The Chocobo Blues

[Aster_E]

What I would recommend is don't nerf the chocobo xp gain. Instead improve the onion situation by making onion seeds give more than one onion per seed and have them grow much faster. It would also help to give Thavnairian Onions a direct loop. Then it would be much easier to get onions for birds. (Note that my bird has been 20 since ARR so this is just to help out those still working on birds.)

Yes please. Even letting Thav Onion seeds yield 2 with Shroud soils would be a vast improvement.

Then again, I stand by my other opinion that more content should be added to coincide with so many birds being level 10+, or 20.

I mentioned before that I have ideas? Well one of them harkens to the idea of archaeology in WoW, and chocobo digging in FFXIII (and I guess the rabbits in Eureka, only much, much better). As well, it might add to lore or exploration in the zones of HW, StB, and soon ShB. Basically, what if we had high level chocobos learn to follow hints and we accompany our companions to what we think to be the destination. While our birds our out, we use a Dig function like with our own maps that we already have, and then we trigger one of a few quick events. This creates a new level system for the birds where lowest levels only see potions, measly gil, or low level mobs we can fight or flee (because we dug up their home). At higher levels relative to a zone we can see items that piece together what a location was all about however many years ago (it doesn't have to be Allagans, it doesn't have to be Allagans, and it most certainly doesn't have to be Allagans), leading to more gil, more food for the chocobo, and possibly glams or furnishings.

That's the gist of just one idea I have and would love to see to further our chocobos' development beyond ranking from 1 to 20. It would even add a little activity to the world. But hey, let's freak out that people are actually finally leveling their birds now that the exp is decent, and say that a "fix" is coming in about a week. That works too.

[Lissandra]

If anything, I want them to raise the rank further. To 30 with a few new skills would be nice...