Vicious Reprisal

While you have resolution, all damage dealt is increased, and you gain might when you strike foes. Resolution granted to you lasts longer. — In-game description

Vicious Reprisal

Specialization

Retribution (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

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Vicious Reprisal

While you have resolution, all damage dealt is increased, and you gain might when you strike foes. Resolution granted to you lasts longer.

 Damage Increase: 10%

 Might (10s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Duration Increase: 50%

— In-game description

Mechanics

Bug:

 Resolution duration increase does not stack with boon duration. Whichever is higher will be what takes effect.

• Increases the base duration of Resolution to yourself, including external sources.

Related skills

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Soothing Stone — Legendary Dwarf Stance
•   Breakrazor's Bastion — Legendary Renegade Stance

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Pain Absorption — Legendary Demon Stance
•   Gladiator's Defense — Legendary Entity Stance

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Twin Moon Sweep — Legendary Entity Stance

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Orders from Above — Citadel Order

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Salvation

• Resilient Spirit — Periodically gain barrier for each unique boon you have.

Devastation

• Notoriety — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when using a legendary stance skill.

Herald

• Shared Empowerment — When applying a boon to an ally, also apply might to nearby allies.
• Reinforced Potency — Gain concentration and deal increased strike damage for each active boon you have.
• Elevated Compassion — Heal allies when you grant them boons. Grant boons to allies when your upkeep cost is equal to or higher than the threshold. An ally can only be affected by this skill once per interval.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Retribution

• Spiritual Reckoning — Gain resolution when you use invoke a legend.
• Resolute Evasion — Gain resolution after you dodge.

Invocation

• Spirit Boon — Invoking a legend grants boons to nearby allies based on the legend that was invoked.

Renegade

• Wrought-Iron Will — Evading an attack inspires you with Kalla's Fervor and grants boons to nearby allies.

Conduit

• Shared Wisdom — Grant boons to allies whenever you use a Legendary Entity Skill, depending on which skill was used.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Increased the might duration from 8 seconds to 10 seconds in PvE and from 6 seconds to 10 seconds in WvW and PvP.
May 11, 2021	This trait now increases all damage dealt rather than strike damage only. The Retaliation boon has been renamed Resolution.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced might duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds.
November 19, 2019	Fixed a bug that could prevent this trait from granting the listed increased retaliation duration.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait has been reworked and renamed Vicious Reprisal. Vicious Reprisal increases the duration of retaliation applied to you by 50% and causes your attacks to do 10% increased damage, granting 1 stack of might for 8 seconds as long as you have retaliation.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Empowering Vengeance has been added to the game.