Protect is a waste of space and should have died with Stoneskin

[magnanimousCynic]

I don't have it on my role skills and it's just something I cast at the start of the fight as a minor bonus.

To me that's a bigger problem than some people might think.

Using Protect at the start of a duty and then switching it to something else technically gives you 6 Role Actions, due to how passive of a spell it is. Tanks can't do this, Melee can't do this, Ranged can't do this, and Casters can't do this. Only healers are able to indirectly have access to 6 Role Actions at once.

My suggestion is that Protect be made into a Magic version of Palisade. This forces you to keep it slotted when you want to use it, instead of being a spell you cast once and swap for a different action. This would also give protect more active mitigation instead of the minor mitigation it is now.