providing invaluable support to their team from a distance.
-WIP