The Chocobo Blues

[Duskane]

This is the chance get mine finally to 20
Hes been lvl 19 for so long

[hynaku]

Won't help my chocobo. It's been level 20 since arr.

[NessaWyvern]

My Chocobo has also been lvl 20 since ARR (I trained it while converting gear for the dreaded materia step of the ARR relic) and I will say this: Don't nerf the chocobo exp, or don't nerf it too much.

It already costs a lot of time/money to level the chocobos with Thav. Onions. And then the extreme grindiness to even get the exp to lvl 20? It's too much for too little (since a fully level chocobo doesn't do much except kill overworld mobs slightly faster, or heal for not that much, which is barely useful when you are lvl 70, and hardly useful when leveling, since HoH/PotD/Roulettes are faster than anything in the overworld).

[ZazzMatazzz]

Wait I'm confused so currently when in BLU the chocobo gets a lot more xp and now they're going to Nerf it? Or is it the other way around it's nots getting a lot and they're going to buff it?

[sciondar]

It currently gets a ton of xp when you run around as BLU but next week they're going to get rid of that so the companions level up with their normal snail pace

[ZazzMatazzz]

Oh that sucks I don't see why they need a Nerf I always felt like they leveled to slowly for something that isn't super OP

[KaivaC]

Yeah, I'll add my voice to this as well, the chocobo nerf seems incredibly dumb. It really doesn't have an effect on balance and it takes a god-awful long time to even level your chocobo - so I dunno what the devs are smoking when they approved this to be put out. I'm also confused at how they somehow underestimated how many people would be playing BLU on patch day. Something about that just seems off. But then again, the Stormblood expansion has featured a whole lot of dev decisions that have been very nonsensical, almost on Activision-level headscratchers.

[InkstainedGwyn]

Yeah, I'll add my voice to this as well, the chocobo nerf seems incredibly dumb. It really doesn't have an effect on balance and it takes a god-awful long time to even level your chocobo - so I dunno what the devs are smoking when they approved this to be put out. I'm also confused at how they somehow underestimated how many people would be playing BLU on patch day. Something about that just seems off. But then again, the Stormblood expansion has featured a whole lot of dev decisions that have been very nonsensical, almost on Activision-level headscratchers.

From what I've heard/seen, they're saying Chocobo because they don't want to advertise that party members get bonus xp, too. But that's the reason they're nerfing it.

[MuseTraveller]

... I forgot my Chocobo is a thing. The poor bird's been sitting on level 7 or something for three years. Going to try and level it these days now that we have a boost.

[Fawkes]

If this is buffed then I can't imagine how anyone ever leveled a chocobo before this. My chocobo has only gone up a level and a half.