SMN - Pet Questions

[Allyrion]

I'll fully claim ignorance on how to play summoner. You got me man, Ifrit must be better for SMN DPS. I mean, if not, wouldn't there be no point to your posts?

Only if you need a simple answer of "Use X pet". Otherwise, there would be a point.
In identical scenarios, you have different results of which pet pulls ahead in dps.
That's the whole issue, isn't it? Not which pet is best in a real fight.
This is meaningful because it can potentially further theorycrafting on how pets scale with various stats.
The difference between Seobit's results and others are likely stat allocation and that's what people are trying to figure out.

The few more dps ifrit puts out is not impressive. It's that it's consistent in one case where Garuda was consistently ahead in another.
Uncovering the discrepancy in results by analyzing both situations as they are doing is a much more meaningful discussion than which pet is better in a real fight.
Since that's not really a discussion. It's Garuda. Almost all of us agree on that.