Chocobo Companions and You: A Guide

[AylaYukihana]

I consider it useful, but not as useful as a powerful attack or an extra +15% Critical Hit chance

Its not Atk/Slow versus Atk/Dot AND 15% crit chance, its just slow vs dot, because you can get rank 6 on defender to get 15% crit as well. 7 Healer, 6 Defender, 3 Attack, yields 30% crit boost, 3 WS and potent healing, the only difference is DoT WS or Slow WS.

[Maelwys]

I consider it useful, but not as useful as a powerful attack or an extra +15% Critical Hit chance

Its not Atk/Slow versus Atk/Dot AND 15% crit chance, its just slow vs dot, because you can get rank 6 on defender to get 15% crit as well. 7 Healer, 6 Defender, 3 Attack, yields 30% crit boost, 3 WS and potent healing, the only difference is DoT WS or Slow WS.

I didn't say it was an AND situation, I said it was an OR situation.

You have enough SP to take:
+ Rank 7 Healer, plus Rank 4 Defender and Rank 5 Attacker (or 5 Defender + 4 Attacker, abilities are equal).
+ Rank 7 Healer, plus Rank 3 Defender and Rank 6 Attacker.
+ Rank 7 Healer, plus Rank 6 Defender and Rank 3 Attacker.

Therefore the choice is: (i) SLOW, (ii) DOT, (iii) CRIT BUFF.
Three abilities, pick two.

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Where we appear to be disagreeing is that I'd prefer the DoT and the Crit Buff, and you seem to prefer the Slow and the Crit Buff.

This is a perfectly fine point to disagree on, because Chocobo builds depend heavily on personal opinion.
I merely place greater value on a dependable additional damage increase (plus higher hate generation capability) over situational additional survivability.