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? )