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It sounds like those are krayt segments not scales. Both are unfortunately fairly useless, but here are the exceptions:

For Krayt Segments (can only be used in composite armor): If the base percentage is better than the segments u cancraft (and urs dont sound that good btw) then use them. They do make your armor light. However krayt segments that are better than crafted segments are real rare.

For Krayt Scales (segment enhancer- can be used in any armor): These are pretty cool for lower level armors. For instance I wear for everday running around (instead of clothes) a kraytscale enhanced Mabari chest plate. The scale actually takes away a lot of vulnerablilities of low level armors like mabari for instance. Mabari, which is usually vuln to energy, wont be with a krayt enhanced chest. I mean the chest plate I wear is 32% resist to kinetic for only a measly 9 mind encumb and 70 health encumb. So if im surveying or something it doesnt effect me, but if a punk Mauler or Gungan (I despise Gungans) sneaks up on me while Im surveying, it'll take half the damage away-assuming they hit in the chest. I actually used a Krayt scale to make my RIS helm to take away the acid vulnerability but a lot of people advise against this because it pushes almost all stats into special protection- which makes an effective slice virtually useless (and of course this happened to my RIS helm.)

To answer your question in short, no you will not raise your base by 57. Of the top of my head, my triple layered comp segments are 38% base i believe? (that might be my ubese kinetic). It's either that or 28. Assuming I used your segments what would normally be 69 base composite would be 49 or 50 base. Thus it would be drastically worse. Sux but its true.

I have to disagree with the previous poster .

I love making krayt enhanced ubese / wookiee armor. I make these armors for friends in the game and they love them. The krayt scales make ubese vulnerable to only stun and they make wookiee armor a little better. As far as Krayt Segments go .. they make extremely light weight high condition armor. So even though they protect less you regen a lot faster and your specials cost you less to perfom. People like doctors love the krayt suits i make just because the mind encum is so amazingly low and they still get good protection.

I stand corrected. Ubese could be improved as well. Good one, especially since an effectiveness slice is useless anyway on ubese. As far as the krayt segments go, again depending on the base %, i can make unlayered comp better thatn I can make krayt segment comp. That is light as heck too.I've never tried it and made the comparison but from the base 10% krayt segs ive seen, I know it's true.

i made this last nite with scales

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=79959

This is exactly my point. Krayt scales would be awesome if there were no such thing as slicing. Now take your helm which is great by the way, not flaming just proving a point... Let's say you geta

1. 25% effective slice w/out Krayt Scale

Because your base is 69, that would mean yourbase stats would be 86, and your encumbrance would be 297 Mind.

2. 25%effectiveness slice w Krayt Scale

Your Restraint stat will go to to 86% only, all other resists and encumbrance would stay the same at 80, Mind is 297. The slice has virtually no effect and your base stats are lower than what they could have been.

3. 30% encumbrance slice w/out Krayt Scale

Here is the one thing though that I have heard - even though your stats go up, anything over 80% protection still protects at 80%

In other words, a slice does nothing but make you think you have better armor than you got, in that case...