An idea for a future Class/Job

[Konachibi]

To compliment the Chocobo Breeder class, here is an idea for a job to go with it:

Chocobo Hunter

A Chocobo hunter would operate much like a gathering class. Your main-hand would be a baiting glove, and the off-hand a small incubator. Whilst running around in the world you could come acrossa chocobo wandering around/pecking at the ground/hiding in a bush. When choosing the 'capture' option it would enter into the hot & cold system other gathering class have. Your character would hold out it's hand with possibly some bait in it such as greens. Then you would choose a point on the rotating bar/circle/whatever as you attempt to bait the chocobo to you. This would result in "The chocobo is uncertain" meaning you're far from convincing it, "The chocobo is curious" meaning you're getting closer, and "The chocobo wants to follow you" meaning you're succesfull in capturing it. When this happens you are then given a choice whether to take the chocobo back to your stable manually, in which point you climb on it and ride it like any other riding chocobo, or you can summon your retainer to teleport it back to the stable for you, or you can release it back into the wild if you were only trying to capture it to gain XP and increase your hunters level. Dismounting from a wild chocobo before getting it back to the stable would cause it to run away however. (Just like in Final Fantasy VII )

Capturing wild chocobos could have a multitude of advantages to it. A wild chocobo may have developed special abilities you cannot train it with using chocobo breeder, or it may have enhanced stats that would take a lot of time to aquire as a breeder. The higher the level of area, the better the chocobo will be, but the harder it will be to bait, thus keeping with the Grade 1, 2, 3 & 4 operation the game currently uses. So a chocobo found in Central Black Shroud would only be slightly better if not at all from a regular chocobo you can breed in the stables, where as capturing one in Coerthas could reward you with quite an amazing chocobo with a multitude of special fighting/battling/social abilities.

The secondary gathering for this would be to harvest chocobo eggs from any nests you may come across. Simply click the 'gather' option and your character attempts to gather eggs from the nest. You also have the chance of gaining other items such as food, feathers, straw, branches etc. Gathered eggs would have noticebly different appearances in their icons. A yellow egg will probably hatch a normal yellow chocobo, and would be more common to aquire in grade 1 areas, a black egg could hatch into a black chocobo, but would be only be able to harvest in high grade areas such as Southern Black Shroud, and so on. Each zone in the game (Thanalan, Black Shroud, La Noscea, Coerthas etc.) could more commonly be associated with certain colours or types of chocobos, much the same as botany has with dye at the moment, so if you wanted a red or white chocobo egg you'd try grade 2 or 3 Thanalan, black and green eggs would be more common to Black shroud, and so on. Also it'd be possible to aquire High Quality chocobo eggs that may hatch into a more advanced chocobo with already aquired skills or stats.

As you level up you'd gain abilities to sense nearby chocobos just like other gathering classes, gaining the II's and III's versions of these as your hunter level increases, as well as have more attempts to capture higher grade chocobos.