Rank 10 Chocobo Barding

rank 9 requires 900k exp, rank 10 are 1.2 mil, rank 11 are 2 mil, for having all jobs at 10 you need atleast rank 18

it will be funny

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

During the recent Letter from the Producer LIVE XV, the new chocobo raising system was touched on a bit. You’ll be happy to know that by increasing the rank cap of your companion you’ll be able to allocate more skill points, and if you boost another role to rank 10 you’ll be able to obtain the specialized barding as well.

Also, we will be implementing means to reallocate your points so you can obtain other companion role barding in this way as well; however, you’ll have to break the rank cap and be a high enough rank to do this.

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While I'm happy about the system(rank 10 dps here) I'm disappointed in the choice of name. It left my whole FC looking forward to breeding and raising chocobos. The announcement left us disappointed even though it is a nice feature. Advanced chocobo training would have been a more appropriate name.

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Originally Posted by lordoftheapes79

While I'm happy about the system(rank 10 dps here) I'm disappointed in the choice of name. It left my whole FC looking forward to breeding and raising chocobos. The announcement left us disappointed even though it is a nice feature. Advanced chocobo training would have been a more appropriate name.

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They are not done with that system, for now it will be just training/raising, but we will be able to breed new chocobos later on, probably during/after gold saucer.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

During the recent Letter from the Producer LIVE XV, the new chocobo raising system was touched on a bit. You’ll be happy to know that by increasing the rank cap of your companion you’ll be able to allocate more skill points, and if you boost another role to rank 10 you’ll be able to obtain the specialized barding as well.

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Is there also new skills and a new Chocobo AF2 barding set if the Chocobo reach the new max. on 1 role? ^^

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Originally Posted by Richiealvian

It's like 10 times faster now already with the challenge log! Why does it have to be nerfed more :(

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With the challenge log, you get maybe 16% of a level per week. That's not really fast.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Please implement daily companion quests to greatly speed up leveling this thing. It's way too slow.

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For the love of Hydalin, please do this! The grind to lvl your chocobo is simply insane.

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Originally Posted by Gokuhan

For the love of Hydalin, please do this! The grind to lvl your chocobo is simply insane.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

With the challenge log, you get maybe 16% of a level per week. That's not really fast.

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I'm fine with how it is now. I'm leveling other classes and in-between fates, I grind on enemies I can chain and at level 45 can easily get 40k an hour for my choco. So 18 hours of grinding for Rank 7/8 maybe 20 for 9. That is not including the challenge log. Not really that onerous. If you just did a couple hours a day you can do a rank every week. Do you want to get to Rank 10 in one week or less?

You get 15% a week, meaning you have to do far less work than people used to have, it's a very quick (15 min?) ish to get very high amounts of XP.
People did get rank 10 chocobos at 2.0.
I don't have mine yet, and I still think that it's a very massive upgrade. Unless you think it should be easily finished within a few days, then I dunno man.

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Originally Posted by Richiealvian

You get 15% a week, meaning you have to do far less work than people used to have, it's a very quick (15 min?) ish to get very high amounts of XP.
People did get rank 10 chocobos at 2.0.
I don't have mine yet, and I still think that it's a very massive upgrade. Unless you think it should be easily finished within a few days, then I dunno man.

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If it was 15% per day then you would have a point but per week? If you just did the 15% every week then it'd take over a year to reach level 10.

And the exp isn't really that high. You can get 1500 chocobo EXP every 5 minutes or so.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

If it was 15% per day then you would have a point but per week? If you just did the 15% every week then it'd take over a year to reach level 10.

And the exp isn't really that high. You can get 1500 chocobo EXP every 5 minutes or so.

