Will there ever be an easier way to level up your chocobo?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Considering I'm already at level 50, there's no worry about having EXP lost to the bird. However, it's extremely silly that the chocobo's level scales to yours, whether by level sync or when you switch jobs that is not capped on levels, yet its EXP curve doesn't change.

I get that having a summoned Chocobo is good for people leveling up while solo, but the player greatly outclasses his/her pet at such a fast rate that it's like a cheap version of the Arcanist.

[ServerCollaps]

whats hard with pulling some mobbs and kill them together with other people

use party find, get a water elemental group at quarrymill and farm them, beside that you can make a lot of money by spiritbonding gear

getting a lvl 10 chocobo by this way takes a lesser amount of time then reaching "trusted" at any beasttribe, which gives absolutely no advantages too

[Tzain]

The only real con I see is that the chocobo excludes duty finder, if that weren't the case, I'd have likely maxed it out by now.

[Raestloz]

@wellfooled:

That'd be because you level your chocobo as healer. Take defender side, and you're in for a world of frustration.

And do try to level Arcanist. IIRC level 5 nets you A carbuncle. See how you control them.

[FJerome]

I'm under the general impression, though it's hard to gather solid data on this, that if you're hunting for materials with your chocobo it boosts your drop rates as it counts as a second party member.

[Maelwys]

I get that having a summoned Chocobo is good for people leveling up while solo, but the player greatly outclasses his/her pet at such a fast rate that it's like a cheap version of the Arcanist.

It depends on how you build them.

I can understand specialising in a particular stance purely in order to get the barding... but from a performance point of view it's definitely better to go hybrid. My Chocobo became noticeably more decent after I got to Rank 6. The level 4 Healer Stance Cure ability and the level 4 Attacker Stance DoT are both great, and you only need the level 1 Defender Stance Ability in order for it to hold hate (albeit at a slightly lower rate than Topaz Carbuncle, and it really doesn't have that much HP). The problem is that specialising in only one stance really cuts back on the amount of passive buffs and useful abilities you can give your chicken.

I'm using my chocobo for levelling up alt classes. Since it's a fairly decent Healer/DPS Hybrid, it's decreasing the time it takes for me to run Battlecraft Leves quite drastically as well as letting me solo FATE bosses without paying much attention... though I agree that at higher ranks it takes AGES to notice the exp bar move.

(I main PLD. My chicken is quite capable at keeping my health topped up and it can do higher DPS than me whenever it's in the right stance. I'd quite happilly take one with me into a level 50 dungeon in place of a random Duty Finder party member if it let me...)

[LordSaviour]

I could have been dreaming, but I thought I read some where that they are implementing Chocobo Leves at some point.