Effectiveness of Shell(ra)

[Cloud Tiamat]

I think the poison attacks from Crawlers & Flies are water based. At least BLM's Poison spells are Water elemental.......

[Russta]

I had a theory proven to me once in Kuftal once that I wasn't a firm believer of. We were fighting Ovinnik's (tigers) and my friend and leader in the party told me to do Barparana and Barblizzra so I kept it on and we were resisting the Paralysis more than it was sticking. The theory would be the same for any other Bar~ resist stacked with the Bar~ elemental resist so try it out and see for yourself.

[Kopitiam]

I'm always not a believer of shellra, thus i only keep shellra with me even up to lvl 50 till recently I was hunting Liches and man.. those AE always casue me to spam a bit of curaga... and you can't actually know which ae spell he's casting or can't cast bar -elemtnal in advance.... so i got fed up and purchase my self shellra2 Well i kinda have spare cash at that time...

So i went on to continue my hunt and i foud that it seem to reduce the damage a bit... yes.. not significiant but much better...i used to remeber having the need to use curaga 2 quite often evertyhing he casts ae ... but curaga alone seem to be able to bring everyone back to normal HP colour ( not yellow anymore).

IMO, it's not a must but good to have if you have gils to spare. Anyway it last half an hour with Protectra series unlike bar-series soooo why not even if effect is little. every little helps.. even if it's reduction of 20hp damage per person... 20 X 3 or 4 then multiply by half an hour duratio.... geee tell me it isn't worth it??