What Does Protect Actually Do?

[MPNZ]

As explained, Protect scales with your defence stat, so undergeared players benefit less from it anyway. You're only getting that full 8% as a tank if your at max synced ilvl, so thise unprepared players are already at a disadvantage anyway.

And nothing happens in a vacuum guys, you can't claim this is a nerf without seeing all other mitigation skills for tsnks and healer, or seeing how character and enemy stats have changed.

But, the the dmg reduction is noticeable on every class, though. There is a big difference between 27% and 35% dmg to player's HP bars, so it's definitly enough for people to be concerned about it a little bit. But, yeah, we just really won't know anything until they release the 5.0 patch notes. It's just a bit scary to think of just how many pages might be added to "tales from the duty finder" soon

[MrThinker]

But, the the dmg reduction is noticeable on every class, though. There is a big difference between 27% and 35% dmg to player's HP bars, so it's definitly enough for people to be concerned about it a little bit. But, yeah, we just really won't know anything until they release the 5.0 patch notes. It's just a bit scary to think of just how many pages might be added to "tales from the duty finder" soon

The obvious solution is to just buff everyone's defense stats by 15%. So everyone basically has the effects of Protect built in. Or just change the effectiveness of defense stats in the damage calculation formulae by a factor of 1.15