Quote Originally Posted by Urthdigger View Post
I should add that the lowered xp is only because the chocobo essentially counts as another party member. It's not a drastic reduction in any case.
It's actualy 25% which is pretty big chop of your XP gain if your aim is to level up quickly. On other hand it might help you to clear content / kill mob which you'd be unableto do on your own and gain more XP overall so it might (or not) ballance out in the end.