Feel like Chocobo Companions are due for a buff

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Originally Posted by Brownondorf

hmmmm? my rank 20 chocobo is still as effective as it has ever been...

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I've actually noticed mine is better at tanking now. It use to be entirely useless at it. Now it's only really bad at it lol.

It still works just as well as before when healing. I still very rarely have to heal myself when I got my chocobo out.

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Originally Posted by Korbei

Possibly due to the great level crush of 6.0, possibly due to zero attention since 2.X.. Chocobo companions are quite overdue for an upgrade.

They are simply worthless at this point. My healer chocobo cannot keep me alive in the 80s and they're adding very little dps as a free stance.

Only thing they definitely contribute is frame lag and Aetheryte congestion.

It's either time to get rid of them altogether, as the lack of attention seems to suggest they want to, or it's time to bring them up to snuff.

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They need a revamp!

I personally want them to continue on with it. It's not been touched since ARR.
We should have different companions, more items for them, rework the talent tree maybe?

I want a Paissa companion lol.

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Originally Posted by Jybril

I personally want them to continue on with it. It's not been touched since ARR.
We should have different companions, more items for them, rework the talent tree maybe?

I want a Paissa companion lol.

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The original plan was Maggie (The magitek Reaper you get from Preatorium) was going to be a companion you could swap parts around on. But that was obviously dropped.

SE has a nasty habit of adding new 'mini games' and then abandoning them. See chocobo racing, breeding, (scrapped probably) fighting arena, gardening, submarine and airship ventures, Grand companies and squads, Diadem 1, 2, and probably 3. Theres probably more I don't even remember existing.

Clearly we need to arm them with lasers!

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Originally Posted by Penthea

I've actually noticed mine is better at tanking now. It use to be entirely useless at it. Now it's only really bad at it lol.

It still works just as well as before when healing. I still very rarely have to heal myself when I got my chocobo out.

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I think tank choco could use some basic changes and then healer stance could also use a few AI changes, like not sticking next to you for example.

No I want to keep my chocobo, it is not going to the deep fryer

The tank chocobo is pretty worthless, it never manages to hold enmity at all any time I've attempted to use it, even as a healer.

Healer stance is already pretty iffy, since it forces the chocobo to stand directly next to you, it won't even cast until it repositions and just eats up every single aoe known to man. It then prioritizes itself, but still manages to slowly die through some fates because of the large amounts of aoes.

Like I know they're not supposed to be total replacements for players but they're in a pretty sad state.

i'd at the very least definitely like some Skill tree changes for them, as it stands lots of the skill points are just eaten by worthless stuff like accuracy and it hasn't been touched since ARR

they could update the ai for it a bit