Guild Wars 2

I don’t have time to test this tonight.

But in the few games I played, I would switch in to Death Shroud and didn’t notice Rangers/Thieves (classes who do a significant amount of damage) taking any retaliation damage.

Retaliation is Power based as far as I can tell

With full on power build you’ll do close to 400 Damage. every time they hit you.

If your a condition build your only doing like 230 Damage.

So it has nothing to do with how much damage you take? That seems absurd as it is overcome by the classes (I assume) whom you would want to build retaliation against.

It seems like it would be the smart counter to a haste thief, for example. What is the purpose of it then? I could have 100% uptime on retaliation vs a thief and I would still drop in seconds with minor damage done to the thief.