Quote Originally Posted by Kasandaro View Post
Ah, see what you're asking. Honestly not sure. Like I said, I haven't seen conclusive parses that TH gear does anything besides set the initial bar. MKris build would be the way to test that, I guess.
TH procs can only land on the first hit.

Fairly simple (yet mind-numbing) test. I've been tempted to do it to put a very good player in my linkshell in his place. He's good at his other jobs, but insists on fulltiming it as "in his experiance wearing TH gear increases the chance of level up". I think it's bullshit. TH for start value only.

Anyway. Equip Rapidus/Thief's Knife/Homam hands for one set of data, Rapidus/Fane Baselard/Assassin's Armlets for the other. Keep all other gear the same (Un-augmented Fane Baselard has similar DPS to Thief's Knife). This will remove any variables due to hitting the mob more or less with one set over the other (If you use a much higher DPS dagger than Thf's knife for the 2nd set, you'll be averaging less swings per mob (and less chance at TH procs) as each hit will be stronger. Rapidus is purely for it's low delay.

Select an enemy that doesn't have a Def+ or Att- TP move, so killspeed continues to remain the same. Do not WS (As it can proc on WS but is invisible and will skew results). Find a EM~ mob so defence isn't a problem and you can test without casting utsusemi. If you can, bring a mage to heal you for your lack of utsu and to act as a potential TA partner. DO NOT Swap gear. Especially if you TA. It is possible that the chance for TH level up proc is related to the damage of the strike, which would explain why AF3+1/2 hands seem to increase proc rate, because they significantly increase SA damage. The same could be true for TA damage if you used AF+1 vs AF2.

Then measure your results by number of mobs or number of strikes. Don't measure it over a set period of time as it will be dependant on running between mobs, and also because homam hands will make you kill 3% faster in the non-TH set.

Finally, when doing the non-TH set, make sure to equip your TH gear for the first strike before swapping to non-TH gear so that the starting level of TH is the same for both sets of data.