Thread: Protect should be changed into an "aura" Job Trait

The "delete protect" threads make more sense than this.

Originally Posted by KokonoeAiyoko

I don't see how. This still gives people a bonus of being in a party with a healer whilst also removing the need to constantly recast it all the time. Simply deleting Protect and increasing mitigation across the board doesn't allow this perk for healers.

Why exactly do healers need this "perk" though? It's not like they're going to get excluded from content (except maybe in a fraction-of-a-percent of cases) if Protect doesn't exist. There's plenty of reason to party up with healers already.

You know, like getting heals.

Protect, as it currently stands, is a GCD tax for a passive effect. Making it an aura just makes it entirely passive. Passive auras are the most boring thing in game design.

Originally Posted by dejiko_san

Protect and Shell are original spells from the WHM job. If you don't want it, make it WHM only and buff it Everyone else has job specific buffs, we want ours back!

I agree, it should never have been made a healer role skill - please give it back to CNJ/WHM as an class spell! And as far as Shell went, it was rolled into Protect at ARR's launch automatically with the 'Proshell' trait (thus technically making it 'Wall' and not Protect, or at least, that's what it traditionally would have been in past FF games),probably for simplicity's sake (knowing that eventually once you get Shell it's just easier to cast the two together rather than seperately, something that always time consuming in FFXI having to cast one after the other.