Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Koyuki38]

Without regarding any party and synergie buff, what is the best for opener :
- burning 3 stacks to enter transe after 10 seconds
or
- casting 3 fester and enter transe after 30 seconds ?

also, i guess the number of ruin 3 used is related to how long the fight is, and if we have to move or not (in spehi ex for example i might have mana problem due to too much ruin 2 cast)


I also have a question about the ifrit damage vs Garuda over 1 min fight.

I'm currently training on A5S with my FC. We just killed faust before stopping.
During this fight i tried something special :
I swaped pets during the fight using swift cast.

That's exactly what I did : 1st i kept every CD for the wild monster that appears, so it's like my true opener starts on him.
Then i do my classic opener, except that Transe is already up with bahamut aether stacked previously.
-> transe -> tri-D -> contagion->spam ruin 3 ->DF
and then i used swift caft, swap to ifrit, used double pet buff + Enkidle and continue with ifrit in Automatic mode.

By doing this, i lost 1 gcd : based on the mana cost of Ifrit sumon, let's say this GCD might be a Ruin 3.
I so lose 200 potency GCD.
Due to the fact that summoning Ifrit costs more MP than Ruin 3, that also means that one of my Ruin 1 would be a Ruin 3 if i didn't summon ifrit.
So, let's say that by Sumonning ifrit i lose 320 potency.

At this point, i have about 1 rotation to perform, then 1 transe again, then it's almost over. Let's say Ifrit stands for 1 min.
Is the DPS of Ifrit over 1 min enough to do more damages that the 320 loss potency ?
And moreover, maybe Ifrit's DPS high enought to output more damage that what garuda provides with contagion + buffed dots (+30%), so i don't even have to try this swap trick ?

Thanx for any tips.