Quote Originally Posted by Abomination713 View Post
PLD is the ONLY tank to not benefit from their group protect skill. It's also the ONLY one with a heal gate requirement to cast it, that more often than not, you're casting Clemency on yourself to get it off when you want to since shields from healers do not set it off. It's ridiculous and that heal gate should have been removed a LONG time ago.

It is the strongest of the group protect skills among the tanks, so I can understand the PLD not getting it, but that heal gate? No good argument for that.
From level 84 onwards you can actually use Holy Spirit to trigger the barrier effect, as Holy Spirit heals you.