Seriously, when will they fix SHELL & PROTECT?

[ApplePie]

Um, protect and shell does NOTHING. It gives you a pretty effect when monsters hit you. Oh joy, an animation. Totally worth the MP cost. Jennestia, please leave, nobody cares about you honestly. You are always defending the protect and shell saying it does something. But how can they same BOOST TO MAGIC DEFENSE on that glorious November patch and then it literally negates zero damage? Oh sorry if I want the only two buffing spells that reduce damage beyond stoneskin to actually do something. Sorry it hurts your feelings Jennestia that someone disagrees with you. But with my longer playing experience with shell, protect, shell 2, and protect 2. I go to Dodore and say "hi!" he casts scourge 2 (btw I only have 80 mnd, which I still take the same damage as if I had 174 mnd) and I take 400 points of damage. "HAHA! I'll cast Shell 2!" and Dodore casts a second Scourge II and it deals 500 points of damage?! Okay... consistently deals more damage. Shell wears off and it goes back to 400 points of damage. I'm sorry but atm, shell either doesn't work as it should or it increases the damage I take. Please take your Senior Moderator signature off as well. Nobody here cares; it just misrepresents you here. (Btw, where is your parse showing that Shell does anything beneficial? )

[Jennestia]

Um, protect and shell does NOTHING.

Parse data, please.

Btw:

When you claim something doesn't work, you provide data showing as such, because you seem to be one of the few people who actually says it doesn't work.

You show data disproving what the majority believes, not the other way around. Especially considering more people understand things need to be adjusted, not that it flatout does nothing.

[Kwisatz_Haderach]

Parse data, please

Here's your parse data. I play with Apple regularly and he casts protect on me and the dmg I receive tanking DOES NOT CHANGE. It doesn't fking change. People saying it has an affect are probably also checking dmg mitigation with stone skin up and not thinking about it.

I played as a 75PLD for 7 damn years. I know what protect is supposed to do for me and it does nothing of significance in FFXIV. In fact in many cases I have noticed that I take more dmg with it on. WTF is that about?! It needs to be fixed. I understand if the dev team is waiting to make adjustments until the new battle system is in place. But they shouldn't be ignoring it. They should come out and say it's not working as it should and is being fixed in a future update.

[Nabiri]

Jennestia, please leave, nobody cares about you honestly. You are always defending the protect and shell saying it does something.

Calm yourself, no need to be rude, she wasn't insulting you or anything, you just disagree with her. There's no need to attack people. Try to act civil please.