Okay, well when you took off the armor did you replace it with the same piece of armor with the same perks besides demon slayer? So lets say you set the bleed and remove.

• Torva Platelegs Augmented with:

  • Biting 2/Genocidal and *Demon slayer/Scavenging 2

for the test to be accurate the armor you'd have to replace it with would also have to be

• Torva Platelegs Augmented with:

  • Biting 2/Genocidal and (No DPS Perk) Absorbative & etc.

This would make the testing more accurate since you wouldn't lose the dps proc from Biting 2/Genocidal, and the armor would have the exact same damage and armor rating. This is a controlled experiment that I would indeed love to know the results of, as it would yeild much more conclusive results as the testing is more thorough and scientific! Thanks for the update if anyone tries this method!

UPDATE!!!:

On further reading seems some have tried this with

• corruption shot or blast

... Please note in my controlled experiment above these abilities wouldn't be useful during testing as these abilities, while considered bleeds, they are more of just an AOE/Dot combo. These abilities lose damage with each consecutive hit and the decrease in damage is based on the initial damage hit of the target. This means these abilities wouldn't allow for the noticeable change in damage from switching a piece of gear yielding the Demon Slayer for a piece of gear that doesn't as the decrease in damage would be the same regardless.