SMN opener

[TelosNox]

Flaming Crush before summon is to enforce Garuda to use Contagion first, so you can swap early. That way you can keep the pet on sic and don't need obey.

I see many top logs that don't petswap. That's the reason why I asked too about the petswap opener.
At Kefka for example I prefer a non petswap opener that uses enkindle very fast. That way I can use enkindle a second time right before the first graven image (it runs about 12 seconds then). It is no problem that not the whole duration is used because after graven image you will directly use bahamut and enkindle will be off cd after that.

If you use petswap you won't be able to use that enkindle before graven.

In general for me it feels like petswap is some kind of minimalistic optimization that needs a lot of additional work.
I think the overall gain for raiddps is somewhere between 10-50 if you have no second caster.
(And if you have a second caster then you can stick with Garuda)