Originally Posted by Irons
And now to the important point, I don't think that any fight will be unwinnable with a full retaliation build.
If that's not the case than I agree it needs to be changed.

However you might will be forced to use some spells/skills to deal dmg in certain situations.
Yeah. I am going to run a Solo Retaliation build on Tactician when the game officially comes out. I'll post my results here as well.

I definitely expect I'll need to come up with creative solutions to a few enemies. But that's part of the fun!