Far too much RNG in Chocobo racing

[RyuujinZERO]

I agree there. Bacchus water borders on just uncontrolled acceleration for all the "damage" it does, and graviball is very short and can be powered through fairly easily; further highlights the imbalance really between skills like caltrops that can take a contender out in a single hit, and skills like graviball that scarcely ever have an appreciable effect on the outcome of the race.

[Angelusdemonus]

....and skills like graviball that scarcely ever have an appreciable effect on the outcome of the race.

Graviballs are very effective in the later rating races, because it always drops your speed extremely low. They shouldn't be changed unless you alter them for races under R120.

[RyuujinZERO]

Graviballs are very effective in the later rating races, because it always drops your speed extremely low. They shouldn't be changed unless you alter them for races under R120.

Ah I see, so it sets your speed to a fixed value rather than by a quantity, they do need to change that value then to make them useful in lower tier races. As you can imagine it's incredibly frustrating when you have people getting multiple sprint shoes in a race, but you're only getting graviballs, which do not have a nearly equitable result.

Seems like there should be parity; if shoes makes you move faster, allowing racer X to gain 3 seconds on the group, then graviball should make racer X lose 3 seconds on the group.