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Well at mob level 45-47 (Amalj'aa) you get 215 per kill, so thats ~7 (Over due to partial experience not awared) for 1500, so you can break the 5 minute mark but after about an hour of 7 a time at 3mins or under you will have 30000 choco xp gained...So I am sure you sanity will start to teeter the same way it does with atma farming.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Is there also new skills and a new Chocobo AF2 barding set if the Chocobo reach the new max. on 1 role? ^^

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there are no new skills or bardings, you'll just be able to max out all 3 trees to get all 3 bardings

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

there are no new skills or bardings, you'll just be able to max out all 3 trees to get all 3 bardings

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Which is very nice ^^

New max perhaps later with a lvl cap raise? maybe.

Until they don't allow them to be a real companion, like a bear for a Ranger or the Egis, I don't see much of a point to just have them around even in the outfield, since when you fate party, you have to let go of them for another player, which is fine but defeats it's purpose a bit.

So for soloers it's very handy. Otherwise..

And I'm ok with the xp boost we get from the challenge log now. I'll be hitting Rank 9 tomorrow, worked less hard than others from 2.0, but I wonder if all their classes are maxed (19)

To each their own fun I guess ^^

Excited about the color change: afraid there will be lot's of black ones, but hey, need to suit my name and dark theme muhahahaha!

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Originally Posted by KingOfAbyss

Thank you Camate!

Those are facts ^^

*Still not sure if once a barding is unlocked and we reallocate our points to unlock another barding, if we can we still use the previous one?

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Greetings,

In order to receive your first set of barding for your companion, you only need to reach rank 10. So if you have yet to receive your first set of barding, you can reallocate your points to the one you wish to obtain and then go retrieve it. However, to receive the second set of barding onward you will have to break the rank cap.

And yes, you'll be able to use all the barding you obtain. :)

Also, as another small tidbit, the item needed to reset your companion’s skill points can be obtained using grand company seals and through other means.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

In order to receive your first set of barding for your companion, you only need to reach rank 10. So if you have yet to receive your first set of barding, you can reallocate your points to the one you wish to obtain and then go retrieve it. However, to receive the second set of barding onward you will have to break the rank cap.

And yes, you'll be able to use all the barding you obtain. :)

Also, as another small tidbit, the item needed to reset your companion’s skill points can be obtained using grand company seals and through other means.

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That's great.

Now let's see how long it takes to reach max rank now :P

Camate's info is way more user friendly than I originally thought it would be! I thought for sure that they would hold off on respec, and even drop it, in favor of raising a second chocobo from rank 0. Each time you wanted a piece of barding, you would have to get a new chocobo (either bred or bought when chocobo raising patch comes out) to rank 10. That means for those that originally opted for a hybrid path, they would have to rank up 3 other chocobos from rank 0-10.

Given SE's history for favor of "longevity" in the game, this sounded like the most logical option, but grats from learning their mistakes and listening to the playerbase! I know many people would rather try and farm 9 atma relic weapons than level up 3 separate chocobos from rank 0, even if you CAN measure their rank progress. XD

lol, expect the worst and you won't be disappointed, though I'm sure there will still be complaints about not enough ways to level your chocobo (need choco dungeon) or the grind from 10 to 11 is mind numbing.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

In order to receive your first set of barding for your companion, you only need to reach rank 10. So if you have yet to receive your first set of barding, you can reallocate your points to the one you wish to obtain and then go retrieve it. However, to receive the second set of barding onward you will have to break the rank cap.

And yes, you'll be able to use all the barding you obtain. :)

Also, as another small tidbit, the item needed to reset your companion’s skill points can be obtained using grand company seals and through other means.

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Sugoi! Once again Camate, you go the extra mile answering us.

Very much appreciated.

so my speculations were true, very happy ^^

Rank 9 now, should be ready to break the cap soon! Hehehe

Let's have fun folks!

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Originally Posted by ruinedmirage

I know many people would rather try and farm 9 atma relic weapons than level up 3 separate chocobos from rank 0, even if you CAN measure their rank progress. XD

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For all we know, we'll have to grind the choco to 30 to unlock everything. Leveling a choco is horribly boring.

