Quote Originally Posted by LunarEmerald View Post
The chocobos have been getting stronger since each expansion. Back in ARR they did like 300 dps and cured for a couple hundred. Now they do 1000 dps and their cures do over 5k. I've seen them crit cure for over 10k.
They scale with the players level. Their rank only affects the skill points and there which skills they can use. If you watch closely when in a fate, the chocobo continues to use all their skills, but their output scales to your sync' level.