This is a decent sword for most PLD solo purposes. The damage output isn't the best, but it's still ok and its HP Drain effect can come in very handy (not to mention it also adds to damage output, if only slightly). I wouldn't recommend it for soloing tough mobs, but if you're farming EP or lower, this will practically reduce downtime to zero. Useful to farm coffer keys and testimonies, and if you have a Hercules' Ring, you won't even have to cure at all on most mobs 10 lvls below you.
I think the HP Drain proc rate depends on the mob's level, but it's not too high. I'd say 5%-10% tops. I've seen it proc up to 6 times in a row, and sometimes I haven't seen it proc in 40 hits. The amount of HP drained also depends on the mob, seen it drain 40+ HP on 20 lvl lower mobs, while mobs my level or higher usually give 10 HP.
There might be better alternatives even for soloing, but they're usually way harder to get or far more expensive, so this remains a viable option.
Proc rate is crap vs typical exp mobs. In 3 exp parties (a total of about 10 hours of being level synced to 64 on my pld) this averaged less than 1% and when it did go off, I got 2-5 hp on the drain effect.
It did slightly fair better on TW/EP/DC mobs (closer to 3% average on a mix of those check ratings), but not enough to be a big deal even for just solo. Disappointing, was hoping it would at least be a downtime saver on solo farming or something. Proc rate seems to be based on mob lv vs weapons lv, not mob lv vs your job lv. I say seems because I ditched this before collecting enough data to be positive, seeing as it was already looking crappy.
