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As a guardian, I have some skills that might grant me retaliation, which is very good against burst classes.
The question is, if I "Block" (Aegis for example) an attack, will the other player still be dealt the damage that would have damaged me?
The wiki link says it does, but I'm not sure about it:
Retaliation does not reduce damage taken by the affected player, but damages anyone who hits them (even if the hit doesn't actually inflict damage; for example, if it is blocked).
The damage calculated varies from condition to condition.
2.5 + 0.5 * Level + 0.05 * Condition Damage per stack per second
Level + 0.1 * Condition Damage per second
4.1 * Level + 0.25 * Condition Damage per second
25 + 0.5 * Level + 0.075 * Condition Damage per stack per skill use
This needs some testing before i can safely say it works that way. But as you shatter your clones you do some explosive damage. This would mean that the explossion from 1 illusion would do 85 damage. When you do it with more then 1 clone 3 for example, each one will explode with 150 damage, giving you 450 damage in total.
After some testing I have found out that it is just the total damage. The mind wrack tooltip shows 1 clone : 37 damage, 2 50 damage and 3 66 damage.
This is one clone, as you can see the explosion does 30 damage.
This is 2 clones, as you can see the explosion does 21 damage but 2 times which gives 42 damage.
This is 3 clones, the explosion now only does 19 damage but 3 times which gives 57
Best Answer
No, Retaliation does not trigger on blocked damage
It would seem that the wiki is incorrect in this case. To test this, I had an enemy attack my guardian who had both Aegis (from Virtue of Courage) and Retaliation (from Save Yourselves!) active. The first hit, which used up Aegis, didn't cause a damage number to pop up. Only after Aegis was gone did Retaliation start causing damage numbers to appear when the enemy attacked.
Here's a video of my test (HD and fullscreen highly recommended):