Having tested it at the weekend I can add snipe to the list of skills that are way stronger than silver shards in a rotation.
It might be useful if you know that you’ll be hitting undead/Daedra, particularly in trash.
I've been testing on iron atro target dummy, which I believe is not daedra.
When you can get a tooltip of 10k+ and it does 8k AoE damage on top of the initial hit, it is way, way, way too strong.
Anyone defending this should stay far away from balance discussions.
Unless it’s @ZoS and they realize their massive screw up.