So I'm doing this out of curiosity to reaffirm if it's still widely accepted that Garuda is the go-to pet as of right now in party content over Ifrit in nearly all situations.

I go into a Duty Roulette for Brayflox's longstop Hard Mode, and because I got an infinite loading screen the last time, one of the people that booted me last time was in this party as well, fun coincidence. I get in quicker this time and see the SMN using Ifrit, I ask him to change to Garuda, and it goes downhill.

I kindly asked him, literally said "could you please use Garuda as well" and I get some comments that I'll just quote directly.

"Garuda is for lil girls, I aint no lil girl."
"Anyone who thinks Garuda does more damage doesn't understand how useless Contagion is."
"She never uses it(Contagion) at the right time, thats a lvl 40 skill gone, no good"
"And Ifrit's enkindle does DoT as well as DMG, he's just better."


The rest of the argument is really just them insulting me because I would rather wait a minute or two and find another team then play with a SMN that by all accounts that I've seen so far, means he's doing something wrong.

Is this our community now? I was told to do a few other things as well in a form or two of profanity simply because I suggested he use his class better, which is my main to begin with. If we're supposed to be using Ifrit over Garuda suddenly in party content I'd like to know.