My armors defense takes more damage a month ago

[Whmk]

I am trying to get ingame help for all my armors because they are taking more damage than a month ago. For instance I was taking 20 to 30 damage in abyssea but it's increased to 50 or more and I get hit more frequently than a month ago.

[VoiceMemo]

Are you sure you have the exact same buffs, buffs from npcs as you did before? There has not been any changes to any armor.

[Whmk]

I am not sure how it happens but for instance when I played in ambuscade VD I was hit for 1300 damage than the next time boss used AOE jump and it hit over 4,000 damage. It seems to do it occasionally. I also have problems in abbysea it does not show in text procing the mob and there weaknesses. My whm armor and blm armor sometimes don't work right. My whm sometimes makes me use more mp even with high conserve mp. My blm armor sometimes does not give me mp back with the body armor. My auto target does not work most times.

[VoiceMemo]

All of those examples sound like you need to check your macros and equipsets. That something is not swapping in when you want it and are being caught in either fast cast or not casting in gear like whm empy legs for mp return from cure spells.

[Dzspdref]

And for Abyssea, remember which Atmas you have active or have selected:
Were the ones you recently used the same as ones previously?
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As for the armor sets, do any of them say things such as: "Sometimes absorbs or resists [xx]-type damage."? That "sometimes" part means it may happen, but not always so therefore it's not broken, just that randomness part of the game system working correctly.
Or possibly they have things such as how many pieces of the "set" you have equipped may affect how much percentage of an effect based on that? Abyssea had that a lot.
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Just trying to throw some ideas out that many people forget to check when they're used to seeing something, then a change happens, but they just accidentally forgot to "tick a box" somewhere.
Hope these ideas help.

[Whmk]

I don't gear swap so that can't be the reason for the damage increase. I use the same gear all the time on all jobs. My armor takes more damage with me doing nothing to cause it. Also my auto-target never works if chests are in front of me. It sometimes works when there are no chests. The procing system does not show weakness of monsters in text in abyssea no matter what I do. My whm armor mp sometimes does no conserve mp and blm body armor sometimes does not give me back the MP back and I don't gear swap gear and I don't use equipset.