Sniper Rifle

The Sniper Rifle is a ranged weapon in Xenoblade Chronicles X, used by the Partisan Eagle and the Astral Crusader classes, with rank 10 of the Astral Crusader granting mastery. Additionally, the characters Lao and Bozé use this weapon.

Overview
The Sniper Rifle is a long-range weapon that has both high range and high damage. Its attacks only hit a few times, but they always hit hard, so Overdrive Count Up is generally recommended in order to speed up the damage. It's usually useful to do a lot of damage against enemies that don't have many ranged attacks.

However, Sniper Rifle offers little in terms of durability aside from Intercept to Stun enemies, relying on support arts from melee weapons in order to provide any form of protection from enemy attacks.

When using Potential, the combination of Full Specs, Energy Source, and Afterburner can do heavy damage to multiple enemies. If going for a ranged attack build, Eagle Eye and Hawkeye combine well with most Sniper attacks.

This weapon works well with Firing Range Up, which can even extend the range of Slayonet, which usually only works at melee range.

Signature Arts
This lists the Arts and the original user of the Art, as well as how it can be unlocked:
 * Afterburner - Unlocked via Lao's affinity mission The Matchmaker
 * Slayonet - Unlocked via Bozé's affinity mission Bozé's Ignorance