Give me a Chocobo dungeon. :/

Ive talked to friends about this awhile and we all love the idea of having a few dungeons with the ability to have a chocobo with you. Not as mount, purely as support...

Make it light party or something so 2 players and their chocobo.
Personally I love the idea of this and the potential difficulty. It might even be as fun as running dungeons with no tank. ;)

I think that with the way chocobo companions work right now, this wouldn't really work. You can build your choco with any combination of skills. I've chosen to raise mine as a healer, and I always put him into healing stance, but he's still not a great healer. Plus, chocobos do not know how to dodge. They just stand there and get hit with things like Bad Breath. I hear that tanking chocobos aren't very good tanks. Or they can have a blend of skills from all 3 trees, which doesn't really help anyone.

I like the concept of a chocobo-assisted dungeon. But I don't know if the execution of it would really be possible. Maybe once we can re-allocate chocobo points.

When you are in free mode or attack mode, when you first hit the mob, your chocobo will follow your line of fight. It's then up to you to move 180º so AoE Cones like Morbol's Breath won't affect him at all.

I don't know about your Chocobo Rank, mine's Healer 9, and he saved me often enough, myself being PLD Main when out doing solo fates and/or beast tribes.

OP - You have my vote. It would be nice to see 2 man + 2 chocobo into dungeons, giving them a real purpose.

Then again, I would also love it to get our minions to at least fetch the loot.. sigh..

I think it would be more awesome if they designed a dungeon that required mounts... like a high speed escape or something to that nature

A technical Full Party (4 players, 4 companions) instance would be most welcome. Especially if the instances yielded decent EXP and perhaps items usable for Chocobo breeding/raising. Perhaps even components for barding if/when they should ever add more.

Consider me signed up for this idea too.

This is a brilliant idea! It would be so much easier to level your chocobo, it takes ages now.

I'm glad I'm not alone in this. :D ThirdChild also makes a valid point; the dungeon could drop items in relation to the chocobo raising system,etc.
I actually forgot I was excited about being able to raise\dye my chocobo. One of the things I liked from FFXI lol.

I would love to see a Chocobo Dungeon and a Chocobo Boss or two for "limit breaking" your chocobo. As it stands, they're capped at 10 now, but that number will be rising in the near future. I think it would be a lot more fun than a simple announcement of "Ok guys you can go higher now."

Chocobo Eater as the boss, naturally :D

The ai of pets never works well in a dungeon situation in any mmo. To make it doable it would have to be faceroll easy just like most fates (odin etc not included) this sounds like a lot of work by SE for very boring content.

NUUUUUU!

We need a dungeon that is only for chocobos!
4 chocobos. You play as chocobo!!

I would luv that q,q

I would like to see 2 different dungeons, like only 2 for Main Scenario, and have a "Chocobo Roulette". But instead of you getting the bonus, your chocobo earns 1/5? 1/7? of a level XP free. So after 5 or 7 days, he goes up a Rank, minus whatever time you are out grinding with him. That way, we could get get up to Rank 30 (For a full 3 chocobo classes) in 3 months or less.

I would love some more variety in dungeons other than just "run through and kill everything, hit this switch (or set of switches) and proceed on to fight mini-boss, repeated until fighting last boss." I like the idea of a "high-speed chase" for an escape from a dungeon, just to switch things up a bit. But we'll see what the devs have in store for us. If we were allowed to bring our chocobos into a dungeon, I would hope that dungeon is designed specifically for companion gameplay...

Hello,

Thanks for the request!

The development team doesn’t have any plans to add dungeons for chocobos or group content for companions at the moment.

However, lore-wise, we’ll be adding quests in patch 2.3 for chocobo raising, and you’ll be able to learn more about chocobo lore through these to build on what you can learn through the main scenario quests and companion system unlocking quests.

If anything, once you release the option to solo dungeons... add the use of Companions for those.

Eventually, it'd be sweet if a Chocobo specced for a particular role could replace that role lost in a dungeon until a substitute is found by the system.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

Thanks for the request!

The development team doesn’t have any plans to add dungeons for chocobos or group content for companions at the moment.

However, lore-wise, we’ll be adding quests in patch 2.3 for chocobo raising, and you’ll be able to learn more about chocobo lore through these to build on what you can learn through the main scenario quests and companion system unlocking quests.

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I could have sworn that we were getting chocobos as companions in dungeons at some point, and that it was recently brought up again in a live letter as something that was being worked on. Does this mean that the only content that we'll be able to use chocobo companions for are the limited open world options? That's pretty disappointing if that's the case.

I feel like that was mentioned as well at some point, but I cant remember where. Although I really don't think letting chocobos into the old dungeons is a great idea. They can't exactly handle gimmick fights. Imagine fighting the blob in copperbell with chocobos. "Opps, there goes the bomb." "There goes another one." "And another."

That said, I would LOVE to see a chocobo dungeon, that gives lots of chocobo exp, some exclusive barding, and maybe some other cool chocobo themed stuff. Have it be a 4 person 8 man dungeon, where while in the dungeon, everyones chocobo is automatically summoned. Maybe have bins of gysahl greens throughout the dungeon that can be interacted with to re-summon your chocobo if it falls in battle?

Could even go the extra mile, and have it be a reference to the chocobo dungeon games, and have a randomly generated layout everytime.

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Originally Posted by Parz3val

If anything, once you release the option to solo dungeons... add the use of Companions for those.

Eventually, it'd be sweet if a Chocobo specced for a particular role could replace that role lost in a dungeon until a substitute is found by the system.

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Here you go mr.forum mod.

