Soboro and Brutal Earring question.

[Retrieving/C.D/Searain]

I'm just an <insertrandomnonRidillwieldingjobhere> though, I don't have a Ridill either and am basing this off what I think I saw someone say earlier.

fixed.

[DrObvious]

Ridill doesn't have a mean of 2 attacks per round though. 1-attack rounds seem to be roughly twice as common as 3-attack rounds by the data posted on pedia (As well as from personal experience). If Soboro is the same, Brutal actually is still helping you.

Except that based on those tests from the wiki with ridill, adding double attack gear didn't help his average number of swings, it actually slightly decreased it.

That can really only be explained by sample size issues or extraneous factors (Mob level, time of day, changes in an update?), unless you really believe that Double Attack traits will selectively overwrite 3-attack rounds rather than 1-attack rounds.

It seems that the percentages posted in the talk page were erroneous. The correct percentages are supposed to be: 27 53 20 for the first set and 25 60 15. 1.93 avg first set and 1.9 for the second. This is pretty much what you would expect.

[Lynsy]

I'm not sure if Soboro experiences the same distribution, but here is what I got while testing Ridill. (RNG/NIN, no brutal, etc)
Sorry the sample size isn't larger, my NPC decided to leave then and figured it was time for me to go as well. Either way, it would seem that double attacking is most frequent by far, accounting for almost half of the attack rounds.

Single Hit : 123
Double Hit : 204
Triple Hit : 75

Did you count attack rounds when the mob died?

No, I discounted the last attack round of every fight due to potential for it skewing numbers down.