Idea: Chocobo Dungeons!

For a lot of players there really isn't any in-battle benefit to leveling your chocobo. The new chocobo suit is definitely a step in the right direction (even though we're missing a mask to complete the set at the moment). However, I personally feel the attack/healing/tank power of our chocobo companions needs a buff. There seems to be no difference between having your chocobo summoned to battle or not. That said, I'd like to get to the main idea...

"Chocobo" Dungeons
In short, it would be a "solo" dungeon where you and your chocobo fight through the dungeon to obtain gear. (The gear can be chocobo-themed as well - Chocobo armor, accessories, weapons, etc.) It also opens the possibility of going into group dungeons with friends and their fighting fowls as well.

Additionally, I'd appreciate the ability to either reset your chocobo skill tree - or ability to master all chocobo skill trees implemented.

Your chocobo does contribue quite a bit on damage. it was really noticable for me as i lvled up my paladin. without it would take me 2 halone combos to even break the mobs hp to half, with my chocobo it just takes 1 combo to get it down to 2/3 so yes its very noticable.

As for the idea i support it. More things to do even if solo or with another friend with their chocobo would really beat just grinding the crap out of mobs since its all that we can do to lvl it.

I'd love to see a solo, or duo dungeon which allows chocos. Drops with Choco Stats+ would be nice, either with a vanity system for them or just make the drops 'choco-materia' which you can slot onto a bird regardless of their gears.

The game desperately needs more duo content, implementing something which will also make use of chocobos would be a great bonus as well.

Agree with the idea but they should put some real chocobo content to get exp for it. Making exp with only mobs around is rather boring..

What ever reason they add for the chocobos to exist I'll be excited about.

Just give this cool system a purpose whatever it might be.

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Originally Posted by Munba

Agree with the idea but they should put some real chocobo content to get exp for it. Making exp with only mobs around is rather boring..

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Actually, if we could have dungeons specifically to level our chocobo even better! :D

I don't see how it would work without some classes being very powerful while others underpowered, they would have to make those dungeons stupidly easy to not pigeon hole people into certain classes.

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Originally Posted by Icarian

I don't see how it would work without some classes being very powerful while others underpowered, they would have to make those dungeons stupidly easy to not pigeon hole people into certain classes.

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I think the idea of Chocobo Dungeons is AWESOME! I believe that it would require instances that are somewhere between the Solo Class Quests (the ones you get every 5 levels and are forced to solo) and the current 4 player Light Party dungeons. So maybe they would not be full dungeon instances, more like a Guildhest that you can duo with your Chocobo.

So, I think we are asking for "Half-Light Party" instances here?

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Originally Posted by Icarian

I don't see how it would work without some classes being very powerful while others underpowered, they would have to make those dungeons stupidly easy to not pigeon hole people into certain classes.

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Play the Chocobo Dungeon games, even though Square got rid of most of their talented developers, if they have any creativity left you can see that it'd work perfectly fine in any fashion.

I support this.

The more I think about it, that's not a bad idea.

Although, what I'd rather see: A couple of fun, silly dungeons where you and 3 other players actually play as your chocobos in some way.

I've got Rank 6 healing chocobo and wasted points in 2 skills of tank<want to reset this and not the rank this really needs to happen.

I've used a Rank 5 chocobo healing stance during a svara and it kept a WAR alive with no other healers i ended up dieing from web that i'm sure i avoided!

I took the liberty of doing my best to translate this and posted it on the Japanese forums to see if they would be interested as well.

Chocobo Dungeons, Chocobo Leves , and Chocobo Roulette. make it so.

They were supposed to eventually make it to where you could have two people and two chocobos be able to go into light party duties but they haven't said anything about this since beta. As mentioned above, the content would have to be somewhat trivial as the pet AI isn't all that great. When they make the AI respond to area attacks and actually forces the pet to move out of them, then I'd be impressed.

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Originally Posted by Niota

For a lot of players there really isn't any in-battle benefit to leveling your chocobo. The new chocobo suit is definitely a step in the right direction (even though we're missing a mask to complete the set at the moment). However, I personally feel the attack/healing/tank power of our chocobo companions needs a buff. There seems to be no difference between having your chocobo summoned to battle or not. That said, I'd like to get to the main idea...

"Chocobo" Dungeons
In short, it would be a "solo" dungeon where you and your chocobo fight through the dungeon to obtain gear. (The gear can be chocobo-themed as well - Chocobo armor, accessories, weapons, etc.) It also opens the possibility of going into group dungeons with friends and their fighting fowls as well.

