whether or not people give an astrologian a fair shake is going to make little difference. You can analyze graphs all you want but we will not be able to ultimately tell until alexader raid comes out next week.

I have done quite a few parses with my brother who is a machinist (yes i know they are trully weak right now) and his dps if I keep him as priority between extended and royal balance/spire/arrow has only jumped about 8%. maybe a 40 dps increase compared to me when I was a scholar main was easily hitting around 290-350 dps. If Astrologian support was strong enough to offset our inability to really do meaningful dps over keeping up 3 dots and a maelific II every chance i get a breath between constantly having to cast more heals then I could honestly say we are on par with the other healers.

I love astrologian and even if they were not buffed I only put out about 130 dps with my dots and a measily 8% dps boost being 40 at level 60 only puts me near 170-180 dps and that is assuming the cards go my way.