Ask a Magician Thread.

Personally I would be fine with 3-hitting Skeles, but then again I've never played a 4th job mage, so....

It should be added that fresh 4th job mages tend to die a lot at skeles, according to my experience as a LOLPALLY. It's either they get into the groove move with training (to prevent stupid deaths), or they bunker up more MP before nuking Skeles for exp.

3-hitting skeles is extremely rough on the pocketbook.
If you three hit skeles and 3 hit newts I'd do newts- It much much much less stressful and cheaper.
However, 2-hitting skeles is easy and fast-

FYI- if you can find someone willing to take top- you can just do bottom safe version at skeles- Which is mobbing up all the skeles from right to left and standing on the lowest left edge and then you can snipe them- So the 3hit thing is only a matter of speed and not taking hits dying etc.