Seriously, when will they fix SHELL & PROTECT?

[Elexia]

Protect seems fine to me, Shell on the other hand does seem kind of gimped, some magic based attacks can one shot you if your not careful and that shouldn't be happening really, seems really cheap.

Main offenders are Imps and Salamander type monsters, so either shells effectiveness needs to be increased or certain magic based mobs need to be rebalanced.

As others have pointed out large scale rebalancing will take place in the near future so its just a matter of patience.

One thing I do agree with is that Protect and Shell should last longer 30 minutes sounds about right.

This, Shell, Protect, Mighty Guard etc always seem to historically be short durations in FF games. On the topic of it doing absolutely nothing, I wouldn't say that as Yoshida commented that the formula for it is extremely complex that it's difficult to balance, however broken it is not. I use Protect on myself as every DoW I play as well; Shell I'm pretty sure it's well known that the magic balance in this game is absurdly off just like every other stat and a lot of magic attacks aren't purely magic based either, e.g "Breath" attacks tend to have other modifiers to them beyond just x element.

[Vackashken]

Nobody cares about you or will care. (For you know who)

It's true, I don't care about you.

Felt like trolling.

[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.

[ApplePie]

It's true, I don't care about you.

Felt like trolling.

I like this :<

[Razzle]

it's not as good as it was before the November patch, seem they only cut the damage around 10%

mages die a lot from Devilet or another mobs spell during the behest or levequest

Solution: Get to rank 48 and get your Protect II and Shell II. (I don't understand this game... You actually need to play to get better omg...) /sarcasm

What's with everyone wanting everything right from rank 1 and then calling this game too easy... Imp's special attack are easily dodgeable if you keep range, you're a mage, you're supposed to keep range... Or SE should "fix" that too? And make everyone melee?

[Kidkaze]

Firstly: wrong forum >_>

Secondly: Are we talking about first tier protect/shell or second tier? I think they both work.

I was doing leves with my static last night and we came up against the (in)famous Dark Devilet imp 6 times (2 in every leve, and we did it 3 times over). We died, twice, from not having shell II up, and at the time, I had a hp of 1233. With shell II up, when I got hit, I had 400+ hp left, so Im pretty certain shell II works, at least when I use it.

[Evangela]

Solution: Get to rank 48 and get your Protect II and Shell II. (I don't understand this game... You actually need to play to get better omg...) /sarcasm

What's with everyone wanting everything right from rank 1 and then calling this game too easy... Imp's special attack are easily dodgeable if you keep range, you're a mage, you're supposed to keep range... Or SE should "fix" that too? And make everyone melee?

Shell II is the same

and you can't dodge those spell if you solo and the mob target on you

[Speeral]

My gripe is hiw long it lasts give me fifteen or thrity minutes and im a happy camper. Also rank 48 for the last tier was too long mayb mid 30's would be more appropriate.

[Jinko]

They should have one tier of protect and shell and it should increase in potency based on the casters MND stat and last longer based on the targets rank.

[Grimm]

it's not a minor issue but I never seen the dev team mention about it anywhere

again....?