i’ll agree the changing of the skills is a pain, and I can care less about the retaliation loss. What really gets me is the crippling affect it had on the GS. You get 3 combo finisher moves on the GS to use, and now you cannot use them effectively at all because of the huge cool down on our only light field with that weapon. Not to mention that the symbol builds are really effected greatly by this change.
To be fair if they really wanted to nerf retaliation, and keep with the symbol boons then take retaliation off and replace it with another. Protection or regeneration would be good defensive boons to put on instead. The skill order, while minor in this all, should be returned, and the CD on the symbol should be returned. Just replace the retaliation effect with something more defensive. This would allow us to actually make use of the light field and our combo moves once again which actually made the GS fun to play….