Does defense skills work in wolves'den area ?

[Rjain]

As a SCH there is nothing to cut for Protect other skills are just so much better, even if protect would work.
SCH: Cleric Stance, Blizzard2, Swiftcast, Surecast, Stoneskin

I don't understand what you're saying.

The purpose of having protect up is to prevent you from having your other buffs removed. If you have only stoneskin up and I decide to run up to you and do wither + a nuke rotation, you will die. There have been times I've used wither and just knocked off protect, leaving better buffs up on the target, and making that wither practically useless. The fact that protect, even if it's useless, acts like a wall to absorb dispel attacks for everyone on the team, and it takes a second to cast at the start, it's no dice. There is no reason not to use it and the healers who choose not to are just stubbornly gimping their team.

[Yotsu]

The purpose of having protect up is to prevent you from having your other buffs removed. If you have only stoneskin up and I decide to run up to you and do wither + a nuke rotation, you will die. There have been times I've used wither and just knocked off protect, leaving better buffs up on the target, and making that wither practically useless. The fact that protect, even if it's useless, acts like a wall to absorb dispel attacks for everyone on the team, and it takes a second to cast at the start, it's no dice. There is no reason not to use it and the healers who choose not to are just stubbornly gimping their team.

Which skill would you cut to put in a one time "dispell" barrier?
If you want to kill a SCH right of the start you have to deal ~6,5k dmg, and that's not going to happen.