Contagion is way too overrated!

[Sanguisio]

It's not the direct DPS garuda does, its the DPS she allows the SMN to do.

Extends buffed DOTS +Poisons and frees you up to cast more ruins.

Garuda is egi that conserves the most MP for the SMN as it will decrease the amount of DOT casts.

Both pets AOE, aerial slash has slightly more range but that is negligible in the grand scheme of things.

[Judge_Xero]

It's not the direct DPS garuda does, its the DPS she allows the SMN to do.

Extends buffed DOTS +Poisons and frees you up to cast more ruins.

Garuda is egi that conserves the most MP for the SMN as it will decrease the amount of DOT casts.

Both pets AOE, aerial slash has slightly more range but that is negligible in the grand scheme of things.

Yeah, but the DPS gain for SMN over a long fight ends up pretty minimal.

In my example I was showing that Garuda technically doesn't save MP because with Ifrit you can deal more damage for the same MP cost.

Garuda is the AOE pet due to Contagion + Bane, not so much from Aerial Slash vs Flaming Crush (you're lucky to hit the mob you're attacking with Flaming Crush let alone AOE with it without rigorous micro management)