Chocobo Companion AI is Awful

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Originally Posted by DSN

Would be nice if they didn't push mobs around and cause them to be re-position esp when you have abilities that are based on your position to the mob.

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Right? it's especially terrible when they're in healer stance. @_@

Choco medica on those things is embarrassingly bad. Mine would alternate choco surge and medica and watch me die a quick death while he tries to clutch heal us with his 200 potency medica when he should be just curing :p

Would be great if you could place them like a pet.

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Originally Posted by Its_Elodie

Choco medica on those things is embarrassingly bad

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Our FC has someone in it that got his to 20, maxed all 3 trees for all 3 bardings, and then instantly used a pepper to drop healer down to rank 9 so it wouldn't use medica ever again. It's not just inefficient; it will use it for single target, which is just downright awful.

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Originally Posted by Theplatter

I swear when SE introduced the choco companion system, they mentioned that the chocobo would be controlled through "gambits"; I was hoping this would be similar to the system used in FFXII as opposed to the simplistic mess they have now.

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That's going to be for the Magitek Armor companions everyone keeps forgetting about.

Uh.. Actually there is nothing wrong with the AI.

A Chocobo has a "Bird Brain". If they get any smarter, they would be replacing Roegadyn as a PC playable race, making Roegadyn as the game's over-glorified transport mule.

Don't forget the way chocobos react on those leves where you have to /soothe something to pacify it. I always put it on healer mode because it's screwed me a few times on ones where one death means failure.

It's really stupid this chocobo AI but if it were any better it'd be pretty strong. It already lets me solo fate bosses with my healer spec chocobo.

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Originally Posted by Its_Elodie

Choco medica on those things is embarrassingly bad. Mine would alternate choco surge and medica and watch me die a quick death while he tries to clutch heal us with his 200 potency medica when he should be just curing :p

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That's why DPS is the only thing they can do, somewhat "decently". I never ever trust healing or tanking to AI, if you trust an important task to an AI you are always going to be disappointed.

While I agree with everything the OP said, especially about being able to use them while in queue, I found it really funny that it is a list of how horrible they are followed by a request to be allowed to use these awful things more:)