And it may be off topic, but while in Healer stance, the chocobo has a tendency to want to be as close to you as possible and this causes it to be hit by frontal cone attacks constantly. I know they take less AoE damage, but the fact that I can't even maneuver the mob between me and the choco to put the choco at the rear of the mob without the choco racing around to be near me is very annoying.

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Originally Posted by Gokuhan

For all we know, we'll have to grind the choco to 30 to unlock everything. Leveling a choco is horribly boring.

And it may be off topic, but while in Healer stance, the chocobo has a tendency to want to be as close to you as possible and this causes it to be hit by frontal cone attacks constantly. I know they take less AoE damage, but the fact that I can't even maneuver the mob between me and the choco to put the choco at the rear of the mob without the choco racing around to be near me is very annoying.

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Why can't we have the pet commands for the chocobo? guard, heel, stay, steady place, sic and obey.

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Originally Posted by Sakasa

Well at mob level 45-47 (Amalj'aa) you get 215 per kill, so thats ~7 (Over due to partial experience not awared) for 1500, so you can break the 5 minute mark but after about an hour of 7 a time at 3mins or under you will have 30000 choco xp gained...So I am sure you sanity will start to teeter the same way it does with atma farming.

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I haven't specifically done any farming to level my Chocobo at all and he is about 35% of the way to Rank 10 from 9. I've just made sure to always use my Chocobo whenever I'm doing ANYTHING in the open world, such as Beastmen Quests, Treasure Maps, etc.

Sure it's a lot of XP, but I don't think it needs nerfing.

I'm just glad they're finally allowing us to respec - Still regretting that one Attack Skill on my Healer Choco XD

Sucks this is behind a ginormous pay wall. The only FC houses left on Excalibur are FIFTY EIGHT MILLION GIL.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Why can't we have the pet commands for the chocobo? guard, heel, stay, steady place, sic and obey.

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A "stand here" command is all what it need. Obey would be worthless, because you can't activate the choco skills yourself.
The problem with healer stance is that the chocobo don't have a target and because of that it is in the "follow me" mode.

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Originally Posted by Doki

Sucks this is behind a ginormous pay wall. The only FC houses left on Excalibur are FIFTY EIGHT MILLION GIL.

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Choco respec cost only seals.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Obey would be worthless, because you can't activate the choco skills yourself.

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they could change that to allow us use them and to drag and drop the skills we want used most to hotbars like we can with pets.
or heck they could even make a companion hotbar like the pet hotbar.
not sure how hard it would be but somehow I doubt it would be terribly difficult.

Regarding Chocobo barding there is a set # limit to how many you can have tho. And you cannot remove any of them once you obtain them. So either SE has a set # of bardings they plan to make or people are going to have to sacrifice not getting certain bardings when cap is reached or SE will have to increase the cap # of bardings you can have.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

During the recent Letter from the Producer LIVE XV, the new chocobo raising system was touched on a bit. You’ll be happy to know that by increasing the rank cap of your companion you’ll be able to allocate more skill points, and if you boost another role to rank 10 you’ll be able to obtain the specialized barding as well.

Also, we will be implementing means to reallocate your points so you can obtain other companion role barding in this way as well; however, you’ll have to break the rank cap and be a high enough rank to do this.

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This is amazing news. I want the whm barding so bad yay !

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Originally Posted by LukeyP666

I haven't specifically done any farming to level my Chocobo at all and he is about 35% of the way to Rank 10 from 9. I've just made sure to always use my Chocobo whenever I'm doing ANYTHING in the open world, such as Beastmen Quests, Treasure Maps, etc.

Sure it's a lot of XP, but I don't think it needs nerfing.

I'm just glad they're finally allowing us to respec - Still regretting that one Attack Skill on my Healer Choco XD

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Wasn't really saying it needed one just realistic numbers. I try to have my choco out but I'm in que alot specially during beastmen quests and when I am not qued up I am usually crafting/gathering so I would actually have to devote some time to it, but if I am doing fate grinds or hunting logs I have it out.

