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

Congratulations to Dapvhir Rysdan, on his Rank 20 chocobo!

http://i.imgur.com/qwBUUq8.jpg

Huzzah! All trees are maxed at Rank 20!

-Jander

*patiently waits for personal house and Garden to be finally able to dive into Thavnair Onions*

Congrats!

Congrats Dap :^^: - glad we could support you as you worked towards this... also glad that your finally "free" to do other stuff in the game again :)

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

How much stronger do you think all those passive stat buffs made it? The crit rate should be pretty phenomenal now.

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

Congratulations! ^^ And thanks for the confirmation that all trees can be maxed at rank 20. Does that mean you got all of the bardings, as well?

Very nice. Congrats. :) Getting mine to just rank 10 is killing me.

Yep, rank 20 grants 19 points. All 3 trees maxed, all 3 bardings. Choco HP final is 2702.

What does your character's gear look like and can your chocobo keep hate while you're going all out without quelling strikes or anything to help it? I'm curious about the strength of a rank 20 free stance chocobo. Mine is rank 12 but I'm only leveling it when I have full sets of SB gear on and it's making me a fortune so far.

I did it with i101 bard(chose not to spiritbond except when in full parties), and as of now unless I have all offensive buffs up, in tank stance it can absolutely hold threat off me, and in free stance it can usually hold hate.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

How much stronger do you think all those passive stat buffs made it? The crit rate should be pretty phenomenal now.

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Gonna second this I wanna know!

Nice work out there!

And yep, happy to see that the Skill trees are all maxed, as I expected.

Now if only I can get that Thavnairian onion and Soot Black color, I'd be happy. tch!

Critical Heals lol

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Originally Posted by TeaTimeBear

Gonna second this I wanna know!

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I've noticed a huge difference. The choco was consistently hitting almost as hard as my bard. These final levels once I got the tank tree's offensive stat passives up went pretty fast considering the absurd amount of XP required to level. 19-20 is 3,620,000 XP.

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Originally Posted by DapvhirRysdan

I've noticed a huge difference. The choco was consistently hitting almost as hard as my bard. These final levels once I got the tank tree's offensive stat passives up went pretty fast considering the absurd amount of XP required to level. 19-20 is 3,620,000 XP.

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Aw that sounds so cool.. Thanks for answering and congrats!

Thanks for the details. I can't wait to level mine up further.

Thanks guys!

Awesome! It must have taken a lot of time. I do have a question: Did you get all the Role barding or just one?

Very nice.

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Originally Posted by Norna

Awesome! It must have taken a lot of time. I do have a question: Did you get all the Role barding or just one?

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He mentioned he got them all. :D

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Awesome! It must have taken a lot of time. I do have a question: Did you get all the Role barding or just one?

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Yep, got all 3 ^_^ Currently choco has WHM hat, palading body, and dragoon legs on :P

Oh wow, I didnt even know it was possible to go past rank 10! Nice congrats. Which rank do you need to fill 2 of the 3 trees?

Congrats! :D What did you use to lvl it mostly? Just normal mobs?

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Originally Posted by Kayo

Oh wow, I didnt even know it was possible to go past rank 10! Nice congrats. Which rank do you need to fill 2 of the 3 trees?

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To fill a 2nd tree in its entirely requires rank 16 (55 points to fill a tree, 10 points per rank with the exception of rank 20). To get past rank ten requires Thavnarian Onions.

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Originally Posted by Drax100

Congrats! :D What did you use to lvl it mostly? Just normal mobs?

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Full parties when able, solo when not. FC had choco buff 24/7 for me, and I kept using curiel roots. Urth's gift and the area the Dark Devices fate spawns were my two leveling locales of choice.

Happy to answer any questions anyone has about them!

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Originally Posted by Kayo

Oh wow, I didnt even know it was possible to go past rank 10! Nice congrats. Which rank do you need to fill 2 of the 3 trees?

