Chocobo Companion

[Jibbelz]

To get a chocobo mount or battle companion you just follow the main story. Once you get past the ifrit battle you will be instructed to join a grand company. Once you do that you will be given a quest to talk to the chocobo dude. He tell you to buy an item from the grand company you joined. This costs 1000 grand company seals. Once you buy it you can summon the chocobo as a mount. To summon him as a fighting companion you need to buy gysahl greens from an independent importer, the dude who sells the pets. Then you just use the greens to summon the companion. At least this is how it was in P3.

[Kisuke]

To get a chocobo mount or battle companion you just follow the main story. Once you get past the ifrit battle you will be instructed to join a grand company. Once you do that you will be given a quest to talk to the chocobo dude. He tell you to buy an item from the grand company you joined. This costs 1000 grand company seals. Once you buy it you can summon the chocobo as a mount. To summon him as a fighting companion you need to buy gysahl greens from an independent importer, the dude who sells the pets. Then you just use the greens to summon the companion. At least this is how it was in P3.

Again, you are misunderstanding me. I have 3 mounts, including 2 different Chocobos.
I am looking to get the Chocobo battle companion. I just wanted to know where I can find it.
That previous NPC that "switches" your chocobo to battle companion isn't there anymore and you can't just use the greens, it says "you haven't learned this yet".

Location / NPC ?

[JamesTalon]

It cost me 2K seals. The Wandering Minstrel isn't around to get whats needed to use the Chocobo in battle, and the Greens don't seem to work to summon it. Can only seem to summon it and use it as a mount.

[Wigett]

I cant seem to find the minstrel either, not sure how to activate the chcobo to help?

[UnrealTai]

so they dropped the ball and freaking forgot to make sure one of the best aspects to have at launch is completely broken due to quest chains

[Monkey]

so they dropped the ball and freaking forgot to make sure one of the best aspects to have at launch is completely broken due to quest chains

I hope you're being sarcastic. It's more like no one has figured out how to unlock them. In phase 3 all we had to do was talk to the wandering minstrel. Since the wandering minstrel was just added to allow access to mid to high level content during beta it was no longer necessary since we can now access them without his help. So, like stated in a previous comment, unlocking the battle chocobo is probably a benefit of a mid to high level quest. Probably down the main storyline or a stand alone quest in a higher level area.

[Mecan]

This information is still tied to the story, but clearly very late into the story because they want people to level. I'm going to make a ballpark guess and probably say it'll be a very high level unlock.

[KamikazeMan]

I could have sworn Yoshida said a few months back that we needed to raise a Chocobo in order for it to fight. The Grand Company Chocobos are all males. I'm sure we just need to figure out how to get a female Chocobo and breed it. It's either a late game quest or a side quest. The Wandering Minstrel probably just allowed us to use the GC Chocobo because that's the only one we had access to.

[LeopoldEM]

Any word on this? I haven't figured it out yet

[DivineKismet]

its a Chocobo icon on your Characters UI