Lopyrech
When you equip (manually) multiple items, the last item refresh the "invalid timer". It's the same here, but since we equip all at the same time, it's invalid for the highest "invalid time" (usually an armor piece, around 5secondes) ; it's not really different from a quick manual equip.
If you were to do a "sum of time" for invalidation, equipping a jewel set + an HA would take 50 seconds, that's wayyyy too much imo !
I doubt that even the fastest clicker can change armor and jewels in less than 4 or five "equip times". I agree that simply summing the "equip time"s is wrong, but so is doing it in one.
The game is set up to make equipping take time. Making it too short goes against the balance of the game, in my opinion.
The only time that Mjollren's comment makes sense is in the case of PvP.
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