Hey, I gots me a questions. When you wrote that the Restoration and True Resurrection abilities of the Healer class use no material components or experience, is that true? I mean, it just says it acts like the spell, so how does it ignore costs?
Cleanse Spirit (Su): At 10th level, a healer gains the ability to
restore a creature to health once per day, as if casting a greater
restoration spell.
New Life (Su): Once per week, a 20th-level healer can bring
a dead creature back to life, as if casting a true resurrection spell.
That's verbatim copied from the book (credits of course go where they are due). If it's "as if casting", doesn't that mean that if I were casting it I would need such components, ipso facto they're not free, just abilities that grant an extra prepared spell if needed (kinda making those last 5 levels useless and readily replacable with a full casting PrC)?