Spread Needle

Spread Needle スプレッドニードル A custom shotgun that shoots countless needles. Its special attack paralyzes enemies. Type : Rifle Requirement : 135 ATA Max Grind : 40 Special : Seize Targets : 5 ( +4 ) ATP ATA EVP 1-110 40 -30 HUmr HUnl HUct HUcl RAmr RAml RAct RAcl FOmr FOml FOnm FOnl H. Dist : 65 ( -145 ) H. Angle : 45° ( +35° ) V. Dist : 30 V. Angle : 30° ( -6° ) Hex : 001200

Spread Needle is a rare rifle. It is especially notable for both its unique ability to fire five shots at once (similar to a shot) with rifle speed, as well as having an unreduced seize special. To compensate for this, it has less range than even mechguns.

Reskins

Spread Needle has Ephinea-exclusive cosmetic skins that can be obtained. This renames the Spread Needle to Spread Needle*. The skin can be removed via using Neutralizer, but you will not receive the used weapon skin back.

Skin	Hex
Heart of Rianov 303SNR	001201

Availability

Enemy Drops

Section ID	Difficulty	Enemy	Drop Rate
	Ultimate	Merlan (E1)	1/900
	Ultimate	Merlan (E1)	1/900
	Ultimate	Dark Bringer	1/358
	Ultimate	Merlan (E1)	1/900

Black Paper's Dangerous Deal

Main article: Black Paper's Dangerous Deal

Note that all rates are the chance of getting an item per Photon Crystal, not per roll.

Quest	Difficulty	Rate
Zu Route	Ultimate	1/5.39

Wandering Tekker

Day	Meseta	Rate
Thursday	10,000	1/900
	100,000	1/450

Advanced usage

Maximizing paralysis chance

The following tables assumes usage by a Ranger with maxed ATA and either Red Ring or Ranger Wall equipped. The Hit shown in the table is the value required to hit the given enemy on Ultimate difficulty with S3; paralysis is never guaranteed, as neither of these enemies have low enough ESP to give even an android with V502 a 100% chance to paralyze.

Enemy Hit Dorphon 5 Dorphon Eclair 25 Enemy Hit Dorphon 0 Dorphon Eclair 20

Girtablulu can always be hit by S3 from either class with a 0 Hit Spread Needle. RAmar makes better use of ES Needle, guaranteeing an S3 on any of these enemies, and RAmarl has a similarly guaranteed S3 with ES Needle on Dorphon and Girtablulu, but not on Dorphon Eclair.

Detonating traps

If timed properly, Android Rangers can self-detonate their traps using Spread Needle, which cannot be done with ES Needle.