Additionally, I'd appreciate the ability to either reset your chocobo skill tree - or ability to master all chocobo skill trees implemented.

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Can we give medals for jawsome ideas?

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Originally Posted by Orophin

As mentioned above, the content would have to be somewhat trivial as the pet AI isn't all that great. When they make the AI respond to area attacks and actually forces the pet to move out of them, then I'd be impressed.

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Oh man that would be so cool if my Chocobo, Max, was able to run out of AOE attacks! The AI for the companions is already pretty good, but if they could avoid AOEs like 60% of the time... that would be FANTASTIC! It would make them function way more like a real party member.

Of course, we could argue that some real party memebers just stand there in the attack area and take damage anyway! ;)

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Originally Posted by Orophin

They were supposed to eventually make it to where you could have two people and two chocobos be able to go into light party duties but they haven't said anything about this since beta. As mentioned above, the content would have to be somewhat trivial as the pet AI isn't all that great. When they make the AI respond to area attacks and actually forces the pet to move out of them, then I'd be impressed.

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My biggest issue with the AI is that the bird always seems to want to stand in front of the monster while fighting it or healing. So yeah, if this were implemented, I'd love to see some adjustments to the ai. Other than that, this is a great idea.

I am absolutely in favor for this!!! Excellent idea and doing stuff with chocobo outside of the regular duties would increase playtime for many choco lovers :)

Don't let this idea die! Bumpity bump. :P

Also, the post regarding this idea on the Japanese forums has almost double the "likes" that this one has, so I'm guessing they are more on-board for it than we are? Or there could be other variables.

I love the idea. This needs to happen.

Niota, your idea would be so cool and fun that NO WAY the devs will implement it. It would be like Blizz implementing a day/night cycle again. These things just don't happen in the real world. :P

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Originally Posted by Starkiller

... "if they could avoid AOEs like 60% of the time... that would be FANTASTIC! It would make them function way more like a real party member." ...

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I love the implication that party members dodge about 60% of the AoEs... ^_^

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Originally Posted by Orophin

They were supposed to eventually make it to where you could have two people and two chocobos be able to go into light party duties but they haven't said anything about this since beta..

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Was going to say this ^. The plan in beta was that you could use chocobos in dungeons as a party member. But it was delayed and obviously nothing has been said about it since.

Been asking for this for a long time. But haven't heard any word from the devs. Hopefully they'll make it happen soon. Just seems so odd right now to have a companion and still feel forever alone lol

Wa! DROOOLS... awesome idea! BUMP!

Love this! Not only solo (1/1), but 2/2 and 4/4 would also be pretty epic.

Another idea is as mentioned above, where you take control of them when you enter, and the player characters have to stay in the beginning. One theme could be the players all get caught or captured, and it is the chocos to save the day!

Kweh!!!

Alrik.... That idea is AWESOME! Yoshi, make this happen! <3

While your at it, can our poor chocos please get Protect :3. Feels odd that my Defender choco can't even have Protect on.

Sounds really fun maybe make the dungeons and loot random. This would make use of the very useless Chocobo atm. Loot could be just vanity things or even gear for the chocobo!

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Originally Posted by AlrikRouge

Love this! Not only solo (1/1), but 2/2 and 4/4 would also be pretty epic.

Another idea is as mentioned above, where you take control of them when you enter, and the player characters have to stay in the beginning. One theme could be the players all get caught or captured, and it is the chocos to save the day!

Kweh!!!

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Might be interesting to have this as a choco-solo dungeon, or maybe even the first bit of the dungeon is choco-solo and then you save your "master" (i.e. the player), and then you go on as normal.

i want this

Had another thought on this (ok, also a bit of a ninja bump):

If not now (though hopefully sooner than later) putting these types of dungeons in place would get you to be able to level your chocos that you've bred when that comes out.

Kweh!

i love the idea of dungeons for chocobos... but if Yoshi P said that he loves FF7 and the Gold Saucer i think that maybe he want us to use our chocobos for run or play mini games in a new version of Gold Saucer for FFXIV. That could be a posibility too..

Going to add an idea to this; let me know your thoughts:

In addition to dungeons for chocos in general, there could be tiers: for level 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10. Level sync would still happen in case you wanted to help out your fellow Choco friends.

And again, Kweh!!

+1 for Chocobo runs