Balmung Server (maybe XIV) First: Rank 20 Chocobo?

Grats! I shall be stalking you as well for a photo op.

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Originally Posted by Riardon

Playing a year and my chic is still rank 9. This thing feeds upon your soul to raise. Leveling the chocobo is pretty hardcore for me.

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If they ever raise the cap again I may cry. Little guy hits like a truck now though.

Grats to everyone who contributed to the raising of this fine bird. Thanksgiving is coming up, and I wonder how you'd feel about giving that fine animal to the Culinarians Guild? I hear they have plans to unveil a main dish called a turduckenbo, and only level 20 Chocobos will suffice :)

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Originally Posted by JTribal

Grats! I shall be stalking you as well for a photo op.

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I'll keep that in mind and be watching for you as well :P

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Originally Posted by DapvhirRysdan

Nope. No special barding. At least not yet. There's no achievement for it either.

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All the server/connection instabilities last night? That was the system trying to cope with a Rank 20 Chocobo. Infrastructure maintenance tonight has the added task of implementing adding the achievement, special barding, and a special choco color scheme just for this. It's happening waaay ahead of the scheduled timetable, datacenters are chaos over this.

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Originally Posted by Kinjin

All the server/connection instabilities last night? That was the system trying to cope with a Rank 20 Chocobo. Infrastructure maintenance tonight has the added task of implementing adding the achievement, special barding, and a special choco color scheme just for this. It's happening waaay ahead of the scheduled timetable, datacenters are chaos over this.

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Yep. That's exactly what happened. xD

Congrats!

How did you level it?

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Originally Posted by QuCont

Congrats!

How did you level it?

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Full parties whenever I was able to. Either Urth's gift by the water sprites, or where the Dark Devices fate spawns is the most effective. If you can get a full party to do it with you, you can do 3 quint-pulls where DD spawns, making each mob worth about 360-400 xp per kill.

Did you get your second barding at Rank 16 when your second tree was completely filled out? Or did you have to wait until Rank 20 to automatically obtain your second (and third) barding? I got the Healer barding at Rank 10 and would like to obtain the PLD barding at Rank 16 if possible (^_^)

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Originally Posted by Galactimus

Did you get your second barding at Rank 16 when your second tree was completely filled out? Or did you have to wait until Rank 20 to automatically obtain your second (and third) barding? I got the Healer barding at Rank 10 and would like to obtain the PLD barding at Rank 16 if possible (^_^)

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Yes, he got his second barding at Rank 16, appeared as soon as he allocated the points (I was in party with him at the time). Third barding was also instant, soon as he allocated the final points.

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Originally Posted by Kinjin

It was hellish, "keep the FC Choco exp buff up!" and "I need more curiel roots!" and so on. We're not your slaves!

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Nonsense all lalafells are slaves. Serious though, gz. Where did you spend your time leveling your chocobo and what class did you use?

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Originally Posted by 16bitBounty

Nonsense all lalafells are slaves. Serious though, gz. Where did you spend your time leveling your chocobo and what class did you use?

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The majority of leveling was spent in Northern Thanalan, near the Dark Devices fate, as well as in Urth's Gift. Dap was on Bard (~ilv101), choco was mostly in Free stance.

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Originally Posted by Kinjin

The majority of leveling was spent in Northern Thanalan, near the Dark Devices fate, as well as in Urth's Gift. Dap was on Bard (~ilv101), choco was mostly in Free stance.

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Thank you for the response. I assumed he was most likely on a bard, their killing speed is out of this world.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

At rank 19 what percentage of your chocobo's exp did training at a good condition stable give you? I saw at 10 it's no longer 1%. Does this decrease per level?

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Originally Posted by DapvhirRysdan

I don't believe after ten its a percentage anymore. I seem to recall it being around 18k at 11, and it was around 18k at 19 as well.

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From level 10 onvards (after using first Thanvarian Onion) it keeps rewarding the same amount of the XP as at level 9 so you need more and more Krakka Roots for each level (it's about 0.9% at level 10 resulting in just over 111 Krakka roots for that level). So in principle - the XP gained by training is "frozen" on the last pre-onion level and as result the percentage goes down as the XP needed for each next level goes up. It's about 0.6% only at lvl 15 or so. The good news is that weekly Challenge Log bonus is still full 15% (5 + 10) of the current level max XP ;) (note though that it shows as zero while chocobo is stabled)

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Originally Posted by HEC-

From level 10 onvards (after using first Thanvarian Onion) it keeps rewarding the same amount of the XP as at level 9 so you need more and more Krakka Roots for each level (it's about 0.9% at level 10 resulting in just over 111 Krakka roots for that level). So in principle - the XP gained by training is "frozen" on the last pre-onion level and as result the percentage goes down as the XP needed for each next level goes up. It's about 0.6% only at lvl 15 or so. The good news is that weekly Challenge Log bonus is still full 15% (5 + 10) of the current level max XP ;) (note though that it shows as zero while chocobo is stabled)

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Glad someone took the time to do this math xD That sounds about right.

