WHM vs. SCH -- What is the basic difference.

[Gallus]

Here's a question:

Is the learning curve higher on a SCH? A lot of the time when I get queued with a SCH they almost seem like they are not healing at all and just hanging out occasionally healing but mostly doing dps.. I chalked it up at the time that SCH have a different role to play in the fight, but after reading all of your responses I see that it's not the case..

Depends. In 8man endgame content such as Extreme Primals (excluding garuda extreme which is a joke) and coil, both binding and second you have very little room to DPS as a SCH. However, in any 4 man content, as a SCH, if you are a good one, you should be DPSing like 90% of the time. If you don't, you are not optimizing the class.