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Why don't people read patch notes? This was added to the game like 2 months ago.

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Why don't people read patch notes? This was added to the game like 2 months ago.

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Eh ... Life, the fact that its a long list of which I only really care for a few lines, but mostly because it irritates some special yet entertaining people on the forums.

So im guessing it took about 2 months to level, OP? From Rank 10?

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Eh ... Life, the fact that its a long list of which I only really care for a few lines, but mostly because it irritates some special yet entertaining people on the forums.

So im guessing it took about 2 months to level, OP? From Rank 10?

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It took however long it's been since Thavnarian Onions became available, which i believe was just after 2.35. I've tried to not think about the timesink it was.

i am being a bit lazier xD

rank 11 atm (was only like rank 8 when the onion got introduced, buying my onions and lvling my chocobo from just feeding once an hour and the weekly 15%.

Thavnarian Onions became available in 2.3. So right around 2 months.

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Eh ... Life, the fact that its a long list of which I only really care for a few lines, but mostly because it irritates some special yet entertaining people on the forums.

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The fact that you were surprised you could level past 10 a full two months after it was added seems to be enough reason to think you should be reading them more thoroughly. It makes me wonder what else you missed.

It's like one of my friends recently said on mumble. "Wait, you can dye AF gear now?" The sighs on mumble were palpable. A cursory read of the notes would have told him that two months ago and he could have been done dying his gear already. Instead he's just now beginning this week. Lost opportunities due to laziness. It's not that this irritates me so much as I just don't get it. Why play a highly complex game like this to simply ignore the change log so long that you don't even know what the game offers anymore. Does not compute.

Tiggy the patch Nazi. Always gotta be one...

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

Thavnarian Onions became available in 2.3. So right around 2 months.

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They became available at least 3 if not 4 weeks after patch 2.3, so very close to patch 2.35. There was a lot of crossbreeding involved and onions themselves take 10 days to grow.

Grats! I imagine less than 1% of the population will achieve this. Still 2 weeks to go on my first crop of onions. Small house plots take forever.

i have always wondered when someone says "server first" or "world first", how do they know? is there a special achievement? a little note that pops up?
does yoshi-p email you??

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Originally Posted by joshsecret

i have always wondered when someone says "server first" or "world first", how do they know? is there a special achievement? a little note that pops up?
does yoshi-p email you??

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The closest we have to base it on is just that no one else has reported doing it. *shrug*

From all of us on Balmung, good job. Though this is more to do with breeding then raising. I delicate this pic to you.
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/cho...15c_369828.jpg

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

...The fact that you were surprised you could level past 10 a full two months after it was added seems to be enough reason to think you should be reading them more thoroughly. It makes me wonder what else you missed.

It's like one of my friends recently said on mumble. "Wait, you can dye AF gear now?" The sighs on mumble were palpable. A cursory read of the notes would have told him that two months ago and he could have been done dying his gear already. Instead he's just now beginning this week. Lost opportunities due to laziness. It's not that this irritates me so much as I just don't get it. Why play a highly complex game like this to simply ignore the change log so long that you don't even know what the game offers anymore. Does not compute.

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Are you sure you're from Balmung? I thought we were the relaxed, friendly RP server with players from all walks of life.

A friendly reminder : to some FF is a hobby, a form of entertainment not a chore or job. It's enjoyed during downtime away from RL stresses. Not everyone wants to read spoilers to run a dungeon, not everyone wants to experience the small hidden treasures the game has to offer via written notes. There are also those who treat FF like a religion. Best thing about FFXIV? All types of players can come together and have fun! :cool:

Yeah.. I've been rank 10 for a long while, or rather, my bird has. So what do you do to grow a Thav. Onion exactly? All I know is they are hella expensive on the MB, and I am not wasting gil (I don't think I even has as much as they are going for) on these things.

I'm gonna guess it takes the best kind of Thanalan Topsoil, but aside from that I have no idea.

Here are most of chocobo food combinations: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2261769