I tried to level my rank 3 mentally challenged giant chicken today and got maybe 1/6th of a level after 45 mins of grinding. I made him a tank when I was leveling BLM because I figured that would be helpful. Little did I know he would be incapable of EVER pulling aggro. One Fire III and it takes him a good 10 seconds to pull a mob off of me. What makes it even funnier is he has less HP and gets hit harder than my BLM wearing thin rags.

I figure he probably hits like a wet noodle because he is such a low rank. I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to level him in tandem though because I can't take him in dungeons, he doesn't get quest/fate exp, and I can't even let him soak up 100+ mob exp chains from Dark Devices because he uses a party slot. I make every effort I can to level him up while questing or riding the FATE train but there has to be a better way.








Oh look! A FATE popped 300 yalms away (lol wtf is a yalm?)! Unfortunately my feathered friend is busy chasing down some de-aggroed mob that is immune to everything as it runs back to its patrol area. I better put him on follow before he re-aggroes it and puts me back in combat, withdraw him and wait 5 seconds until he leaves the party, mount him, run to the FATE, dismount, lure him out with some more chocobo catnip, put him back in defender stance (in free mode he becomes overwhelmed by all the ability choices and just auto attacks....... He has one ability, one.), and make sure he doesn't get one shotted after sprinting towards an exploding bomb. IT'S THAT SIMPLE!!!