Is there a good reason why this player keeps manually taking off Stone Skin?

[Roll]

So my static for coil turn 6 needed a Scholar and we happened to get one via party finder. The thing that was odd to me was that every time I gave the Scholar Stone Skin, he would always manually take it off.

Me and the Paladin asked the Scholar why and he answers:
"I'm anti-ss"
I then said "Why not just leave it on? It's not doing anything negative and it's less that we'll have to heal."
The Scholar then says:
"Because I don't need it o.0"
I then said "Well by that logic you might as well not use succor/adlo for it's shield lol..."
The Scholar didn't say anything after that and continued to cancel the Stone Skin when I was buffing the party.

As a Scholar, you'd expect him to know how important damage mitigation is with succor, adloquiem, sacred soil, eye for an eye, and virus at their disposal...

I know we don't need Stone Skin but why cancel it if it's already on you being beneficial and has no negative effects?

[Musashidon]

sch pride?

[KiriA500]

Maybe this is a new form of elitism!

"Pffft...stoneskin... What am I, casual? Take your protect and shove it too!"

:O

[Vahlnir]

Maybe this is a new form of elitism!

"Pffft...stoneskin... What am I, casual? Take your protect and shove it too!"

:O

As funny as this is it really wouldn't surprise me. XD

[Schaeffa]

Maybe this is a new form of elitism!

"Pffft...stoneskin... What am I, casual? Take your protect and shove it too!"

:O

Next, it'll evolve into "I don't need a fairy—my Physick is OP!"

[Senjougahara]

Yours has cooties?

[Roll]

It's funny because right before the tank pulled, he would use Succor for the Galvanize shield lol

[Orophin]

Sounds like one of those special snowflakes.

[Cherie]

As silly and pointless it would be to cancel stoneskin, it really isn't a huge gain to stoneskin a entire group. I mean, in a pug or on a progression fight, sure it has it's merits (which it sounds like this was both).

When I play white mage, and a random group I'm in demands I stoneskin the group (often while I'm already in process of doing it), I just kind of think it's silly. Especially when the tank wants their stoneskin and won't pull the first trash mob until they get it. It' just going to break super quick from that single trash mob.... lol

[Marael]

When I play white mage, and a random group I'm in demands I stoneskin the group (often while I'm already in process of doing it), I just kind of think it's silly. Especially when the tank wants their stoneskin and won't pull the first trash mob until they get it. It' just going to break super quick from that single trash mob.... lol

White mage stoneskin blocks 18% of the player's max HP. Which is usually about equal to a cure 2, and costs the same amount of MP as cure 2. That's basically a free cure 2 to every member of your party that you will not have to spend MP on during battle. Do you not see how invaluable that is? Say your WAR tank has 10k HP for some oversimplified math, that's 1800 HP worth of damage that they are not going to take. During the time that they are not taking that 1800 damage, you can put up cleric stance and holy away 'til your little heart's content. It's not going to break super quick from a trash mob, it's going to block a specific amount of damage that you will then not have to heal on that trash pull and can be doing something else that is beneficial to the party, like dealing damage to make the trash pull that much faster, and hitting all the mobs with holy stun to further keep them from doing damage to the tank. I find my stoneskin highly useful as a white mage. Slightly less so as a scholar, as scholar stoneskin is only 10%, but that 10% is still 10%.