Purebred Chocobos not viable?

[Niwashi]

I haven't bred any yet, but it did say in-game that trained skills had a chance to be passed down to offspring. Does that not apply to stats as well?

[DoctorPepper]

I haven't bred any yet, but it did say in-game that trained skills had a chance to be passed down to offspring. Does that not apply to stats as well?

If the retired parent has one ability that ability will be passed to the child, if they have 2 abilities it lets you pick one according to other people. I have not confirmed this but that's the general consensus from people I know who have already started breeding.

[Riepah]

If the retired parent has one ability that ability will be passed to the child, if they have 2 abilities it lets you pick one according to other people. I have not confirmed this but that's the general consensus from people I know who have already started breeding.

When you retire a Chocobo, you're asked which of their skills you want to praise - the skill you pick will become a hereditary one, this much I can already confirm. The offspring will receive one of their parents' hereditary skills at random, I believe.

[Tiggy]

I was going off this guide. http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...eedingraising/

BREEDING
When you breed chocobos, you ideally want a chocobo 2 pedigrees higher then your current chocobo. This will give 100% chance to increase Pedigree. Using higher pedigree chocobos will give a better chance at higher stats and Tier 3 abilities, but will never increase your pedigree more then 1 per breeding. So, there is a lot of risk/reward to determine.

Stats are determined at random, with 1-4 stats coming from the lower pedigree chocobo and the remainer coming from the higher pedigree. It is completely possible for your new chocobo to have lower stat ratings then the sire, but higher pedigree still means higher stats. Abilities and colors have a 50/50 chance of being passed on, your fledgling with have the color and ability of either of the parents, there is no 'mutating'.

This had me believing the stats are based on the parents but perhaps I misunderstood his meaning.

[Kotemon]

Keep raising their stats as far as they can go and breed only the ones that RNG good stats. From what I'm hearing if its anything like chocoboo breeding in FF7 (was it 8? or 9?). Then you'll be spending a lot of time breeding them until you get that gold color one with the best racing stats. Or did they change the color association to pedigree in Gold saucer?

[MistyMew]

I was really hoping that breeding would be somehow useful for a companion chocobo with stats for outdoor use

Will have to give this racing a go though, in the practice mode the controls are terrible ..sloppy and very slow to respond....but if racing is just to build points it will do.

[Riepah]

Will have to give this racing a go though, in the practice mode the controls are terrible ..sloppy and very slow to respond....but if racing is just to build points it will do.

That delay seems to be intentional - you're supposed to make your intended move about 1-2 seconds in advance. The tutorial mentions that Chocobos take a while to react to your command, so I think they did it to alleviate latency issues somewhat - that is my best guess, anyhow.
Give it a chance anyhow, I personally find it insanely fun despite the sloppy controls.

[Katzyn]

It's not even so much a delay; it's more like your chocobo doesn't respond as instantly as a well-trained one would It's just like real life racing, they need to be trained to respond quicker, just like they need training to become faster, have better stamina, ect. Mine is much faster at responding now that it's had some training.

[Riepah]

Well, my two Chocobos are working on making a new Chocobo for me tonight, I'll know more tomorrow. Anything that isn't 2 star on everything would be a good sign.

[Riepah]

Sadly, my new Chocobo, "Bloody Uranus", has 2 stars on everything. I guess there's no way around Chocobo prostitution if you want to breed a really good one.