Companion Chocobo Needs Reworked

[Jeeqbit]

Never had this issue personally. I suppose I just never did MSQ as a Scholar due to their lower damage.

The main use I find for a chocobo, personally, is to help keep me alive with heals. Obviously this not really relevant at level 90 and level 100 due to our excessive heals and mitigation, but long in the game's history our self-heals weren't this excessive, so it was useful for the MSQ, for FATEs and especially boss FATEs or hunts, and still likely useful at low enough levels.

It is nice to help with DPS for a boss FATE, but just to AoE mobs is barely worth it anyway since there's multiple of them. You could right-click them though, because this auto attacks and signals the chocobo to attack.

Most likely not attacking enemies automatically is intentional so you can't AFK farm enemies. For similar reasons they don't normally give you a need to farm enemies in the open world, nor let you repeat macros. Because this results in players being unable to complete quests that require these enemies. This consideration even extends to the MSQ where they often just spawn the enemies specifically for you to prevent getting stuck due to someone farming enemies.

I think the change I would prefer to this system more than anything else is just being able to use lots of other companions such as NPCs, mounts or minions. But we're getting beast master soon, so there's probably no chance of that any time soon since it would be too similar.

[Astronis]

The main use I find for a chocobo, personally, is to help keep me alive with heals. Obviously this not really relevant at level 90 and level 100 due to our excessive heals and mitigation, but long in the game's history our self-heals weren't this excessive, so it was useful for the MSQ, for FATEs and especially boss FATEs or hunts, and still likely useful at low enough levels.

I still use healer 'bos for FATEs at 100 with my DPS jobs. And DPS/Healer 'bos for soloing 100 level maps on tank jobs.