Eh, I'm watching my blood pressure - so low sodium diet for me.

I'm also conditioned on FFXI's version of RDM, and it influences my thinking whether I like it or not. Red Mage in FFXI, and also in other games as well, was never really that good at AoE. They followed the concept of 'duelist', as is common in the association with their Spanish/French fencer motif. So for me to see the level of AoE utility they currently have, I'm just more generally accepting of it. Besides, it looks as if the developers were more interested in taking some of the AoE power away from the mages as a whole, and distribute it among everyone. What with Samurai having a strong AoE set, Monk getting more utility to use their Elixer Field more frequently, and Dragoon trading up their Ring of Thorns for a more compact and usable AoE rotation.

So yeah, you combine all that and I'm kosher. I'm a big picture kinda guy.