Chocobo Racing & Weather effects unequal?

[Lilianne]

Bad weather also has an effect on foul weather chocobos from my observations. In addition, take note of what course you are racing on; each course has a different effect on your stamina and overall speed.
Without taking into account all stats, and all courses; it's hard to say for sure what the effects of weather are exactly.

For example, there are 3 kinds of bad and good weather. But why are they listed as both bad or good, and as 3 different types of good/bad?
Could it be that each individual good or bad weather also has (slightly?) different effects on chocobo racing, depending on your chocobos preference?

What effect have you seen on foul weather chocobos? Because all I have seen is a bird that runs normally no matter the weather, no major variance in times at all between races (All I race is sagolii until R180)

[Aeyis]

What effect have you seen on foul weather chocobos? Because all I have seen is a bird that runs normally no matter the weather, no major variance in times at all between races (All I race is sagolii until R180)

Slowing down when hitting large puddels of water (when it was raining hard), as well as losing stamina faster during that type of weather. I've only used a foul weather chocobo thus far tho, and nearly only on costa del sol. Havent had bad weather very often.
Especially during the first part of the race this seemed to effect me the most.


I noticed taking a large hit to stamina in the other 2 courses, and I figured that might be due to speed builds being more favorable on longer/wider/leveler courses.


I've had to restart chocobo racing tho since I didnt get the quest at rank 40, I'll see if I can pay more attention to specific type of weather this time around. I do think its an important difference which type of fair or bad weather is in effect, otherwise it wouldnt make much sense to list them seperately. But I could well be wrong.

[Lilianne]

Stamina loss isn't my major problem, I can manage that, its more just the absolute horrible slow down that birds get as soon as rain starts compared to no similiar slow down for foul birds in sunshine/heat.

[Oriens]

Stamina loss isn't my major problem, I can manage that, its more just the absolute horrible slow down that birds get as soon as rain starts compared to no similiar slow down for foul birds in sunshine/heat.

I believe foul weather chocobos do not take any performance loss for normal weather and excel during foul weather, making it a preferred trait.