Rank 10 healer chocobo skill choco medica

I don't see allot of attention for this, this skill really needs a buff or a rework because it actually decreases your Chocobo's HPS due to the Chocobo AI your Chocobo will cast this whenever it is off cooldown and due to the fact that it has a longer cast time and a potency of 150 results in your Chocobo not being able to heal you through things it could have easily done at rank 9.
I know that this can be worked around by not getting the rank ten skill, but it is very silly for the rank ten skill to make you worse off than you were before.

It's been mentioned a few times in the past, but not recently. Choco Medica is awful and I'd prefer it be replaced with something useful like Choco Esuna.

Thank you for posting this. I e recently been working on the healer branch and was getting close to rank 10. Guess I'll be skipping that for now.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

Thank you for posting this. I e recently been working on the healer branch and was getting close to rank 10. Guess I'll be skipping that for now.

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When you get rank 10, put all your points in one tree for the exclusive barding for that tree. Then use a Reagan Pepper (only costs a few hunt seals from GC hunt vendor) to reset your points. You can earn one barding like this at level 10, 15, and 20 to eventually acquire all 3. Best to learn Chocobo Medica for the white mage barding, then immediately reset and choose something different.

Also, I would say ALL of the later chocobo active skills are terrible. Outside of choco cure, nearly every ability has a negative side to it. At least one DPS and Tank ability hits all enemies in front of the chocobo, which might put you into combat with enemies you were intentionally avoiding. There is also a stun ability that the chocobo uses periodically, which will make the enemy immune to stuns if you are trying to interrupt specific attacks.

The whole chocobo combat system needed an overhaul the moment it was introduced, but since they've done nothing with companions since then, I don't see a change coming any time soon.

Healer stance AI needs to be adjusted too. Why does my bird keeps following me very closely? That's not what healer suppose to do. Stay away from me, from the frontal attacks, and from AoE, for god sake!

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Originally Posted by xanj

I don't see allot of attention for this...

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Actually my choco just doesn't like to cast medica in free fight mode!! ^^;

Yeah! I'm glad someone has brought this up again~ I took rank ten off asap when I heard about this ages ago, and I wondered if it had been fixed.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

Healer stance AI needs to be adjusted too. Why does my bird keeps following me very closely? That's not what healer suppose to do. Stay away from me, from the frontal attacks, and from AoE, for god sake!

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This has always bugged me too, I think it's just so choco medica actually hits you.

I think it has more to do with the (very) simple mob placement AI. The placement AI for the Chocobos seems to place them adjacent to their current primary target. Free/Defender/Attacker all place the Chocobo next to the first target you hit with an attack when it has not locked on to another target. Healer and Follow place you as the bird's primary target.

What the Healer stance AI needs to do is change the placement style to ranged and set the distance from you to be equal to or less than Choco Medica's radius. This would likely limit the damage taken reducing the likelihood of Choco Medica spam beginning.

The overuse of Choco Medica itself is likely a result of the AI having no Single target conditions with a priority greater than the Party heal priority. This wouldn't be that big of a problem if Choco Medica wasn't half as strong as Choco Cure (making it equal in strength to Choco Cure when in a PC/Choco 2 person party). Buffing Choco Medica's potency to 200 would likely fix the problem as it would end up being a 33% increase in healing.

I think Chocobo surge needs to be a trait not a spell for chocobo, noticed when I am partying with my cousin his chocobo is casting it non stop without curing, because it wears off so fast by the time chocobo begins casting cure its dead.

I told him wow that thing just keeps casting choco surge, he said yeah wish he never bought it for a skill if he had known it wasn't a trait.

Might be a big reason why its slow casting other healing skills also.

Oh, I'll take a look o,o maybe it's better to un-check that skill. Medica when soloing doesn't seem useful at all.

They have specified before that they are currently working on a system to make the companion more useful, something akin to the gambit system from 12. When they will ever actually add that? Who knows.

I have a rank 20 chocobo and it is the only skill I refused to give him, he is so much better when it comes to healing without it.

Choco Regen also needs to be tweaked a bit, since chocobos tend to prioritize it above Choco Cure even though it is a weaker spell. There is no reason why a healer should put up a regen that totals 150 potency, when they could instead do a direct heal for 300 potency.

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Originally Posted by Dgsoil

They have specified before that they are currently working on a system to make the companion more useful, something akin to the gambit system from 12. When they will ever actually add that? Who knows.

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It would be great to adjust your companion's gambit's, side note I notice that mobs, in general, seem to behave like they use the gambit system as is, but that is not relevant to the discussion.

My chocobo is Rank 20 but once I'd gotten all of the bardings I used a pepper and turned all the Level 10 abilities off because none of them are any good. AoEs firing off in random directions & a useless heal that causes him to stop everything else? No thanks!

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Originally Posted by Culfinrandir

My chocobo is Rank 20 but once I'd gotten all of the bardings I used a pepper and turned all the Level 10 abilities off because none of them are any good. AoEs firing off in random directions & a useless heal that causes him to stop everything else? No thanks!

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That's exactly what I intend to do, best advice ever.

ya, I read this a long time ago. My chocobo is rank 9 healing. But sadly is still gaining levels and at some point will be rank 20 and max in all 3 stances. I really hope that change this to only when in a group of > 2 PC

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Originally Posted by Kewitt

ya, I read this a long time ago. My chocobo is rank 9 healing. But sadly is still gaining levels and at some point will be rank 20 and max in all 3 stances. I really hope that change this to only when in a group of > 2 PC

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You don't have to use the SP (points) you know. I have enough points left to turn on all the level 10 abilities but haven't used them. I'm hoping that they fix the AI & then I'll just put the points to use.