Why do Healers...

[Anova]

Been noticing this lately, also - moreso in low level dungeons (roulettes, etc).

I don't think they mean any insult by it though. For the first 3 dungeons, most healers will only have 1 cross-class skill (unless the healer is cnj, at which point they don't have stoneskin, and I personally think cleric stance and swiftcast are the more important cross-classes). I think it's just them being nice. Avatars are not very good at expressing emotions, so it's actually hard to know they're being condescending unless they /smirk... every time they do it... that might be a funny macro.

Also, since SE set protect and SS to be the same regardless of class, there's no reason why plds can't cast it. They don't have too many abilities from CNJ and MRD that are actually useful for them. Also, tanks casting SS between pulls or tank buster attacks saves the healer mp and time, especially if they're healing the rest of the party up. Just remember it's another mitigation tool for the PLD, so they're not trying to steal your gimmick (as its actually their gimmick too).