Companion Chocobo SP points?Follow

I'd like to know this also... I have not used my chocobo for anything other then riding so far... I'm guessing you need Guyshal Greens to summon him as a pet?

Yes, you summon with Gyashi Greens.
I wish I hadn't wasted 2 SP points in tank stance, because it was worthless. I switched to healing which at least provides some benefit. I honestly don't know what I was thinking when I assumed the chocobo would keep aggro from me.
Thinking back, I had my companion set to healing mode in FFXI as well.

Yeah, companion is not very helpful for running FATES. You should really be able to hit MOUNT while he is deployed instead of dismissing him first. UNMOUNT straight into Companion Mode would be cool as well.

Like you said, soloing Hunting Log is where the companion really shines. I soloed Hunting Logs from 5-15 Archanist.

With Carby and a Chocobo together its was a party of 3 during solo play. Had a lot of fun with my little army!

My gf is running SCH and I'm running SMN. Sometimes we get to a boss fate that no one is it, we both pull out or chocobos, and our party of 6: Tank (Titan) Healers(her, Eos, & me with Sustain) DPS (her dots, me, and 2 chocobos). It is phenomenal.

Has that actually been confirmed though? I don't think there's been anything definite that said 10 was max. I sure hope not, because I put 1 point in the first ability of each tree also, thinking at least the first ability would be useful regardless while leveling.

I'm almost certain I read that you can only max out one path and to choose how you spend your points wisely.

Here's GM reply on the Lodestone:



You know how one of the Subscription bonuses is a black chocobo chick? Looks like we may eventually have more than one companion available.

Now wait a minute, I got 1 SP for Rank 1, and 2 SP for Rank 2.

I've been reading other places and other players have confirmed the SP reward scales up with your Rank.

That means that 10 Ranks =/= 10 SP.

At the very least those of us that have spent a point or two in the Attacker or Defender Trees should still be able to get Choco Medica.

Then again, subsequent abilities may cost more than 1 SP.

Rank 2 ability costs 2 SP?

Right, we still don't really have confirmation since it sounds like no one is actually ranking up their chocobo. I'm reading complaints on the rate that chocobos Rank up. Others are saying that there is not any level 50 content you would use them for anyway. It's more of a solo leveling tool. At the rate they rank-up, you will get your classes to level 50 and have no use for your companion before you get to Companion Rank 10 anyway.

It's starting to look like Chocobo Companions are a nice feature for mid-level soloing that really has no long term gameplay ramifications. Maybe players will find a use for them while high level farming?

Do the chocobos just rank up from being used? I didn't see any progression bar, or anything that lets me know how much exp the chocobo is getting.

Also, is there a way you can make your chocobo get the hell away from you? I haven't had much practice with companions, and I find it ridiculous that my healing stance chocobo is right in the enemies face with me. I want to make him get back, so he can at least dodge some of the aoe attacks he seems so willing to eat.

There is also using the chocobo to level other classes up from 1. So I would imagine, if you're the type to want to level up all the jobs (eventually), and you have your companion with you as you restart some of the earlier jobs, which (ideally) allow your lower level character to take on tougher mobs than would normally be the case, you would end up leveling it up that way.

That might have been the expectation on the part of the Devs. Remember, not everyone power climbs to 50 or is reaching for Endgame. Some people like to explore.

It's a really small icon - but if you go into your equipment character screen up near the top right there's a teeny icon of a chocobo to click on. Took me blooming ages to find it.

So, if you can get 55 SP but can only fully fill one skill tree, would that be more sensible or would filling one stat to 7, one stat to 6, and one stat to 3 be more sensible? Granted you won't be able to fill the 8th, 9th, or 10th position on your main skill tree but in a way you would be making up for that with the other stats being able to be utilized. Such as if your 2 main stats, (7th spot and 6th spot) would be ATK and HEAL in that order then while you can't heal everyone in the group for 150 with your chocobo, but you can draw some fire off of other players while still utilizing HEAL skill 4 to recover them by 400 then have your choco go right back to ATKing while actually doing a decent amount of damage. All in all those last 3 ranks missed so you can have more stats to aid you seems like a much better trade off.

What are your thoughts on this approach to Chocobo LVLing?