I miss protect.

[AnimaAnimus]

In v1 protect also only lasted 5 mins tops.

I miss buffs and debuffs in their entirety. I loved being able to protect shell haste aquaveil stoneskin enthunder utsu then slow dia poison blind paralyze and silence. Combat just feels more dynamic and interesting when it consists of more than just flat numbers with a little dodging.

[HyoMinPark]

I would miss Protect more if it actually mattered in terms of defense boost in content. Back in SB, the only time is actually helped was Week 1 Savage prog and in Ultimate. Otherwise, it never made a difference if you had it or not.

[Doozer]

Just go play Eureka Pyros/Hydatos. It's still in there. And you even get to cast it on people individually.

[Tlamila]

I don't miss it.
Nobody waiting for it, especially the tank, and you had to run after them to try and Protect them.
Same thing over again when someone died and you had to protect back but they wouldn't wait.
And even back in 2.0 when most people actually waited for it, it was still annoying to cast.
Na, I don't miss it at all. I also don't particularly miss Stoneskin.

[Connor]

I don’t miss it in its previous form but I do wish they’d made it an actual combat spell and not the weird cast-before-you-pull thing it was. I liked the idea of healers having access to a defensive support spell that was on the GCD. I mean we do need something to break up the monotony of one-button nuke spamming lol

[Covfefe]

I don't miss it.
Nobody waiting for it, especially the tank, and you had to run after them to try and Protect them.
Same thing over again when someone died and you had to protect back but they wouldn't wait.
And even back in 2.0 when most people actually waited for it, it was still annoying to cast.
Na, I don't miss it at all. I also don't particularly miss Stoneskin.

This was a major part of the fun.

Laughing as you watched the tank run from the healer.

[Tlamila]

This was a major part of the fun.

Laughing as you watched the tank run from the healer.

Being the healer, I never found it fun at all.

[Xanderlise]

I would love to have Protect back, but in a new form.

If you target a single player it grants a +20% defense for 10 secs.
If you dont target anyone it grants +10% defense to everyone near the healer for 30 secs.
Maybe put it on a 1 min recast.

[deadman1204]

so glad its gone. Long term buffs are pointless, its just required clicks that the game assumes you did.

[KDSilver]

I'd say "I also miss it", but not the way it sounds.

If you take a look at the list of "what a healer should think of" during an encounter, that's one thing less.
Of course, it was only a thing if you had to raise someone. Reaplying protect to him.
It had more value to think of it instantly after a raise in HW when dead had the vitality debuff (+ a stoneskin or any individual mitigation so that they don't get OS by the next aoe).

We sure lost a lot.
It might make me a bit nostalgic regardless if it was a good or a bad thing.

But in SB, with the bad cross role system, it was an annoyance.