Priests. Why we are so ..umm.. difficult.

[Hedon]

On the other hand, I tend to loathe mages, who tend to be very self centered and egocentric.  (Present company excepted, of course).  They're the most likely to break any crowd control cast by anyone but themselves with poorly timed and unnecesary aoe spells (Frost Nova should especially be banned in group situations).  Plus, they tend to like to soak up my mana by aggroing everything in the room and spamming aoe's before the warrior gets a chance to build up a little aggro on the mobs even when half the mobs are elites and then all they can do is yell, "Shield!" when their paper mache bodies crumple to the floor and the rest of the party has to pick up the pieces of their abject stupidity.

Woah, where'd that come from?
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While I also prefer having warlocks to mages in a group, because they don't draw so much aggro, and can soak up a lot more damage before their health status becomes critical, and of course, these soulstones are really priceless, I also know a lot of very good mages. Yes it's true: having a mage on board causes every priest to get sweaty palms, as they really require immediate attention when getting hit, but many mages are really movement artistst, that blink around, frosting mobs, getting only scratches here and there, while setting of AE's.

A good mage will always announce, when he is going to AE, so that the priest can shield him, before he even gets started, as well as to make the priest aware that he is going to have spam Flashheals into the mage in the coming seconds.

I've made a simple macro, that automatically targets the mage and shields him at once, for these moments that require immediate attention, and it usally works out fine then.

Not forgetting that sheep is also a very useful addition to every group.

I even had mages taking aggro of me, so generally I have rather fond memories of running with mages. :)