Say NO to Rent a chocobo and yes to buying permanent one

it isn't a painful grind to spend 10 minutes every day or so to take your baby choco for a walk. IT ISN'T. Heck even if you miss a day or two it isn't the end of the world.

If you think that spending 10 minutes a day (MAX) raising your choco is so heartbreakingly hard - you DO need to find a different game. It isn't even remotely difficult.

Also - the thing that I think is awesome about it - is the more effort you put in - the more reward you get out of it. So people who put more effort in get a better chocobo. I like that a lot. If you don't want to put the effort in - go and rent one - and for christ's sake chocos don't even seem like they are really needed anymore.

The one thing I would say though -is they should make it way cheaper - if not free to use your whistle.

I think the fact they put in Care-Schedules make it a lot easier than it sounds. Now that i think about it.

You do only technically need to interact enough to Read it a Story (learn Abilities), Feed it, and an ocassional walk. Everything else can be taken care of through "Care Schedules", which can be set for what, up to like, 20 days?

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Originally Posted by Karbuncle

I think the fact they put in Care-Schedules make it a lot easier than it sounds. Now that i think about it.

You do only technically need to interact enough to Read it a Story (learn Abilities), Feed it, and an ocassional walk. Everything else can be taken care of through "Care Schedules", which can be set for what, up to like, 20 days?

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You can do 4 care regimens for up to a week each, I think. Three at the very least.

I went away this weekend and of course couldn't log in... I was worried about my baby chocobo - but it's affection level actually went UP while I was away.

If you don't go and feed it you will miss out on stats and if you don't read it stories it won't learn the abilities - but if you're desperate for an easy choco without work you can buy high quality cards with a decent chance that the offspring will automatically learn an ability, I believe.

But really, the "work" is minimal. It isn't even a time sink imo - no more than having to walk up to an AH instead of buying armor from your menu is a time sink.

ummm..you can already do that.....it's called getting a chocobo egg...raising it..and getting your own whistle! you only have to pay 10k per 25 uses which is easy to make now at days. not that hard to do....ooorr...you could just go back to wow....

It's been a while since I bred my chocobo, but as far as i can remember, it wasn't hard or time consuming at all. the only thing I dislike about it is charges on the chocobo whistle.

When I played WoW and got one of those normal mounts, the only thing I thought was better about them was how quick it was to summon them

Also, I think the "go back to WoW" comments are pretty pointless. He pays for the game too, and his opinions or ideas aren't inherently bad because he used to play WoW. There are many things in WoW that I think FF11 could learn from, though this isn't one of them.

I keep reading the comments and chuckling to myself... It isn't a timesink... If you know what you're doing! Lol

Me?? I ended up with a stoopid, slow choco who can't dig a hole with out using greens! Ok the servers going down didn't help but I can see the attraction to buying a pre-raised choco same as you can choose to buy HQ gear rather than skilling up a craft.

AFAIK no choco digs without using greens unless you are doing the hot and cold game (I don't think hot and cold game needs greens but I could be wrong)

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Originally Posted by slakyak

I keep reading the comments and chuckling to myself... It isn't a timesink... If you know what you're doing! Lol

Me?? I ended up with a stoopid, slow choco who can't dig a hole with out using greens! Ok the servers going down didn't help but I can see the attraction to buying a pre-raised choco same as you can choose to buy HQ gear rather than skilling up a craft.

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Yeah the servers being down was a big blow for you - if that hadn't happened your choco would be in much better shape.

That said - there is a max amount of time per day you can spend training your choco - right now in the baby stage that is like 10 mins for me. I hardly see that as a time sink.

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Originally Posted by Olor

AFAIK no choco digs without using greens unless you are doing the hot and cold game (I don't think hot and cold game needs greens but I could be wrong)

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Really? I figured the abilities 'bore' and 'dig' meant that you could dig for stuff whenever you felt like it.

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Originally Posted by slakyak

Really? I figured the abilities 'bore' and 'dig' meant that you could dig for stuff whenever you felt like it.

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Bore and Burrow actually!

And i think they Increase Dig succes (?) and the Variety of Items you're able to dig up.

Some of the items dug up that require Bore/Burrow are actually quite nice.