Guild Wars 2

I’ve had a good search around, but can’t find an answer, and don’t have the time to test it myself either.

Are the boons gained when you convert a condition with PoV affected by boon duration?
I know they’re not affected by the duration of the condition; cripple always gives 9s of swiftness when converted, regardless of the duration of the cripple.

But would 50% boon duration turn that 9s into 13.5s ? Or will it be 9s regardless? I would have assumed that it would be 13.5s, but that fact that the boons are fixed regardless of condition has got me wondering if that’s actually the case.

I’m planning a build something like this
The idea being to have permanent 10-15 might, permanent fury, retal, regen, protection, vigor, swiftness, and 50% stability uptime. No idea if it’ll actually work, just theory-crafting.

I’ve been running this build since the day they buffed rune of the pack. The difference is I now use berserker’s trinkets instead of knight’s. I am happy with my build, so I wouldn’t say your plan is not viable.

I also considered +20% boon duration food, but then -40% condition duration is just too hard to ignore in WvW.

For your question, unfortunately, I have never paid attention to it so I can’t answer it. Maybe I could test it later today after work.

Ragnar.4257:

Are the boons gained when you convert a condition with PoV affected by boon duration?

Yes, they are. I just tested it some moments ago in HotM with 6 in Virtues and Water runes (+50% total) with one of the NPC (thief is pretty good for testing since the NPC will most likely use her blinding powder for a single condition at a time), and then again without any additional boon duration. The boon duration from conversion is noticeably longer with the first setup (fury > 12 seconds with boon duration and only a bit more than 8 seconds without +duration). Same applies to Contemplation of Purity, btw.

Note that if the shout you use innately gives you the boon that you would recieve from converting the condition, the shout only removes the said condition. For example, using Retreat to convert Burning, Cripple and Immobilize will remove the condition(s) but will not prolong the durations of Swiftness or Aegis granted when using the shout. If you want to have longer durations of the boons you convert from conditions, try to use shouts that do not grant the conversion boons already.