Chocobo grind

Took me a while to get my Chocobo and i keep hearing the exact same complaint from everyone in my guild.

''How do i get my Chocobo??''

There isnt a clear indication in game on how players obtain it or the right to use their Coeurl mount either. I could not find an up to date or concise step by step procedure in order to obtain it, so here is my step by step procedure.

- You must be minimum level 20.
- You must have completed ''The company you keep'' which has your selected Grand Company name attached to the end of the title of the quest.
- Here is the list of main story quests so that you may find out where you are in your progress.
- Once those conditions are met, you need to visit the Grand Company Commander - for the Twin Adder, it is in the ''Adder's Nest'' in ''New Gridania'' which at the North West of the zone.
- He will have a quest that you cannot immediately complete. It is called ''My little Chocobo''. This requires that you hand in a ''Chocobo Issuance'' item. This item can be purchased from the Grand Company Quartermaster in the same location as the Commander. This requires 2000 Grand Company seals as currency to purchase.
- Now you need to find your Company Leve provider. For the Twin Adder, he is located in The Hawthorne Hut, in the Eastern Shroud.
- You have a limit of 6 leve's per 3 hour period. You will likely need to go back to him to obtain and complete all 6 as they are not all given at once.
- Leve's are basically quests that you must be in a certain area and ''initiate'' via the quest information from the Journal. If i recall correctly, you can get 138 seals for the base leve itself, plus up to 38 bonus for completing it with a bonus set to +4 levels as well as completion speed.
- Once you have completed all 6, and obtained all 1056 seals, you will be short just under 1000. You can either wait the 3 hour cooldown and obtain and complete another 6, or complete FATE's, which on average provide only 50 seals for a full contribution completion. There is no limit on FATE grinding so if you dont mind grinding, be my guest.
- After finally obtaining 2000 (click on your Gil coin at the bottom right to see your total seals) you need to go back to the Quartermaster and manually purchase the Chocobo Issuance item from his store.
- When you finally have your Issuance, go visit the Chocobokeep in New Gridania and finally hand in the quest. You will be given a Chocobo Whistle, which when used will convert the item into an ability from which you can then drag to your action bars from the mounts menu of your abilities window.
- You must also name your Chocobo before you are able to use it.
- You also cannot use your Chocobo when you first get it, as for some reason you are denied the ability to summon it inside a ''City state'' zone such as New/Old Gridania.

The GC Leve-giver also has provision and requisitioning quests you can complete for seals too. This is based upon what trade classes you have.

Thanks for spelling this out, I've been looking all over the place trying to figure out how to get a chocobo and couldn't find the information anywhere else.

I gotta say, that's one heck of a grind just for a mount... hope the feathery little bugger's worth it...

When earning Company Seals for your Chocobo (or anything else), don't forget your Company Hunting Log, and don't forget you can turn stuff in for seals ("Supply Missions" and "Provisioning MIssions").

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Originally Posted by Magnus_Samma

Thanks for spelling this out, I've been looking all over the place trying to figure out how to get a chocobo and couldn't find the information anywhere else.

I gotta say, that's one heck of a grind just for a mount... hope the feathery little bugger's worth it...

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Quiet, or we'll scarify you with what you had to do to get your chocobo in FFXI.

How I did mine was that since I know I need to lvl a sub class to 15 in order to get my job when I hit 30 with main job, once I hit lvl 20 and got the quest, I just swap on to my sub class and grind fate until lvl 15. By the time you are 15 w/ your sub class, you will have more than enough seals.

In my case, I had 10k seals.

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Originally Posted by Conradus

Quiet, or we'll scarify you with what you had to do to get your chocobo in FFXI.

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I forget what I had to do in ff11 to get the chocobo, in fact, I forget most of the stuffs in ff11 already as it was LONG time ago (played between the period where ff11 1st launch in Japan only until NA release). All I remember is that everything in ff11 is grinding and requires party pass lvl 10. Unless you are BST. hahah It was fun time....

Not sure what Fates you were doing that only gave you 50 seals per shot. But most of the ones i did in Eastern Thanaland (if i spelled that right) were giving 100 - 150 per Fate.

If you follow the story line it takes you to the quest to get a Chocobo from your GC.

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Originally Posted by Rahspdoy

Not sure what Fates you were doing that only gave you 50 seals per shot. But most of the ones i did in Eastern Thanaland (if i spelled that right) were giving 100 - 150 per Fate.

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That was average. That included such things as the lower rewarding fates, arriving too late, under performing etc. Grinding fates are unreliable as a steady source. If you can manage better than the average, then more power to you.

nice guide :)
fyi, you can put them all together on your first post if you edit it

Maybe it's because my main class was an Archer (They get the movement song), but I never really needed to "grind" for the seals, and in fact felt it wiser to just participate in any Fates you happen by while you continue to do quests and the main storyline. Maps don't really get so large that a mount is absolutely necessary (The only one I've found is the southernmost section of South Thanland), so it really doesn't put a hamper on the speed at which you level.

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Originally Posted by The_Last_Dragoon

Maybe it's because my main class was an Archer (They get the movement song), but I never really needed to "grind" for the seals, and in fact felt it wiser to just participate in any Fates you happen by while you continue to do quests and the main storyline. Maps don't really get so large that a mount is absolutely necessary (The only one I've found is the southernmost section of South Thanland), so it really doesn't put a hamper on the speed at which you level.

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It is up to individual interpretation. To me, it is a grind, and as such i referred to it as a grind. /shrug

Took me no time at all, I was able to have my mount almost immediately upon hitting 20 from the Hunting Log and FATES are very easy to get "Gold" everytime unless you arrive super late.

Definitely a bit of a grind, but the main story quest leads you right into it.

