What in sub hand?

[saevel]

I never said it was ideal to use the twilight knife, and it is a hell of a gamble AND is unlikely to be worth it, but it still DOES have low(ish) delay, and still CAN offer pretty nice spikes when(if?) it procs. Not to mention he never asked for anything but those three weapons, Secondly the 2-4 Khanda isnt about DOT per hit damage, if he can make up the modifiers elsewhere (i know, stack more stats, i personally have 2 +3 str shamshir that i love) then the tp gain could cause him to do more ws (and with CDC more damage, not to mention more enspell hits) overtime. Hence my opinion, however while we are at it he could offhand any number of other weapons that would offer nice benefits, but he didnt ask that. SO i stuck to what he asked.

Well a few problems arise. One is the hit % distribution on all the 2~4/2~5 weapons greatly favors 2 over everything else. It's not equally spread out, SE didn't want to create a ton of new Ridills. You'll end up with significantly fewer additional hits then what you would of though, something on the order of 1.8~1.9 average attacks per round for the off hand. Additionally Multi-Hit weapons don't stack with DA and Temper is a DA effect. Either the multi hit effect will proc OR your QA/TA/DA effect will proc but not both. When viewed in this light the DA+10 weapon actually gets a 33% (for me) chance to proc twice which puts it at a 1.33 average attacks per round. Ontop of this it makes your main hand weapon, the Almace, have a 1.33 vs a 1.23 average attack per round. Then it makes WS's bigger from being higher DMG and going from 23 to 33% chance for DA.

It's the combination of all those that make it great, not any single entry. Same as the STR Shamshir+3 for me has a 1.23 average attack per round.