Two barrels share the name 'Snider': the amazing matching Maliwan barrel, and the thoroughly meh Dahl barrel. Their fast, high-damage projectiles score especially nasty Critical Hits, placing a premium on shots against touchy spots.

(Slag chance is always relevant, though.) Sniper rifles are precision tools designed to let you bury a high-caliber bullet into the skag skull from 100 yards away. Jakobs grip also has its fans for the gun damage bonus, which will yield increased splash damage as well, since DOT is less interesting at higher difficulties of Borderlands 2. This confers a substantial reload speed penalty on an already slow to reload weapon, though.ДЄ matching grip confers a pretty huge bonus to mag size and reload speed, along with elemental effect chance. They don't have large magazines, so I favor the Monstrous prefix, which will take a 6 shot magazine (default without matching grip) to 8, or a 10 (matching grip) to 13. (The Hyperion rifle will have a higher gun damage rating, which in the presence of enough critical hit damage bonuses will give it the edge.) Best bet is to haul everything to the testing range and see how they play out in expected usage. This makes evaluating them against, say, a Hyperion sniper rifle a little tricky. All Maliwan sniper rifles inflict an additional 50% of their gun damage rating as splash damage, which rewards characters with grenade damage bonuses.

Legendary sniper rifles borderlands 2