I was wondering if anyone can confirm some things I've read here in the forums.

1. The heal skill is useful on a cleric.
Uh... really? Supposedly it allows you to get more hit points while resting?? Hmmm. Every time I rest at a shrine, I get max hp and sp back. I've never taken a single point in healing. I don't understand how this can be useful in ANY way, save for the rare time you have no SP left, there's a party member laying incapacitated, and heal kits are the only way to revive them. Even then, don't you only need 1 point in heal to use kits?

2. Maximize affects your healing spells/bursts.
This may or may not be true. I was under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that the only things that affected these are the "empower healing" lines and all the associated Life Magic goodies and devotion/ardor items. If maximize affects your heals/bursts, then does regular "Empower" do this as well? or is it only max and empower heal?

Can anyone shed some light on these 2 questions? I'm very curious to see the answers.