Protect should be changed into an "aura" Job Trait

[IttyBitty]

I don't see how. This still gives people a bonus of being in a party with a healer whilst also removing the need to constantly recast it all the time. Simply deleting Protect and increasing mitigation across the board doesn't allow this perk for healers.

Why exactly do healers need this "perk" though? It's not like they're going to get excluded from content (except maybe in a fraction-of-a-percent of cases) if Protect doesn't exist. There's plenty of reason to party up with healers already.

You know, like getting heals.

Protect, as it currently stands, is a GCD tax for a passive effect. Making it an aura just makes it entirely passive. Passive auras are the most boring thing in game design.