I miss protect.

[Covfefe]

It was a moment to feel like a team.

That good moment when people waited for the cast;
Or the silly moment when everyone waited but one person.

When I first played this game and came from SWTOR this moment when I loaded into group content became something that set it apart. As time has gone by, I haven't stopped missing it.

The simple act of waiting or failing to wait for this cast was enjoyable. The laughs when it doesn't happen right, and the peace that follows when it does.

It'd be nice to have this back again.
I loved this little act and how it gave a feeling as the protect bubbles went out that we were in this together.

[Lambdafish]

Adlo says hello

[Payadopa]

You literally press a button and then you never think about it again. There was zero strategy there. That's not gameplay. I agree that we have more class synergy, though. I don't like the ShB direction at all.

[Payadopa]

Sorry, I meant 'need more'.

[fumofu]

Funny you miss protect and not stone skin. Or you are going to make separate thread about that?

[Covfefe]

I joined FFXIV after SB.
Looking up stoneskin, that was a pre-SB ability.

It is mostly about a difference in player behavior at the start.
Protect was a mood setter so to speak.

Hi-jinks and chaos, respectful discipline, etc...
It gave a moment to laugh about, or a moment of peace.

It was not so much the ability but rather one of player behavior and the feelings that it in turn created.

[Magictrix]

You know, fk everyone else, make a macro which contains:

/me casts ↕protect↕.

And then use it at the start of everything.

[Covfefe]

You know, fk everyone else, make a macro which contains:

/me casts ↕protect↕.

And then use it at the start of everything.

I do:

/huh motion
/emote attempts to cast protect...nothing happens.

When I do it, other people will sometimes comment how they miss it.
For me, this was a big difference between my experience in SWTOR and when I joined FFXIV. It is very special to me.

[DuskTS]

'member..

..protect/SSII before the pull?
..gathering outside raid entrance in overworld?
..tank yeeting off without prot at start of dungeon?
..cooldowns didn't reset between pulls and 30 second WAR/MCH macro countdowns?
..weakness/brink meant less vit meant reapplying protect/ss during raid just to survive aoe? ('member food dropping off on death?)

Summerford farm 'members.

[LalafellDown]

You guys remember 1.0 stoneskin?