Mercurial Sword Occ Atk 2 - 4 times not Occ Atk 2 - 3 times.

[Nidhogg]

Platform: Windows 7 and PS2
ISP: AT&T DSL
Type of Internet Connection: Wired and Wireless
Internet Connection Speed: 6MB/s
Date & Time: Since the release of this weapon.
Frequency: Always
Character Name: My friend did the testing
Race: Galka
World: Ragnarok
Main Job: Dark Knight
Support Job: Thief(for testing purposes)
Area and Coordinates: Everywhere
Party or Solo: Solo and Party
NPC Name: no NPC
Monster Name: Applies to all monsters.
Steps:
1. Take off any equipment that would pose a Double Attack, Triple Attack, or Quadruple Attack rate increase.
2. Equip Great Sword and attack some poor unsuspecting monster
3. Count swings

[Enkrateia]

Thank you for reporting this issue. I can understand how it would be concerning that an item in the game is not working correctly. While we appreciate you reporting this for your friend, it may be best if your friend reported this due to the amount of specific detail that would help in submitting this report.

In particular, knowing the job levels in question, party/buff makeups during the trials, gear that was used during the testing, monsters that were attacked, and and merits the character has applied will ensure that a report can be submitted for accurate investigation.

Please have your friend reply with this information so that we can try to submit a report for investigation.

[Nidhogg]

that information may all need to wait until the servers come back up, I doubt they would recall if they had any buffs/food/what gear they had equipped at the time, but I'll definitely ask them when they pop on AIM this morning.

[Byrth]

I have seen plenty of 4-hit attack rounds with Mercurial Sword, but I've always been on WAR with lots of Double Attack so it's a little harder to interpret.

Here is a video of Mercurial Pole (OA2-4) attacking 5 times though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30w6bkye_6Q

It's an old video, so you can see this isn't exactly a new issue. Watch his TP return (9.4*5=47 off the initial round) to convince yourself that it's actually a 5-hit attack round. Mercurial Sword and Pole have had this issue since they were put into the game. It doesn't really hurt anything, except that you should really change the descriptions to OA2-4 and OA2-5.

[Nitrous24]

that information may all need to wait until the servers come back up, I doubt they would recall if they had any buffs/food/what gear they had equipped at the time, but I'll definitely ask them when they pop on AIM this morning.

Seems that even wiki has the sword listed as occasionally attacking 2-4 times as a hidden effect.

[wish12oz]

Double and triple attack stack with the mercurial weapons, dagger, great sword, staff, whatever else there is too.
Jailer weapons also work this way.
Ridill, kraken club, octive club and other random multi attack weapons do not work this way.

[Byrth]

Actually, it doesn't. Mercurial Kris is a 30/50/20 distribution with 0% quadruple attack regardless what you sub, just like Ridill or Soboro.

Mercurial Sword has been reported to swing 4 times even when the user has 0% DA/TA. Mercurial Pole has been reported to swing 5 times even when the user has 0% DA/TA. It's just an error in the equipment description.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

It's just an error in the equipment description.This is the most likely truth. Numerous translation issues exist.

[Byrth]

If it's a translation error, they also made the same mistake in the JP versions:
http://jp.ffxiah.com/item/18377/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BD%E3%83%89

I have no idea if that link will work, but if you go to FFXIAH you can switch the language to JP (bottom of the left menu) and see the description in Japanese.