Originally posted by Gandalf Parker: What would you want him to do instead? Most priests have only 2 choices. Bless and Banish. You would rather he charge the enemy with a dagger? Even then blessing himself would be a really good idea.
I'd rather the priest throw the dagger at a random direction with a 7% chance of the action summoning 6,000 doom horrors and after the battle, being able to keep the doom horrors.
My solution to this is give the priests wands. Nothing like a bunch of priests armed with rods of the phoenix. Even early in the game sceptre of authority and dragon helmets can give your priests more of a kick. With Ulm's forge bonus, one fire site can make this easy to do early on.