Quote Originally Posted by ArtaVallian View Post
I've heard the hard casts in Ifrit phase may not even do enough damage to warrant using them, due to how much cast time they have. A friend of mine who does Ultimates says he's seen several SMNs in his groups just use the hard cast ruin (Ruin 3?) instead because it gives more damage for the time investment. I really want them to fix that, if nothing else, because knowing that, the skill feels useless to me, now.
Whoever told you ifrit’s hardcasts are a DPS loss has literally no idea what they are talking about

The only “kernel of truth” in that statement is that in its launch state in EW ifrit had a lower PPS (potency per second) than titan who is easier to execute due to being all instants so they buffed ifrit but even before that buff ifrit was always a gain over ruin 3.

The only time you shouldn’t be using primal abilities over ruin 1/2/3 is a wonky level range in the 50’s and 60’s where garuda’s aspected ruin 2’s are a loss over just casting ruin 2