Current chocobos and raising

[Viritess]

I thought Yoshi-P had mentioned switching your Chocobo's job/class. Can't find the comment though. I actually kinda hope they let you use the current Chocobo for both. He had mentioned in the same article that you would ride the chocobo, and when dismounting it would stick around.

Besides i would rather not totally relegate my good and loyal Ico to the Feather heap. Hes a good Bo and i'd like him to be able to keep on Choco'in.

[Nuru]

One thing I love about what Yoshi mentioned was that there would be armor you can equip to your Chocobo. This gets me thinking about chocobo tales x3

[Niqote]

My biggest question in regards to Chocobos is whether or not color is going to be tied to their classes/jobs...

Tank = Red/White
Nuker = Black
Healer = Green
Melee = Red/Blue

They better not be... -_- as that would put a damper on my spirits.

I loved chocobo breeding and racing in 11... I really hope we get a system that is similar but improved, with many more colour possibilities and cards that actually display the stats and heritage of the chocobos ^^

[bobbygunz]

Lamed? Sorry if I don't know much FFXIV lingo yet.

Not really FFXIV lingo but general lingo.

Anyways, I was watching Archeage's 5th closed beta streams and they have mount raising in that game, you can also do so many things with your mounts; they can jump, sprint, winny, walk side-ways, fight with you, and they DIE. There's also mounted combat.

I just hope that with a focus on Chocobo raising in FFXIV, they at least try to meet some of these standards. Hopefully they add a mounting animation too.

They better not be... -_- as that would put a damper on my spirits.

Agreed. They already tried this and failed when they updated all the armour to be colour-class specifc, so it would be foolish of them to repeat the mistake and try to colour-lock everything again.

[Valantrix]

A curious thing to note is that I've observed - and this is simply an observation - that my friend's chocobo typically gets lamed on the first hit from even relatively low-level monsters (r46 when she's 50, for example) whereas my husband's chocobo, Ponce, gets lamed about 50% of the time. Mine, on the other hand, very rarely gets lamed. I think it's happened a total of 10 times, and this includes a few parties where I was the puller in Natalan.

I'm not saying that there's some underlying chocobo class already in effect now, but it really is curious to me that there's such a vast difference between our three chocobos.

I have noticed something very similar. When I have my monk job equiped, I very rarely have my chocobo lamed. However, when I have my black mage job equiped it seems to happen a little more frequently. {hmmmm}

[Ruisu]

Hopefully they add a mounting animation too.

What reason is there for this aside from graphics?

[Felis]

Won't be available at launch, Yoshi said chocobo stables in residential houses won't be patched in for a while. Seeing as all talks of personal fighting chocobo's has seemed to tie into raising them it's pretty safe to say we won't have the feature till we get stables.

There is still a public stable at camp bentbranch in the gamescom video.

[Rahsch]

I don't think you can change your chocobo's role, it said in one of the translations that while raising you chocobo you have to think carefully before you decide which role you want your chocobo to perform.

[Molly_Millions]

I don't think you can change your chocobo's role, it said in one of the translations that while raising you chocobo you have to think carefully before you decide which role you want your chocobo to perform.

I read that in a recent interview. Pick the class once and it stays that way. In that case, mine will be a healer.

[Rahsch]

I read that in a recent interview. Pick the class once and it stays that way. In that case, mine will be a healer.

I was thinking since I'll be mostly a White Mage and a Summoner in some cases I was thinking either the caster or the tank chocobo.