Quote Originally Posted by Igneous View Post
The last time I played was at the release of heaven ward and just came back a few days ago . I don't even know what a barding is lol
Bardings are clothes you can equip on your chocobo companion to make them look (slightly) more personalised. When you reach certain milestones in chocobo levelling you can unlock three special job-themed barding sets for your chocobo to wear (healer, which looks like a WHM, DPS, which looks like a DRG, and tank, which looks like a tin can - uh, I mean PLD).

IIRC you get one at rank 10, one at rank 15 and one at rank 20; in addition to the rank requirements you also have to have the maximum skills in the corresponding skill tree. So for example, when my chocobo hit rank 10 I used a pepper to change all of his skills to DPS and unlocked the DPS barding, then used another pepper to redistribute the points back the way they were. You can't cheat and set the skills to DPS, healer and tank in turn to unlock all bardings at once without fulfilling the rank requirement too.