PoE Retaliation Skills Build Guides – Path of Exile
Retaliate Skill Gems
Added a new Strength Skill Gem, Crushing Fist: Retaliate against a blocked hit by slamming a huge armoured fist into the ground in front of you.
Added a new Strength Skill Gem, Vengeful Cry: Retaliate against a savage hit with a warcry, taunting all nearby enemies to attack the user. The user and nearby allies gain a buff which grants rage and prevents rage from being lost.
Added a new Strength/Dexterity Skill Gem, Eviscerate: Retaliate against a blocked hit with an arcing slash that releases two waves of force. Enemies in front of you can be hit by both waves. Requires a Sword or Axe and a Shield.
Added a new Strength/Dexterity Skill Gem, Swordstorm: Retaliate against a blocked hit with a hail of blades that rains down in front of you. Requires Dual Wielding Melee Weapons and deals the damage of both Weapons with each hit.
Added a new Dexterity/Strength Skill Gem, Glacial Shield Swipe: Retaliate against a blocked hit with a sweep of your Shield, unleashing a wave of ice in a cone in front of you.
Added a new Intelligence/Strength Skill Gem, Divine Retribution: Retaliate against a blocked hit with a surge of divine power, causing multiple waves of lightning blasts to expand outward from the target location. This skill cannot be Triggered or used by Totems, Traps, or Mines.
Retaliate Support Gems
Added a new Strength/Dexterity Support Gem, Expert Retaliation: Supports Retaliation Skills, causing them to have more Cooldown Recovery Rate, and become usable for longer.
Retaliation Keystone
Added a new Arsenal of Vengeance Keystone Passive Skill to the south-west of the Duelist’s starting location. Arsenal of Vengeance provides "Damaging Retaliation Skills become Usable every sixth Hit from Enemies instead".
Gladiator Ascendancy Passive Skill
The Measured Retaliation Ascendancy Passive Skill provides "Retaliation Skills can be Used for an additional 2 seconds" and "50% chance for Retaliation Skills to remain Usable after use." The small Passive prior provides 5% increased Attack Speed and +3% Chance to Block Attack Damage.
Retaliate Unique Items
The Lycosidae Unique Shield now Adds 250 to 300 Cold Damage to Retaliation Skills (previously Counterattacks).
PoE Retaliation Skills Build Guides
we’ve added a number of Retaliation Skills. These are active skills which require you to meet a certain condition in order to use them. Once you meet that condition, you can unleash devastation on your foes.
The counterattack Skills, Reckoning, Riposte and Vengeance, have been removed.
Existing Riposte Skill Gems are now Glacial Shield Swipe Gems.
Existing Reckoning Skill Gems are now Swordstorm Gems.
Existing Vengeance Skill Gems are now Crushing Fist Gems.
Added a new Careful Counterattack cluster to the west of the Templar’s starting location. Careful Counterattack provides 10% chance to Block Attack Damage and Spell Damage if you’ve used a Retaliation Skill Recently.
Added a new Crushing Reply cluster to the west of the Marauder’s starting location. Crushing Reply provides "Retaliation Skills have 50% increased Stun Duration on Enemies", and "Retaliation Skills Fortify on Melee Hit".
Added a new Indiscriminate Revenge cluster to the south-west of the Marauder’s starting location. Indiscriminate Revenge causes Retaliation Skills to have 30% increased Area of Effect.
Added a new Retaliation wheel to the south-west of the Duelist’s starting location. The first Notable, Flow of Battle, causes Retaliation Skills to deal 30% increased Damage, and provides "Gain 5 Rage on Hit with Retaliation Skills". The other Notable, Cruel Retort, provides "Every fourth Retaliation Skill you use always Critically Strikes" and "Retaliation Skills have 20% increased Speed".
Added a new Prepared Response cluster to the south-west of the Duelist’s starting location. Prepared Response provides "25% chance when you use a Retaliation Skill for a different Retaliation Skill to become Usable" and "Retaliation Skills become Usable for 30% longer".
The Shield Passive Mastery that causes Counterattacks to have a 50% chance to Debilitate on Hit for 1 second has been replaced with a new Mastery that provides a 30% chance to Avoid being Stunned while holding a Shield.
Retaliation Passive Masteries
Added a set of Retaliation Passive Masteries:
80% increased Duration of Ailments inflicted by Retaliation Skills
Retaliation Skills Debilitate Enemies for 3 seconds on Hit
20% increased Armour for each different Retaliation Skill you’ve used in the past 10 seconds
10% chance when you use a Retaliation Skill for a different Retaliation Skill to become Usable