Summoner Responsibilities and Spell Rotations

[silentwindfr]

Why did you have the wrong pet out in the first place?

if you don't have an bard in the team, ifrit can deal more damage than Garuda and it enkindle is far stronger.

[Darksword]

if you don't have an bard in the team, ifrit can deal more damage than Garuda and it enkindle is far stronger.

I find Ifrit pretty useless for everything. I even tried a max-STR build test to see if I could get his damage up to a usefully improved level. It wasn't significant enough. Garuda trounces him in every way if you factor in the extra damage from Contagion. A pity since he looks cool.

Edit: I don't like pie in the sky wishing from SE, but what would fix Ifrit would be an AOE attack buff for nearby party members in place of Radiant Shield. Contagion adds so much damage that Ifrit is useless as a DD pet unless he has something that can compete, and as a melee attacker a buff for the melee DD and tank (and himself) would seem to be ideal. In XI, the Ifrit avatar had an analog of the WARs Warcry AOE attack buff. That needs to make a return.

[PessimiStick]

if you don't have an bard in the team, ifrit can deal more damage than Garuda and it enkindle is far stronger.

Keeve's parses indicate otherwise. Garuda was strictly superior in damage, and got farther ahead as gear increased. Add Foe Req. and it's a squash match.