[Shovah32]

As you said Xietor, f9 lets your heart companions take on ethereal units ect fairly successfully but you missed one big point: thats not their job! Arco's mages, summons(including SCs) and sometimes elephants are the guys who are meant to do the damage, why waste points on an offensive bless when you could get a defensive one which could buy you a few more turns in combat and allow your heavy hitters to do their damage?

As a final test I tried 45 of my reccomended N9(even cheaper than the other tested bless) heart companions against 15 double blessed vans and the results? All companions dead but arco prophet still alive and 2.5(2 first time, 3 second time) dead vans. With an even cheaper bless than before and 3 times the previous dead vans i hereby declare my n9 bless a success(although both battles could have been flukes).