Can I reset my chocobo's SP yet? If not, why?

[Maelwys]

Mine is currently lvl 9 and encroaching on 10. I have the lvl 4 skill in defense, the first 3 in offense, and 6 in healer. in free stance he is pretty good. I would reset to all pts in healer though.

Nice!

Sadly my chocobo's not yet managed to hit level 8, I have gotten my Gladiator up a good bit but it's still slow going since I can't use the Chicken in dungeons. I bring him out whenever I'm soloing to farm mobs (or in the occasional FATE party that's not full). I'd be interested to hear how the uptime is on the Rank #7 Healer ability once you hit level 10!

A Companion that can Heal is certainly working out to be very nice for a PLD. I've noticed a lot of difference in my survivability since my Chocobo got the Targeted Heal. If I leave him in Free Stance, he'll spam cures on me when I drop below 50% HP. If I put him in Healer stance, he'll start when I drop below about 75% HP. He's no WHM, but his cures are about twice as powerful than my PLD's (with just the basic +10% MND boost this works out at around 380 HP per cure at level 50) and he keeps the regen buff up almost constantly as soon as either of us start taking damage.

I still prefer keeping him in Free Stance though... partially because he contributes a fair amount of damage, but mostly because it's a lot easier to position him so that he's out of the way of cone attacks whenever he's actually attacking a mob and not just following me.