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

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I've been a very lucky priest, it seems.

Yeah, you had a nice "Welcome to 60" Night I remember :D

Nine times out of ten when I hit that "I'm getting attacked" macro, SOMEBODY comes and attacks the encroaching mob.  Rogues are great as that somebody, by the way, because they can deal so much damage SO quickly that I'll usually lose aggro rather quickly and have the chance to get myself back to 100%.

This is one of the reasons our hunter/hunter/priest/priest/rogue party worked so long. The "tanks" - bears - couldn't keep the aggro, but I could certainly steal it from the Priests, and the Hunters weren't that much worse at stealing it :)
If I see a priest getting hit, I run to them, put in as much instant damage as possible, then if I start getting hit click the Evasion :) Nothing like 15-seconds of over 70% dodge.

Also, there have been many comments on AoE and the difficulty of keeping mages/locks alive during such times.  If you've never played a healer, it's rough, guys.  I'm not awful at it, but I'd say it's an 80/20 on an AoE'er going down depending on how many crit hits they take to bash through the shield.  mjdoom had a great point about shielding early so weakened soul goes down ASAP.  I try to do that myself, and after that, spam flash heals.  Sometimes even the flashes aren't fast enough and your super squishy finds itself in a dead sorta way.  It happens, and the most you can hope for is the mage to have had the insight to use frost armor beforehand.

My only true AoE experience so far as a Mage is in Uldaman. I went down occassionally, but I understood that both me and the priest weren't used to this yet :)
Unfortunately, Uldaman's non-elites were immune to snares, so I couldn't use that to help :unsure:

One side note:  some mages - pre aoe - hit amplified magic, or whatever the heck the name of that ability is.  If they're getting attacked by scorpions, for example, they're not taking magical attacks, so the healing done to them is drastically increased thanks to the ability.  It's a nice touch if used at the right time, and can spare the caster's life.
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Thanks, I'll keep it in mind as Mitzy gets higher.