I think push makes sense for the Halcyon since it's meant to be all about strikecraft. I am in favour of any Advent buffs though.

I've never understood why the Radiance has such weak synergy with rest of the Advent fleet. Animosity would be fantastic if it wasn't completely broken. Having a properly tanky ship with Progenitor shield restore or Rapture's Vengeance would make a lot of sense for the fleet composition. However Animosity not actually working relegates it to a dps ship with a decent anti-matter drain.

I'd still like them to allow Detonate Antimatter to target Titans, just not disable their abilities. That would already go a long way to giving the Radiance a new lease on life.

Don't the TEC get a few nasty toys to chuck at Titans? I'm not a full-time advent player, but I have noticed a bit of difficulty getting a titan's AM down (cough TLT cough)

Naw, the AoE Debuffs are to strong to not get the radiance is tied with the Revelation's as the fat kid of advent Capital Ships.

The Debuffs are to strong to get to not pick the Progenitor/discord/rapture!

How does it not work? They changed it in one of the patching sessions before the Rebellion beta so that you cant get around the fact that you must attack it.

well, back in the day, if I used Animosity on your ships, it would change your target, but then you could just retarget whatever you wanted to. Basically it only did what it was supposed to do on the AI. Against actual human beings it was useless.

Aye.  part of the problem is that it can't really function as a tank even with the taunt functioning.  It's really no more durable then any other capitalship(if you're relying on the extra armor your shields are already down radiance is in danger and making the enemy focus radiance is the last thing you want to do).  More to the point, no capital ships can bear the focus of late game fleets, especially advent capital ships which are squishier then their TEC/vasari counterparts.

For Animosity to really be beneficial, damage dealt to the Radiance during it's effect has to be in part "wasted".  The opponent needs to really regret that that damage isn't going somewhere else.

The simplest way to accomplish that is to add a secondary effect to animosity that mitigates incoming damage to the radiance.  If Animosity also gave +4/6/8/10% max shield mitigation while active(roughly a 30-40% damage reduction at rank 4 dependent on how much other shield mitigation bonus has been researched), animosity would really constitute a net loss for the opponent(-30-40% damage to upwards of 30 ships in their fleet, but all of the damage those ships dod eal is focused on radiance).

With a mitigation bonus during animosity Radiance may actually be tanky enough that forcing enemies to attack it is actually significantly beneficial.

note a shield mitigation boost is not the only way this could be accomplished: a straight % damage reduction(such as in the Kol's adaptive forceshield) or some sort of debuff to affected ships(-accuracy or weapon speed) would also do the job nicely.  I favor shield mitigation chiefly because it fits the advent's image and they already have a bunch of attack speed-accuracy options on their ships.

Regardless I doubt such changes would be overboard as animosity is only up 20 out of 35 seconds(just a bit more then half the time).

Don't forget that Animosity has a maximum number of targets, so you're not focusing all of the enemy's firepower on your one ship, but rather diverting a portion of enemy firepower away from say, your Titan, who'se shields are going down faster than you would like.

Basically, if it works, and you have 2-3 Radiances, you can split up an enemy's firepower and severely reduce the efficiency of any attempt at focus-firing one target down.

Not that it doesnt need a buff or anything, I hardly ever use animosity as it is, but just keep in mind that in late games, you're not signing away your Radiance by hitting Animosity.

Considering you actually want the enemy to focus fire your titan, thats actually bad. The Raptures Vengeance ability with the titan as well as the debuffs the enemy gets from the progenitor. Trust me people have thought of this already the Radiance is bad in almost all situations. It does however do very well if you can micro him you can stop an embargo rush onto your world.

Makes sense.

I probably shouldn't comment in threads like these, I've been avoiding any kind of serious multiplayer PvP know-how on purpose.

Now that would be interesting.

Now that would be a very good & unique solution.  Heck even in the absence of a titan if it were allowed to target structres it could be used to have enemies target a starbase.

I like.

Probably wouldn't be quite enough alone to make the Radiance competitive, but it would be a very large step towards that end(and that step will have been taken is a very interesting and unique manner).