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Do not get anything you value sliced right now. Slicing is brooken.

It depends on the armor. Look at the encum on the armor if its close to 60% before a slice and you slice it even at master it will slow you down. I suit of tantel made with out layer can get benifits from a slice with out adding encumbrance.

But remeber in the new system there are hard caps that even a slice cant go beyond for both armor and weapons. So if you buy a top of the lne suit of tantel there is no point in slicing it most of the time.

From what I have researched if your armor's base protection is below 5477 then it is safe to slice. Armor rated at 5477 that gets sliced should (using the formulas on the Armorsmith boards) come out to 6000 or 5999. Above that and you will break 6000 and get more encumberance than you can handle and I would not recommend it.

Now the above is for non-layered armor only. If you don't know what that means you should find out before you attempt to slice. Also when I say 5477 you would have to look at the elemental protections for assault and recon armor as their kinetic and energy ratings are skewed.

In other words, if you are fairly confident you know what you are doing you should be ok if the armor is rated 5477 or less. But the risk is YOURS TO TAKE, not mine. Slicing is a bit of mad science right now and its hard to be 100% sure about anything.

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Jakd wrote:

was wondering if it would slow me down in pvp

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*rolls up a newspaper and whacks Jakd across the nose*

NO! BAD BOY! no slicing till its fixed!

I totally agree...do not slice armor. Weapons are alright if you slice something that you can easily replace. I've been slicing up all my weapons, but most weapons I find that I can get another one of with enough creds, heh.

You mean like the bone armor helmet I bought last night? Paid 3000 credits for about 4100 armor and sliced it to 5000. Was just a test but turned out to be a good one.