Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post
Ifrit has other problems that aren't related to contagion and you'd never notice without a stopwatch. He attacks slower, and of course there's the delay in him moving + the inherent danger from aoe. All part of why he's getting boosted.
That is indeed correct. In minimal movement fights and no Contagion, he still attacks slower due to the 0.5(iirc) hidden gcd timer so it makes him unable to queue a second attack before the first one finishes. If you parse him with Garuda on a dummy while not using Contagion though, you'll see the difference is <1% so having to move between target and Garuda's contagion are really what sets him back.