[thejeff]

Well, the sacreds are only clearly better if you've sunk the points into a strong bless at pretender creation.
And the blesses suggested for them are not path the nation particularly needs on its pretender.

I haven't spent a lot of time with the new Man, none in MP. My impression was the the change made using a bless strategy possible, but far from the obvious choice. Wardens aren't that good. The stealth is nice, but they're still expensive, hard to mass, slow, unshielded humans.
And taking the obvious EN bless does nothing to address Man's serious magic diversity problem.