Quote Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira View Post
Yoshi P answered this once, too lazy to find it. He basically said protect is too iconic of a skill to remove, even though they did in fact consider removing it. I agree, I think it needs to be made more useful but I dont know how and I dont think Yoshi P knows how.
Actually, Yoshida wanted to remove it. Other members of the dev team convinced him it's too iconic. Which is dumb, considering it's a cast and forget ability.