PLEASE stop telling summoners to use Ifrit!!!

[glim]

When factoring DPS you also need to keep in mind the time it takes for Ifrit to walk to each target, his higher risk of getting damaged, and the fact that he does burning strke every 4 seconds, not 3. It's not fair to just factor in contagion losing 1 wind blade-- that seems pretty biased to only include that.

I'm pretty much basing my example on a closed environment, where they would be attacking at the same rate at the same time (of course hands down garuda wins because of how most mechanics work). if anything, I'm biased more towards garuda since I never ever use ifrit, I'm just making up a possible argument where ifrit could potentially do more damage than garuda egi even with contagion.

but the 4 seconds every attack is pretty much what kills it for ifrit.

[xxalucard]

but the 4 seconds every attack is pretty much what kills it for ifrit.

I agree, this is the main factor above all that did it for me too. I'd also like to say the spell speed really isn't that helpful since we don't gain much from 20% of a 2.5 second cast (a few tenths of a second maybe?) and half the time that occurs you've already finished casting your dot rotation.

EDIT: After actually watching Ifrit attack I am convinced that the reason he delays burning strike is because of his auto attack, animation lock must be it. But think about it, he is delaying burning strike by one second or so to auto attack which when added together are either the same or more than windblade , is that really a net loss of dps?

yes