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Thread: dif between slicing 4 and master smug
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iphe
Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:27 am
#1
does one give a better slice? I just started up on the smug trees last night. got to 0/1/1/0. thanks, and any advice is very helpfull
Rissen
Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:12 am
#3
the faq will tell you a master is between 15%-35% and a slice 4 is 10%-30%
I am here to tell you that is incorrect. As a master smuggler slicing a run of armor I got 11% and 42% using the exact same materials. My guess would be that the range is more like 10-30 for 4 and 10-45 for master but the 2 are weight differently as well.
This would still mean it is random but a master would have less chance to hit below 15 making it rare and also making anything above 35 rare...infact increasingly rare for each % above the 35 possibly.
I can't testify to anything other than it is possible to slice in the range of 11%-42% as a master though.
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Sowsky
Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:32 am
#4
my two cents here but if we read carefully the ranges for Master Smuggler are:
Weapon Damage / Speed and Armor Effectivness from 15% to 35%
Armor Encumbrance from 11% to 45%
A mastere Smugglere get a bonus of 5% on the range.
Styphon
ManicMarauder
Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:25 am
#6
Yup Yup.
And i can painfully veify the 10% bottom on armor as recently as last night for Slice 4. Heh, guildy traded me an entire suite of composit and before i started said he was really hoping for effectiveness slices. You can guess what happened next. *One* effect slice on the first set, at 10%, and only two on the 2nd set that made it over 20%. Luckily I slice free for guildies. I did get my first 32% encumb slice though 
iphe
Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:39 am
#7
niiiice, this sounds like a fun prof. The stories i read in the sticky section are a riot. So this is my plan for climbing the slicing tree.
1) done
2) (25% done) go to eisley and hit up mission terminals while spamming open your containers for free
3) Knives (PA has a weaponsmith)
4) knives and armor and guns i guess oh and mission terminals
how does that sound....oh andi pitty the first noob to bash me for a bad slice then dare me to duel. Being a TKM and commando 0/1/4/0 not a good idea
WillburWright
Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:42 pm
#8
Rissen wrote:
the faq will tell you a master is between 15%-35% and a slice 4 is 10%-30%
I am here to tell you that is incorrect. It is correct, for weapons. Weapons is 15-35% at master, Armorencumbrance max is 45%. As a master smuggler slicing a run of armor I got 11% and 42% using the exact same materials. My guess would be that the range is more like 10-30 for 4 and 10-45 for master but the 2 are weight differently as well.
This would still mean it is random but a master would have less chance to hit below 15 making it rare and also making anything above 35 rare...infact increasingly rare for each % above the 35 possibly.
I can't testify to anything other than it is possible to slice in the range of 11%-42% as a master though.
Smuggler_Caylin
Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:03 am
#9
after seeing data from thousands of slices and living them myself I'm inclinded to believe the slicing ranges at master are 100% correct in that FAQ.
Slicing 4 I'm not quite as sure of, but the data there coincides with my findings when I was working through it.
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