Chocobo Companion Fix

To start off I want to say the chocobo companion system is an amazing idea and I really enjoy having the chocobo fight with me in my travels. Unfortunately, the chocobo is extremely cumbersome. There's a few changes I wanted to suggest that currently don't make much sense in the game

1. Mounting- Let me mount my chocobo after it has been called to battle. Currently I have to summon the chocobo and have it fight then have it put away mount it run off and summon it again. Why can't I just mount it while it's already there or at least allow me to use one of my other mounts while it is summoned?

2. Duty registration - If I want to queue as a damage role the queue is quite long so I would like to queue and run around doing quests/FATES while waiting which means also using my chocobo companion. Currently I can't register for the duty finder while the cocobo is summoned. Why aren't I just forced to put it away when the duty is ready to commence? I can change class and am forced to change back once it's ready, why not the same with the chocobo? If I queue then summon the chocobo I get kicked out of queue.

3. GC leves - Currently I can't perform GC leves with my companion out because I "am in a party". So I can use my chocobo is limited from being a party member for anything like dungeons but I can't use it for activities that require me NOT to be in a party?

4. Instanced quests - The chocobo is not allowed in instanced quests such as class or some story quests. This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. I can use it for all the non-instanced quests and isn't the point of the instance to give me a private/story experience? Then why can't I use my companion?

I really love the chocobo companion and the rank and armor system but right now the functionality seems lacking to say the least.

ha, I was just coming here to post the exact same thing.

Can you max out all roles on chocobo, does anyone know?

Vesper, there's an achievement to max them all out so it must be possible!

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Originally Posted by Vesper

Can you max out all roles on chocobo, does anyone know?

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atm no, the max rank/lvl for chocobo atm is 10

When are you able to make your chocobo your companion? I'm at level 26 so far and was just curious when i'd be able to have one. :P

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Originally Posted by Psychosamm

When are you able to make your chocobo your companion? I'm at level 26 so far and was just curious when i'd be able to have one. :P

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if you already got chocobo, you gotta do quest at tranquill

The healer stance for your chocobo needs to be adjusted so they are not standing right beside you taking damage , when you are fighting mobs. Like a 10 yalm rule or something.

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Originally Posted by Madaroth

The healer stance for your chocobo needs to be adjusted so they are not standing right beside you taking damage , when you are fighting mobs. Like a 10 yalm rule or something.

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Pet AI in general should be tweaked so that outside of tank mode pets aim to get behind ther target mob. From what I've seen the pet will stay where they are the moment they engage a mob.

Another thing I dislike is my Chocobo cant heal my Summoner or Scholar Pet

Having to dismiss your chocobo companion in order to ride your mount is annoying, but not being able to use the duty finder while chocobo companion is summoned just makes me never want to use my chocobo companion.


Please make it so when I summon my mount, the chocobo companion is automatically dismissed, and please allow me to join the duty finder while my chocobo is summoned and simply dismiss my companion when I join the duty.

Is there a respec system for chocobos? I hate having to spec into something with blind faith that it'll actually be good or not having the ability to change my mind when I have no opportunity to test it.

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Originally Posted by Escad

Another thing I dislike is my Chocobo cant heal my Summoner or Scholar Pet

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I have that exact same issue with my Chocobo, it will stand there sending me heals all the while my pets life dwindles. It would be interesting to see if it would heal other people in your party or if it would just play favouritism.

About the instanced quests- they seem to have a tightly defined difficulty with the forced level-sync. Trying to balance the instance to make it the proper amount of challenging while allowing to use or not use your Chocobo seems impossible.

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1. make it possible to dismiss the chocobo from right clicking on it on the party window
2. makw it possible to dismiss him while you are in town... right now i have to run out of the town to dismiss him - maybe a toggle window that pops up when the conditions are such that requires the chocobo to be dismissed? so you dont have to click on it to dismiss it altogether

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Originally Posted by Shuon

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2. makw it possible to dismiss him while you are in town... right now i have to run out of the town to dismiss him - maybe a toggle window that pops up when the conditions are such that requires the chocobo to be dismissed? so you dont have to click on it to dismiss it altogether

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There is a skill for that, look for it in your Companions sub-menu.

I'd like to see some changes aswell

1- A way to reset skill points: I have multiple jobs leveled, if i'm using a healer or a dps a tanking chocobo ma be great however when i switch to a tank it becomes useless and i'd rather have a way to change its role.
Maybe with an item bought off with company seals?

2- Threat Generation for Tanking Chocobos: As it is now it's pretty low, would be pretty nice if it gets bumped up to Titan-Egi level.

3- Allow us to mount when chocobo is out: As it is now having the chocobo out is annoying and unpractical. Allowing us to mount (even only non-GC mounts could do) would be great.

