Is there a reason you don't want us having fun with chocobos?

[Naunet]

Seriously. I can't queue for anything with them out, which knocks out a HUGE chunk of content and really makes them incredibly frustrating when I want to both level my character and level my chocobo.

And then today I found out you can't even summon a minion with your chocobo out???

What did SE have against people doing things other than mindless FATE spams or mob grinds when they were designing the companion system?!

[Desteroth]

please look forward to it. They will not count against party sooner or later.

[StouterTaru]

They already responded to that and riding another mount with chocobo out: "blah blah bond with companion, lazy programming, we don't care"

[Mikhaill]

It takes years to level a Chocobo too and I do mean years. Been here since 2.0 and my little guy is like level 3...
and I had him a lot of the times in 3.0 grind.
I wish we could level them with while FATE grinding with other people that's what killing him to level.

EDIT: I'd also like to mention that during the grind to 60, I had my Chocobo out with me in EVERY quest that I done in the HW expac
and he was halfway to his next level then at the tail end he finally level'd.
I am not sure how anyone level's them to max...

[hagare]

It takes years to level a Chocobo too and I do mean years. Been here since 2.0 and my little guy is like level 3...
and I had him a lot of the times in 3.0 grind.
I wish we could level them with while FATE grinding with other people that's what killing him to level.

EDIT: I'd also like to mention that during the grind to 60, I had my Chocobo out with me in EVERY quest that I done in the HW expac
and he was halfway to his next level then at the tail end he finally level'd.
I am not sure how anyone level's them to max...

FC stables and challenge log

[Ashkendor]

It takes years to level a Chocobo too and I do mean years. Been here since 2.0 and my little guy is like level 3...
and I had him a lot of the times in 3.0 grind.
I wish we could level them with while FATE grinding with other people that's what killing him to level.

EDIT: I'd also like to mention that during the grind to 60, I had my Chocobo out with me in EVERY quest that I done in the HW expac
and he was halfway to his next level then at the tail end he finally level'd.
I am not sure how anyone level's them to max...

A lot of training in FC stables and taking them spiritbonding/farming.

[BreathlessTao]

With a join date of Aug 2013, and over 1400 posts... this has become an issue for you now? o.o Odd.
But yeah, old subject is old, it's been cried about by us and given excuses by the devs numerous times, sadly... :/

[Naunet]

With a join date of Aug 2013, and over 1400 posts... this has become an issue for you now? o.o Odd.

No? For a while. Just felt like making a thread, poking SE. I rerolled on a new server, so the annoyance is fresh, and I find SE's excuses BS. Poke 'em enough and maybe they'll see reason.

The whole no-minion-with-companion thing was new to me, though. That one was especially odd...

[Felis]

The whole no-minion-with-companion thing was new to me, though. That one was especially odd...

This is also old
And even if you just call a normal mount, the minion vanish so long the mount is here.

[Reinha]

It takes years to level a Chocobo too and I do mean years. Been here since 2.0 and my little guy is like level 3...
and I had him a lot of the times in 3.0 grind.
I wish we could level them with while FATE grinding with other people that's what killing him to level.

EDIT: I'd also like to mention that during the grind to 60, I had my Chocobo out with me in EVERY quest that I done in the HW expac
and he was halfway to his next level then at the tail end he finally level'd.
I am not sure how anyone level's them to max...

Challenge log = 15% of a level at all levels. Kill mobs that are at the most 10 levels below you. Synched fates count. You can also level an alt with clan marks, it makes it easy to do the rank 3 marks if you are below level 55.
Training at the stables = 1% of a level at all levels (could have sworn it was 1.5% during the first few levels). Just stable him, feed him a Krakka Root and take him out. One hour cooldown. Other people can train it a total of once per hour as well, so make a deal with a fc member.

Train when you log in, when you log out and once or twice in between, and combined with the challenge log you get a level every fortnight.