Quote Originally Posted by LegoTechnic View Post
Arcanist used to be a fantastic soloing class with topaz carbuncle and later with SMN's Titan-egi, and they just... dropped all that. My best advice is to level your company chocobo in a tank or healer role.
The problem with the Chocobo as a tank role is that as you get higher in level, definitely in the 60s+ you will out enmity him with your damage increases. Id suggest the healer if you are going to rely on your choco to keep you upright.

The bigger problem here is that while solo we shouldn't be stuck using the "shield" pet. Titan never was a requirement during casual solo questing (until he was). Ifrit could tank long enough to make sure stuff was dead just as well. Titan's shield should be removed from Titan. Given to all pets, with an increase to at least 25%. Dot classes take longer to kill things than a glasscannon BLM (who has manaward on without being forced to use a subpar pet) and a mobile caster with a sword and a hell of a lot of burst potential (plus they can heal themselves after our albeit pathetic excuse for a heal was removed). Something needs to give. Fine even great in end game group content... lackluster everywhere else is not fun design.