Defensive Protocol: Protect

Briefly block incoming attacks. — In-game description

Defensive Protocol: Protect

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Amalgam

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Morph

Game link

API

76959, 77203, 77358

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Defensive Protocol: Protect

Briefly block incoming attacks.

 Duration: 10.5½ seconds

Resiliant[sic] Strain. Evolving grants you barrier and resistance.

 Barrier: 4,850 (1.0)^?

 Barrier: 3,250 (1.0)^?

 Resistance (8s): Nondamaging conditions currently on you are ineffective.

— In-game description

Related traits

Inventions

• Soothing Detonation — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.

Alchemy

• Compounding Chemicals — Heal yourself when you grant yourself a boon. Remove a condition from yourself when you use an elixir skill. Gain increased concentration.

Tools

• Optimized Activation — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• Kinetic Battery — Gain kinetic charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.
• Adrenal Implant — Endurance regeneration is increased. Reduce the recharge of your tool belt skills when you dodge.

Amalgam

• Innervating Alloy — Heal every second while you have barrier. Heal when you evolve.
• Hardened Chrome — Morph skills and evolving grant protection to yourself.
• Hybrid Vigor — Gain vitality. Gain barrier when you use a morph skill.
• Silver Lining — Evolve no longer inherits bonuses from strains. Morph skills grant their strain bonuses.
• Willing Host — Using a morph skill increases your damage for a duration.
• Symbiotic Synergy — Evolve recharges morph skills. Morph skills deal increased strike damage.
• New Genes — Morph skills grants boons to allies. Grant an additional boon based on which morph skill was used.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	Increased the cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Defensive Protocol: Protect has been added to the game.
August 19, 2025	Defensive Protocol: Protect was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.