// Original FFXIV Class Idea // Cavalier // Bring out your chocobo!

[ThunderTopaz]

This is a suggestion for a class called Cavalier. This is a fun idea we can mess around with as I think it would be interesting to create this original class as well make your company chocobo feel more useful outside of just open world fighting.
Even if it never happens, my wish is to hope someone on the dev team sees this and think it be interesting enough and use some of these ideas in something.

// This will be a short summary of the class over view //

Imagine if you will, riding on top of your company chocobo. No, not just simply riding it and flying all over the world with it but to ride it into battle and, dare I say, even dungeons! This will be a class that will be made as a [Melee DPS] and will have moves based on positioning in front of the enemy to deal the most out of your skills (180 in front of the enemy). The class will specialize in mounting your chocobo and moves changing or getting stronger when you're mounted or not.
The chocobo can also be stronger depending on the level/rank of the chocobo. Take care of your feathered friend and he'll take care of you!

// story // [Heavensward story completed required]

Location : [The Holy Stables]
(thought of bentbranch but this feels like it would fit better)

Quest Giver : Arnoulain [Requires Chocobo Rank 10 to begin]
(or someone else or someone new. either way can work)

Arnoulain notices the bond you and your company chocobo share together and talks to you about how the chocobos he was taking care of saved him from some rats hiding around the stable. He believes knights could also use a friend like that and begins to remember a old Templar knight that used to fight along side his chocobo before his feathered friend grew too old and died. Maybe if you can convince him, he can teach you new ways to fight alongside your chocobo and maybe even reignite his passion again.

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will take me a bit to write down all my thoughts but hopefully wont take too long!

[ThunderTopaz]

// Fighting Style //

in the short summary, I went over how it would be a melee dps built around frontal positioning and how it fights with your chocobo.
I feel instead of it being a pet AI in this case, you can have it fight and move along side you, doing different moves based on what move you use while you're not mounted on it.
Their weapon of choice would would be similar to the dragoons spear but instead of using a spear they use big cone shaped lances like you would see knights use in jousting tournaments. While not having the jumping abilities of a dragoon that makes them able to jump forward and back and forward and back, the Cavalier would be able to rush through enemies to get to where they're going quicker.

// While not mounted //

While you are not mounting your company chocobo, the chocobo will follow besides you and attacking with you every time you use a skill.
Your attacks have pretty decent attack speed and things can get off cool downs rather quickly, granting you a flurry of attacks with your lance and chocobo quite often. While your attacks that make you charge into the enemy will not be as strong and you wont go as far, you are still able to use it to quickly close a gap between you and your enemy.

// While mounted //

When you decide you want to mount your chocobo, you would use a skill like a toggled stance would do. It would grant you, say, a 5% attack and 5% less damage taken while toggled on, in the beginning. Your chocobo will no longer be able to attack in-between your skills but your skills will get a big boost.

When mounted, your skills would get augmented under the mounted effect. Giving your skills extra power and effects in exchange for a little bit of cool down. (the cool down ranging for an extra 1 second or more depending on the skill)

Attacks that allow you to charge into the enemy will have the potency be doubled and you'll be able to go twice as far than you would of been when not mounted. Some of your skills that target a single enemy will now have a small aoe around the target (at least 3-5y around target), allowing you to take care of groups of enemies more quickly.

// Limit Break //

For limit break 1 and 2, the chocobo can simply fade out when doing the limit break since the melee dps will be swinging those swords.

For limit break 3 however, you hop on your chocobo as it transform into a great big ethereal phoenix and you both dive bomb into the enemy from the sky with a giant ethereal lance while a loud chocobo KWEH will echo through the area.

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have any ideas? write them down in the comments and i'll see about adding them in

[ThunderTopaz]

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[ThunderTopaz]

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[Stepjam]

This might be better to post in the DPS subforum

[ThunderTopaz]

This might be better to post in the DPS subforum

Added the fighting style section to the post above.

and I was thinking that but thought it be better here as its a suggestion.
If it does need to be moved a dev can do that im sure. Either way.