expansion to the chocobo system ideal

[Kaiserdrache]

If there will be never something else than Chocobos as companions, to reduce workload to an absolute minimum, that is fine and acceptable.

What is in return by todays technical standards absolutely unacceptable, is how outdated this feature is by now after 6 years.
The companion feature needs a big quality of life overwork and mechanics change, to modernize the feature and bring it up to date with todays modern mechanics and a better A.I that the game has by now with Trust.


1. Remove the idiotic need to have to use Gysahl just to be able to call the Companion, and while being at it, removed the total brainless time limits with that together too.
People have no issues with permanent Mounts, so why need Companions to be forced to disappear every 30-60 minutes? Its just complete pointless game design
Frees up also the inventory of an obsolete item, unless changed into color change food

2. Give Companion Gear Stats > Strength, Vitality, Willpower, Tenacity to help making Companions more useful help, that players can then upgrade to raise them and add special Rider-Materia to that gear to further enhance with them the abilities of the Companion, so that it uses them quicker n more often with better efficiency.
3. Turn Companions into Lvl 80 Trust NPC, each Companion Level you have now converts to 4 Trust Levels. so a 20er Chocobo will be Lvl 80 after being changed to Trust to get the improved A.I from this change.
Companion will work out as Allrounder, that are always the role that is needed to make a party ready to go, exactly how the Crystal Exarch works.
4. Completely change the Skills of the Companion and add more to it, so that a Lvl 80 tanking Companion is equally good as like the tank player, otherwise it is absolutely pointless if the companion can't be MT for you as tank, because the PCh is at everything much better than the companion by now. Example: Tank Player 125k + Health, Companions? Only like 88k or so, thats a whopping difference of around 35-37k Health!!!! n players have much more skills to reduce and avoid damage, the companion only 1 skill that reduces damage for 15s, but nothing to avoid damage, the dumb current AI, eats literally all damage and just tries to outheal it only with sporadic used Chocobo Regenas, omg, this is so pre 2000, we have 2019!!!
5. Add Companion Glamours which don't change in general, WHAT the companion just is, but HOW the companion looks like. This way no mechanics need to be changed, but players gain the option to change to look of the companion.
You hate Chocobos? no problem, use the Companion Glamour and change your ugly bird maybe into a handsome Couerl instead or into an other living creature mount skin that you eventually like more, which SE would allow to use as Companion Glamour. The MH Rathalos for example would be my personal choice for having a Dragon literally as companion glamour. Single hook on that would be, use a companion glamour and you can't have the looks of the chocobo based companion gear Obvious, or?