It doesn’t have to be an asylum bow...it probably isn’t, that’s a difficult one to proc in pvp.

Since it’s lethal arrow, it’s likely a marksman + Morag Tong combo. This will stack:

+8% Marks
+10% Morag
+ 20% major brutality
+ 8% merciless resolve (NB)
+ penetration from 1 Kragh
+ 20% radiant magelight (from might of the guild passive)

= deadly snipe incoming. They can also cast mark on you really quick while the attack is in the air...which negates your volatile armor. Non-crit average damage value is going to be about 10k.

For this particular attack, you’re being hurt by being in a no-CP campaign. Why? The current sets and abilities have been “balanced” with CPs in mind. Snipe has been set to hit hard because it needs to in CP campaigns where players run a fair bit of defense. In this case, your opponent is getting a long list of benefits from the meta game and hitting you at a point where you get none...they use a powerful ability designed to take out heavily armored enemies and buff it to the max in a way that doesn’t require CPs to make deadly.

This is why I personally don’t like non-cp campaigns (although I understand why people do). The game currently seeks a balance by setting CPs, available gear and ability values at levels that work with one another. When you take CPs oit of the equation, you still have the sets and abilities, so builds that rely on these more are stronger and therefore classes can perform irregularly. Some benefit, others are hurt. A sniper’s attacks are helped in non-cp, but they’ll be squishy as heck and will run dry fast.