Hello, everyone!

Thanks for all the feedback and questions on companions. I'd like to take a moment and answer some of them with what I can.

Please improve companions so they can learn all of the skills.
While we do not have any plans of making it so all of the skills can be acquired, in the future we are planning to increase the skill point cap.

I'd really like to be able to ride my chocobo companion while it's by my side.
As there is a possibility that this increases the amount of stress that is placed on the server, we will be looking into this very carefully.

It's hard to tell how long I have left with my companion.
We understand that the remaining time left with your companion is difficult to tell, and we are currently thinking of ways to improve this.

It's really hard to get experience points for my companion. Can you make it a bit easier to level them up?
Instead of simply increasing the experience points your companions acquire, we will be enhancing their usability and increasing the opportunities in which experience points can be acquired by making it possible to summon your companions while being queued for the Duty Finder.

We just discovered the barding for companions and how you earn it, so could you please implement a way to redistribute the skill points?
As the requirement for obtaining the barding is to max out the skill points of your companion's stance, we are currently looking into a way to redistribute your points.

The companion AI is somewhat lackluster, so could you please make adjustments to it?
We'll be continuing to look at companion AI, but to give you an idea of one thing that is planned for after patch 2.1, we will be improving the AI for the defender stance.