Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
We would be better served with Ifrit and Garuda both being more situationally useful. As it stands at the moment Garuda is used for 99% of content purely because of Contagion. Contagion needs to be made into a base SMN job skill and Ifrit and Ruda need to be balanced around one being AoE focused and the other being single target focused. This would have SMNs much more likely to actively switch between the pets. I do agree though that there is very little they could do with any further pets without them just feeling like new flavours of the existing ones, which is precisely what the egi-glamours are.
You know, I've been playing around with Pet swaps. For example, in A5S during the bird phase I swiftcast summon Ifrit since in theory he should be doing more damage while the boss is stationary than Garuda would and you aren't doing any damage yourself. Unfortunately I play on ps4 so have no way of telling if that has better dps output. Still, it looks pretty cool. Let me know if you can think of any other situations like that.