The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[VanilleFang]

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Protect is a useless ability. It grants defence and magic defence, sure, but it wastes a slot that is better suited for something else. If they changed Protect to function as a defensive CD (a la Protect in PvP) it would be much more useful. As it stands now they could just grant Protect to everyone for free in a dungeon and nothing will change.

You've mentioned how you've played since ARR yet you are asking for something that they changed in HW because of balance issues? Protect was always a cross class skill first off, so it was never truly unique to WHM. Secondly Proshell (the trait) was removed and implemented into the standard Protect because it caused unbalance with WHM having more protective power than SCH. If they had kept Protect the way it was in ARR then WHM would have been an automatic pick for any fight that had Magic damage since it would have been the only class to grant Magic Defence with its Protect (Proshell).

The best options we have are either make Protect a decent CD (like I mentioned above) or remove it. Fiddling with how it's current state, and trying to make it "better" will only make matters worse. Buffs that last a prolonged amount if time are also lazy gameplay features. You just make sure everyone has your buff, otherwise they require no thought or strategy to use.