Vicious Spread

Vicious Spread
Tradeable
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
+90% Damage -60% Accuracy
General Information
Type	Shotgun
Polarity	Madurai
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	5
Endo Required To Max	930
Credits Required To Max	44,919
Base Capacity Cost	4
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Vicious Spread is a Corrupted Mod which increases the damage but decreases the accuracy of shotguns by +15% and -10% per rank to a maximum of +90% and -60% at Rank 5, respectively.

Stats

Rank	Damage	Accuracy	Cost
0	+15%	-10%	4
1	+30%	-20%	5
2	+45%	-30%	6
3	+60%	-40%	7
4	+75%	-50%	8
5	+90%	-60%	9

Additional Spread Modifiers

Rank	Arca Plasmor ( Tenet)	Phantasma ( Prime)
0	+5	+5
1	+10	+10
2	+15	+15
3	+20	+20
4	+25	+25
5	+30	+30

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
Orokin Vault	Orokin Derelict Vault	A	4.17%	1	0.0417	Any mission node on Deimos except Cambion Drift, Magnacidium, Exequias, and Hyf

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt

Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.

Notes

• This is a Corrupted Mod, obtainable from Orokin Vaults in the Orokin Derelict.
• This mod combined with  Point Blank and  Blaze give off a total damage increase of +240%.
  • With  Primed Point Blank instead of Point Blank this adds up for a total damage increase of +315%.
• In terms of crowd control, equipping this Mod with  Hell's Chamber gives off impressive results, damaging a wide spread of enemies in every shot more effectively than shooting one target at a time.
• The following weapons are unaffected or barely affected by the increased spread:
  •  Arca Plasmor ( Tenet)
  •  Astilla ( Prime)
  •  Bubonico (both fire modes}
  •  Cedo (Alternate Fire)
  •  Corinth ( Prime) (Alternate Fire)
  •  Exergis
  •  Felarx (Incarnon Form)
• Unlike  Heavy Caliber, the rifle equivalent of this mod, spread can be reduced by the  Tainted Shell mod – though with a very high fire rate penalty, as cancelling out the spread increase from a maxed Vicious Spread would require a fire-rate reduction of at least 54%. This loss could be compensated for using a maxed-out  Accelerated Blast or Rank 3 (or higher)  Shotgun Barrage.
  • Alternatively,  Narrow Barrel can reduce the accuracy penalty by half after hitting an enemy.
  •  Convectrix and  Phage are partially immune to spread penalty in their focused modes.
  •  Drakgoon similarly remains highly accurate once charged.
• The final accuracy after installing Vicious Spread can be found by the following formula:

$\text{Resultant Accuracy} = \frac{100}{( (100 / \text{Base Accuracy}) * (1 + \text{Spread Bonus} ) ) + \text{Additional Spread Modifier}}$

Tips

• As Vicious Spread affects the angle of a shotgun's conical spread, players can compensate by simply closing in and firing the weapon at almost point blank range to ensure all shots hit the target.
  • As the mod only affects the angle of spread of individual pellets, it does not heavily affect the long range accuracy of shotguns that fire individual slugs instead of a spread of pellets, such as the  Arca Plasmor and the  Astilla.
• Not recommended to be combined with  Galvanized Acceleration, as the spread will be bigger at the bonus effective range and thus will cause more shots to miss enemies at long range, unless combined with Punch Through mods if the intention is to make the shotgun good at large crowd control.
• As with the  Ignis ( Wraith) and the Heavy Caliber mod, held-trigger shotguns such as Phantasma ( Prime) also benefit quite well from this mod.

Gallery

Old appearance

See Also

•  Heavy Caliber, the rifle equivalent.
•  Magnum Force, the secondary equivalent.

Patch History

Update 10.4 (2013-10-16)

• Corrupted Mod that had a negative recoil affect has been changed to a "damage spread increase"* negative affect to account for 0 recoil weapons not having a negative consequence.

Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)

• Introduced along with Orokin Vaults.