we shall see   can't wait to see if this has been balanced in an innovative indirect way.

The bigger weapon issue with Visari is giving them an incentive to use NON phase-missile units.  Power aside, their tech tree and unit weapon types just favour maxing phase missiles are ignoring all else.  It's not good at all to have their tech path so rigid.  There's been many suggestions and thoughts on it before, I'm sure the devs are aware of it.  Lets wait and see what they've done.

Making the fighters use pulse weapons makes all kind of sense.  Hopefully they did something with their HCs and Wave weapon upgrades.

Wow, thanks for all the responses guys.  That's a lot more information then I was expecting to be available(and much thanks to Yottsu for a ray of hope, if a bit of a cryptic one  ).  One more reason for me to look forward to when advent becomes playable in the open beta.  Seems like every day gets me more excited for rebellion.

Also with regards to other options for the Vasari, on of the sub-factions appears to be getting a gentle(ish) nudge toward specializing in a different weapon type, while the other may love their Phase Missiles even more than before.

The Rapture's aura gives a 10/20/30% boost to nearby ship's strike craft damage.

That is for Trinity, not for Rebellion. I think it goes something along the lines of; level 1, 10%, level 2, 18%; level three, 26%; level four, 34%.

All of the Advent capital ships seem to do this.

Yea. They got nurffed... Why Stardock, why?

Less antimatter and a shorter cool-down. It is so useless! At least give us the ability to return exp to destroyed titans that get rebuilt!

Back to phase missiles, tec have Hoshiko's and its economy spam to win against phase missle fleets,

Vasari vs Vasari is usually the Carrier caps repair cloud, overseers and phase missiles to counter phase missile fleets.

If you take a look at all the races you start to see something peculiar- vertigo, shield projection, deceptive illussion and increased fire power for advent and instead of desciples use defense vessels(main) mixed with illums and carriers (use repulse to defend carriers and defense vessels)

I mean vertigo already does more than half of the job at level 3 and with projection just means your getting almost no damage while repulse is just an assurance-let alone those ships shooting ghost illum ships.

all the races have defenses against phase missiles and advent have a variety--where vertigo keeps their fleets alive for them to work.

Expect Vassari Loyalists to change this. No i'm not saying how except that it's going to make their heavy cruisers into real scary littile fellas.

Also question for you sanchezz, where's that avatar pic from,. i've seen it somwhere before and can't identify it and it's bugging me .

I can still post a link to some You Tube videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqdAhBreGrY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYgxVgihyzI

About skirmishes, they cost more because with thier cheap upgrades they become the best LF in the game.  They also do way better massed damage then the other LF's as is, having a higher base damage, meaning even better damage as the upgrades progress.  You don't see how good the vasari light weapons are because their phase missiles are even better(and are spammed a lot more).  The vasari have all the best weaponry, which makes sense.  Just build up a horde of 50 + skirmishers and face them off with another horde of another races LF (at comparable resource cost) and see by how large of a margin the skirmishers win by.