Chocobo raising preview!

[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.

[Gilthas]

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.

Um, where exactly did I mention making chocobo feed drop in dungeons or come from events?

Our FC is small but all 3 of our gardens are constantly being used.

[Tchoc]

I am less than fond of the idea that chocobo raising is gated behind gardening. This means that your ability to use the system is dependent upon your FC not once but twice over: they have to install the stables AND they have to determine who gets the items to raise their chocobos.

Solo players, arguably the people who would most desire this system, could be locked out of it entirely.

I really feel this is content that could have been better implemented at the existing chocobo farm (by individual purchase of a berth) and open to everybody.

There's lots of stuff I don't mind being gated behind FC doors, this just seems counter-intuitive.

[Kallera]

I am less than fond of the idea that chocobo raising is gated behind gardening. This means that your ability to use the system is dependent upon your FC not once but twice over: they have to install the stables AND they have to determine who gets the items to raise their chocobos.

Solo players, arguably the people who would most desire this system, could be locked out of it entirely.

I really feel this is content that could have been better implemented at the existing chocobo farm (by individual purchase of a berth) and open to everybody.

There's lots of stuff I don't mind being gated behind FC doors, this just seems counter-intuitive.

It all is just begging for a fc debacle to happen...that is a lot of power the fc leadership holds over gameplay.

[Nalien]

So... Why can't Chocobo Raising be done at one of the many stables around Eorzea? While we're at it, why do Private Rooms need to be locked behind Free Companies too? Let me pay the damned Inn Keeper to buy one of the infinite number of rooms they have.

Why is so much casual content being locked behind Free Companies? This is starting to get ridiculous... I can get something like Primal Summoning being locked behind Free Companies, but Gardening, Chocobo Raising, and Private Rooms? Seriously? I guess the developers just needed to give Free Companies some purpose, seeing as they have absolutely none outside such content...

I really don't get why so much of the casual content in this game is locked down in such a way...

[Felis]

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.

1 seed you can buy from a NPC. It still need to be planted first.

[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.

[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?