Summoner questions!

[NekoMancer]

garuda garuga garuda. in obey stance, doing magical ranged damage, while you manually control Contagion, (and I macro'd Aerial Slash onto my own aoe's, bane/bliz2/shadowflare)

oh, there's a couple fights where ifrit is better. In Copperbell HM, on boss 1... there's a lot of moving, and intensely damaging ground effects, and garuda is a pain to micromanage positionally through that walkway-dps-race. Ifrit will follow the boss all the way through, instead of standing in fire shooting at range like a dope, and he requires no input at all, just sic him on the boss, and pay attention to your own self thereafter.

Also, there are a few fights where you lose your pet "often" to aoe. if you have to recast your pet 2-3 times during a boss fight, it starts to become very reasonable to use Titan egi instead. He doesn't hit as hard, but as long as there's no extra danger/damage from melee distance, he may stay upright much longer than either of the 'dps' pets.

good spots for ifrit or titan are rare. no one will look at you odd if you just use garuda full time.