Having played the expansion.....

[DonovanLifeweaver]

It depends on the game. In some Final Fantasy's protect is infinite until the end of the battle and others it only lasts a few turns.

They could always give us a real protect. Something like reduce damage taken by 10% for 60 seconds for a single target. Essentially a powerful tank cooldown healers have that only applies to a single target unlike other mitigation abilities. In exchange for 1 target the duration is significantly longer.

we had it it was called stoneskin

[LunarEmerald]

we had it it was called stoneskin

Stoneskin was different. It negated damage. Protect in Final Fantasy games doesn't negate damage, it reduces it.

[DonovanLifeweaver]

Stoneskin was different. It negated damage. Protect in Final Fantasy games doesn't negate damage, it reduces it.

stoneskin offered a temporary 10% negation for your max hp
protect is 20%, idr correctly, increase in magic defence and physical defence for 30 minutes......
if you take all the dmg you can take in 30 minutes and compare it to 10% max hp absorb./... im pretty sure protect > stoneskin in terms of mitigation