4- Allow us to search group in Duty finder while having our chocobo out: Grinding our chocobo rank while in queue for a dungeon would be nice, especially considering DPS queue timers.

I was gonna post this exact thread, and holy crap how long does it take to get rank 10 chocobo? ive been grinding til my brain melts and im only at 4.5, any tips or suggestions guys? between FATE grinding where chocos are frowned upon and queueing for good ole AK i find very very little time to level my chicken

A cool thing for my other scholars out there if you have a tank choco your fairy will heal it if u place it next to your choco. I apply DoTs then place fairy next to choco and i'm good to go for hours lol

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Originally Posted by Razail

2. Duty registration - If I want to queue as a damage role the queue is quite long so I would like to queue and run around doing quests/FATES while waiting which means also using my chocobo companion. Currently I can't register for the duty finder while the cocobo is summoned. Why aren't I just forced to put it away when the duty is ready to commence? I can change class and am forced to change back once it's ready, why not the same with the chocobo? If I queue then summon the chocobo I get kicked out of queue.

3. GC leves - Currently I can't perform GC leves with my companion out because I "am in a party". So I can use my chocobo is limited from being a party member for anything like dungeons but I can't use it for activities that require me NOT to be in a party?

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Oh gosh I just posted the exact same thing.

It is simply a NUISANCE. Makes no sense at all, the implementation of the Chocobo.

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Originally Posted by aswedishtiger

I was gonna post this exact thread, and holy crap how long does it take to get rank 10 chocobo? ive been grinding til my brain melts and im only at 4.5, any tips or suggestions guys? between FATE grinding where chocos are frowned upon and queueing for good ole AK i find very very little time to level my chicken

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Also would like to know :<

Still waiting for an ability to reset Chocobo Ranks, especially now that I know getting Chocobo to Rank 10 in one tree gets them a unique set of armor. Choco-Resets need to be sold via the Grand Company.

I've been having an issue when sleeping mobs during fights. If you sleep the mob that your chocobo is targeting it will stop attacking that target, but it won't attack a different target even if you do. This mainly affect me when doing a quest and multiple mobs spawn, many times I'll sleep part of the group first and then start to attack the mob that wasn't slept. My chocobo will just stand there, doing nothing, until I attack the mob that was the target of the original sleep spell. There should be a way to tell your chocobo to attack your current target so that you can refocus it and not have it just stand there watching you get beat.

The chocobo should remain summoned longer not shorter as it ranks up. Losing close to 90 secs per rank is frustrating.

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Originally Posted by Mecan

Still waiting for an ability to reset Chocobo Ranks, especially now that I know getting Chocobo to Rank 10 in one tree gets them a unique set of armor. Choco-Resets need to be sold via the Grand Company.

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Hey do you have a link to what the unique bardings for each tree are?

Although I am victim to most of these issues either the are just a result of logical reasons, as they are based on history, common sense or role playing.

- Even if they are 6 feet tall - a chicken stays a chicken. How can you expect a flying squidmonster sized like an Elephant, heavy as an orca, with teeth like a shark , hypnotic tentacles, a smell that would frighten the skunk-emperor himself with unknown origins, probably form outer space to see a threat in the little yellow fur ball. Serious? Try letting him tank lady bugs. That might work. Although the lady bug may panic and ppl would flame the chocobo for not keeping the villains in place but kite tanking them.

- They actually had a working AI for the chocobos but then a trainee asked. “Hey aren’t dodo’s supposed to be dumb? After all they have been extinct due to that reason. They role-players will hang us.” Everybody nod their heads the trainee got a promotion and the AI has been rewritten.
- It really is annoying that the more your buddy grows up the more often you got to resummon him. But it really makes sense that as the greedy little bastard grows older and does more work he demands more corn. Not his fault he got a fast metabolism.


- Previous Final Fantasy Franchises showed us that chocobos are worse than any Broadway-Diva. Don´t feed ´em enough in combat andt they are gone. Unmount them anywhere else other than a high security stable in an airship hovering over an ocean and they are gone. (Thank god they can’t fly or even that wouldn´t work.) Talk to them more than two words and they will dance half an hour. (probably their names – who knows). Be grateful she even invites you to her party form time to time. But she definitely won´t pug up with any <insert you class here> she met a few times for instances she can easily duo with the mogry from her fc. Plus she´s not a casual like you are and got full favour with all gc´s and finished the main story so she´s locked out from that.

- I wont even start about heavy armoured healer chicken. Tried that at my neighbours’ farm. Had sth. do with a fox a cooking pot and a first aid box. It just don’t works. But I do know now why turtles and foxes do not live in the same biotope. On the other hand it held aggro quite well even after I tried to abort the experiment. Maybe the healertree might be an option for those seeking a tanking chocobo.

The changes proposed here would make me actually want to use my chocobo, rather than ignoring it 99% of the time. Please make them more accessible, SE!