OK, so I hope this sounds like what I think it means. In the battle with each hit, you receive you do damage back right?
retaliation = dealing damage by having MELEE enemies hit you. you receive the damage (after its reduced by your defenses), and the enemies meleeing you receive the retaliation damage (after its reduced by their defenses).
for ranged enemies, use reflect instead of retaliation.
and the game mechanic = ‘retaliation damage added to attack’ exists in some skill, so that all the retaliation damage stats you have can be converted to strengthen the power of those skills.
reflect damage for the player doesn’t exist anymore except for Mark of Torment and in that case it’s purely for thematic purposes and it does basically no damage.
ah yes, its been so long since the changes to retaliation and reflect mechanics in fg. thx for correcting.
Thanks guys. I posted this because i just picked up a level 90 legendary mythical scion of vengeance pistol. Tool tip say 1077-1518 burn retaliation over 3 sec. and +103% to all retaliation damage. I want to figure out correctly what that means.