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Originally Posted by Parz3val

If anything,

once you

release the option to solo dungeons...

add the use of Companions for those.

Eventually, it'd be sweet if a Chocobo specced

for a particular role could replace that

role lost in a dungeon until a substitute is found by the system.

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yay I helped

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Originally Posted by Tsuga

I could have sworn that we were getting chocobos as companions in dungeons at some point, and that it was recently brought up again in a live letter as something that was being worked on. Does this mean that the only content that we'll be able to use chocobo companions for are the limited open world options? That's pretty disappointing if that's the case.

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Limited open world options that are slowly being outdated with new content.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

Thanks for the request!

The development team doesn’t have any plans to add dungeons for chocobos or group content for companions at the moment.

However, lore-wise, we’ll be adding quests in patch 2.3 for chocobo raising, and you’ll be able to learn more about chocobo lore through these to build on what you can learn through the main scenario quests and companion system unlocking quests.

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(Edited this response after some thought. I am very dissapointed.)

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

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Woah - this proves that not only the peeps here can use sarcasm, but the Moderators as well!

I like it hehehe

*If you allow to Edit the silly-limited 1000 characters with all the options of different color and size.. you guys are asking for it.

Could be a good idea to work on the forums in between patches ;)

Back to content: Keep up the good work; not excited that much about 2.3, but 2.4 come already.. NINJA!!!!!!!!

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Reading comments all day long sure is tiring for the eyes.

What is your favorite text color Bayohne? Hopefully not the forum default. xD
(You're awesome Bayohne!)

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HOW'S THIS

I really hope they change their mind and allow chocobo dungeons. Maybe even ones where the chocobo goes in solo?

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

Thanks for the request!

The development team doesn’t have any plans to add dungeons for chocobos or group content for companions at the moment.

However, lore-wise, we’ll be adding quests in patch 2.3 for chocobo raising, and you’ll be able to learn more about chocobo lore through these to build on what you can learn through the main scenario quests and companion system unlocking quests.

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How about content for 1 tank 1 healer 6 dps!?!?!!

There is people always complaining about waiting on tanks, and even a tank reward system simply for playing tanks in end game.

Why not just make content for solo tanks and solo healers?

BIG TEXT SO YOU SEE MY POST TOO! :D

There really isnt much need to make a super chocobo then is there, since most of the content is instanced dungeons. So this effectively makes the new Chocobo raising content pointless really...

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Originally Posted by Daniolaut

How about content for 1 tank 1 healer 6 dps!?!?!!

There is people always complaining about waiting on tanks, and even a tank reward system simply for playing tanks in end game.

Why not just make content for solo tanks and solo healers?

BIG TEXT SO YOU SEE MY POST TOO! :D

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I believe they already confirmed that Syrcus Tower (or some other instance) will be 1 tank 2 heal 5 damage dealer for each party.

BTW I hope this doesn't get too off topic, but what's up with your sig? WHM says pretty standard no-brainer common sense advice...not generally the kind of thing you'd call sig-worthy.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

Thanks for the request!

The development team doesn’t have any plans to add dungeons for chocobos or group content for companions at the moment.

However, lore-wise, we’ll be adding quests in patch 2.3 for chocobo raising, and you’ll be able to learn more about chocobo lore through these to build on what you can learn through the main scenario quests and companion system unlocking quests.

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Just a crazy idea you can pass to the development team. Why not make a random generated dungeon that players can use Chocobo's in?

I like the ideas in this thread... dungeons that allows the use of chocobos as both battle companions and mounts.. with completion awards that include companion exp. Extending the functionality of chocobos can be an area that sets FF XIV apart from other MMOs. Maybe with enough training, chocobos can flutter their wings to fly short distances across gaps in the floor, opening locations which are only accessible by chocobo. Not vertical flight but more of an extended horizontal jump.

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WOW Bayohne I didnt know SE was paying you to be a sarcastic dbag. You should take notes from Camate and have more respect for comsumers and yourself. Sad to see someone in control is nothing but a butthurt troll too.

you can't laugh at everything with everyone it seems.

Even the "victim" of the sarcasm had more sense of humor.

Or maybe it was me that didn't saw sarcasm in previous post :)

I'm pretty sure its not Bayohne's job to make jokes, especially using sarcasm at someone's expense when all the person was giving was a good suggestion. He is here to moderate abuse of the forums and/or reply with RESPECT ALONE. Its simply disrespectful and everyone just wants to kiss his ass because he is the "authority". Like I said earlier, he's not getting paid to be an asshole to the people that pay to play this game - so Bayohne, do your damn job and nothing more. My boss would not appreciate me disrespecting our consumers right to their faces, even more so trying to make a joke of them... TAKE NOTES FROM A REAL GM LIKE CAMATE, BAYOHNE, LEARN SOME RESPECT.

Someone needs to chill out.. just a little bit. Sarcasm is hard to read but when its pointed out as such and was pretty obvious, the only person being disrespectful is how you're responding to it.
Keep up the good work mods/GMs. Bayohne included.

I haven't checked this thread in awhile but I'm glad people are inputting and supporting the idea. Much like others said, id even enjoy the option to solo dungeons or less than light party options and use of a chocobo. Just give them more purpose than fates and help on hunts etc.

I'd love to get a chocobo dungeon, especially if it had chocobo-based rewards. A training ground for your companion of sorts.

Nice to see some Moderator personality keep it up Bayohne. Also the idea about chocobo jumping sounds awesome, how about adding areas in existing dungeons that can only be accessed with special chocobo areas, like areas in FFX. How about secret passages that lead to more powerful bosses with different rewards etc?