Please fix Healer Chocobo's priorities

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

No, not necessarily. You're really underestimating just how much of a delay Choco Surge adds.

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Maybe. It's just that my Chocobo is rank 20 and at level 70 his unbuffed Choco Cure only recovers about 5500 HP on average. If my health were already low enough for two auto-attacks (and maybe another special attack) to kill me within the span of a few seconds, I'm probably donion rings anyway. I'm sure there are a few instances where the Chocobo deciding between Surge and Cure could mean the difference between life and death, like against a single mob that's a few hits from death itself, but in a situation where I'm already at death's door and I'm being hit by multiple mobs I'd probably still have died even if the Chocobo spam-healed me. The only difference healing would make is how long it would it would take for the mobs to put me into a million dollar dream.

That's just personal experience though, YMMV. I do wish you could command it to stand in specific places or at least to heel because it eats a ridiculous number of AoEs from trying to stick to me like a herpe sore when in Healer Stance. My guess is SE made it follow you so that you're always in range of its spells, but it seems like it defeats the purpose if it has to keep stopping to heal itself instead of you because it isn't smart enough to get out of dodge.

Also, I love doing things at level 70, having an HP threshold of 34k, but my chocobo waiting until I'm down to 10k HP or lower before using Choco Cure. When I could possibly be killed on the next hit (FATE bosses, hunts, et cetera). Compounded if Choco Surge wears off while being kept at that 10k threshold while a mob hits you for 6k to 9k and the Surged Cure only heals for 7k HP.

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Originally Posted by KrenianKandos

I get the idea that they want to buff themselves to give a better heal. But doing that at sub 50% is risking it.

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It's not as simple as choosing a percentage, since the rate at which your hp is dropping is a lot more meaningful than where it's at. There are lots of situations where being a bit under 50% means you have plenty of time before needing a heal, but by the time you do, it will need to be a big surge-buffed one. It's only when that's not the case, and your hp is dropping too rapidly, that an earlier cure would help. (But if your hp is dropping that fast, then you're out-matched, so the cure probably won't last long anyway.)

Thou I haven't used my Chocobo battle-wise in a long while (I think last time was when leveling AST in 3.3) but have known of it "lack" of... skill as healer, heal stance of otherwise, since 2.0 I just choose my fights carefully as a DPS with it (usually 2v1 in my favor) as without self sustain, lv'n healer, or high defence, lv'n tank, I will usually eather die or be damn near close if I try to kill 2+ regular mobs with it solo. Thou I do find it odd that its survival time rises fast when in free stance (& it knows Tank & DPS tree skills) but heal stance I haven't used for it since 2.0... since I swear its suicidal in that stance, but only less in another (less enouf that it lives long enouf to be usfull but is still damn crazy)

I would love to have the ability to toggle Companion abilities on and off, at an individual level. Or even better, allows us to trigger them as you would a pet.
I can't count the number of times my choco has been on freestyle, and used that aoe move to drag one or more other mobs into the fight, then it decides it wants to tank and promptly dies, leaving me with 2+ tagged mobs and 100% aggro.

I just want healer chocobos to not stand next to you all the time so they don't get cleaved by hunts.

I think the simplest fix for the choco surge thing is to make it off the GCD, this way Choco isn't wasting a global on it yet its following heals will benefit from the buff. Basically if it were off the gcd it wouldnt slow down choco's heals.

With all that said... I can't imagine anything I'm soloing being strong enough to kill me with choco healing me barring an overwhelming number of foes or one of those hunts or fates that aren't meant to be soloable at all.

My only real issue with healer choco is Choco Medica -_-

I just saw this comic today which also poke fun about the Chocobo AI. (Cheers to Lady Tisi for making all the awesome XIV comic! XD)

I'm supportive of the Chocobo AI getting changes/upgrades too. Increase our feather friend stats so they hit/heal/agro harder, game balance isn't that big an issue anyway since they are only deploy-able in the open world anyway, so why not? Allowing us to manually place our feather friend at a specific spot like we do with SMN/SCH pets is a big help too, especially for healer stance! Also, what happened to the Chocobo LB - Chocobo Meteor that was brought up before? T-T Maybe make it as a reward for a quest after our Chocobo hits level 10/20 maybe? >_<

Off topic: will like to raise a request to make the Chocobo Mask Dyeable and comes with a visor-toogle so we can reveal half our face like the one in Lady Tisi's comic please! XD

I must admit that I have had more problems (and more deaths) with my Healer chocobo when I'm on a DPS job than when I'm the healer and have my Tank chocobo tank or Attacker chocobo tank/DPS for me. The AI's priority of casting/using skill seems pretty wonky, to say the least.