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Originally Posted by Malakai

Regarding Chocobo barding there is a set # limit to how many you can have tho. And you cannot remove any of them once you obtain them. So either SE has a set # of bardings they plan to make or people are going to have to sacrifice not getting certain bardings when cap is reached or SE will have to increase the cap # of bardings you can have.

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Does anyone have any additional information on this? What is the maximum number of allowed bardings?

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Originally Posted by Viaeus

Does anyone have any additional information on this? What is the maximum number of allowed bardings?

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^^^ This. I'd like to obtain all 3 sets of barding, is this possible?

Edit: Specifically the rank 10 bardings.

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Originally Posted by Nekani

^^^ This. I'd like to obtain all 3 sets of barding, is this possible?

Edit: Specifically the rank 10 bardings.

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In 2.3 they updated the companion interface to show the barding limit. The maximum is 50.

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Originally Posted by Nekani

^^^ This. I'd like to obtain all 3 sets of barding, is this possible?

Edit: Specifically the rank 10 bardings.

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it is possible once you have all the skills in all 3 skill trees provided you have not reached the barding limit of 50

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Originally Posted by Wildsprite

it is possible once you have all the skills in all 3 skill trees provided you have not reached the barding limit of 50

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So just to clarify - If I allocated all my points into Tank and obtained the Paladin Barding and then reallocated my points into full attacker (still rank 10), I will not obtain the Dragoon Barding until my Chocobo is rank 20?

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So just to clarify - If I allocated all my points into Tank and obtained the Paladin Barding and then reallocated my points into full attacker (still rank 10), I will not obtain the Dragoon Barding until my Chocobo is rank 20?

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No idea if rank 20 specifically is required, but you definitely can't do it at rank 10 capped. It's possible all you need to do is give it that Thavnairian onion to uncap it, but I wouldn't know because no onions have even sold yet on my server.

So the item only resets the skill points and not thr chocbo's actual level? Im at rank 9 healer with 400k exp to go till 10 and i dont want to have to start at 0 exp rank 9.

It resets your skills, not your level.

ty for the answer. Now I can get my tank barding to match my tank job

I plan to reach 10 healer to unlock the barding then reset the last 10 points into dps since I've heard the chocobo AI is terrible with medica.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

I plan to reach 10 healer to unlock the barding then reset the last 10 points into dps since I've heard the chocobo AI is terrible with medica.

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If you have your chocobo in free stance then yes.
If your chocobo is in Healer stance then it's fairly good, like a somewhat weaker Eos fairy.

Never died once to any treasure map, hunt, odin since I've put my chocobo to full Healer.
My chocobo is rank 8 atm.

When I'm hunting maps as a bard, my chocobo in healer stance keeps me alive very well, even though he is only rank 4 healer (got cure). And when I used to solo boss fates for atma as a healer, he would keep enmity pretty well in a tank stance (rank 7). Currently up to rank 9 tank. Can't wait to get Thavnairian onion!

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Originally Posted by Nekani

So just to clarify - If I allocated all my points into Tank and obtained the Paladin Barding and then reallocated my points into full attacker (still rank 10), I will not obtain the Dragoon Barding until my Chocobo is rank 20?

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it's my understanding from one of the duty commenced or a live letter that if you reallocate your points you lose the Paladin barding and gain the Dragoon barding in such a case. personally I think it's just more worth it to use the Thavnarian Onions to get the choco rank to 20 48k GC points is a lot of GC that could go toward something else

Any info about the breaking rank cap conditions for alternate barding?

I am in the process of leveling my choco from rank 10 to rank 11, and want to know what it will take to earn the other 2 barding choices.

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Originally Posted by Wildsprite

it's my understanding from one of the duty commenced or a live letter that if you reallocate your points you lose the Paladin barding and gain the Dragoon barding in such a case. personally I think it's just more worth it to use the Thavnarian Onions to get the choco rank to 20 48k GC points is a lot of GC that could go toward something else

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Getting 48k seals is way faster and easier than getting an onion