About pets

[wind]

Hated those beani-babies personally

So I'm fine with pet-less DRG's lol unless they looked like mini fafnirs then I guess I'd be all for it :P haha

[Arcell]

Now, does "fighting with the help of personal chocobo" mean combat while riding or it's going to attack things alongside us on foot? The wording is a little vague.

[Kailok]

This is great news! It's safe to assume then that in 1.19 we'll be getting both rental chocobos and personal ones? (I don't want to take anything translated out of context) >.>

[Dargoth_Draconia]

"It would be nice to have a garden in front of your house, so let’s test this out."

Score, Nice to know that when thinking of player housing he may want to go the Everquest II or other MMOs of the sort route.

[Arcell]

Also if it is fighting while riding a chocobo, how would it work for Pugilists?

[Raistlin]

Also if it is fighting while riding a chocobo, how would it work for Pugilists?

Kicking heads

[Joeking]

I like the idea of pets, as long as we can use them to fight with other players like pokemon....

I choose you Malboro... Opponent chooses Marmot...



Marmot has been slain....

[Leonesaurus]

Here are some additional comments that Yoshida made over the weekend regarding the upcoming chocobo-related content.
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Hi, this is Yoshida, the producer/director.

First of all, chocobos will not be implemented through a single update only, but will be implemented through a gradual process of content iteration (excluding Chocobo rentals)

Here is a simplified plan:
1. Calling a personal chocobo
2. Riding a personal chocobo
3. Walking next to a personal chocobo
4. Raising and dressing up a personal chocobo
5. Fighting with the help of a personal chocobo

I created this plan myself, but some features are not possible to implement at this moment. It would take way too long to implement everything at once, so we plan on implementing this bit by bit, starting with numbers 1 and 2. This is the plan for patch 1.19. More details will be revealed later in an upcoming letter.

Regarding pet classes, from summoning pets to taming, we are still in the preliminary planning stages, so we don't know which direction we're going to start with yet. Either way would be fine. We still need to do all the battle-related adjustments, class balance adjustments, and implement the job system first before anything else, so we will be looking at any ideas you have for us.

If cultivation is implemented, I would like to have gardens implemented as well. It would be nice to have a garden in front of your house, so let’s test this out.

Alright.... It's official..... I just got an erection....

I can't express in words how much this has made me happy, grateful and extremely hopeful in the very near future for what I wanted in this game.

THIS POST WINS THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Bayohne and Yoshi P for the post and translations!!! You guys $@!%ing ROCK!!!

[Bayohne]

Yoshida did have a comment about mounted battles when the discussion came up, too!

It would be very difficult to feature mounted battles on every field. Therefore, instead of creating mediocre content for every area, we would like to make these battles special. This will be far ahead in the future, but if we were to implement mounted battles, we would like to make this specialized content. This way we can focus our resources to create the most interesting and optimized content.

The road is very long, so we would greatly appreciate your patience and support. m(._.)m

[Alaltus]

Also if it is fighting while riding a chocobo, how would it work for Pugilists?

I'm flashing back to ff8 jet pack punch up over galbadia garden. Commandeer the enemy cavalry!