CC weapon/equipment - some basic questions

[Pehtis]

With the event back and all gear being Bound To Account I like many is reviewing the items available for my various alts. Below are some basic questions regarding clarification.

1. Slicing / Bleeding effect
Does this bypass DR (e.g Devils, Orthons, Reavers etc)?

2. Waerpon with Double Strike & Cleave/Greater Cleave
Being a main hand attack does double strike work with the Cleave effects? Therefore it is possible to proc doublestrike for EVERY monster you hit (re each has a separate roll)

3. Corrossive Salt - Epic Tier 3
What is the min/max damage this can do?

4. Treasure Hunter Trinket
For level 12 items I have noted the upgrade Tier 2 also gives it Intelligence +5. With all their typo's (re Buccaneer ring) I wanted to confirm if this is in fact correct. I don't want to waste crystalls to find out it isn't.

5. Swashbuckler Shield - double strike
a) What double strikes? Is it the shield Bash or Weapon you are hold at same time?

[ b) Comment/Observation: For a small shield it has 15% spell failure vs 5% on normal small shields. Also it would be far better if it was a Mithril Shield (at least on Epic Version) so Bards & Mages could use without Spell Failure hindrance. Just found it strange as I don't know too many Rogues and general Melee (re Non AC builds) toons that would choose Sword & Board over TWF/THF at the mid to high levels (where useful AC is non existent). ]

I think thats it for now. Still going through the items.

Thanks in advance for feedback

[Pehtis]

No one knows?

[Kourier]

Maybe it's because you posted at 6 AM

Slicing and bleeding are separate effects like pure good or acid. So if devils are vulnerable to bleeding (yes?) then they get full damage regardless. This isn't added to your base damage, its a separate number.

Not sure about cleave.

Corrosive salt is on the wiki, I think it's a few ticks of ~100 each adding up to ~400.

Not sure about the trinket.

Only your main hand ever doublestrikes (The shield gives your mainhand 6%)

The Swashbuckler is actually a heavy shield in statistics (+1 AC, armor check penalty, spell failure). Dunno when it's fixed.