Guild Wars 2

Does Retaliation block all of the incoming damage AND reflect a portion back, or does it block just the portion of the damage it reflects back (or does it not reduce any incoming damage)?

Thanks in advance.

Please search the forum for answer or wiki first.
But no you take dmg even with retaliation up, and it is a semi-static number.. so if you are hit for 10k. or for 100 it should do the same amount of dmg.

Phoenix the One.4071:

Please search the forum for answer or wiki first.
But no you take dmg even with retaliation up, and it is a semi-static number.. so if you are hit for 10k. or for 100 it should do the same amount of dmg.

So it doesn’t lessen any of the amount of incoming damage (I always hate when games use the word “reflect” in a defensive ability)?

I have read the wiki and forums … I see everyone use the word “reflect” (including Anet) and in context it would seem that it would lessen incoming damage … in practice I haven’t seen this however.

Hence the stupid question.

You take the full amount of damage of an attack with Retaliation up (yes, the in-game wording is pretty bad).

So essentially Retaliation is a damage shield?

Wish they would just say damage shield hehe.

Thanks for the reply and the clarity

P.S. – This makes the changes they’ve implemented to the Guardian line seem rather like fixing the wiper blades on Christine.