Current chocobos and raising

I have a feeling we'll see a lot of people "solo'ing in trio" when ARR launches, with their fightning Chocobo and that little blue mythical creature.

I'd rather it be it's own "Chocobo Knight" Class, or even just a BST that has other pet access too.

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Originally Posted by Vingtdeux

I have a feeling we'll see a lot of people "solo'ing in trio" when ARR launches, with their fightning Chocobo and that little blue mythical creature.

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Won't be available at launch, Yoshi said chocobo stables in residential houses won't be patched in for a while. Seeing as all talks of personal fighting chocobo's has seemed to tie into raising them it's pretty safe to say we won't have the feature till we get stables.

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Originally Posted by TimonLoon

My biggest question in regards to Chocobos is whether or not color is going to be tied to their classes/jobs...

Tank = Red/White
Nuker = Black
Healer = Green
Melee = Red/Blue

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Well he said only tank, caster or healer chocobos, I didn't read or hear any news that there was gonna be a melee chocobo. And I wouldn't want the chocobo system to be like that, I'd rather the chocobo color end up being the color you want it to be, not because of what 'type' of role you want it to be. :p

A curious thing to note is that I've observed - and this is simply an observation - that my friend's chocobo typically gets lamed on the first hit from even relatively low-level monsters (r46 when she's 50, for example) whereas my husband's chocobo, Ponce, gets lamed about 50% of the time. Mine, on the other hand, very rarely gets lamed. I think it's happened a total of 10 times, and this includes a few parties where I was the puller in Natalan.

I'm not saying that there's some underlying chocobo class already in effect now, but it really is curious to me that there's such a vast difference between our three chocobos.

I'm thinking maybe our current choco will purely be a mount. I wouldn't mind that too much though. I'd like a whole flock of chocobo!

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Originally Posted by Kory

A curious thing to note is that I've observed - and this is simply an observation - that my friend's chocobo typically gets lamed on the first hit from even relatively low-level monsters (r46 when she's 50, for example) whereas my husband's chocobo, Ponce, gets lamed about 50% of the time. Mine, on the other hand, very rarely gets lamed. I think it's happened a total of 10 times, and this includes a few parties where I was the puller in Natalan.

I'm not saying that there's some underlying chocobo class already in effect now, but it really is curious to me that there's such a vast difference between our three chocobos.

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That is interesting, but could just be coincidence. My own choco rarely gets lamed. It mostly gets lamed only when we've been hit to the point that I'm taking serious damage.

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Originally Posted by Punainen

That is interesting, but could just be coincidence. My own choco rarely gets lamed. It mostly gets lamed only when we've been hit to the point that I'm taking serious damage.

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Lamed? Sorry if I don't know much FFXIV lingo yet. :p

Imagine it will be similiar to choco raising in XI, but what you do and how you train will effect its abilities. IT will be a seperate choco fro mthe rgular you get and currently have.

Chocobos are meant to be npcs to help you fill party spots and help you while soloing, so they will be available to everyone.

I hope, if the chocobo job type is based on breeding, that we get some kind of way to pick which one we want for the one we've been using until now.