So I've been dragging my heels on my SMN to play my DRG and now that my DRG is iLvl90, I'm playing it again and noticing things have somewhat changed.

Garuda > Ifrit
  1. Contagion above average great and Radiant Shield a complete mismatch.
  2. Garuda works with For Requiem while Ifrit works with Dragon Kick.
  3. Garuda work off of spell speed vs Ifrit works off of skill speed(why?).


Does Ifrit at least put out more personal DPS than Garuda? It seems unlikely since the more high level gear you have, the higher the chance that spell speed will randomly be on it.

From where I'm standing, Ifrit looks terrible. And that seems weird since one of my 5 SMN job abilities were used to get him.

Any comments would be appreciated. Sorry if this has been posted before, search gave me a lot of things on ifrit and garuda ex this morning.