Chocobo Knight job! Can I have it?

[Medura]

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Chocobo_Knight

Yes, chocobos is being added! This is great news
I have seen many that wants to fight while mounted and such things though, this made me think back to final fantasy tactics advance 2, CHOCOBO KNIGHTS!!
Those where epic to use, and definitely one of the greatest classes. Can we get this into xiv? Then we can level both our chocobos and our skills with chocobos at the same time, it would be such fun! ^^
Of course, other chocobo mini-games is needed to ^^

Everyone, discuss!

[Nuru]

This would give having a personal chocobo more sense as opposed to the idea of only being able to ride it. We have rental-bos and personal chocobos, and to my current knowledge, they are going to end up serving the same purpose.

However, Chocobo Knight would be great! Could probably be a sub-class like how the shield works. You level up Chocobo Knight + Weapon Equipped, get to use Chocobo Abilities (only while on Chocobo) and other Crossclass Abilities. Would make this game very interesting.

[Medura]

Hehe, i remember the fun about choosing different colored chocobos Yellow chocobo uses chococure on all allies, black chocobo can jump high, or fly in one of the older games, green know a few debuffs like sleep and silence etc. Would the knights have a lance or sword though? Maybe some other cool weapon? A whip maybe? Haha, something all new

[Seirra_Lanzce]

The linkshell im in is called The Chocobo Knights of Eorzea... does that count? :P

[Medura]

Please merge rabanastre and besaid so i can join this ls!

I guess you want this job to then?

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Nope.. i want to be a Dragoon and be a part of the Chocobo Knights of Eorzea! LOL xD

[Cairdeas]

They announced Mounted Combat was being explored but it wont be limited to one job.

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

archer + mounted Combat = MUCHO OP SENOR S.E!

[Medura]

Who said a chocobo knight shouldnt use a bow? Would be cool if we could be chocobo knight -> bow knight / lancerer / Samurai knight, we know no limitations! Only SE can limit us

[Arcell]

They announced Mounted Combat was being explored but it wont be limited to one job.

^ pretty much this. They announced it about a month ago I think. The content will come in stages, last of which is the mounted combat.

Here are some additional comments that Yoshida made over the weekend regarding the upcoming chocobo-related content.

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.