ThornsRetaliation Ref /6
Retaliate with Thorns
Retaliating specifically refers only to the inherent ability to deal Thorns damage to enemies when they Hit you.

Some effects may cause you to deal Thorns damage in other ways, but those are not Retaliation, and effects which specifically care about when you Retaliate will ignore them.
Supports Strikes you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds. Cannot Support Channelled Skills and does not modify Skills used by Minions.
Supports Strikes you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds. Cannot Support Channelled Skills and does not modify Skills used by Minions.
Supports Strikes you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every second, at the cost of a damage penalty. Cannot Support Channelled Skills and does not modify Skills used by Minions.
Supports Skills that leap into the air and deal damage, causing them to create Shocked Ground the first time they Critically Hit an enemy.
Thorns
Thorns damage is a kind of Hit Damage you can deal. Thorns damage is not Attack damage or Spell damage and is not affected by modifiers specific to those.

If you have Thorns damage, you inherently Retaliate against Melee Attack Hits, dealing your Thorns damage to the enemy that Hit you.

Some skills and other effects may also deal your thorns damage to enemies at other times.
Retaliate against all Hits
This allows your Thorns to Retaliate against any kind of Hit dealt to you by enemies, rather than just Melee Attacks, except that you can never Retaliate against the enemy's Thorns damage.
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