You know what's funny? The day of the update, two hours after I finished updating, I reached 49, and got penta thrust.. Sure, I was happy to see a new weapon skill, I used it once in my party just to see what it looked like... Then returned to Renkei Distortion with the THF, with Double thrust..
I remember reading in the past that there was a way to change one of the files in the FXI directory so that you could see a visual change in your char ...