First, Bokor C1 zombies are dumb it is for sure, they only live to be a corpse-punch-bag.
Bokor C2 zombies are a little better because Bwa Kayiman you can use it to reallocate them and for the knockdown-lock cc (ah little crap damage but in a dungeon can lock monster for your party).
Bokor C3 zombies they explode yay, anyway Damballa deal a nice damage.
And about the “soooo much zombies” this is a lie in someway. Zombify can get you 20 zombies? Yes it can, but rarely you’ll see a Bokor with Zombify lvl 15, so much of the time Bokor will have 7~13 Zombies, and now party members can’t target them.
Anyway Bokor is more of Hex+Effigy caster than a Zombie Summoner, unless you go to Bokor C3 because of Damballa.
About Kabbalist, they’re not a “meh” it is only your opinion, today PD is much more powerful of course, but Bloodletting have a chance to receive a nerf (kToS patch wise), and Ein Sof still the best SP recover skill in game + Merkabah stupid huge AoE (and so so damage, but still some damage for pt) + Revegend Sevelfold a party wide buff that block one hit, whatever it is and reflect back 7x damage.
Anyway, Plage Doctor is good but not a must and not a “Get it or get out”.
Druid C1 is good if you don’t want to go full FS, but like Shadgan said, Druid C2 is a lot better, because of the invunerabillity and high damage.
Oracle is a good choice for those that don’t want to take PD or if want to take PD and have a overkill of safety for your party (a good thing to have anyway).
About Krivis, you get it more for Daino than Damage, low lvl wise you’ll level with Pardoner buffs + hit (go drop a Crafisun, it will help you and is easy) and for bosses Pardonner Blessing buff + Cure will kill almost everything till 80~ish. So in my opinion Cleric C2 is better than Krivis in the long run, because your build don’t have a loot of buffs to need Daino, and damage wise you’ll have Cure 9~10 + Bokor skills.
Friend Build, for refference I don’t have or played Priest/Chaplain, but I know that:
Krivis is a good choice for a Priest C3 build, mostly because Daino.
Cleric C1 is good enough, but of course minus 5 heal tiles and no Divine Might may make a fault later (nothing so bad).
Bokor C1 in Rank 7… I like Bokor (I play with a Cleric C2> Bokor C3, going for Oracle > Kabbalist) but no, Bokor is not for Rank 7, take other thing, Plague Doctor, or Kabbalist, or even Druid, but not Bokor. (I suggest getting Plague Doctor).
And take a look there for:
Bokor
Oracle
Kabbalist
Sorry for my crap english, wish you understand @trevor_sw ~~
And sorry if I sound agressive Shadgan, I only don’t like to see people calling my zombies dumb, I know they’re but still :C
Edit: Plage Doctor >>>> Plague Doctor :"D