[Snake]

Better question. Why isn't this exclusive to Pawn Automatons? This does seem unnecessary in the grand scheme. All damage redirections, except Kerberos, comes without mitigation. Using Guard is the only mitigation we had for that, especially when eating AoEs.

That is unwarranted and should be exclusive to Automatons.

On top of that, Protect should be reworked into a stance, and not require a Shield anymore. That being based on SKI + DEF + Soldier LV would be enough of a proc chance for people within 1 range of you.

Sacrifice? Quite the easy fix. Make it so both you and your target will Always Glance enemies for the duration, this way it can bootleg fix the problem with effects going through.