Chocobo Racing and Weather Effects

[Gallus]

I don't remember if there was heatwave, but I recall getting heatwave a lot of times, and the stamina drain seems completely normal, if heatwave really drains more stamina from foul chocobos, I can guarantee it's almost negligible. I'm at 460 max speed, 500 stamina and 460 endurance. I can sprint just fine the entire race with the passives Increased Stamina III and Head Start regardless of the weather. I'm always left with around 5% stamina left, and my average seems to be around 82 seconds in sagolii (if nothing bad happens like choco meteors, which sadly, happen very often...). I've never experienced a type of weather where I was forced to stop sprinting because my chocobo's stamina couldn't keep up, all the weathers have absolutely the same effect to my foul chocobo (or very similar at least). The only things that drain my stamina abnormally are the occasional bachus wine, caltrops and choco meteors.

[Welsper59]

I don't remember if there was heatwave, but I recall getting heatwave a lot of times, and the stamina drain seems completely normal, if heatwave really drains more stamina from foul chocobos, I can guarantee it's almost negligible. I'm at 460 max speed, 500 stamina and 460 endurance. I can sprint just fine the entire race with the passives Increased Stamina III and Head Start regardless of the weather. I'm always left with around 5% stamina left, and my average seems to be around 82 seconds in sagolii (if nothing bad happens like choco meteors, which sadly, happen very often...). I've never experienced a type of weather where I was forced to stop sprinting because my chocobo's stamina couldn't keep up, all the weathers have absolutely the same effect to my foul chocobo (or very similar at least). The only things that drain my stamina abnormally are the occasional bachus wine, caltrops and choco meteors.

Hmm, but you don't notice a speed drop equivalent to heavy when you get hit with heatwave weather? Honestly, I don't notice much of a stamina depletion increase (not to the extent that Bachu's do anyway) as a fair weather bird in rain. I can see how it's easy for people to associate that though, if that's the case, given the slower run and the stamina it takes to get a short distance because of that.

IMO for now, the only guaranteed benefit that anyone can really "prove" is the frequency of foul weather compared to fair weather. For example, it can rain for the entire duration of a race but out of hundreds of races I've done so far, not one has ever had heatwave for the entire duration... or even for the majority of it. And I say that because there's so many variables at play that it makes it hard to really prove something without being able to do a controlled test. Items, weather shifts, brackets, stats, etc can all truly manipulate data collected to be one-sided unfortunately.

[Gallus]

Hmm, but you don't notice a speed drop equivalent to heavy when you get hit with heatwave weather?

No, it runs just fine, nothing abnormal. Why don't you just try it and see it for yourself? Honestly, those who are skeptical about what has been repeatedly said, if you think this is all bs, just keep racing. I have more than 3500 races over my shoulders, I certainly do not need 3500 more races to notice brutally obvious effects of certain weathers on certain chocobos. I started noticing how my fair bird was badly stroke by rain weather like 2-3 weeks ago, and it pissed me off dearly, I even made a thread comparing it with a snail...then, on P4-P5 I think it was, I got a foul chocobo, and weather did not have absolutely any effect over it, and if it had, it was almost impossible to even notice, I was extremely surprised, if you think it's my own paranoia or my own personal neurosis, just ignore everybody who has experienced the same thing so far (as well as myself) and breed your chocobos without worrying about their preferred weather.