It is not only the barding. I have chosen a DD companion and I regret it. Birdie sucks at DD'ing lol. I invested several points for healer in the later levels and it turned out to be much better.

For me it is the same as with my 1st chars..what I initially thought was a good idea turned out to be a bad one. I was able to reset my skill points with the Keeper's Hymn so why shouldn't it be possible for the Choccobo? People make skilling mistakes, that's no news.

I can imagine it is no high priority for SE and it's ok but the discussions about this go on since half a year already. I do not really understand where the hard point in this matter is and why it can't be implemented along the other finetuning they do in their small patches.

Let me just reskill my birdie whenever I want to. If you fear, some use it to get all bardings, just prevent it. If a player has one barding, there is no chance he will ever get another one besides starting the Game again with a new char. But I do not see the problem if people want all the bardings and respec their choccobo thrice. Collectors will always try to collect. Breaking news, I know. Make the hymn for it really expensive (50.000 GC seals for example) so it's player's choice to do it or not.