I find it very hard to take these threads seriously, almost of them is just ridiculous buffs to their class because of their "me, me, me" mentality.

Also, Ifrit-egi is more DPS than Garuda-egi in certain fights if you can position and manage him correctly. "Contagion" is not as great as people make it out to be, you get like 2.5 cast of ruin and that's pretty much it. Its great to use with bane in AoE situations but other than that, its just a minor convenience and minor DPS increase. Garuda's true advantage is that she is ranged and therefore much easier to handle.

Someone suggested using Contagion and than Swiftcasting to switch to Ifrit, then swifting Garuda back in once Contagion is up again but that is such a pain.