"Kweh!" Chocobo improvement thread

[Rueby]

Please make changing plumage color more user friendly, remove the rng from it. make it so that we can select the color we want it to be in game, feed it the required fruits by dropping all required items in one shot, similarly to how we hand over quest items. Make it cost more fruit to make up for the time saved here (because anything good has to have a price for some reason) and then we just wait the 6 hours for the change. add a 'feed all' button to fc stables so you can dogpile all birds with some krakka, skipping over the chocobos that are sitting inthe stable at capped exp. give us more chocobo race courses from newer expansions. expecially one like the pvp arena in sharlayan but more of a running track race vibe. go full mario kart and give us some wild levels. let us feed fruits to our race chocbos to change their plumage too. and chocbros in dungeons would be really awesome! i would much rather have my chocbo than any of those completely brain dead npcs who dont know how to fight their way out of a wet paper bag with scissors in their hands.

There's actually a calculator for it! It's not totally rng, though it'd be nice if a UI for it is in the game, some kind of manual of sorts.
I remember using this long ago! It's super useful.
https://ffxivchocobo.com/en

[Vinter]

give us more chocobo race courses from newer expansions. expecially one like the pvp arena in sharlayan but more of a running track race vibe. go full mario kart and give us some wild levels.

I would love to see more chocobo racing content. Maybe they could add chocobo chariot racing in a hippodrome, (a chocodrome if you will) with seasonal tournaments and betting, making the playerbase more involved. I would love a less instanced experience where you're able to go watch chocobo racing from the bleachers and bet on who will win. Or what about a chocobo dakar rally? You start in Idyllshire and have to make your way down to the very southern end of the Sagolii desert. Take whatever route you want, but there are obstacles along the way like rivers or shrublands slowing you down, and monsters attacking you that hurt your bird so you have to stop to patch them up or they'll slowly lose speed as they get more damaged.

So many possibilities.

And, also it needs to be said: it's Wark not 'kweh' as the sound a chocobo makes! Wark wark warrrrkkkk!

H E R E S Y ! Kweh gang rise up!

Also semi-unrelated but I hope they add in an option to toggle mount leaning because I haven't used my chocobo mount since the update because I hate how it looks with the leaning now, it used to be my top favorite mount.

I like the lean for flying but I agree it's too much when on foot. I don't want it gone completely but definitely it should be reduced significantly.

[lolnotacat]

Chocobo abilities need to be readjusted. I use mine when FATE grinding and I play at off hours most days (think 2-3AM central). The only stance where it's useful at this point is healer. Tank can't hold threat, DPS damage is marginal.

[ToxieDrop]

the Chocobo is you first companion and it feels like it should be given more love! in particular a ai update! please!!

[FudoMyoo]

Inspired by the recent summer fest event.

WE NEED A CHOCOBO SWIMSUIT BARDING!

[Enkidoh]

Sadly, I think chocobo companions are just yet another content idea that SE has more or less abandoned working on any further (along with Guildhests, Battlecraft Guildleves, Grand Company Squadrons, Hunting Log etc).

To be really fair though, if there was an upgrading/improvment of the chocobo companion system, I would rather have my old Path Companion from 1.0 brought back instead, although I think that airship sailed long ago (to the point story wise I've basically resigned to the fact Enki's Path Companion Imarah probably ended up perishing during the Battle of Carteneau and so will never see her again, sadly).

And, also it needs to be said: it's Wark not 'kweh' as the sound a chocobo makes! Wark wark warrrrkkkk!

[lolnotacat]

And, also it needs to be said: it's Wark not 'kweh' as the sound a chocobo makes! Wark wark warrrrkkkk!

They've been interchangeable for as long as I can remember.

[Enkidoh]

They've been interchangeable for as long as I can remember.

Oh I know I was just being fascious. (And it was last used in FFVII and FF Tactics on the PS1... FFVIII started the use of 'kweh' which I understand is a closer transliteration of the Japanese original, which SE stuck with ever since.).

And to be really fair, FFXII used both (with 'wark' being the 'natural, beastial' sound made by wild chocobos, with the softer 'kweh' being more the sound of the domesticated varieties.

[MsQi]

I would prefer a less ambiguous coloring system minus the randomness and overflow problems.

And, also it needs to be said: it's Wark not 'kweh' as the sound a chocobo makes! Wark wark warrrrkkkk!

And her name is Aeris, dammit!

[Wyssahtyn]

increase chocobo healing capabilities, they can hardly keep up anymore.