(Un)Official Arcanist/Summmoner Feedback Thread

[Kevee]

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Not to my knowledge, but it still wouldn't be that big of a gain. They'd be about equal, because of Contagion, but then you have all the utility that Contagion/Ranged pet offers. So pure DPS-wise I'd expect Ifrit, if/when fixed, to do ~15 more DPS than Garuda. I'd say Contagion/Ranged pet is worth ~15 DPS.

Unless the lowered damage on Ifrit is also a bug(his hit is 120 potency but hits for a lot less), which I doubt.

If both of these are bugs/get fixed then Garuda will only be used..Almost never. Just AoEing trash with Contagion.

[Supersun]

Not to my knowledge, but it still wouldn't be that big of a gain. They'd be about equal, because of Contagion, but then you have all the utility that Contagion/Ranged pet offers. So pure DPS-wise I'd expect Ifrit, if/when fixed, to do ~15 more DPS than Garuda. I'd say Contagion/Ranged pet is worth ~15 DPS.

Unless the lowered damage on Ifrit is also a bug(his hit is 120 potency but hits for a lot less), which I doubt.

If both of these are bugs/get fixed then Garuda will only be used..Almost never. Just AoEing trash with Contagion.

I do suspect that the lowered damage might be a bug because like you said, that's definitely NOT 120 potency (though it could be intentional to account for his auto attack. Either way it wouldn't hurt to submit a bug report anyway since the worse that could happen is that they just tell us it's working as intended and the matter can be put to rest).

Even if both are bugs and get fixed I wouldn't say that Garuda would never be used. There are still plenty of scenarios where Ifrit is at risk of dying and having to up front another summons worth of MP may not be worth the damage difference between the 2 (you can do a lot of extra damage with the MP it takes to summon). Sure, Garuda would be used less then now, but I don't think Garuda would be used as infrequently as Ifrit is currently.