So Summoners! Someone posted this on reddit. Discuss!

[OmegaNovaios]

Yes, what is changing about Ifrit in 2.1? Or Garuda?

Oh, nothing?

Those parses were just straight Obey on the dummy.

Garuda did more.

Garuda has contagion.

Ifrit has nothing.

Considering that Ifrit attacks much more often than Garuda and pet Crits give the Caster a duration buff to Casting Speed (I think +30%) that allows for 1 additional Ruin (80 Potency) for that rotation. Which can't be parsed by looking at the pet individually. But from my testing Ifrit on obey V Garuda on obey the DMG is VERY close.

Also, I don't know which parser your using but from my past experiences parsers are horrible, particularly for SMN (they can't detect DOT crits, they can't detect AOE hotspots like Shadow Flare and Flaming Arrow, they seem to have issues not calculating non-critting DOTs on multiple mobs, and I'm sure there are other issues that I personally overlooked).