Originally Posted by
Soranika
For some one who doesn't want to use Garuda constantly, Titan works well as well against skeleton family. Geocrush is as good as an alternative to using Mountain Buster on Titan if summoners with low summoning magic skill have to worry about blind. Considering there's little to no difference to Wind Blade, Titan comes off with better DoT over Garuda. In lieu of Garuda's Hastega and Whispering Wind, Earthen Ward spam does just as much to to ensure survival of other players in WoE Flux #11.
But really it's as easy as saying it's not what avatar you use, it's how you use them. If I'm in a WoE conflux with no WHM and a bunch of SMN and melee already there, I'm not going in to deal damage, I'm going in to support with Carbuncle, Titan, or Fenrir. But if I'm going to fight a skel type monster head on, I'm going Titan or Ifrit.
Oh before I post, I wanted to single this out because it bothers me to no end that you compared a magical, merit blood pact to physical, normal blood pacts that do not benefit from TP bonus. Nevermind the fact that not every summoner has 5/5 merits on Wind Blade. (Personally I only have 2/5 on it). When you take out elemental weaknesses and resistance, all merit blood pacts deal pretty much the same damage and usually always better over most common physical blood pacts with the exception of Predator Claws to mobs that are more resistant to magic than physical damage.