Buffing players while they're viewing cutscene

[Nicobo]

Though they are standing right in front of you...

good point, I should say from system view, their content have not started at the moment so their status couldn't be changed(buff) by other players^^

[TomTom1968]

What's the big deal here? Why can't we throw Stoneskin and Protect on people that are viewing a cutscene? Furthermore, why don't pets like SCH pets and Chocobo pets take protect when cast? Is it too OP or something?

I never understood why Stoneskin can be applied to my Choccobo but Protect can't. Seriosuly, why is it this way lol? Any meaningful buff prevention system behind it or was Stoneskin overlooked and shouldn't be applicable either?

[EvianEverdeen]

I never understood why Stoneskin can be applied to my Choccobo but Protect can't. Seriosuly, why is it this way lol? Any meaningful buff prevention system behind it or was Stoneskin overlooked and shouldn't be applicable either?

What's funny is you can see the Protect animation being applied to the Chocobo, but it doesn't appear to actually be buffing it!

[Niwashi]

I never understood why Stoneskin can be applied to my Choccobo but Protect can't. Seriosuly, why is it this way lol? Any meaningful buff prevention system behind it or was Stoneskin overlooked and shouldn't be applicable either?

My guess is that it has to do with the way pets and chocobo companions are sort of members of the party and sort of not. They'll appear on the party list for the person who summoned them, but not on other members' party lists. Stoneskin is applied directly to a specified target, so that wouldn't matter. Protect applies to any members of your party who are near you. Apparently the piece of code deciding who qualifies doesn't consider them full members of the party. (As I said, though, that's just my guess.)

[Nicobo]

What's funny is you can see the Protect animation being applied to the Chocobo, but it doesn't appear to actually be buffing it!

i cannot agree more with this...

[MilesSaintboroguh]

What's funny is you can see the Protect animation being applied to the Chocobo, but it doesn't appear to actually be buffing it!

The flying text actually says this: "Protect: Has no effect!"

It's set to auto fail, just like how you can't spam Cure on the rocket turrets in the Castrum dungeon, but for Chocobos I don't know why.