Skeletal Sniper

Skeletal SniperMinion, Persistent, Physical, Fire, Chaos
Tier: 1
Level: (1-2)
Reservation: (90-65) Spirit
Cooldown Time: 8.00 sec
Attack Speed: 120% of base
Attack Damage: 70% of baseSummons long-ranged, Reviving Skeletal Snipers that can fire a gas arrow on command.

Rains an arrow down from above, creating a cloud of flammable poisonous gas where it lands. Any Burning effects or Detonator skills will explode the gas cloud, creating a fiery explosion.Minions from this Skill have +(0-20)% to all Elemental Resistances
Impact Radius is 1.4 metresPlace into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill.
Sockets are found in the Skills menu tab.

Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemSkeletalSniper

Skeletal Sniper is a minion skill that reserves Spirit to summon persistent skeleton archer minions.

Skill functions and interactions

Skeletal Snipers automatically revive after # seconds after being killed.

Applying a Burning effect or "Detonator" skills on an enemy in the area of a gas cloud will cause it to explode.

Gem level progression

Level		Spirit Reservation
1	1	90
2	2	65

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I		CorrosionCorrosionSupport, Physical, Chaos Category: Corrosion Tier: 1 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing Poison it applies to also Break enemy Armour. Cannot support skills that Consume Fully Broken Armour.Poison applied by supported Skills also Breaks Armour equal to 80% of Poison damagePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
II		CommandmentCommandmentSupport, Command, MinionSupport Requirements: +5 IntSupports Minions which have Command Skills. Supported Minions have massively increased cooldown recovery speed for Command Skills they use, but deal no damage with non-Command Skills.Supported Minions have 100% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate for Command Skills Supported Minions deal 100% less Damage with non-command SkillsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
III		Fire MasteryFire MasterySupport, Fire Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Fire skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Fire SkillsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	ForkForkSupport, Projectile Category: Fork Tier: 3 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Projectile skills, making their Projectiles Fork.Projectiles from Supported Skills Fork Projectiles from Supported Skills deal 30% less Damage after ForkingPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
IV
V

Item acquisition

Skeletal Sniper has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Skeletal Sniper has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	Minions now deal 3% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against non-unique monsters at skill level 3, scaling to 50% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against non-unique monsters by skill level 8. Skeletal Sniper: Command: Gas Arrow cooldown is now 6 seconds (previously 8). Gas Cloud now deals 80% Attack Damage (previously 70%).Quality now provides Minions deal 0-20% more Damage, instead of 0-10% reduced Reservation.
0.2.0c	Minions have approximately 15% more Life through the early Campaign, tapering down to be unchanged by Gem Level 30 (or so). Gem Level 10 Minions now have 41% More Damage. Gem Level 15 Minions now have 50% More Damage. Gem Level 20 Minions now have 60% More Damage. Gem Level 30 Minions now have 79% More Damage.
0.2.0	Adjusted Minion Damage and Life scaling. General Damage and Life is the same early game, but lower than before at higher levels, especially past Gem level 20+. Skeletal Warrior can no longer be engraved in the Gemcutting menu, as it was only provided as a stop-gap until this functionality was implemented. Existing copies of the Skeletal Warrior skill gem have been turned into Skeletal Sniper gems. The Skeletal Warrior skill granted by some sceptres now allows you to summon additional skeletons by reserving spirit, in addition to the two free skeletons it grants automatically. Skills with Expanding ground effects were unintentionally scaling radius over time instead of area of effect. They still scale the radius, though we have updated the descriptions and lowered the values on many of the affected skills: The Poison Cloud from Skeletal Sniper now gains 20% more Radius per second, up to a maximum of 80% (previously 40%, up to a maximum of 200%).
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.