3 mages or 2 mages 1 priest for dps team

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Now I'm thinking of bringing more class diversity to give me more options at endgame. I'm am contemplating a paladin, priest, 2 mages and either a warlock or warrior.

With a Warlock I have the ease of all my helper toons being ranged, and I can wand spam to save mana. I saw a 4x wand shoot group in swifty's stream and it did a nice amount of damage. Also the utility of a voidwalker off tank if things get to hectic on my paladin.

A warrior, well I don't really know the benefits. Damage is not really there at lower levels, and I don't know how hard it would be to tank on the paladin, and have the rest of the team split between melee an ranged. My idea is to treat it as a felguard, and charge in, thunderclap, while controlling my paladin. I don't know if this is easier said than done.

I'm just looking to be able to level up by doing dungeons, and have a team with me in WPVP as gank protection. I want to keep things as simple as possible, but have as much group diversity at the same time.

If it were me between those choices I would do:

Paladin Dwarf Tank
Priest Dwarf Healz
2 Mages Gnomes DPS, buffs, ports, water,food
1 Warlock Gnome DPS, buffs,off Tank pet,summons,health stones,self-rez soulstones.

Covers all the bases and gives lots of utility (including wipe insurance). You can recall other characters to town to train/vendor/bank/etc and then use the Warlock to summon them back. If you have a 2nd level 20+ Warlock on one of your non-Warlock accounts you can summon that Warlock alt to the group, recall your main Warlock to train/vendor/bank/etc and then use the alt warlock to summon your main warlock back. I kinda wish I had a warlock in my main group for those reasons...

It also gives you the 2 healers for PVP if you spec the Paladin to be able to both main heal and tank decently. Being Dwarves both will get stone form and your dwarf priest can give fear ward to the party.