Don't get rid of Protect

[Lambdafish]

Remove it, give it to WHM, give it the effect that stoneskin used to have

it's a staple Final Fantasy spell. In fact, you could double down on this idea and consider giving us a Shell ability, as well!

I'd rather not keep protect as it is on this basis as the game still has a lot of mileage and content additions to go. My dream job for the game is Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer which would utilise shellblade, giving you the skill that you want.

[bass9020]

Remove fluid aura and make it a CNJ/WHM only water based spell. Protect and Shell are staple FF spells so not having them at all is a bit lame. But in the current state the Proshell spell is very lackluster and yes takes up a very needed role action. Since Yoshi and team refuse to give us 1 new role action slot at every level cap then changing proshell would be a fine alternative.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Who cares if it's a baseline Final Fantasy spell? Unless they change it into something you actually use in battle, it serves absolutely no purpose. You will never do content without, and you'll recast it only if someone dies. There is no thought or interactivity with Protect. It's "set and forgive it exists." So I want them to change it into mitigation for White Mage or just delete the spell entirely.

[Myrhn]

Right now i just put it in cast it and then replace it for other cross class action. Is tedious doing it for every dungeon but i dont want it removed. I prefer if SE just gave every healer the same spell but not been part of the cross action skills.

[Skivvy]

This has led to a situation where a lot of career healers simply write a macro in the game which casts Protect at the start then swaps it out for another, more interesting role skill instead for the rest of the run, effectively giving them 6 role actions instead of 5 since Protect only needs casting once.

Do you happen to have that macro handy? I never even thought to make one for protect, but that may not be a bad idea at this point.

[Maku]

Remove it.
/char

[Johaandr]

Or just make it a whm spell again.. my 2nd hotbar on sch and ast is very full but whm got some free space in my 2nd hotbar. (Ps controller)

[Eli85]

Protect, in its current form, is at best an annoyance. If it remains in the game, it should be a 100 malm aura attached to every healer.

Woo-hoo, hitting a button at the start of the dungeon is such engaging game play.

Get rid of it.

[Miste]

Or just make it a whm spell again.. my 2nd hotbar on sch and ast is very full but whm got some free space in my 2nd hotbar. (Ps controller)

They cannot do that because then AST + SCH healing comps won't have protect at all so in DF it will suck if you end up with no WHM and it will also ruin AST + SCH as a viable healing comp for savage raiding.

We want all 3 healing comps to be viable and removing protect from 2 out of the 3 healers will definitely ruin that.

[alimdia]

If they want to keep it they should revamp it, otherwise I see no reason for "set and forget" skills that aren't stances