Chocobo Companion levelling speed: Is it fine as it is?

[JunseiKei]

Chocobos could use a little bit of love. They are way inferior to player characters and the amount of work needed to get them to max rank is truly abysmal. Considering they are locked to only open world content, I can't see why they can't be buffed or their experience gains increased again.

Aside from challenge log and feeding every hour, they only gain experience from normal mobs. Your chocobo takes half of your total experience you gain from monsters and chocobos reduce your overall experience gain by 20%. If you would get 100 EXP solo, with a chocobo out, you will only get 80 EXP.

Their utility is pretty pathetic, too. There's hardly any reason to have anything other than a healing chocobo (they can't hold aggro for squat and their DPS is not even 1/4 of a player, but at least it's just complimentary, right?). However, even their healing is a tad lackluster. I'm not saying buff them up to be able to keep up with Stormblood hunts, but being able to at least do FATE bosses would be nice.

My only hope as to why they haven't been buffed is simply because they are waiting for enough people to care about them again. Right now, I'm sitting at a rank 18 chocobo and for how much you need to spend on them, it's not worth it. Just get a rank 10 chocobo all in healing at this rate.