I can confirm that synchronisation

I can confirm that synchronisation helps with sweating (and it helps a lot - its now easy to get 600 bottles/hour when solo sweat-hunting).

But also i must notice one thing - there seem to exist charging bar when you are getting "green ray" at the mob and if you have synchronisation buff and get hit while gathering the charging bar "gets back". I have done small experiment (without being hit and with being hit buffed with synch chip I (L) - strength 0.19 and synch chip XIV - strength 0.42):

(notice it is hard to measure this. I used stopwatch and beside the small delays between me pressing the button on it there is always the server lag involved).

time of gathering procedur without being hit: 4.90 sec - 5.05 sec (4sec and 90mili sec to 5sec and 5 milisec).
time of gathering procedure with buff (both I (L) and XIV have similar output): 6.80 sec - 8.00 sec (once i got hit two times in a row and it delayed to ~10.0sec)

So this is why i asume there is this charging bar that "gets back" when being hit. I have made small another experiment to check it further and it seems that the strength parameter seem to represent somehow "how much the charging bar gets back". I tried measuring this:
how much time it needs to finish the procedure after being hit. So i waited untill the green ray appears and if i got hit (before the procedure of gathering ended) i started to measure the time untill finish of the procedure. It seemed that factors that matter are: how late the hit occured since i started the procedure and the buff of chip (XIV worked better). No hard data in here because it is even harder to measure this than previous one.

This observation seems to lead to logical interpretation of strength parameter to represent how much the charging bar "gets back" (my personal speculation is 0.19 = 19% prevention, 0.42 = 42% prevention but no exact data to prove this).

Anyways: the difference between XIV and I (L) chip is not that important because even I (L) buff protects from loosing conectration totally (and hoping to get another succesfull try).

Just my two pec in this subject .

Falagor