Is this the BEST they could come up with?

[Riv]

I realize that protect does both, but that's really stupid, imo. If he would make the buffs last 30 minutes (like they did in XI), and he made stuff like Defender that lasts "forever" until negated by "Berserk" or recasting, etc....then things wouldn't have been so "convoluted," as you put it. You wouldn't have a problem with so many actions, b/c you'd rarely use them.

As for the 30 second thing, I was exaggerating...

So your solution is to play FFXI. I see.