3) Duration of Infected Edges Condition: Infected Edges last between a few minutes and a few hours real life. The longest observed, continuous Infected Edges event lasted about 23 real life hours (8 hours logged in). Note these times are when I just happened to noticed it and examine. Once you get the an infection, the duration and whether it gets better or worse seems to be random, and most of the infections I observed only got better. The time between when you get the original wound and when an Infected Edges starts also appears to be random; I've gotten them 10 mins after getting a wound and after several hours.
The time between when you get the original wound and when an Infected Edges starts, also appears to be random; I've gotten them 10 mins after getting a wound and after several hours. Infected Edges have also been observered to appear and dissapear on the same wound 2 or 3 times over several real days.
4) Infected Edges Will Change Over Time: The Infected Edges condition will also can change between -1 and -2 (gets worse and/or better).
Here's one example of an infected edges Infected Edges timeline. Note this was both the longest and most varried event I recorded:
-Original wound obtained: 9pm Day 1 (10/31/22)
-Infection started: Day 2 11 pm, after 4.5 hours in -game with the original wound. Inspection showed: "worringly deep red edges (-2)"
-8 minutes later: "faintly miscolored edges (-2)"
-6 minutes later it was "faintly miscolored "-1)"
-By 9p it was still "faintly miscolored "(-1)" (8 hours infected in -game at this point)
-After that I didn't examine the wound again and my toon died at 2am the next morning (Day 4, 5 hrs later) while I as afk.
5) Curing It: In most cases observed, the infection gones goes away on it's own. The time it takes to cure itself appears to be random. It is removed if you sacrafice a rare item or upon death. It's not known whether applying a bandage will cure the condition. Using a Life Transfer (LT) weapon will lower the damage of the wound but the condition Infected Edges will remain until the wound is completely healed.
6) Speculation: It seems like there should be a "-3" or higher level of this condition based on the names "faintly miscolored" and "worringly red edges". "Worringly" seems to suggests there is a worse version that hasn't been seen yet.