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Thread: Armor Slicing?
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Tallika_RunswithKrayt
Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:26 pm
#1
What are the possiable slicing effects on a piece of composite armor?
notanumber
Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:28 pm
#2
Getting a good encumberance slice on a comp helmet can be a real weight off your mind 
KiayaWi
Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:34 pm
#3
notanumber wrote:
Getting a good encumberance slice on a comp helmet can be a real weight off your mind
*giggle* Me likes 
You can either reduce the encumbrance or increase the effectiveness...but you can't do both and you don't get to choose
dorsai78664
Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:00 pm
#4
Encumberance is the armor weight. The 3 encumberance stats on the armor are all subtracted from your HAM secondary pools. For example, if the health cost for a chest piece is 300, you must have at least 300 strength and 300 constitution to wear it. A 30% encumberance slice on that armor would drop the encumberance to only 200 pts needed for each secondary. A master will have a range of about 15% - 45%.
Effectiveness is the amount of protection your armor provides. If that same chest piece is 60% effective and you get a 30% effectiveness slice, it will raise the effectiveness to 80%. However, that only effects the base protection and not the special layers. There is also a hard cap of 90% effectiveness for any piece of armor. A master will have a range of about 15% - 35%.
PSGs are personal shield generators and can receive both encumberance and effectiveness slices even though the crafted encumberance is always 0.
As mentioned before, whether it is sliced for encumberance or effectiveness it is random. The amount of the improvement is also random.
And just to clarify...we are only talking about player worn armor. None of this applies to ship armor which cannot be sliced.
Message Edited by dorsai78664 on 11-05-2004 07:03 PM
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