Should I ditch my mage?

EDIT: DON'T PARTY WITH ANYONE AT NEWTIES OR SKELES UNLESS YOU'RE LEECHING THEM FOR A BISHOP'S PRICE(10m)
IF YOU PARTY SOMEONE, THEY ARE LEECHING OFF ALL THE NEWTIES YOU ARE KILLING, SO BASICALLY THEY'RE GETTING FREE LEECH.

Leech... for 10 mil? Wow that's greedy. I trained my low-lvl friends in exchange for pot money, (3-5 mil per 4 hours.) My wallet was never full, but talking friendship and being a friend are two different things. The truth is, if you are helping a lvl 100 friend by leeching them at newts, you can get them like 2-3 levels in 4 hours, more if you have good party.

As for people leeching at newts, an efficient bottom attacker will increase XP gain because more of the map is dying at once. I had the pleasure of training with Kachee and Ooll7021oO a few times, (look them up on ranks,) and TRUST ME, a person of that level nukes the $hit out of bottom newts like a hot knife through butter. My godly mage friends recommended against dual mage split at Newts, but I did it with my GF, we both liked it, and the XP was good. In fact, I got to 160 without ever really training at Skels, and my XP gain has been fine. If you're splitting Newts with a hard-hitting DrK that's the best of all. Hyper Body cuts your pot expenditure by more than half.