Guild Wars 2

Hi Mates,

after my last karka farming run, i realized how annoying and deadly retilation is..i am able to kill myself just by hiting a karka with my smite :-// and you cant block or clean Retilation. You only can strip this boon of me!

And in spvp there are conditions everywhere and i get used by counter them with my meditations.

But wait what happens when i bring both together in one build?

And here is my Retilation+Meditation build and please try it out!

Perma Retaliation build

PvX: I have 2k power, 2,8 armor and 15k health, tons of healing, plus regeneration, plus block, plus aegis, with my 65% boon duration i have 6s Retilation, 6s Fury too…
PvE: I have nearly perma Retilation with Renewed Justice + Virtue of Retribution
PvP: I can counter the first condition with smite condition nice damage btw and i can clean myself 3 times with Purity and 2x Virtue of Resolve + Renew Focus
WvWvW: Retilation has no limits!!! As an option i can add Signet of Judgment for another Retilation source

Please have a look on this build and i would love to hear your feedback G

PvP/WvW retaliation was neutered patches ago. Now in PVP and WvW retaliation damage is reduced by 33%

I think he was speaking about the application rather than the damage

@Ghostisty: Right, the application of retaliation has no max. number. Thank you!

I am not fully happy with my second weapon choice btw.

At the moment i use
- Berserker GS or Sword with Sigil of Rage and Accuracy
or
- Cleric Staff with Sigil of Life and Sigil of Force

Any help would be awesome….

For the very basic build, full uptime retaliation is 0/2/0/0/2; it’s inexpensively combined with blinds as 0/3/0/0/2.

You can focus on either blinds or retaliation when choosing weapons:
Defnitely stick with Greatsword as it provides both retaliation and a blind.

For the swapped gear, I stick with focus as off-hand for its blind and block. Sword provides a blind, scepter provides a nice burst, and mace (though I haven’t tried it with this build) provides group block and retaliation / protection.
Some of this may depend on your build. I stuck with Shouts because of the easy access to Retaliation, and also Two-Handed Mastery for recuperating GS skills faster. If you go with Meditations, mace may be a better idea with the block to activate Might of the Protector.

I do switch out weapons as the situation changes. Staff and Greatsword help with speeding across WvW, so I use that and switch weapons when nearing a battle.