Quote Originally Posted by Grekumah View Post
For Companion Chocobo’s Rank 11 and onward the system was designed so that your companion's stats do not increase, but instead that you increase them by adding skill points and we don’t have any plans at the moment to enhance them. This is because we'd like to keep this as content that is for players that enjoy the companion system instead of making it critical to get a companion to rank 20.

In the future when both players and monsters become stronger we will look into increasing companion stats as well.

In regards to tank-type companions maintaining enmity, it becomes more difficult as players become stronger through higher item levels, so we will look into balancing this separately.
You could, I dunno, make barding actually be useful. Make special bardings, even make them craftable (please for the love of God make some that aren't 50***, you know, so they can be crafted as you're leveling the choco and your craft skills), give the head and feet attack stats and the armor defense stats. Perhaps even make special "class" bardings like you already have, but give them stats as well.