Chocobo leveling help ( not guide )

[Sol_Aureus]

Ok, so there seems to be a lot of misinformation in this thread. I've personally done the long grind to get my chocobo to rank 10, so let me shed some light on the process.

When your chocobo is out, if you would get exp on your current job against the mob you're fighting, your chocobo gets the same amount of xp as you would obtain from that mob. For example, if at level 49 you killed a mob and got 200 exp if you did it solo, with your chocobo out while you were on the same level 49 job you would obtain 200 exp and your chocobo would obtain 200 exp.

The best way to level your chocobo at the moment is in groups, gathering up a bunch of enemies at once and AoE bursting them down. Chocobos ONLY GAIN XP FROM KILLING ENEMIES! This means no FATE completion bonuses, no quest turn-ins, nothing. Just pure, simple grinding. It takes a long, long time to level your chocobo from rank 1-10, since at best you'll probably be getting around 200-300 xp per mob, and even in a group it takes a long time. The fastest method I've found nets roughly 100,000 exp per hour. My chocobo was rank 6 when they implemented the EXP TNL being shown for your chocobo, so I'm not sure how much EXP it takes to get from 1→6, however from 6→10 it takes 3,330,000 exp:

Rank 1→2 ???,???
Rank 2→3 ???,???
Rank 3→4 ???,???
Rank 4→5 ???,???
Rank 5→6 ???,???
Rank 6→7 490,000
Rank 7→8 700,000
Rank 8→9 - 940,000
Rank 9→10 - 1,200,000

So basically 32 hours of straight grinding. (If any of these exp numbers are wrong, please let me know with a screenshot so I can change it).

As for the method that people in this thread are talking about, there seems to be some confusion as to how it works. Let me clear it up:

at most, you'll have 2 full parties of 4 people each (4 people + 4 Chocobos in each party). One party is the "Pull party" and the other is the "Kill Party". The Pull party will have one member round up all the enemies and gather them up at the kill point. This gives the pull party claim on all of the enemies that are going to be killed. Once the enemies are gathered up, the Kill party will AoE the enemies down, while the Pull party does not attack at all. The pull party gets full exp for their chocobos since they had claim on the enemies, thus guaranteeing 100% exp regardless of battle participation. The Kill party gets full exp for their chocobos as the kill party did more than enough damage to the enemies to have their contribution rewarded will full exp. This way, both parties get full exp and everyone wins!

(and just to preemptively ward off skeptics, proof of rank 10 chocobo: )