Radiance has more synergy than the Revelation. It could do with being hardier given it's synergy role is that of a tank but even so. The only thing the Radiance is good for is shutting down enemy caps. It is extremely good at it, eventually able to keep 2 on permanent lockdown with enough micro, but that is all it can do and I just wish it had some other way to be built.

If Clairvoyance was super cheap I could see that being really good. You take a weaker initial cap ship and for your loss in utility (colonize) and power (the halcyon in general) you get really powerful early intel when it matters the most. Guidance should probably be changed to a buff (area buff?) that increases the fire rates of affected ships or just scrap it for something else entirely.

The Revelation definitely needs an overhaul.

Guidance is decent now that its an AOE, it just needs to get better as it levels, and not get more expensive.

Just every capital ship and titan, as well as star bases?

Not to mention it also works on allied ships, so every other capital ship as well, and every other Titan, star base, etc...

Are you using a different Advent to me? None of their basic ships have spam abilities and only the Radiance and Discord could conceivably spam an ability without running out of AM in seconds. Starbases is certainly an idea as I could see spamming asteroids as quite devastating but only the Loyalist Titan would get any benefit from it. As for allies they can fend for their sodding selves. I am not balancing a game working on the premise that I have to have allies for my Capital ship to be useful.

I've not really seen Chastic Burst help all that much. It seems to get reduced quite steeply by armour so the 500 damage it says it does is generally closer to 200 though I suppose every little helps. I may have just been unlucky the few times I've used it and a couple of those were me testing it against the pirate base so I'll assume for the sake of argument that it's not crap but that still leaves a huge chunk of the Advent fleet getting almost no benefit from reduced cooldowns.

Mitigation from armor owns Chastic unfortunately you pretty much have to have the Discord to use it.

While I do agree, this would make the revelation a very late capital ship. Generally my Capital ship order is

Eco: Progenitor -> Discord -> Halcyon -> Rapture

Offense: Halcyon -> Progenitor -> Discord -> Rapture

I do see how the 25% cooldown would be nice on Chastic/Fracture. I can see some nice synergy there with the Revelation added in. But still the Revelation is mediocre, I think it should have a secondary effect to it and it would be an amazing capital ship. Also to the nay sayers, the revelations abilities have amazing synergy with siegeing  a planet! Clairvoyance to scout, Reverie for keeping disables of of the Revelations ultimate, and I guess Guidance for making the ultimate cooldown faster;P

Chastic Burst+Malice+Fracture.

That said, just like Cleansing Brilliance, when Malice got nerfed into the ground, Guidance also took a hit as Malice was the only ability that was terribly useful for keeping up at all times when you had a large fleet of Illuminators as it allowed you to propagate damage across the entire enemy fleet, destroying pretty much all in your path.

That said, I've never had too many problems with Advent AM reserves, so IMO that wouldn't be the way to fix it.  It has been discussed many times before and as before, the Radiance and the Revelation are lackluster compared to the other three.

When rebalancing abilities for my own personal mod, I buffed Guidance to be 25/30/35 and made Reverie boost the regen rates of any allied ship it was cast on, creating a synergy with the Revelation and Radiance where you would use Animosity to force enemies to attack it, use Vengeance to return damage, and use Reverie to help keep it alive.

I have played the Advent for a long time buddy, Reverie last 20 -> 30 -> 40 seconds, hysteria has a duration of 40 seconds.

While yes it does keep 1 disable busy, we can be thankful there are not a lot of them:p but I do agree with you for the most part.

IMO revelation has 3 2 problems:

First, Provoke hysteria is rather lackluster.  I had a thought for a simple(and thematic) way that Provoke Hysteria could be buffed and made more useful.  Change it from it's current form to:

Provoke Hysteria: Reduce duration from 40 seconds to 25/30 seconds.  Increase population damage rate from 1% per second to 2% per second.  Replace planetary damage with "reduces the target planet's allegiance by 1% per second".

All in all a full 25 second channel would result in 50% population killed and 25% drop in allegiance.  Even if the world doesn't fall that would be a very useful hit to the enemy's economy.

And frankly it fits into the Advent culture kit, allowing the Advent to send in their siege ship to "finish off" worlds which they have been putting cultural pressure on. at a max of 25/30% allegiance damage the world would need to have been already had it's allegiance reduced by advent culture(so no freebie planet destructions as all planet start with at least 35% allegiance).

Secondly, it needs a bit more survivability.  Since Reverie breaks if Revelation moves too far away, as it stands it's easy for the enemy to just focus the squishy revelation, forcing it to retreat and ending it's active reveries prematurely.

The other problem with Revelation is Guidance.  the ability quie frankly sucks.  The AM cost is prohibitively high, the bonus not so useful(very few advent ships actually benefit much fro faster cooldowns), and to top it all off the poor low rank uptime means it needs to be ranked up to reach it's potential(low as that is).  All in allwastes AM that could better be used on Reverie.

Honestly I think the ability needs to be entirely reworked- the stat it gives just isn't very appealing for the advent.  Ideally I'd like to see it turned into a passive of some sort so that Revelation could focus it's AM on Reverie.   Reworking Guidance would be a great chance to add some needed survivability.  I've had a number of ideas, but none have inspired me enough to post here yet though.

Would be cool but more than likely overpowered unless it was ever 1 system-2 systems if you rank it up again. The problem however is not the sieging ability of the Revelation.

Bilum Invoke Hysteria is probably the best siege ability in game. As for survivability I do agree mainly because here you have this giant ship that is supposed to stand still and siege things, and it has very low health and shields 2075 health and 1500 shields. Both of these stats are lower than the Radiance. And guidance is not a bad ability stat wise its very good, however it is bad for the advent as Riddle King had said it was meant to be used as a way to decrease cooldowns for transfer antimatter, unfortunately thats kind of lack luster. A complete rework is not necessary really.