I miss the healing gems. Of course 25 hp is nothing for someone with a few dozen thousands, but there are a few tricks to collect plenty of them, which can sum up to a few hundred or even thousand. I used it in the tower and in the WB. In the latter it can be very useful against opponents whose AT is just slightly above an integer fraction of your HP (e.g. you have 98k HP and your opponent hits 33k).
Beside that I liked to use it to express my positive feelings toward my opponents in the turns I killed them :)
The Adored ones were also adorable combined with the Children of the sun and the Tamelesses.