Patch 2.45 December 9th

[Riko_Futatabi]

Why not make it possible to be used in battle and just quadruple the MP cost?

Assuming the MP cost of Stoneskin II is 266; quadrupling it to 1064 MP would be sufficient considering that when you need to Stoneskin the entire party before incoming massive damage you're casting this 8 times. This means using 2128 MP, however you do get MP back during the process of casting it on everyone. Assuming you have at least 5000 MP on WHM your MP will refresh at a rate of 100/3sec and Stoneskin-ing everyone will take at least 24 seconds so after the process you'll only be down around 1328 MP. So that 1064 MP I suggested in my opinion fits pretty well and gives WHM a viable DMG mitigation tool.

It's too bad that they have decided that Stoneskin II will only be of use before the fight begins. It really is a missed opportunity to enhance what some people think of as a boring healing class compared to what SCH can do. Maybe like the Raise trait, on the way to lvl 60 we'll get one for Stoneskin II to unlock its use during battle. I'd like to hope because hearing of Stoneskin II being AoE before reading the description they gave got me somewhat excited being a main WHM and now I'm just disappointed lol.