Is it honestly possible for you to make a controlled, objective thread without bashing Astrologians in some way? We're not praised "to heck and back" for keeping our DoT up; we're expected to DPS just as much as either of the other two healers, our output is just less in respect to the utility our cards bring.

Removing your AST dig from the equation though, there's a lot of merit to your point about how the devs keep saying one thing about healer DPS and adjusting the jobs in a way that encourages otherwise. I tend to agree that for the most part, healer design and balance is easily one of the most ill-designed roles in this game.