Protect is a waste of space and should have died with Stoneskin

[Alistaire]

Yoshi-P was insistent in keeping Protect around for thematic reasons.. But it would've been the first skill I'd prune from healers.
That said, PvP has a new effect on Protect, and I think it'd fit well if a similar effect was the case for PvE as well.

EDIT: Oh and weakness no longer reduces max health, a lack protect buff is the only death penalty to survivability still around.

but since PvP now has a completely seperated skill set from PvE that's not an issue.

Another reason to get rid of it is to make room for esuna (if they even leave that on role actions); there's already a spreadsheet that was posted to reddit listing all the instances and whether or not esuna was needed.

And that is a sad state that we've gotten to the point of needing a reference like that.