Chocobo Companion levelling speed: Is it fine as it is?

[Monsalvato]

Just noticing how long it's taking me to level this, starting to wonder if maybe SE could do something about it?

I'm not even saying Chocobo Companion should reach level 20 in 2 days, but maybe not even as slow as it is now? The best way to get XP for him atm is the weekly Challenge Log, which is a bit less than 300k companion XP.
For level 12 to reach level 13 you need approximately 2 millions of XP, that's roughly 5-6 weeks just for a single level.
It's gonna be worse from 13 to 14 and so on.

So maybe SE could give a *small* buff to the amount of XP provided by the challenge log?
Or make so Chocobo companions receive a % of the XP the master gets from Fates? Or slightly increase the XP Chocobo Companions get from normal kills?
I don't know, whatever. Not asking to make Chocobo levelling irrelevant, just a bit more "gentle" than it currently is.

[Colino]

I think it's fine as is, the challenge log entries give you a very decent chunk of exp.

Edit: I should add, I wouldn't mind them making it faster IF they also increased the level cap. In that scenario it would make sense. I do agree letting them get some % of fate exp wouldn't be bad and probably wouldn't break the balance as they intended it. Plus it's an incentive to do more fates (and we know how much the devs love that)

[Fynlar]

I'm not even saying Chocobo Companion should reach level 20 in 2 days, but maybe not even as slow as it is now? The best way to get XP for him atm is the weekly Challenge Log, which is a bit less than 300k companion XP.
For level 12 to reach level 13 you need approximately 2 millions of XP, that's roughly 5-6 weeks just for a single level.
It's gonna be worse from 13 to 14 and so on.

It'll be about the same actually because the challenge log scales. You get 15% of your TNL every week.

Aside from that, the best way really that doesn't require constant work (ala spiritbond grinding) is to just stable it and train it hourly... which is a bit unfortunate. I agree it would be nice if they could pick up FATE exp.

[Monsalvato]

Yeah I mean, at least a %, would incentivate people to do Fates even more, and to get as much XP as possible, since that would affect the % that Chocobos get.
I dunno, I like that Chocobo Levelling is slow and requires dedication, that's a good thing to me, but maybe this is a bit too much for not-too-hardcore players?

[Serilda]

I'm a filthy casual but mine has still been maxed out for a while. It's sad that they didn't increase the cap even if there were no rewards for it.

[Niqote]

Its perfectly fine, if anything its long overdue for an update so we can lvl them even more because most people I know have had a lvl 20 chocobo for more then a year or so.

Huge EXP boost per week from challenge log (because it scales)
Feeding in an apartment or FC stable and EXP from killing mobs from your dailies/weeklies like hunts, treasure maps and FATEs, and now that you can actually queue dungeons with your chocobro it's even better.

[KageTokage]

I think hunt marks should reward a nice chunk of chocobo EXP, personally.

They could use a slight revamp overall, especially with their accuracy traits now being mostly useless thanks to the combat changes.

[Eadyn]

I think leveling is fine as it is....it's way better than it started out being.
Before, there was no challenge log. No feeding in stables. No exp food. No chocobo out while queueing. Pretty much, only way to level was by taking your bird with you to the Castrum in East La Noscea or having it while spiritbonding in Urth's Gift.
I do hope they increase the level cap though, I'd like to give my buddy more skills. :O

[ServerCollaps]

you can feed it up to 48 times per day, when you stable it

each training session grants it 0,5-1%, so even rank 19-20 could be achieved within 4 days without doing challenge log nor killing a single enemy

[Dustytome]

you can feed it up to 48 times per day, when you stable it

each training session grants it 0,5-1%, so even rank 19-20 could be achieved within 4 days without doing challenge log nor killing a single enemy

You just have to completely kill any semblance of a sleep schedule and be exactly on time for those 4 days while also having someone else or an alt be always available to also train it. Realistically you'll probably only be training it a handful of times each day.