Guild Wars 2

This is a simple thing that has bothered me since the game has launched. Guardian has this nasty anti-synergy with its consistent aegis and retaliation application. Blocking prevents retaliation from dealing damage, and blocking hits is very important to surviving as a Guardian. Blind also has anti-synergy with retaliation, but at the very least it makes sense that if you ‘missed’ you wouldn’t suffer retaliation. So, my suggestion is simple. Allow retaliation to deal its damage through blocked hits and cure this anti-synergy.

Except that you can have much more retaliation uptime than aegis, and you can apply it after aegis ends.

It’s not a large anti-synergy, it’s only about 200-300 damage at most being lost per aegis while retaliation is up; but I’d want retaliation to apply while other sources of block are up as well: Shield of Courage, Shelter… this would also benefit warrior and shield stance.