>>11802309It's not like she dies in one hit from most things, a gangbang can happen but I find that the pros of attacking outweigh the few scenarios in which someone will die if not defending. There is also no guarantee they'll attack the person defending so in those cases you're just dragging the fight and end up taking more damage than if you were attacking. I think enemies are more likely to attack the 1st party member too.
Having someone killed and having to backtrack to revive them sure happened a lot but that's the game for me, though there are definitely cases when defending is a good idea like against the metallic death machines in Rhone, I just find those cases rare