Talk:Phantasma/@comment-33978788-20180916035910/@comment-58.152.191.77-20180921224610

The beam split horizontally into a fan shape.

This is very bad against high-level enemies when you want all the damage to concentrate on target, but very good if you're clearing trash mobs in low level missions (alerts, etc.). I personally keep two builds, one without Vicious Spread for general use and one with it for trash clearing.