The Chocobo Blues

[StouterTaru]

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.

We put them in the chocobo stables and fed them roots every hour. Around rank 10 it takes 100 feedings to get a full level, I think it's about 150 feedings at rank 19.

And that was a million times faster than pulling it out and fighting stuff.

[DevonEllwood]

We put them in the chocobo stables and fed them roots every hour. Around rank 10 it takes 100 feedings to get a full level, I think it's about 150 feedings at rank 19.

And that was a million times faster than pulling it out and fighting stuff.

But then you just get a bird that doesn't know how to play its class.

Joking aside, other than putting the chocobo in the stables and cramming food down its throat, the challenge log is a big boost since it scales with your chocobo's rank. I also had mine's favorite food set to curiel roots for the extra exp buff, which was probably unneeded, but I just found a spot to grind and killed the 100 enemies for the weekly log. I think I was using a level 50 black mage in Northern Thanalan because the Garlean steel joints were a hot seller at the time. I just think that people don't realize just how much exp you can get from the challenge log. I think my chocobo was gaining about 200k exp around rank 19.

[Gemina]

But then you just get a bird that doesn't know how to play its class.

Joking aside, other than putting the chocobo in the stables and cramming food down its throat, the challenge log is a big boost since it scales with your chocobo's rank. I also had mine's favorite food set to curiel roots for the extra exp buff, which was probably unneeded, but I just found a spot to grind and killed the 100 enemies for the weekly log. I think I was using a level 50 black mage in Northern Thanalan because the Garlean steel joints were a hot seller at the time. I just think that people don't realize just how much exp you can get from the challenge log. I think my chocobo was gaining about 200k exp around rank 19.

I am not certain of this, but something for those with non-max rank berds can look into: I am curious if the weekly bonuses are also based on your berd's level, which is always the same as yours. The bonus does scale with the chocobo's rank, but make sure that your current chocobo's level doesn't also affect it. IOW, if your level 70 and switch to a level 50 job and kill the last mob needed to get BB1 or 2, will it be reduced?

Just wanting to make sure no one denies themselves weekly bonus exp by accident

[Thamorian]

I am not certain of this, but something for those with non-max rank berds can look into: I am curious if the weekly bonuses are also based on your berd's level, which is always the same as yours. The bonus does scale with the chocobo's rank, but make sure that your current chocobo's level doesn't also affect it. IOW, if your level 70 and switch to a level 50 job and kill the last mob needed to get BB1 or 2, will it be reduced?

Just wanting to make sure no one denies themselves weekly bonus exp by accident

Does not matter what level you and your chocobo are synced to for the weekly challenge log. The 5% and 10% for a total of 15% is based on the Chocobos total experience needed to level which does not change when the chocobo sync. Only thing that changes when you sync down is the amount of experience you get from a monster which is getting a little bit of extra EXP for fighting something above your level to getting less EXP for killing something below your level to getting no EXP because the thing you killed is to far out of your level range.

Also, the 0.75% experience gain from chocobo stables from level 10 to level 20, I am not sure is correct. I can't recall where but I read that for when When Chocobo is level 10 or above, the formula is: 1% - ((chocobo level - 9) x 0.05). So at level 10 your chocobo gains 0.95% every feeding and at level 19 it gains only 0.5% per a feeding. I could be wrong and I was looking for the source of this but couldn't find it again.

[MsQi]

But then you just get a bird that doesn't know how to play its class.

Filthy Casuals! lol

[Reinha]

This is actually something that benefits your overall game experience. One of the things I love about this game is that different aspects of the game interact with and are connected to one another. I can level a NIN, use it to stealth around Eureka to get a DRK weapon, use DRK to farm an extreme trial for a RDM weapon, use RDM for fast queues to the 24 man and get some left side gear from there. Being rewarded for playing BLU is very nice and to me makes it worthwhile.

Too bad the devs consider it a mistake and will probably remove the bonus...

[Mansion]

My chocobo sits at level 3 since 3.5 years. I think I'll get over it.

[MerleSirlos]

I think the game balance issue they refer to is mostly regarding economy. Since chocobos are leveling fast and you need an onion to unlock each level after 10, price have jumped quite a lot.
Game balance is not battle only.

[reivaxe]

This makes ... not sense.

Chocobo are meant to scale with the job you're playing. So it makes prefect sense that a job that gains a crap ton of EXP from mobs makes the Chocobo gain a crap ton from mobs.

Why do they want to gimp Chocobo growth? What's the point in making it harder to level them?

I think the game balance issue they refer to is mostly regarding economy. Since chocobos are leveling fast and you need an onion to unlock each level after 10, price have jumped quite a lot.
Game balance is not battle only.

Then why not change it so that you don't have to plan out for a month to crossbreed a few Onions (provided you even have access to a decent sized garden)?

I planned for this by wish listing them and grabbing them cheap when I could before patch and even then they were so expensive on my server I only bothered to get 4.

[Dagget]

Apparently, highlighting the chocobo xp gain is just the fig leaf covering the main reason for a patch - xp gain by non-blue-mage teammates..