Companions are underwhelming.

[reality_check]

My chocobo dies every time I do an alexandrite map. It stands in all the AoE, then tries to heal itself, and then dies.

It's not a big deal, but it's a LOT of work grinding chocobos to rank 10. Mine feels pretty useless at level 50 at rank 10.

The companion system feels in general a bit of a wash. Mildly useful for leveling jobs and FATES but other than completely useless.

Anyone else feel this way?

[Shake0615]

Yeah, that's why my chocobo is sitting at Rank 4 lol. It would be nice if we could micro-manage our companions like ACN/SCH/SMN pets - although that would kind of complicate things for those three classes.

[ClaireAbigail]

I soloed 80% of my alexandrite maps using only my Chocobo. I have her set up on healing stance only. I can honestly say without my Chocobo I would never have gotten my novus. And mine was only rank 4 healer...

[Tupsi]

The main issue with chocobo buddy is they changed their minds on the gambit system they said that would have happened. That would have given us insane control over its A.I.

[TheRogueX]

The main issue with chocobo buddy is they changed their minds on the gambit system they said that would have happened. That would have given us insane control over its A.I.

This would have been awesome. I wonder why they scrapped it? Too complex? PS3 Limitations?

[Tupsi]

This would have been awesome. I wonder why they scrapped it? Too complex? PS3 Limitations?

Same reasoning that they gave us for certain macros: "We don't want the game to play itself for you."

[Jeykama]

Made mine a 3/7/6 hybrid'bo and it's survived every alexandrite map. Does a damned fine job of keeping a dps with pathetic defense/self-heals (aka a bard) up soloing boss fates and whatnot too. Reagan peppers are easy to get, try it out.

[Antonio_Xul]

Made mine a 3/7/6 hybrid'bo and it's survived every alexandrite map. Does a damned fine job of keeping a dps with pathetic defense/self-heals (aka a bard) up soloing boss fates and whatnot too. Reagan peppers are easy to get, try it out.

I had just reached Level 10 yesterday and changed it stats exactly like your 3-7-6 combination. Freaking coincidence! I feel that combination is probably the most useful and more all around better stats for your Chocobo.

The way I keep my Chcocobo alive is when you hit the mob, the side you hit is the side where your Chococbo is going to attack, so from there I run to the opposite side and keep the mob facing me. That way if it has any cone AOEs, it will only be in my direction. Chocobo is screwed if it is a circular AOE though.

[Nocte]

I have Titan-Egi tank everything away from the chocobo, although it takes a short while to get it into a position where cone AOE's overlapping one another on bad angles won't somehow hit it (just keep moving Titan-Egi around until everything's in a good position).

[Black91CRX]

Healer stance could use some tweaking for sure. Rather than shadow your movements (poorly), they should make it where it doesn't stand so close to you.