Casting Protect cross-class

[YukariOro]

Its approximately a 15% boost in physical (and magic with WHM trait) defence. It work similarly to WAR foresight. Iirc, WAR foresight (20% increase in physical defence) was calculated to give approx 7% damage mitigation, so this would put protect at a rough value of 4-5% damage mitigation.

This is all rough figures with different classes having different MDef and PDef.

This is why, when I'm on SCH and there is a WHM in my party, I prefer the WHM to cast Protect and Stoneskin at the start and don't try to typically cast it myself. I think a lot of healers, a lot of players in general actually, are unaware of the stat boost that WHM gets on these two spells. The nice thing is, a WHM can and should override a cross-spell that is cast by those who don't know better, and the cross-class can't override the WHM cast, which helps tremendously I think.

[KisaiTenshi]

This is why, when I'm on SCH and there is a WHM in my party, I prefer the WHM to cast Protect and Stoneskin at the start and don't try to typically cast it myself. I think a lot of healers, a lot of players in general actually, are unaware of the stat boost that WHM gets on these two spells. The nice thing is, a WHM can and should override a cross-spell that is cast by those who don't know better, and the cross-class can't override the WHM cast, which helps tremendously I think.

Then we have these cases where the tank casts Protect -after- the WHM healer has casted theirs. (Happened to me in a dungeon).

I always cast Protect as WHM regardless of who is in the party, even if there's another WHM.

On WHM I do:
Protect(CNG8)
Swiftcast(THM26)+StoneSkin II(CNJ50)
and hope the Tank doesn't run off. Sometimes I'll reverse casting these, with SSII first at the beginning before the the last cutscene viewer finishes and wait for the cutscene watcher before casting Protect.

On SCH:
Protect
Summon EOS/Selene
Manually Stone Skin on myself, other players, tank last, then the fairy.