Chocobo raising preview!

[Ruethryl]

Kinda hoping it won't take cross-breeding, that'll just be irritating without end. My FC's resident gardener probably won't be pleased that she has to relinquish some land for choco food either ^^;;

[Moheeheeko]

My FC's resident gardener probably won't be pleased that she has to relinquish some land for choco food either ^^;;

just tell her they will probably all sell for more than glazenuts and im sure she will be just fine.

[Tupsi]

I think that at the very least 1 type of feed should come from outside gardening. Several types of feed should be available from crafting (Culinarian and Alchemist maybe), and others should come from gathering.

Making all feeds come from gardening seems like a ridiculous bottleneck. Hopefully, they actually meant that you can get chocobo feed from gardening but neglected to refer that you can also get it from other sources. The rank cap remover being a gardening only item I'm ok with. These will sell for a lot, but ultimately, the need for them won't be as great as with the other feeds once you reach rank 20 on your choco.

To be fair, it gives incentive to actually do gardening even more - Making some, even a "special" one come from an event or dungeon drop is a ridiculous bottleneck in that fashion as well, because then you potentially lose out on drops because of the choco feed people didn't want to garden droppin in a slot.

[Kallera]

Um so we can level our chocobos even more, that sounds nice and I'm for it.

The question I have is... for what? We already got this at the suggestion of a chocobo dungeon:

Hello,

Thanks for the request!

The development team doesn’t have any plans to add dungeons for chocobos or group content for companions at the moment.

However, lore-wise, we’ll be adding quests in patch 2.3 for chocobo raising, and you’ll be able to learn more about chocobo lore through these to build on what you can learn through the main scenario quests and companion system unlocking quests.

We can already thrash most everything that not Odin or behemoth in the open world. So really, what will we be able to do in addition with our skilled chocobo who is already the big fish in a small pond?

[Moheeheeko]

Um so we can level our chocobos even more, that sounds nice and I'm for it.

The question I have is... for what?

because its fun?

[Bluevann]

Am I the only one disappointed that we will be "raising" an already fully grown chocobo and not start from an egg and watch the chick grow into an adult? T-T This should've been called "chocobo training". The word "raising" gave me entirely different expectations...

[Riepah]

Am I the only one disappointed that we will be "raising" an already fully grown chocobo and not start from an egg and watch the chick grow into an adult? T-T This should've been called "chocobo training". The word "raising" gave me entirely different expectations...

I agree, I was expecting them to somehow allow us to breed Chocobos and raise the resulting chicks.

[Eight]

I agree, I was expecting them to somehow allow us to breed Chocobos and raise the resulting chicks.

This is what I initially thought it would be. Was kind of hoping they would have taken a page from FFVII and gave us the chance to have different colored chocobos.

[Amnesia]

Was kind of hoping they would (...) gave us the chance to have different colored chocobos.

You will have the option to recolor your chocobo in an upcoming patch.

[Valmar]

This is what I initially thought it would be. Was kind of hoping they would have taken a page from FFVII and gave us the chance to have different colored chocobos.

Different Colored Chocobo's will come in patch 2.35 as an item will be released that you can feed to your Chocobo to change the color of its plumes.

and its called Chocobo Raising because in patch 2.4 you will be able to raise Chocobo's as you will also have Chocobo Racing in Gold Saucer.