Aspects of SCH seemingly not working as intended:

[Zellian]

Honestly one of the biggest issues I am having with an otherwise beloved class is being unable to direct your pet while casting.

This, so much. Why can't we tell our pet to do things while we're casting? To me that's the point of pets in the first place. Pet control is the should be a skill marker for this class, and yet we're not allowed to take our game to that next level.

[Tersia]

Pet control is the should be a skill marker for this class, and yet we're not allowed to take our game to that next level.

Exactly! It should be a benchmark, the difference between an average player and a great one. There is so much POTENTIAL here, lying wasted and unused.

Question for you scholar folks out there already. Does the party UI overlay the absorbs on hp bars at all, or do I just get a buff icon that disappears when the absorb is gone. One of the few things I am missing from my wow healing days are the raid frames that show incoming heals and absorb overlays, so I can better gauge how much my heal will do in comparison to their hp pool or in the case of an absorb, when it is about to pop.

[Ssuusshhii]

Exactly! It should be a benchmark, the difference between an average player and a great one. There is so much POTENTIAL here, lying wasted and unused.

I actually disagree that you should be able to order your pet during a cast. It'd be a bigger testament of skill to be aware of what's happening, what's going to happen, and directing your fairy and timing your own casts in accordance to the situation. I feel that SCH should be more about making decisions and planning for something that is coming, while WHMs should have powerful heals that are more about reactions.

I strongly agree that the fairy AI should be looked at though. Besides the buffs and important spells just triggering on their own, it feels really lazy to be able to just have a mini-healer do half your job for you.