Contagion is way too overrated!

[Tex_Mex]

Ya this one really is a no brainer. There are a ton of people that still believe that Garuda is superior to Ifrit due to contagion, but it just simply is not true.

Garuda is only better than ifrit if:
1) The enemy you are attacking takes more damage from magic attacks (garuda=magic, ifrit=physical)
2) The enemy uses a lot of circular knockbacks (knocking ifrit away frequently and causing you to have to heal him more often)
3) The encounter requires a lot of running around (travel time is high)
4) The encounter has A LOT of AoE adds with high health (bane+contagion is great against adds that will live longer than 30 seconds)
5) You are not adept at repositioning your pet

That's it! And oddly enough, there are WAAAAAY more encounters in the game that do not have these issues than there are that do. This pretty much makes ifrit the stronger egi in the majority of situations.

For FCoB, I only use garuda for T11 (this is because I am sometimes the only mage and it is my job to kill the cube (high physical defense)). Ifrit is superior in all other situations I have run into so far (I have not done T13 yet)