Blessings balance?

[Graeme Dice]

JaydedOne said:
Personally, I agree that the Nature 9 berserk bless is suboptimal compared to, say, fire weapons and don't think I'd buy up to 9 with the vast majority of strategies I might use.

I'd agree that Fire 9 was the most generally useful of the blesses in Dominions II. Nature 9 was only useful for those troops that have enough hitpoints to survive enemy attacks, and both high enough protection, and low enough defense that the protection bonus and defense penalty works out in favour of protection. Pangaean white centaurs and Jotunheim sacred troops are probably better off with N9 than F9, but I'd usually pick F9 for most other nations.