The Chocobo Thread! My R20 Chocobo out-DPS' pugs

[Korialstrasz]

If you only have one battle log and you filter auto-attack damage from it, ACT won't be able to use it.

Ahh ok. It was picking up everything else minus that with everything filtered in game, so I didn't think to even try changing that to see if it would do anything. Thanks for the heads up! Time to go parse some chocobo damage.

[Korialstrasz]

R19, no food or outside buffs/debuffs, but with 3 targets in range of the aoe which turns out to be pretty huge.

Attacker:


Defender:


Skill layout:

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Aoe size:

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[Cutriss]

It's worth noting that chocos don't use skills intelligently, even when confined to a single stance (shocker, I know).

Not going to say this isn't the case, but they do use Stun at the correct time at least, so that is helpful.

[Niiro]

I didn't unlock the stun skill on mine so I don't have any first hand experience, but are you sure that's not just blind luck?

Chocos seem to have their own GCD of some kind, as far as I can tell they use one of their available skills at regularly spaced intervals.

[Cutriss]

I didn't unlock the stun skill on mine so I don't have any first hand experience, but are you sure that's not just blind luck?

It's very repeatable blind luck if so. The bird will frequently beat me to stuns.

[Raldo]

I've seen it do timely stuns as well. I'm pretty sure Selene will also do the same with Silence (though I haven't played SCH in a while). Can't speak for Ifrit on stuns though, never on SMN.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Ifrit will Stun randomly. Since trash mobs have set rotations it's very possible that choco-stun is just meeting them at the same point, possibly.

[Cutriss]

Ifrit will Stun randomly. Since trash mobs have set rotations it's very possible that choco-stun is just meeting them at the same point, possibly.

If that was the case, then fighting multiple mobs at once would derail the alignment.

It doesn't.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Confirmed: bird is smarter than essence of elemental god.

[The47thSen]

While spiritbinding out in the Sahagin areas, my bird always uses the stun as the first attack, thus trapping that particular mob in place and screwing up my bane placement. I don't think I've ever seen it stun the aoe silence the sahagins use, but that's probably because I have them all aggroed at once and its AI is confused?

It seems slightly more intelligent when doing solo mobs like those from maps.

[Niiro]

The presence of multiple mobs shouldn't have any effect on how it behaves, it attacks the one you most recently attacked until it's dead.

[Cutriss]

The presence of multiple mobs shouldn't have any effect on how it behaves, it attacks the one you most recently attacked until it's dead.

If each mob has a fixed attack sequence, and your bird also has a fixed attack sequence (IE - Choco Rush every 45 seconds), then he would be synchronized to the first mob that you attacked, but *not* the additional mobs.

[Seravi Edalborez]

If bird is like summon though...

-Mob dies
-Bird goes back to master's side
-OH MASTER HIT SOMETHING
-Begin rotation

[Niiro]

They don't have a rotation tho, every n seconds they pick one of their available skills and use it.

[Korialstrasz]

I think I fed it too many krakka roots:

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[Shaano]

Jumped on the spamming Krakka roots wagon after feeding it's first onion. Spend most of my time crafting so once an hour to just stop the craft and feed is pretty simple. These the cheapest/best route to go?

[Ayer]

Cheapest yes, but Curiel might be best? (I only use krakka because they're 1/10th the price).

[Korialstrasz]

Curiel won't affect exp gain when fed in the stables. Everything is the same value, whether it be a krakka root, curiel, or even an onion. If training 100% via the stables krakka spam is definitely the way to go. Try to get a friend to also feed or use an alt so you can feed twice per hour.

[Shaano]

Oh hmm might have to make 6 other alts to shove carrots down it's throat

[Korialstrasz]

The "other person" timer is shared amongst everyone, so you're still stuck with only 2 feeds per hour max. For what it's worth, it took me around 1500 krakka root to go from 10-20, minus however many a couple challenge logs saved me.