Originally Posted by
Aakarshan
Unless you're a healer yourself, I honestly can't imagine anything would be better than the healer chocobo.
The damage tree doesn't really start getting you a notable damage increase until late-tree but as soon as you get Choco Cure your chocobo is a fully-fledged offhealer who will spam it on you on cooldown the moment you're sub 50%, or if brought to 80%ish when in Healer stance. Better yet, you can put them on healer stance to keep them from dying to world bosses with AoEs and such and keep you up pretty reliably.
You may be tempted to go DPS but I really wouldn't suggest it until you have enough points to actually make it worth it, which I would say is about 7-8, and even then I still like healer chocobo much better as it does decent damage and keeps you alive. It is a good option for people who like playing healers though.
Tank chocobo will never be able to hold threat, just don't bother.