This menu needs to disappear during combat

[FlashMedallion]

This also happens often if you play Scholar on gamepad. Say you have the tank locked as your main target, and you go to use Sacred Soil, when you confirm the area you want the spell to be cast in, because you still have the tank locked as your target and it's not a mob npc, that menu will pop up when you hit the confirm button.

The menu pop-up on confirm with player characters is kind of redundant since the menu will also come up if you hit the map button while you have a player targeted.

+1 again. I've adjusted well (and customized) to nearly every aspect of using the gamepad quickly and accurately, but this is the one thing that I still gets me.
A UI checklist for which pop-ups can appear and when would be excellent. As a quick example:

Pop-up Menus
Inventory items - {Always}/{Only outside combat}
Armory items - {Always}/{Only outside combat}
PCs - {Always}/{Only outside combat}
etc.