Is there any use for the Ward potions (Fire, Earth, Water etc)

[Creka]

The potion has a recast time of 5 mins, but for a potion with a duration of 15 secs is simply useless. They might as well lower the elemental resistance but to increase the duration, say, increase resistance by 8% with the duration for 2 mins, which I believe may be worthwhile.

Similar problems with some of the buff and debuff spells, with some of them with long recast timer but such short duration. For long recast timer I can understand as they don't want you spamming the spell, but for such short duration, it renders those spells useless e.g. Virus duration is 10s, how many hits will a mob hit the tank during that time....might as well cast damage spells instead.

[MartaDemireux]

It's not just about the physical hits in regard to Virus. Special attacks will hit for less that normally hit for a good chunk and lowering DEX/STR lowers block rate/damage if you're facing an enemy that can do that so it's good to keep up. Especially so with ~2-4 people in party having access to it.

The ward potions are pretty much only good for hard mode primals where their special attack will do 75% or so of your health. Any less stress on the healers after that move is nice.