Guild Wars 2

Why does Retaliation inflict damage on attacks reflected by Wall of Reflection? It’s their own kitten fault they hit themselves with their own attack.

It is because of the way the coding works, WoR literally makes the attack yours, so things that spawn from the attack (such as mesmer illusions) actually become yours. It is rather stupid in a sense, since you cant control someone blowing you up with their own attacks reflected.

How bad a problem is this? Is is something Anet should fix?

I downed myself instantly a few hours ago when i put a Feedback in front of the enemy zerg zerging our tower (on my mesmer but it works the same way) ^^

I haven’t had much of a problem with this tbh. I barely noticed it until yesterday. I put a WoR in front of 20 people ranging down a tower door and I took probably 3-5k total damage for the entire duration.