Scholar rant.

[Nadirah]

Im just incredibly annoyed that while I like scholar, I *don't* like micromanaging and I'm basically being told if I don't, I suck.

I also don't like having to DPS as a healer. In addition to the hand issues my vision is shit. Constant target switching with this abysmal UI(too cluttered party frames) is incredibly annoying and I find I ignore one part or the other, tunneling because its hard to see everything.

If anyone is familiar with WoW addons, I use Grid there as both raid and party frames. I set up corner markers to indicate "hey you got a regen on that guy" and the like, but otherwise it looks like FFXIV alliance Windows.. Plain boxes(with energy/mana/etc bars and color coded hp bars by class).

*much* easier for me to see than our current system. Bleh.

[giantslayer]

Im just incredibly annoyed that while I like scholar, I *don't* like micromanaging and I'm basically being told if I don't, I suck.

I also don't like having to DPS as a healer. In addition to the hand issues my vision is shit. Constant target switching with this abysmal UI(too cluttered party frames) is incredibly annoying and I find I ignore one part or the other, tunneling because its hard to see everything.

If anyone is familiar with WoW addons, I use Grid there as both raid and party frames. I set up corner markers to indicate "hey you got a regen on that guy" and the like, but otherwise it looks like FFXIV alliance Windows.. Plain boxes(with energy/mana/etc bars and color coded hp bars by class).

*much* easier for me to see than our current system. Bleh.

Micromanaging really isn't really as intimidating as it sounds. "Micromanaging" really boils down to three things:
1. Faerie placement.
2. Manual use of faerie cooldowns instead of letting Eos blow them all immediately.
3. Manual usage of Embrace outside of auto-casting conditions (i.e. people above 80% or more than 21yalms away, which tanks probably will be in A1 if faerie is in the center).

You've already got placement down from the sound of it.
It is easy enough to think of Faerie cooldowns as your own cooldowns and manage them accordingly. The hard part with that is getting them to be reliable and/or immediate, and that is what macros will fix.
As for Embrace, developing a system where you keep the tank targeted and can use Embrace spam macros and Physick/Adlo+Embrace spam macros will take care of most of that. To be honest, unless you are operating outside of 21y from faerie, manual Embraces will be a fairly small percentage of her heals compared to the automatic ones.

As for DPS, this is why I recommend using attack macros. You can go back to my first post or my guide if you missed it. With my attack macros, I can either just keep the tank targeted and mindlessly attack whatever he is attacking, or I can use a focus target and all my attacks go on that enemy while I keep the tank targeted for heals. No switching necessary for DPS. I just have to worry about Cleric Stance, but not targeting.

SCH does take a lot of work to set up well with macros, but once you have a good setup, it's not too much harder to operate than other classes.