Please fix Healer Chocobo's priorities

[Joe777]

I'm not denying you of making a valid request, I'm trying to understand in what kind of situation would you be in where both you and the chocobo would be dying, because it should be pretty rare in my opinion. Also it could not be compared to an actual healer because they have CDs or insta-heals available if necessary to save the endangered player.

I will use the 1 that made me come here then.

I was doing a FATE in Churning Mists as SAM. Things were fine until a nearby Moss Dragon jumped in. The FATE was already on a low amount of time left so I retreated until one of them went after my Chocobo, but both did. I attacked the Moss Dragon and it went after me. By the time I killed the Moss Dragon my Chocobo was slain because it was healing me and not itself. I resummoned it and had about maybe 40% of my HP left or so. Chocobo used Choco Surge during the time I resummoned it and died because it didn't heal me. I had already popped a Potion and Second Wind. This of course was a Lv54 FATE so that was all the self-healing I had. This was all in Healer Stance btw.

If the Chocobo was conditioned to automatically Choco Cure whoever was about to die things would have been different.

[Rawrz]

What I dont get is why is chocoregen lower potency than choco cure?!

[ElHeggunte]

Hmm, can't say I've ever had any real issue with my chocobo's AI. Free Stance is usually fine for most situations, but if I want more constant healing I switch him to Healer. Can't say I've ever really had any problems with him besides him sometimes getting a little too spam-happy with Medica instead of directly healing me, but I've never been in a situation in recent memory where I've died because he was too busy screwing around. Any time I've died was against something that was going to kill me anyway, healing or no. Like the time I poked that SB A-rank because I was curious as to how long I could survive alone (incidentally, a MNK can average about 6 seconds against one of the ones in Yanxia--just long enough to exclaim "this isn't so ba--oh").

[Joe777]

What I dont get is why is chocoregen lower potency than choco cure?!

Probably to make Choco Cure overall better, and yet Chocobo does still use Choco Regen when it should use Choco Cure anyway at times. Choco Cure's priorities are just so jacked up, and I'm honestly afraid to know what Choco Medica's are.

[Simpicity]

Chocobo's are pretty dumb until Rank 10. Then they are dishing out 5k+ Cures and it'll be better.

Just stance dance them between Healer and Free until then.


We do need a Place ability however for Healer mode.

[Joe777]

Chocobo's are pretty dumb until Rank 10. Then they are dishing out 5k+ Cures and it'll be better.

Just stance dance them between Healer and Free until then.


We do need a Place ability however for Healer mode.

I'd settle with the capability to actually order our Chocobo to use specific abilities in specific stances. Free Stance it can just do whatever.

[Spiroglyph]

:/ It might be weird to relate choco's AI to its rank - but I found that after having my chocobo reach r20 I can leave it in free stance a lot more than while it was ~10. At around r10 it's most frequently used skill was regen (in free stance), which is not all that helpful, and only under healer stance did it use cure when it needed to, but now I can pretty much leave it unattended and it's fine, it casts cure more frequently.

If you have it in HEALER stance, though, and have focus on its healing spells until you unlock all of them, then I'm curious as to how exactly you're having problems? I mean, it's not fail proof, but even in soloing fates you should have an okay enough time provided you're pulling one by one.

[Cenerae]

Probably to make Choco Cure overall better, and yet Chocobo does still use Choco Regen when it should use Choco Cure anyway at times. Choco Cure's priorities are just so jacked up, and I'm honestly afraid to know what Choco Medica's are.

I have heard nothing good about choco medica. To the point where I've heard you shouldn't teach it to your chocobo at all.

[Rawrz]

What I really want to see is the option to remove skills from their skill pool. Maybe call it Focused Stance.

You would select or deselect skills from your chocos moovepool. By default, as they are learned they are enabled.

An example would be that you have a rank 20 chocobo. It has every perk from every tree. You don't necessarily want your choco tanking, and up just went up the tree for the perks. You could disable tank stance altogether by selecting healer or attacker stance, But what if you want both? Manually switching between stances in battle defeats the purpose of the uncontrollable AI. Instead you could deselect all of the tank skills and deselect choco regen and choco medica. You bird would then be able to heal and dps without trying to spam its defense spell every time it took a hit.

[Doki]

Itwould be really nice if they made healing chocobo NOT stand right on top of you and eat every AoE, forcing it to heal itself instead of you after a while.