Bloody Luxury!
The original snipe was completely wank.
It was devastating in its power but it was single target and failed to kill much more than a Lt.
but if you didn't already have a tank aggroing the target, the whole mob would alpha strike you and that would usually mean a trip to the hospital and running back to the mission, with a boatload of debt.
Fast Snipe isn't exactly brilliant now but it is a shit-tonne better than it was, so unless you want to take that aggro (Sentinels maybe?) it works mostly now but does offer a nod to its legacy origins.
Back then, I quickly found that there were two powers from a blast set you could easily skip, the snipe and the T9, simply because of their lack of value