Guild Wars 2

Hello, I’ve been using the flamethrower in WvW and I’ve been coming to this issue of retaliation. I sometimes end up hurting myself more than I am hurting the enemy, is there any way around this? besides not using the flamethrower.

If you have sharp eyes, you can see the retaliation shield graphic.

Toss a Mine at them, and it’ll remove a boon. If he’s not running much boons, you’ll probably get the Retaliation.

You can also use the sigil that removes a boon on crit, though it only procs once every 10 seconds. Be careful, because this proc can be wasted on people who don’t even have boons.

I run into this all the time, usually I’ll just switch to rifle. But the lifesteal food helps mitigate this too. I haven’t tested it but retal seems to be bugged because with 1 flameblast I often end up taking double or triple the damage I actually do

If a class grants retal to multiple people, you can take retal damage from each source. This makes AOE attacks vs a retal group very deadly to the AOE user.

Chances are you were hitting more than one person with the retaliation boon.