Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
If they took this one skill away from Carbuncle, they might as well delete carbuncle entirely. It's literally the only thing it does now.

But think of it like this. You can't cast Ahk Morn if you don't have Bahamut out. You can't cast rekindle if you don't have Phoenix out. So you can't put up carbuncle's shield if you don't have carbuncle out.
If you don't have Carbuncle you can't use Carbuncle's buff.

Oh, wait, no they changed that because it was annoying to use. It's not even "carbuncles" shield since it used to be Titan's ability. It has nothing to do with the rat other than SE decided it has to. They can just as easily make it not use the rat and nothing of value would be lost.