Increase chocobo viability

Square,

I would first like to say Bravo on the game. I love it! I have been leveling my chocobo like crazy over the past week and it hit me after I max rank 10 what next?

I can of course continue forward to rank 20 but I would like to see more uses for Eorzea's bocos.

Perhaps let players use their chocos in raids? Add chocobo racing into the game? Let bocos participate in PVP?

What are the other player's thoughts?

I'd like the tether to get removed. Say you're in a party and Focus Target on a party member, let my Chocobo follow (defend/protect) that party member. Even if I stray away from the group.

The chocobos have very little health as it is too. It would be nice if they could scale a bit more to whatever gear your current class has on.

Yoshi mentioned combat on chocoback. I'm interested in hearing more about that.

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Originally Posted by Denrok

The chocobos have very little health as it is too. It would be nice if they could scale a bit more to whatever gear your current class has on.

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I wish chocobarding acted as actual gear with stats instead of just looks.

While I would love to be able to use my choco in raids or dungeons, I see two issues with this in their current state.
First chocos are essentially immortal, they die and can easily be instantly brought back by the owner with pretty much no effort. A party member that doesn't need to be healed and can be insta-rezzed without a healer is not very balanced for instanced group play.
Second due to ai limitations and them not scaling with ilvl, I don't think that they would ever truly be able to replace a human controlled party member.

However if they were to make special instance or dungeons where I could go in alone with my choco or even two players and two chocos, or retuned versions of existing dungeons that allowed for this I would be up for it.

Golden Saucer i do believe will have chocobo racing, i think it is going to be in 2.4?
If so then that is mid-late October

How about after rank 10 modifying their AI so they don't stand in every last AoE?

it would be nice to see a little boost.

but at the same time, the last thing i would want to see is solo content being rebalanced because a rank 20 chocobo destroys and ruins it making so they are required.

also raids no, once again balance issues and chocobo's beign required because from what i heard about the person who recently got rank 20 chocobo it hits pretty hard and any future boost would make it pretty unbalanced. i mean 8 chocobo's would be a lot of extra damage heals or tanking possibility (you never know)

I just want it so that I can queue DF with a chocobo. Chocobos are useful in helping lv up ALT and if you're ATMA farming. But whats the point if you cant even queue dungeons?

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Originally Posted by Doki

How about after rank 10 modifying their AI so they don't stand in every last AoE?

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They chose against letting us modify their A.I - Originally we were supposed to get the Gambit system for our Companions starting with the Chocobo "Buddy."

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Originally Posted by Denrok

Perhaps let players use their chocos in raids?

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Originally Posted by Denrok

Let bocos participate in PVP?

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With current game setup, this can't happen. Chocobos aren't strong enough anyway and they responded in a previous thread that they can't do it.

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Originally Posted by Denrok

Add chocobo racing into the game?

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Confirmed a long time ago.