Guild Wars 2

Radiant Retaliation doesn’t scale with Condition damage like the trait implies. It scales with Power. If you want to see for yourself, use Rabid Amulet with Radiant Retaliation.

Retaliation damage will be incredibly low.
Add a Power Signet
Retaliation damage will increase due to Power.

If more convincing is needed….

Equip Carrion amulet
06000

Base power/condi stats
1576 power = 212 retal damage
1232 condi = 212 retal damage
Equip Radiant Retaliation.
1232 condi = 212 retal damage
1587 condi = 212 retal damage
1659 condi = 212 retal damage
Equip Staff for 12 might stacks and your Retal damage will increase… but it’s due to Power being increased by Might.. not your Condi damage.

/Endbugreport

On another note, Kindled Zeal has been replaced with Amplified Wrath.
People will not use Kindled Zeal to increase Doom/Geomancy damage if our Burn damage can increase through Amplified Wrath. There’s no use for Kindled Zeal in any build.

Use a cannon or cow or cart on wvw,kindled zeal increases the dmg from that poison or bleeds.
Also it increases the bleed dmg from take root bleeds,sure it may not be your playstyle but theres others that do use the trait quite effectively.
And as far radiant retaliation,it never worked.
Been quite a few posts about it on this forums about it,so i am sure the dev team has a note of it somewhere.

grave of hearts.7830:

Use a cannon or cow or cart on wvw,kindled zeal increases the dmg from that poison or bleeds.
Also it increases the bleed dmg from take root bleeds, sure it may not be your playstyle but theres others that do use the trait quite effectively.
And as far radiant retaliation,it never worked.
Been quite a few posts about it on this forums about it,so i am sure the dev team has a note of it somewhere.

People run condi builds with Kindled Zeal in WvW? Especially in WvW Zerging scenarios?
Guardians will use more suitable builds for Zerging. I’ve never met a Guardian who uses Kindled Zeal because he wanted more Bleed or Poison damage on a cart…