Thanks! That's what I was hoping to find out. So we're going to need crap loads of Krakka. Gotcha.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

Thanks! That's what I was hoping to find out. So we're going to need crap loads of Krakka. Gotcha.

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It looks like it would be about 200ish krakka roots for 19-20 without challenge log or fighting mobs.

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Originally Posted by HEC-

From level 10 onvards (after using first Thanvarian Onion) it keeps rewarding the same amount of the XP as at level 9 so you need more and more Krakka Roots for each level (it's about 0.9% at level 10 resulting in just over 111 Krakka roots for that level). So in principle - the XP gained by training is "frozen" on the last pre-onion level and as result the percentage goes down as the XP needed for each next level goes up. It's about 0.6% only at lvl 15 or so. The good news is that weekly Challenge Log bonus is still full 15% (5 + 10) of the current level max XP ;) (note though that it shows as zero while chocobo is stabled)

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But rank 9 is 12k exp. He said at 19 it was 18k (and about that at 11 as well). Which is correct?

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Originally Posted by MomomiMomi

But rank 9 is 12k exp. He said at 19 it was 18k (and about that at 11 as well). Which is correct?

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It was definitely over 18k.

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Originally Posted by DapvhirRysdan

Full parties if you can. Either Urth's gift by the water sprites, or where DD is the most effective. If you can get a full party to do it with you, you can do 3 quint-pulls where Dark Devices spawns, making each mob worth about 360-400 xp per kill.

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if you let other people pull and help killing the mobbs from outside their group you can earn up to 500+ exp per water elemental

more ppl in a group means more links, but also decreased base exp for everyone. Most ppl in a group have no clue about -how to get links- which makes 8 ppl groups a pain the most time and sometimes even worse then solo farming

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Originally Posted by Riardon

Playing a year and my chic is still rank 9. This thing feeds upon your soul to raise. Leveling the chocobo is pretty hardcore for me.

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Well it seems like that was their general timeframe though. A year to hit rank 10. Mine did it this week. And as it happens retainers brought me lily seeds so I'll be trying for a thavn onion in the next few weeks. It's long term progress and not something I'm planing on grinding out(much as everything else). If it takes me 2 years to get to 20 I'll be happy with it.

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Originally Posted by ruskie

Well it seems like that was their general timeframe though. A year to hit rank 10. Mine did it this week. And as it happens retainers brought me lily seeds so I'll be trying for a thavn onion in the next few weeks. It's long term progress and not something I'm planing on grinding out(much as everything else). If it takes me 2 years to get to 20 I'll be happy with it.

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Not a bad way to view it. Lord knows I wouldn't wish that speed grind on anyone. It definitely wasn't fun. But the bragging rights are cool I guess :P

Any chance of getting an official yes/no on this being a world/datacenter/game first? Love to click refresh one of these times and see a golden crown on the thread :D

I can't remember if you verified, but can you get all 3 bardings? pic if so???

You get 1 at rank 10 if you pull all your points in one tree, one at rank 16 if you put all the points into 2nd tree, and one at rank 20 for filling out the last tree.

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Originally Posted by Doki

You get 1 at rank 10 if you pull all your points in one tree, one at rank 16 if you put all the points into 2nd tree, and one at rank 20 for filling out the last tree.

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thank you.

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Originally Posted by HEC-

From level 10 onvards (after using first Thanvarian Onion) it keeps rewarding the same amount of the XP as at level 9 so you need more and more Krakka Roots for each level

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Originally Posted by MomomiMomi

But rank 9 is 12k exp. He said at 19 it was 18k (and about that at 11 as well). Which is correct?

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Yeah, the info in the first quote is incorrect. I just leveled my chocobo to 10 about a week ago. I was getting 12,000 exp per krakka root in a Good condition stable. Now, training towards level 11, I get 13,150xp per krakka root in a Good condition stable. The value increases, but it is no longer a full 1% per feeding, because from 10 to 11 you need 1,458,000 xp.

Congrats. Yoshi has just revealed at the TGS census that there is only one R20 chocobo in the world when they captured the statistics.

/clap

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Originally Posted by QuCont

Congrats. Yoshi has just revealed at the TGS census that there is only one R20 chocobo in the world when they captured the statistics.

/clap

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Major accomplishment to

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Originally Posted by DapvhirRysdan

Thanks to all the people that suffered that hell with me, and thank you netflix for providing entertainment while I mashed tab and 1.

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You truly are unique!

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Originally Posted by QuCont

Congrats. Yoshi has just revealed at the TGS census that there is only one R20 chocobo in the world when they captured the statistics.

/clap

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Woohoo! Just messaged Dap and woke him up with this :D

I'm just going to say woot as everything going through my mind right now is a bannable offense on the forums. xD

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Originally Posted by DapvhirRysdan

I'm just going to say woot as everything going through my mind right now is a bannable offense on the forums. xD

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Something along the lines of "Holy [expletive deleted]!! That's [expletive deleted] awesome! I'm so [expletive deleted][expletive deleted] happy I could [expletive deleted] myself!"

Yeah, let's keep this family-friendly :D

Thats pretty accurate