Guild Wars 2

Is retaliation working when lets say a ranger put down his AOE attack? So if i stand inside it and pop retaliation will the ranger get damage?

Unless they changed it, I got the kitten beat out of me more than once via Retaliation when on my ranger and I laid down the longbow barrage on a group beating on a gate in WvW. It’s especially brutal since the channel can’t be stopped once it’s set up.

Yes, Retaliation works against AoE damage. So if an AoE hits all 5 targets with Retaliation, the attacker will receive five Retaliation “ticks”.