Legacy Chocobo

[Guyon]

This might sound ridiculous to some, but this is something that's been bothering me since the start of ARR. Why make a separate chocobo for the legacy one?

Why not make the company chocobo of legacy members with the new skin of the legacy one (just like legacy members have the legacy tattoo) and make the legacy barding a changeable barding like the others?

I don't know why, but I can't seem to get over the fact that this same chocobo was with us during the 6th era, waited for us for 5 years, searching for us through many adventures (from what the Legacy Chocobo description says) just the end up an alternative mount.

It feels somewhat sad and disrespectful towards that chocobo (even if it's just a digital entity...) to be put in second and being replace by another since the beginning. It's another chocobo that fights by our side all the time...

[Enkidoh]

Well, I never had a chocobo in 1.0 anyway so the whole lore padding for the Legacy Chocobo is somewhat moot to me (I'm just regarding it that it belonged to someone else at Carteneau and, like most in Eorzea, is suffering from amnesia and thus latched onto any 'Legacy' adventurer it could find). I just like it for it's unique appearance and comparative rarity and exclusivity.

And I disagree with simply making it barding - even without the saddle and bridle the actual chocobo's colouring is completely different to the regular ones (notice the singed feathers and the darker colouring, plus the 'Legacy Mark' we have on our backs branded onto it's beak?). I love my Legacy Chocobo - in fact I prefer to ride it more than my default GC chocobo or any other mount. So I am perfectly happy with how it is.

[Guyon]

You seem to have missed part of what I said.

For the barding, I was saying that it should've been a changeable one.
For the chocobo, I said that the skin of the legacy members should be the one of the legacy.

Basicaly making the Company Chocobo of legacy members with the skin of the legacy one trashing the skin of the normal one, this way we would have only one chocobo that would be the legacy one, being able to have it fight by our side.

As for the backstory, on 1.0 you couldn't fight beside it, but you still had one as a mount and with the description on the Legacy Chocobo, that same chocobo you had as a mount in the 1.0 is that same legacy chocobo.

[RhynAzullo]

I would like to use my Legacy chocobo as the companion since I like the black tipped feathers and so on. But what's good about them being separate is that you can have your chocobo stabled and then still have a chocobo to ride around on. That's the only way you're able to have two chocobos in game at the moment, so that's the positive side to it, I guess.

[Guyon]

From what i've been doing with the stable, i put it in, train it, take it out and go back to what i was doing. So hasn't really been a bother to me.

[Dijana]

I always wished that I could use my legacy chocobo as my default one, being the one I could summon to fight with and whatnot. But then it'd probably need a different scene for when you pick it up, considering that the company chocobo was one you had to get a license for, and you are given it by a stable that raised it. Your legacy chocobo has been running around having adventures for 5 years, not sitting around in a city stable waiting to be handed out to whoever happens to buy a license from their GC.

What I really want is to learn more about those adventures the mount guide mentions it had, and how it got that awesome barding.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

Just seen the Legacy Chocobo model on youtube, very sweet looking! Almost makes me wish I'd played 1.0 (if I had a pc that could I would lol)

Seems like a nice thing for the 1.0 veterans to let them keep their original mounts, as for the difference in appearence between 1.0 and 2.0 that could rationalised with the change in enviromental factors in Coerthas and nature (chocobo species) adapting - it did go from a lush green land to ice/snow bound wasteland from what I gather lore-wise.

[ispano]

Just seen the Legacy Chocobo model on youtube, very sweet looking! Almost makes me wish I'd played 1.0 (if I had a pc that could I would lol)

Seems like a nice thing for the 1.0 veterans to let them keep their original mounts, as for the difference in appearence between 1.0 and 2.0 that could rationalised with the change in enviromental factors in Coerthas and nature (chocobo species) adapting - it did go from a lush green land to ice/snow bound wasteland from what I gather lore-wise.

Legacy Chocobo wasn't something we had in 1.0. It's different from the GC Chocobo we had then. Not all 1.0 players got it either since not all of them made the requirements for it.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

Legacy Chocobo wasn't something we had in 1.0. It's different from the GC Chocobo we had then. Not all 1.0 players got it either since not all of them made the requirements for it.

Ah okay lol, well it was based on a quick youtube/google search (im watch tv at same time lol), also to be honest OP's question is little confusing :/

[Enkidoh]

Yeah Milmoko, ispano is right - to get the Legacy Chocobo you had to not just have been an active version 1.0 player, you specifically had to qualify for this.