Chocobo 2.0

I'm hoping we dont have cool down times on our companions. I never used my companion to help me level up I fought monsters to level her up and watch her progress in gaining new skills, change gear, and do skillchains with.

Screw Chocobo, we need Goobbue breeding, barding, racing and fighting.

I hope it's a special job because in a party of 6 people with 6 chocobos that sound just super messy.
A special class/job that would allow to fight with your chocobo and breed them to go quicker, dig stuff, access zone could be cool

Even if there was a timer, I don't think I would mind as much as I did in XI.
Firstly, we have chocobo breeding (meaning we can have more than 1 chocobo), unlike our companion where we only have one.
This means that even if there was a cooldown timer, after a while we will be able to switch between chocobos and moreso switch chocobos depending on what we're doing.

Some examples:
If you are a gatherer: you can raise multiple storage chocobos, when one is full you switch to the next.
If you are solo fighting: you can raise a healer for when you do melee and when that runs out you might have a tank choco raised and you can switch to a support class or mage.

TLDR: We can raise multiple chocobos. The cooldown won't be as bad once you have 2+ chocobos.

This is all of course assuming that you can summon any of the chocos you have and not just one.

My fear is that it'll take a full month of adamant tapping enter before finding out a have a plain old yellow chocobo instead of the damned red one that I NEVER get. EVER

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Originally Posted by AreeSoothsayer

Got a few more replies then I expected but yes. I do not want the chocobo to be limited in such a way.

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I don't think it will have a FFXI-stye cooldown. This is Naoki Yoshida content, not Hiromichi Tanaka content. In general, Yoshida lets you do what you want when you want.

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Originally Posted by Felis

permanent. until you want it to ride. It can't fight while you ride it.

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Seems like a missed opportunity that I can't run over/stomp a chigoe =/

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Originally Posted by Seif

Seems like a missed opportunity that I can't run over/stomp a chigoe =/

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What if a chocobo stomp counts as a weaponskill? You and your chocobo would be eating SO MUCH POISON! D:

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

I hope it's a special job because in a party of 6 people with 6 chocobos that sound just super messy.
A special class/job that would allow to fight with your chocobo and breed them to go quicker, dig stuff, access zone could be cool

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In a party of 6 people only 2 can summon their chocobo (6+2=8).

Pretty sure they said the Chocobos will count as a party member. Going off this I assume there will not be a cooldown since chocobos will be less ideal than having actual players in the group. Say 4 guys summon their chocos, thats a full 8 man party. But they would be more efficient if the other 4 spots were actually real players. Thus, it probably will not have a cooldown.

Am I the only one not thrilled for a combat chocobo as a companion?

I mean I sure love riding chocobos, but in battle, I'd rather have a hot elvaan female backing me up than a bird.