Eye for an Eye

Gain protection when you are disabled. Gain might when you break out of a stun. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, launch, and taunt. — In-game description

Eye for an Eye

Specialization

Retribution (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

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35

Eye for an Eye

Gain protection when you are disabled. Gain might when you break out of a stun.
Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, launch, and taunt.

₅ Might (10s): 150 Condition Damage, 150 Power

₅ Might (6s): 150 Condition Damage, 150 Power

 Protection (5s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

— In-game description

Notes

• After the third HoT beta weekend,  Redeeming Protection was merged with Eye for an Eye.
• The protection aspect of this trait has a cooldown of 35 seconds. The might aspect has no cooldown.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Set in Stone: This trait replaces Eye for an Eye. Gain protection when you use profession skill 2. Guild Wars 2 Wiki note: Eye for an Eye was removed from the game.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced might duration from 10 seconds to 6 seconds. Reduced protection duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
December 11, 2018	This trait now grants protection for 5 seconds when the revenant is affected by a control effect, and it grants 5 stacks of might for 10 seconds when they break a stun. The protection aspect of this trait has a cooldown of 35 seconds. The might aspect has no cooldown.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 45 seconds to 90 seconds in PvP only.
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug in which this trait would trigger in a downed state and at unlimited range.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Eye for an Eye has been added to the game.