I play vasari loyalits and i can asure you that suppression does hinder the vl titan.
It does not affect desperation. So whoop-dee-do suppression aura removes something like 20-30 DPS to 2-3 targets from the enemy fleet at max rank.
By contrast STrength of the Fallen can make more then twice that modification(only in the positive direction) on the second-highest weapon dps titan in the game(the eradica) which is one of the only 2 titans which has weapons that can target 4/3/3/4 enemies rather then 3/2/23 or 2/3/3/2.
Strength of the fallen on the eradica is also affected by suppression when i play them.
Actually it's the other way around. Strength of the fallen makes Eradica more resistant to Suppression aura, not less. In example:
Normal titan suffer a net absolute loss of 1-1.4^-1= about a 28.6% net loss of damage
by contrast a fully stacked eradica gains +90% damage and suppression reduces it's damage by 40%- since they use the same entity modifier they stack additively, resulting in the eradica still doing +50% damage. So the absolute loss is 1.5/1.9=about a 21.05% loss of damage.
When I say absolute loss of damage I refer to the actual loss of damage, not the silly sins math buff display numbers.
So Eradica is actually less vulnerable to Suppression Aura then other titans
Suppression reduces the damage output of weapons fire from enemy structures, frigates, caps and titans by up to a late game value of 40%.
Structures matter little late game.
Starbases are situational
Capitalships aren't about weapon damage and honesty are often kept as out of harms way as possible while still being able to use their abilities.
combat Frigates simply aren't used late game.
When it comes down to it the only non-situational type of late game damage suppression Aura affects is titan damage- thus the effects to the opponenet's full DPS potential are rather small.
It certainly isn't going to save your fleet from AoEs or your capships from bombers, which are the main threats to your fleet anyway.
Microed guardians do protect against 30% of all damage types (AOE included). Culture (which is easily applied by AL) takes care of shield mitigation.
Need i say anything about repulsion?
So? this is a discussion about how suppression aura doesn't bring much to the table in terms of fleet survivability- and a bility that is not even faction-specific isn't really part of this argument.
Additionally a 30% damage redirect isn't going to allow a frigate fleetto survive titan aoe. The Ankylon can't do that with it's potential 84% damage redux. Not to mention you'd need a lot of guardians as most titan AoEs will overload a guardian's shields in one go.
These factors alone ( in the hands of skilled player) will allow unity mass to snipe a level 1 titan before the fleet is wiped out because late game unity mass is devastating esp when it hits with malice active.
again w're chiefly discussion Suppression Aura's nonefficacy as a defensive tool, not the coronata as a whole.
But while we're on the topic, the Coronata is still one of the weaker titans. And don't trying to attribute the strength of baseline advent tools like guardian abilities to the coronata's strength- the advent rebels get all those goodies too and the Eradica is a heck of a lot better.
The only titan to ever worry about is the VR titan with its AM drain.
lets not also forget that AL corvettes also reduce the hit chance of weapons fire..that also targets titans.
Which is again nice, but plenty of races get good corvette abilities.
All that said I'm not claiming the Coronata is worthless- the Unity Mass changes were a huge help. But it's still a leg down on the titans that actually have AoE capabilities. Sure it can 1v1 most other titans, but that's not going to matter when the enemy can melt their fleet fast with AoE turning the situation into a 1vs.many scenario.
Unity Mass is of course great, but subjugating assault doesn't hit it's stride til late game and eve then isn't amazing. Suppression Aura has poor performance late game, and repossession is highly situational. By contrast most of the better titans have multiple strong tools rather then one strong tool and a buch of "meh"/situational ones.
