Chocobo Racing 2.55

[Aphel]

I don't know about you guys but this patch made almost every ability relevant now.

Abilities that remove Frenzy
Choco Esuna - Removal
Choco Calm - Removes and gives you a TON of stamina (drawback being that it can be used only once unless refreshed). I remember restoring 100 stamina was equivalent to 1 stamina potion (~9%), so Calm III basically recovers 2 stamina potions' worth (!)
Level Head - Prevents

Abilities that remove Heavy
Choco Esuna - Removal
Choco Ease - Removes and gives you a crapload of stamina
Heavy Resistance - Prevents

Boosting Grav + Frenzy also affected the importance of Choco Reflect, and Choco Steal. There's greater emphasis on what items you should be leaving behind for your competitors. If anything, there's more viable ways to build your Choco now than ever before. Build it defensive, build it offensive. Budget your stamina so that you have spare for a stray Frenzy. Now that players can't sprint all the way, there's more importance in stats like Acceleration/Endurance.

No, Head Start + Chocodash + W doesn't guarantee you a win now. If you intend to be in first place from start till end, you better pack a defensive cooldown of some sort.

There's a ton of variety brought into Chocobo racing and I like it.

Edit: Also if I'm not wrong, they really did lessen the probability of the first item being a beneficial (stamina/hero) item. So you can't sprint and pray anymore. A lot of players were doing this pre-patch and it was brainless and so hard to catch up. SE really did listen.

[JubjubTubs]

There's a ton of variety brought into Chocobo racing and I like it.

Edit: too long -snip-

No, there is no variety. The frequency of gravi/water is so insane right now, the only real option is the 2 passive V resists. Why pluck around with being able to maybe remove with a calm/ease, or maybe time reflect right. 100% immunity, or bust.

The Sprint-pray thing... such a simple fix, make the loot table on chests very low for the 1-2nd items rng'ing buffs. But they didn't do this. They did it on every slot in chests. So how do people catch up that have been beat down by too many red items now, when they are 0.00 or nearly derpin it along? Hope their gravi/waters they 90% likely going to get works? On these NPCs? Ha, laughable. Cause it will be NPCS, real ppl don't play.