Chocobo dyeing R&D Thread - Post your results here!

Can someone tell me how to get to Soot Black from Midnight Blue please?

Made a long message about how I got soot black, but I'm limited in characters :/ So here's a picture instead! Got it today:

http://i.imgur.com/8Nnpiiw.jpg

And the steps:

http://i.imgur.com/Aq3nwri.jpg

From Desert Yellow I gave him a lot of darkening fruits and I got Dalamud Red
then

Wine Red
http://i.imgur.com/HWYRCV2.jpg?1

then

Midnight Blu
http://i.imgur.com/kyjjM9f.jpg

I just gave him the last fruits I got from the 3 darkening seeds..

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Originally Posted by Tashigi

A better question is, what color is he aiming at?
He might need to move to the red or green side of the wheel depending on what he's aiming at, assuming his blue is capped (I am assuming this stuff caps eventually).

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He's going for soot black I think. But he's trying all the darkening fruits and getting no messages.

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Originally Posted by AkumaDoll

Can someone tell me how to get to Soot Black from Midnight Blue please?

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Here is my method
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...67#post2390967

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...76#post2391876

http://i.imgur.com/SUENg0C.jpg?1

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Originally Posted by Kahnom

Here is my method
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...67#post2390967

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...76#post2391876

http://i.imgur.com/SUENg0C.jpg?1

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Thank you very much! ^_^

Okay, I have another question. Any tips on how to go from Lotus pink to Snow white? (Asking for my husband, definitely not changing my own chocobo.) I'm pretty sure I seen someone post it at one point but I can't find the post anymore. Any help is appreciated.

Yay Soot Black. Started with 5 apples, 5 pears, 5 berries. Got Millioncorn Yellow 226/152/46 but wanted Soot black which is 37/35/30, so started bringing up the blue. Goal was to even the numbers, so I brought up the blue until about even with green, Then brought red down until the numbers were close.

Went from millioncorn yellow> ui brown> shale brown> goobbue grey 130/128/125,goal! Then equal amounts of apples, pears, and berries. Went Goobbue Grey> Slate grey> Loam brown 56/45/35. Fed one more apple, pear, and berry which dropped all numbers by about 5 points each, which I figured would be about 51/40/30. Then one more berry to bring blue up by 5 and red/green down by 5. Resulting in about 49/35/35. I figured each fruit to be about 5 points on average, based on that I think that each fruit is worth 3 to 6.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...014_192116.png

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Originally Posted by Squeak

My friend has been having a TON of trouble getting feather messages with fruit. He's at royal blue and has used at least 50 fruit trying to darken the color. Sometimes, when the fruit DOES proc, (as in, there's a feathers message) there's no cutscene of his choco when the timer's up. So there's no color change. What's going on here?

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THIS! I've fed my chocobo over 100 fruit with no color change procs occurring :( About 70 of those were attempts at darkening it from the dark blue I already have. Since those attempts, I've been trying to lighten it instead, in the case that maybe I did hit the very bottom of whatever scale this system uses. No luck with the 40+ lightening fruit I used either.

Is there some kind of a cool down perhaps? I haven't had a proc for color change in over a full 24 hours.

From what I was reading a few pages back, some people get stuck in a loop with that color and another (Royal Blue).
You might need to either Lighten some of the Blue and then take it in a different direction, or try darkening Green just a little (Maybe just 1 proc) to see if it steers you in a different direction of the wheel (Hopefully towards Ink Blue, which is closer to Soot Black).
IMO, though... I'd rather you take advice from someone who has broken that loop, before taking my advice.