20% reduced condition duration on shields
pinkeyflower
Does the duration reduction still take place if you equipped the shield after the condition has been placed on you? E.g. being hit with cripshot at 10 marksmanship (crippled for 6 seconds) and then switching to a -20% crip shield set.
Xenex Xclame
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MagmaRed
No, once a condition is on you it can only be removed. Nothing will reduce its duration once it is applied.
Arduin
And the other way around? If hit by crippled while wielding a -20% to crippled, can you switch the shield and still retain the -20%?
Xenex Xclame
Huh, good question,Dunno about that,will check.(my guess would be no)
ac1inferno
My guess would be the duration is calculated when the condition is applied. So if you have the shield up when it is, the duration gets reduced 20% and then you can switch out of it and the duration would still be reduced 20%, but if you were not on it and the condition was applied, switching to it would not affect its duration.
MagmaRed
Yes, switching shields AFTER it is applied would mean it is still reduced. If you notice the indicator in the corner of your screen it will have a timer bar indicating how long it will last. That timer bar is what gets changed. If you swap shields after it is applied it does not change, and if you swap shields before it is applied it will (if the shields affect it). What you are changnig is the time the condition lasts, not how fast it ends (same thing, but in a different way). Some skills will increase the speed the conditions expire, but they do not change the actual duration amount. So if you are hit for a 10 second condition, and have a skill (Recovery/Purifying Veil/Featherfoot Grace) that makes it expire 50% faster it would last 5 seconds. Now, if you also had a 20% bonus from a shield, the duration would be 8 seconds, not 10, and the 50% bonus from the skill would make it become 4 seconds.
Arduin
Makes sense, MagmaRed. Actually, now I think of it, +20% to enchant works the same way. 
pinkeyflower
Thanks guys. I thought that switching to -20% afterwards had no effect but I had heard of people saying that it did. Thanks for clarifying.