A Plea for the Removal of Chocobo Heavy

[MyKotoShi]

Hello community, I have a serious complaint regarding the function of travel.

While riding your chocobo, as I'm sure all of you by now are aware, and taking enemy attacks you have a chance of being heavied.
This chance might increase when attacked from behind.

And I know that by now many of you have come to settle with this game
mechanic and don't think much or twice about it when this occurs to you in-game.

However, I find this incredibly annoying and unfair, which I'll go into in a second.

In 1.0, being attacked by a high-leveled monster sometimes meant your chocobo running away from under you,
leaving you alone in the hostile environment you found yourself in.
This left you the option to run away or fight "fairly" instead of being trapped into either fighting or dying,
which back in 1.0 you'd be more likely to die for unmentioned reasons.

Why this current mechanic is annoying is that it feels like more of a punishment than dying in this game
(which I should address separately, but not here). Worse yet is we're still heavied when dismounting our steeds.

I beg of the community to look at this for yourself and judge that there is a better option than being heavied while on choco-back,
that this mechanic is severely annoying and unfair and needs to be removed for a better option.

Liking this post, you agree that being heavied while on choco-back needs to be removed from the game for a better option,
and that my words do not speak for you from this post

[RufusShinra78]

No thanks.

[cookiecutter]

I'd rather be heavied than dismounted in all honesty.

[RufusShinra78]

The dismounted mechanic is in ARR actually. You just have to take enough damage on your chocobo.

[cookiecutter]

The dismounted mechanic is in ARR actually. You just have to take enough damage on your chocobo.

I never knew that. I guess I've never taken enough damage to find that out.

[Kirana]

If you are on WHM, SCH, PLD, or DRG you can just dismount to remove the heavy and continue sprinting away until deaggro.

[zar]

I never knew that. I guess I've never taken enough damage to find that out.

It's a joke. He meant dying.

[RufusShinra78]

I didn't know till recently myself. I was levelling ninja in western la noscea. I ended up day dreaming and found myself in a pickle, tried to
Get away but they ended up
Hitting me pretty hard and knocking me off my chocobo and it resultedin a painful death

[RufusShinra78]

It's not a joke. Switch to a lower class that and go to a mod that will hit you hard enough and watch, you'll get his off.

[MyKotoShi]

If you are on WHM, SCH, PLD, or DRG you can just dismount to remove the heavy and continue sprinting away until deaggro.

While yes you are correct, this shouldn't have to even be done, as in the same argument the chocobo could have just bucked you off to begin with saving you 2 steps.