Rank 10 Chocobo Reached!

[BlazeChronic]

I'm going to level my Chocobo, any tips?

Yes : Don't do like the Op and throw darts at the skill tree. Focus on one stance, don't gimp yourself.

[Kasumuni]

[LoLo]

Except I had to level a character to get the chocobo, which I didn't get until I had the mount and grand company, plus my kills while leveling would never equal the 217xp per kill that a legacy lvl 50 would get.

you can get to level 30 in a day but ok I guess everyone wants to feel special/unique /shurg. Wouldn't it be hard to find out if you are server first?

[OmegaXtc]

Yes : Don't do like the Op and throw darts at the skill tree. Focus on one stance, don't gimp yourself.

Why would you waste 27 pts for the last three in any tree when you could get 7 in another tree and 3 in another tree for a lot of passive buffs? Are the aoe attacks and aoe medica worth it? Really?

[Monkey]

you can get to level 30 in a day but ok I guess everyone wants to feel special/unique /shurg. Wouldn't it be hard to find out if you are server first?

Why are you so negative?...

Congrats to topic creator. Whether you're server first and/or non legacy sever first, it is an awesome feat to accomplish. I just started leveling mine again. I am still only at lvl 4 :/

[OmegaXtc]

you can get to level 30 in a day but ok I guess everyone wants to feel special/unique /shurg. Wouldn't it be hard to find out if you are server first?

It's not really about lvl 30 to get the bird, its about being lvl 50 and getting 217 bird xp per kill instead of like 50 per kill while leveling.

[YeaniNah]

It's not really about lvl 30 to get the bird, its about being lvl 50 and getting 217 bird xp per kill instead of like 50 per kill while leveling.

He get 221exp where i am farming

Oh! and free stance yeah its work nice but i notice that i have to switch stance from free stance to healer stance for Choco Cure. Because i was ending up at half of life without he Choco Cure me until i switch him to Healer Stance. But at free Stance he only does Choco Regen.

Ofcourse you can get other skill at other Stance but will they do it on Free Stance? Since mine dont use Choco Cure

[Dragonskin]

I don't understand why people say the last rank ability is worth it either. AoE damage? Not awesome if you have mobs slept/bound or don't want more adds... can't put the chocobo in guard stance like summoner pets and there is zero ability to manually control them. AoE taunt? Unless it is way more powerful that the first tier taunt then it's worthless and again... can't turn it off so if you don't want more adds you better be very careful of your chocobo's position which is independent of your own. AoE heal? How often do you use a chocobo in a party that would need the extra heals? never. It would only be nice to be another heal that would hit you and if you were a summoner it would also hit your pet. Especially since the chocobo refuses to heal your summoner pet.. so an aoe heal (if it hits the pet) would be useful.

He get 221exp where i am farming

Oh! and free stance yeah its work nice but i notice that i have to switch stance from free stance to healer stance for Choco Cure. Because i was ending up at half of life without he Choco Cure me until i switch him to Healer Stance. But at free Stance he only does Choco Regen.

Ofcourse you can get other skill at other Stance but will they do it on Free Stance? Since mine dont use Choco Cure

Mine is rank 5 and will do choco cure outside healer stance, but he seems a lot less willing to cast it and I have died from him refusing to cast it when I needed it in free stance. However, last night he seemed a lot better after the patch that also addressed Eos not healing in certain situations.

[Neridine]

OP, how often does your bird use the healing potency buff? Curious what the hidden cooldown for it is, if any. I'm rank 7 now but stopped because last time I leveled it I damn near went insane going from lv4-7 in 24 hours. lol

BTW, to those saying bird is gimped by not dedicating it to one tree...the stances (save healer stance) really have a minimal impact on the effectiveness of the bird since they for the most part only limit the bird to using actions in that tree. For one, at 50 it has only about 2000 base HP, which is low for any job. Going completely down the tank tree to 10 will leave your bird with less than 2500 HP with way fewer defensive cooldowns than a real tank and the enmity is a joke. The DPS abilities and damage do not get substantially better as you progress down that line as well. Healer stuff is actually useful due to the way it spams but I would argue that the medica is almost completely not needed due to the fact that you'd probably want your bird over even a SCH faerie with the SCH AFK close to never making it really only useful for solo only where the extra 15% crit would be nice for its single target healing skills.

If any feedback to devs is being given from this post, I would recommend to:

1) Increase chocobo base HP to about 3200.
2) Have stances have a dramatic effect on the bird's stats (as opposed to basically being for a minor AI change now). For example, tank stance increases bird max HP significantly and increases enmity, damage taken reduced etc. DPS stance increase attack power, weapon skill hidden cooldown reduction, attack speed, and so on.
3) Ability to use while DFing and ability to do instanced content alongside them (ie, not with random people but where you and a friend could both summon birds and do some light party dungeons).
4) Actually add stuff to the open world that you would want to do at level 50 that would require your buddy. The open world right now is almost exclusively only good for leveling currently....

[Neridine]

I don't understand why people say the last rank ability is worth it either. AoE damage? Not awesome if you have mobs slept/bound or don't want more adds... can't put the chocobo in guard stance like summoner pets and there is zero ability to manually control them. AoE taunt? Unless it is way more powerful that the first tier taunt then it's worthless and again... can't turn it off so if you don't want more adds you better be very careful of your chocobo's position which is independent of your own. AoE heal? How often do you use a chocobo in a party that would need the extra heals? never. It would only be nice to be another heal that would hit you and if you were a summoner it would also hit your pet. Especially since the chocobo refuses to heal your summoner pet.. so an aoe heal (if it hits the pet) would be useful.

He uses choco cure in free stance when you're at about 33% HP and will spam it to bring your HP up if you do dip that low.