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Originally Posted by Dalok

Took me no time at all, I was able to have my mount almost immediately upon hitting 20 from the Hunting Log and FATES are very easy to get "Gold" everytime unless you arrive super late.

Definitely a bit of a grind, but the main story quest leads you right into it.

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I am astounded how many people don't bother doing their main quest. It unlocks a good 2/3 of the content in the game. Sure you can go from 1-50 with only doing the main quest up to the point where you are allowed to explore. But that is really dumb to me.

Questing XP is essential for your first class. Once you hit 50 you can go without. But you should never skip your main quest.

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Originally Posted by Dalok

Took me no time at all, I was able to have my mount almost immediately upon hitting 20 from the Hunting Log and FATES are very easy to get "Gold" everytime unless you arrive super late.

Definitely a bit of a grind, but the main story quest leads you right into it.

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I am afraid you are mistaking ''leads you right into it'' with ''leads you to the general area''.

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Originally Posted by Jaminos

I am astounded how many people don't bother doing their main quest. It unlocks a good 2/3 of the content in the game. Sure you can go from 1-50 with only doing the main quest up to the point where you are allowed to explore. But that is really dumb to me.

Questing XP is essential for your first class. Once you hit 50 you can go without. But you should never skip your main quest.

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That is because it isnt apparent that it is in fact important. There is no in-game notification that ''this is important, therefore you must do this'' like a lot of things in this game. The game makes quite a lot of assumptions on new players - so much so you would not believe how often ive had to explain how to get a Chocobo to people, simply because it isnt shown to players.

You will no doubt disagree with me, but this game needs quite a lot of explanation for new players. I know this from personal experience. I have never played any multiplayer Final Fantasy game before this one. So i knew NOTHING. Endless questions, google searches and digging through these forums have provided me the information - simply to be able to PLAY this game.

Most MMO's need no real explanation. You create a character, collect/accept quest, cast spell to kill quest objective, return/hand in quest and that is all. Repeat that until you hit max level. There are lots of things in this particular game that are very new to the whole genre of MMO's. This is a good thing yes, but a lot of it requires explanation - which this game does a really poor job of teaching to new players.

I got all my seals in about 3 hours, without really noticing.

If you go to Upper La Noscea, you can find 2-3 monsters (Coeurl Pup and the Kobolds) in the hunting log, as well as 3 easy FATEs in the lower area. IIRC, you get about 400 seals per monster in the hunting log, and 40-100+ per fate.

It's the place with the big skeleton. You can also pick up two parts of the scale armour set and the baby bat minion in the same area.

This is not a "grind" at all - you can get your mount in one short afternoon of causal playing. Wait for a REAL grind when you'll try to level your companion chocobo to lvl 10 ...

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Originally Posted by HEC

This is not a "grind" at all - you can get your mount in one short afternoon of causal playing. Wait for a REAL grind when you'll try to level your companion chocobo to lvl 10 ...

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Once again, i disagree. For me personally, along with many friends in the game, it was in fact a grind. So, for this thread that i have created, i refer to it exactly what it was to me - a grind.

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Originally Posted by mouseno4

Once again, i disagree. For me personally, along with many friends in the game, it was in fact a grind. So, for this thread that i have created, i refer to it exactly what it was to me - a grind.

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I think perhaps knowing how to do it quickly is the difficult part, so your guide is definitely gonna help people. Once you've got that nailed though, it's quite a short, simple process.

The Grand Company hunting log is a great place to start.

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Originally Posted by mouseno4

Once again, i disagree. For me personally, along with many friends in the game, it was in fact a grind. So, for this thread that i have created, i refer to it exactly what it was to me - a grind.

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Of course it was a grind for you, you were grinding low level fates instead of fates at your own level and doing the Grand Company hunting log after you ran out of Guild Leves, 2000 seals isn't very much when you consider the fact that maxing out a grand company takes about... 44k seals, and that's if you never buy anything else with them except promotions, which still isn't actually that much, since the first hunting log gives about 2k seals, the second gives about 10k, and the third gives about 20k.

Thank you, OP. I do enjoy playing through all the main story quests and side quests and am sure I will get the chocobo eventually, but, as a new player it can be very confusing to figure out how to do some simple things in the game, this list helps to clarify things. :)

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Originally Posted by mouseno4

I am afraid you are mistaking ''leads you right into it'' with ''leads you to the general area''.

That is because it isnt apparent that it is in fact important. There is no in-game notification that ''this is important, therefore you must do this'' like a lot of things in this game.

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When you first load into the game in the instanced starting area, the first (and only) quest available is the start of the main story. You must accept and complete this quest prior to being allowed to leave the instance. That fact, coupled with the main story quests having a distinct section heading in the quest journal, should be enough to indicate that it is important.

On completing the main story quest swearing allegiance to your Grand Company, you are told by the NPC that you have earned a mount, and you are directed explicitly by dialogue with this NPC on who to talk to and what to provide to obtain this mount.

It takes time to get to this point in the quest line, and a little more time to get the seals required, but the argument that it is not readily apparent what you should be doing to unlock this or any other feature of the game doesn't really stand up.

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Originally Posted by Saevel

When you first load into the game in the instanced starting area, the first (and only) quest available is the start of the main story. You must accept and complete this quest prior to being allowed to leave the instance. That fact, coupled with the main story quests having a distinct section heading in the quest journal, should be enough to indicate that it is important.

On completing the main story quest swearing allegiance to your Grand Company, you are told by the NPC that you have earned a mount, and you are directed explicitly by dialogue with this NPC on who to talk to and what to provide to obtain this mount.

It takes time to get to this point in the quest line, and a little more time to get the seals required, but the argument that it is not readily apparent what you should be doing to unlock this or any other feature of the game doesn't really stand up.

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Sorry, but evidently - which many many people can attest to - it is not. Sorry.