Guild Wars 2

Does anybody here have an experience running a Radiant Retaliation guardian/dragonhunter build?

Trait caught my eye and quite interested. I want to get some insights from experienced players regarding such build.

Radiant Retaliation needs more support that it currently has. Even I, who specializes in making thematic builds, don’t think its ready.

Sadly radiant retaliation scales horribly.

If you used it with full dire gear the retaliation damage would still only be about 5% higher then if you didn’t use the trait and had zerk/soldier gear on.

And even by doing this you would lose a massive amount of DPS due to hitting like a wet noodle with even your hardest hitting attacks.

And before anyone asks, no it isn’t worth trying for a burn build with this due to the fact that even the most condi focused guardian build will still use allot of power in order to have any decent damage potential.

The trait is just one of many on the guardian (between 1/3 and 1/2 that need a redesign if they are ever going to be used for anything outside of screwing around)

It seems some traits in game need to be revamped/redesigned. The given traits right now just seem to constrain the viability of other builds like retaliation, etc