Quote Originally Posted by Lilyarel View Post
Dont understand why. Garuda's Contagion alone is better than whatever Ifrit can do. Contagion gives a slight strain release on Summoners mana issues. Ifrit has nothing that can help the Summoner in such a way.

Not sure why you think that. Contagion is only a 30-35 DPS increase and to take full advantage of garuda you are spending more mana on Miasma 2. Ifrit does around 30-40 more dps than Garuda, without DK or SE/DE. Parse a test dummy and try your best, compare the two parses and you will see that parsing with ifrit is typically higher.

It is good to note that you should tack on ~10 DPS to the garuda parse, since ACT doesn't register a contagioned Bio.