I never realized we had to max out a role to get the barding, so I also put in 1 point in DPS.
For that reason, I've left my Chocobo at Rank 2. There's just no point even calling her out.
I wish they just give us a way to reset all points and ranks in 2.1.
It's ridiculous that 1 bad choice could remove a whole section of "content" from an MMORPG.
This game is great, but there's are badly thought out (sometimes not thought out at all) designs and half-finished work all over the place.