I've always thought that if I wear HCP Armor and DCP greaves and the greaves are also very slash resistant that this combination would not halve the padding because both items have critical padding. Is this correct? Or is the HCP halved because of the slash resistance on the greaves? I've seen responses posted that seem to say the padding would be halved in this scenario.

Thanks,

Hes right. I also learned that spikes on armor accessories halve padding too. But half padding isnt as bad as it sounds due to the fact that padding over somewhat is variable anyways.

Heavy padding is worth only 6 + a variable amount between 1 and 4, unknown if linear, but if it is that would be 6 + 2.5, or 8.5. Half padding is just 5 ever time.

Rather than trying to keep the armor accessories pristine, I would say just accept the half padding in trade for another platform to load up a bunch of stuff ;)