Chocobo Questions!

[Berabouman]

Alright more questions from me. Now with 100% more chocobos!

1. How do you ride/mount your chocobo while it's summoned? I don't want to have to waste another Gysahl Green dismissing it, riding and re-summoning it.

2. Questions about Chocobo experience :

a) What is the max rank?

b) What's the best way to rank up a Chocobo?

c) Does your Chocobo gain the same amount of experience as you? If so, wouldn't it make sense to only grind with him/her with your highest levelled job?

d) Does your Chocobo gain XP from FATEs/quests? (probably not but what the hell I'll ask anyway)

3. Can you change your Chocobo's name?

[Seravi Edalborez]

Alright more questions from me. Now with 100% more chocobos!

1. How do you ride/mount your chocobo while it's summoned? I don't want to have to waste another Gysahl Green dismissing it, riding and re-summoning it.

2. Questions about Chocobo experience :

a) What is the max rank?

b) What's the best way to rank up a Chocobo?

c) Does your Chocobo gain the same amount of experience as you? If so, wouldn't it make sense to only grind with him/her with your highest levelled job?

d) Does your Chocobo gain XP from FATEs/quests? (probably not but what the hell I'll ask anyway)

3. Can you change your Chocobo's name?

1) You just answered yourself.

2a) We assume it's 10 because the achievement stops there and it would max out only one tree (or 9+4, or 9+3+2, etc).

2b) We dunno yet because we're unsure of their AI when they have certain moves. Need to see the whole picture and frankly this dumb chicken takes a LOT of grinding to level up. I can tell you that Healer is probably garbage both as a focus and something to go hybrid with.

2c) You see how much it earns with every kill. It's shown as "You gain whatever XP" twice and the second value should not have any modifiers.

2d) No. Only kills from mobs you (or your party) has claimed) will give it XP. So technically if you had it with you in a full party in a FATE it would probably get a good chunk. But it takes up a party member slot.

3) Talk to chocobo NPCs at Grid/Limsa/Uldah.

[Zzsark]

I think getting a party of 4 (8 with chocobos out) and finding the highest level mobs you can kill quickly(not that any open world trash takes long to kill) to grind out together will be the best way to rank up your chocobo.

[Berabouman]

1) I guess I just discovered my newest gold sink...Gysahl Greens!

2b) So you can't get more than 1 tree to max rank? Bummer.

2c) So highest rank class then. Maybe farming at 50 will help your chocobo, unless of course it stops gaining experience when you do.

[Seravi Edalborez]

It will still gain exp even if you don't.

[Berabouman]

New chocobo question : which tree? Healer doesn't seem to be very useful, and I rarely need heals when soloing anyway. Between tank or DPS, which do you think is more useful in general?

[Seravi Edalborez]

This is based on extremely limited testing with my Defender 1 / Attacker 3 / Healer 1 chocobo.

1st skill for Def/Atk has same potency but Def's gets more enmity and is typically used more often and earlier in a fight. This makes me strongly consider a 9Atk/4Def choco in free stance (Def 4 skill is damage + slow, missing out on Atk 10 is just some AoE). Chocobo isn't a fantastic tank imo because you have to engage first to make it attack, there isn't much worth having it tank, and changing targets with it is a pain. But it will try to spam Choco Drop if it doesn't have hate, it seems.

But Healer tree is pretty garbage in any case. Makes it sit back, not attack at all, and spam its pretty bad heals. It's like having SCH's fairy take up a party member slot and also sucking.

[Ezek]

Necro time. Anyone know of good places to solo grind your chocobo during downtime? I'm bored enough to actually want to level mine up to 10.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I'd say beastmen forts since they have a ton of mobs, Natalan might be best. Generally anywhere that has a ton of mobs your level. Ixali Logging Grounds in North Shroud might be good also.

Kind of conjecture on my part though as I've not been motivated enough to go past rank 4.

[Berabouman]

Yeah I got bored at Rank 4 myself. Hopefully in the next few updates we'll see some interesting additions chocobo-wise.

[Ezek]

Cool - thanks, will check those out.

[Deadgye]

But Healer tree is pretty garbage in any case. Makes it sit back, not attack at all, and spam its pretty bad heals. It's like having SCH's fairy take up a party member slot and also sucking.

Meh. I very much like the healer tree at least until level 4.

[Seravi Edalborez]

If you only had it invested in healer it might not be bad, since I'm guessing it will still attack in Free Stance (really Healer Stance forcing it to stay back is what I hate; I'd rather each stance or ability to have an on/off toggle personally) Problem is that I went dumb and mine has 1 in everything so I can't turn off choco regen without also turning off one of slash/drop.

I believe a respec option is in the works after much OF whining, so there's that.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Yeah the current OF whine is because people want their barding to match their own job instead of the choco's job and they want more job bardings for the missing jobs that they have yet to add barding for. I figure its early and stuff will be added plus the respec like you said, will also be added later.

[Kachiko]

Choco will use any skill, in Free stance, so it will do normal attacks and heal you, if you've gone the Healer route. For a DPS class, Healer basically lets you fight non-stop, and the better your gear, the better healing synergies with you. ATM, I see no reason to take Healer past Rank 7 (rank 4 is already sufficient with full DL and Relic +1) and zero reason to put ranks into Defender as any class, san maybe WHM, should keep constant agro on any world mob; even then, you'd want to kill faster as you can cover any helaing.

If they expand World content to include harder mobs, maybe Defender would come in handy, but as is, Killing Speed and Healing are the most powerful options. Unfortunately, ranking up is a god-awful chore, even farming the lvl 50 mobs outside CoB entrance, and there's really no good reason to right now.

[Darth-Banana]

I can't link yet, but on the ffxiv subreddit, there is a post about Chocobos getting a barding if you spec all your points into one tree, and get them to reach rank 10. The picture shown, shows the chocobo wearing a white mage barding (so healer tree)

EDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...chocobo_armor/
Here's the reddit link

[Seravi Edalborez]

ATM, I see no reason to take Healer past Rank 7 (rank 4 is already sufficient with full DL and Relic +1) and zero reason to put ranks into Defender as any class

As I mentioned way back ago in this thread, to me it -felt- like choco used Drop (defender1) much more often than Slash (attacker1) when I had both available for selection. Presumably in an effort to pull hate off me (unsuccessfully). And since it has equal potency with Slash and is no worse off statistically for being "tank" instead of "DPS" (that we know of), I'd honestly go with Defender 6 for an actual DPS build. Ideal hybrid might be like Healer7 or 4 / Defender 6 / rest in Attacker just because. Course that'd deny you the capstone barding as mentioned above.

[PewPew]

Im sure they will improve more on this later on down the road, an auto dismount when you use an action or talk to an npc would be awesome~ And the ability to mount it once it was summoned without dismissing it would be a plus~

[spider123]

The chocobo benefits from your own EXP Chains, so grinding it out at 50 is actually the least effective way of doing it since you can't receive chains.

[Korialstrasz]

The chocobo benefits from your own EXP Chains, so grinding it out at 50 is actually the least effective way of doing it since you can't receive chains.

I'd imagine there comes a point though when you're so geared at 50 that your kill speed should outweigh the loss of an exp chain.