2 - Disruption Matrix

2 - Furious Defense

4 - Group Shield (at level 4 this gets you 83% damage reduction)

2 - Inspire and Impair (this is an awesome ability: lvl 1: 50% weapon cooldown increase for enemy ships in the grav well, -50% for your ships. lvl 2: 100% cooldown increase for enemy ships, -75% for your ships)

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2 - Health/shields

4 - Weapons

2 - Anti-Matter

The most important abilities for the TL titan are, IMO, Group Shield and Inspire and Impair. Both give your fleet a huge advantage in pretty much any battle. 4 points in the weapons upgrade makes it actually do a reasonable amount of damage. With 2 in Furious Defense and 2 in Health/Shields it is tough enough to stand up to an awful lot of punishment. Sometimes I put 4 in Furious Defense and 0 in Disruption Matrix, depending on what I'm facing.

Edit: Sorry, the last part is backwards. Should be: Sometimes I put 0 in Furious Defense and 4 in Disruption Matrix, depending on what I'm facing.

It depends on how you like to play. The TEC Loyals can do a better economy than the TR (more SB's with Trade Docks along your trade route) and can certainly lock down planets better. I like to play defensively so the TL are more to my liking than the TR. As the 2 factions stand now, the TR are clearly overall more powerful than the TL, since the TL's bonuses are overall fairly weak. Even 2 SB's can easily be overcome with the right fleet.

Overall, I like building a well-rounded fleet and the Anklyon is perfect for supporting any size fleet so between the TL and the TR I go with the TL.

jjbuck. it does not give an 83% reduction. Sins stacking. more like 45% damage reduction.

the tec rebel's weapon techs are some of the worst deals out of all the techs avalible in rebellion. totally worth skipping out on those... hell i often dont even get up to researching all their prereqs. armor and hp are a much better deal.

Wait what?  I'm confused?  How exactly do these mechanics work?  These percentages aren't accurate?

So for us stupid people, all of the percentages do half of what it seems like they're saying.

"Half" is not completely accurate but it's close . It will be slightly different for positive buffs (-50% weapon cooldown) than for negatives ones (+50% weapon cooldown). Usually, I think, positive buffs are slightly better in terms of total benefit than negative buffs. As per Volt's example, a 50% buff to damage results in an overall 33ish% increase to dps while a 50% damage reduction would essentially cut dps by 25%.