More companions

I wish we could have more companions than just our chocobos. Perhaps our Squadron members could come out, and fight with us, or maybe we could get some new birbs.

The way I could see it working is we can run around with four artificial party members. It could help new players get through lower level content, and maybe we'd even get to choose one to use in place of a Chocobo. The fun part of this is we could choose a role, and train an npc to do what we need out in the open world.

As for new birds, I could see a falcon, and a griffin. They make sense lorewise. The only problem I see is that they would have to make it so you could choose any of these when you need them. Obviously we don't want to lose our Chocobos. They are pretty important.

Maybe allow our horsebirds to have a glamour of different mounts? The squadron member idea is also good as well.

I honestly thought they would've added more companions by now. Even if it's just a skin on our chocobos it would be cool to have something different.

My bird has been rank 20 for a long time too. It would be nice to have another companion to level up instead of letting the exp hit the floor.

Like many 1.0 players I've long waited for the Path Companion to return... but I think at this stage now sadly that is a lost cause...

Instead, I can totally see the GC Squadron being expanded upon to be called out in the open world... but anything is possible I guess.

Why not our retainers?

Edit for clarity: You can already level up, customise, and pick the class of your retainer. With the recent addition of squadrons it could be possible to have a retainer share the AI of a squadron member and use it in place of a chocobo.

I'd prefer retainers cause I can change how they look. That way I can have an Ilberd companion who I can say "Sloppy" to every time they die during a FATE. :')
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I just want a second chocobo. Why was the Black Chocobo not made into a companion too... ;;

The tank achievement mounts?

I remember in an interview, Yoshi stated that they were intending to make the Magitek Armor the next companion after chocobos.

I do, or increase our chocobo max rank to 30.

It might encourage me to run a few fates or 2 rather than just do beast tribe quests with my chocobo.