Please SqueEnix; fix Chocobo companions:

[Culfinrandir]

One thing that has always annoyed me & that's the lvl10 Chocobo skills. I maxed by bird out not long after it was possible to get all 3 skill trees to maximum but quickly realised that having the lvl10 skills active was a bad idea. I used a Regan Pepper & reset all trees to 1-9.

The lvl10 skills seem to be prioritised over the more useful skills & result in the bird pulling mobs randomly using AoE or putting a pee weak HoT on itself whilst not using the more powerful heal spells.

TL;DR - Chocobo lvl10 skills are broken & have always been. Turn them off.

[Chocolys]

The issue lies within the AI itself. I can circle around the boss as many times as I want. As soon as the bird casts 1 thing; it then rushes back as close as possible to me.

I can do enough damage by myself; so I then want the bird to ONLY heal. Ergo if it won't stay out of harms way and prioritize healing me first... then yeah, it's superfluous.

The chocobo won't do that when in Free stance, it won't come back to you excepted if you cast stuff like a Sleep spell on its current target, as a chocobo won't attack anything CCed.

Even in Free stance, the chocobo will heal you in priority. But a chocobo cannot spam heal non-stop, it has some sort or recast timer on all its skill although I never paid attention to the exact duration. So if you see him doing attacks while you are in need of heal, it is simply because it does not have any heal skill available to be used yet.

PS: I don't what rank is your chocobo, but it is weak initially, but as you increase its rank, it will become quite resilient. Also if you just started leveling your chocobo and that you're doing Heavensward fates solo, then it will be hurt badly if attacked because Heavensward fates are stronger than ARR ones.

[AmiBeau]

My chocobo is rank 11 I believe. The issue isn't so much that the bird's dying; it's that even if it only has a sliver of health missing; it will choose to heal itself; instead of me at only 80% health.

I myself can dodge the attacks of the mobs; however, because the chocobo is suicidal; it keeps coming near me... I just want to park the bird like 8 meters away and keep it only healing me. Instead, I have to worry about not only myself, but the bird too.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Snip.

We've already given you the answer you desire, which is Free Stance. Besides, why do you need to be healed if you're at 80% compared to the choco's10% or less? You don't need to be at full health constantly.

[RaijinSupreme]

I tend to keep my bird in free stance, and I never really had any issues taking most enemies solo. boss fates in Azys La when i was farming fire crystals by myself were the best cause it was faster than the other ones.