Chocobo Companion Question

[rzr22]

The issue with not having respecs is that you put blind faith in the devs. You have faith that the ability/trait/whatever is working as intended, balanced, and overall does what it sets out to do. Have you ever seen an MMO with perfect balance and everything works as intended? I sure haven't. And lets pretend the devs ever decide something is not balanced and need to change things. What if I suddenly don't like the change. Are you saying I'm SOL?

I'm sorry if I don't wish to be punished because of bad design on the dev's part. Respecs gives us an out to this. It gives us the ability to not be severely disappointed when we spend hours dedicated to a game just to realize the devs have let us down and designed something poorly or have decided to change something that we now dislike.

It also gives us the ability to change our mind. This is a game where you can be any class on a single character and suddenly you're against letting me change my mind? You people are absurd.

Now if Chocobo breeding will be the answer to respecs, then I'm all on board for that. It's both flavorful and friendly to its users.

[ArcheDragon]

This is stupidly ridiculous! I never saw anywhere that it was permanent or that at some point my chocobo would stop ranking up, so now I have 1 point in each tree and my chocobo becomes useless. Is this how SE operates now? Pulling mechanics out of their butts and implementing them in the most backwards fashion possible? "Play are game because you can switch classes on the fly and play whatever you like whenever you want to! But NEVER put points into your chocobo for fear that someday you might want to play a different class!!!!!!!" The same goes for the ACN to SMN/SCH, but at least there you can use GC seals though certainly not optimal as I like to use sch for dungeons and smn for soloing.

[AreeSoothsayer]

Hello again. I am so-so on the stat reset. My Chocobo is rank 4 as of yesterday and yes I got 4 points there. So the max amount of points you will recieve is 55 at Rank 10. Now you can look through and choose 55 points worth of skills on 1, 2 or all 3 branches for your Chocobo. I went Attacker stance, I have mine working with my Summoner. I use titan to take out Fate bosses, some places people actually ignore the bosses, and Ifrit on the normal 48-49 mobs around the maps. Just out of curiousity at first I sent my Rita out with Ifrit. In 2 hits my Attacker Chocobo stole hate and kept it. So the attacker style can outdamage a Summoner's DD melee summon. The hate control of the Defender type, don't get too annoyed because mysteriously my Chocobo's standard hits went from upper 90's to 100-110 at Rank 4.

Keep an eye on your Chocobo damage, hate and heal. I think the Rank up itself brings bonuses to stats and, may, enhance the skill tree/s you have chosen.(<-supposition)

[AlternativeOne]

My bird can already tank even level fate bosses solo with only my healing support. If they get any stronger they will be stronger than players. Points take so much exp to earn that im not going to spend another till i have a max level bird. I still cant find an NPC the sells greens even though many say they exist. Didn't even know you could do all this stuff just stumbled upon it when trying to figure out why the whistle wasn't working.

Off Topic kinda.....but not worth a thread

If My bird and i completely solo a fate and im under the recommended level and we still win why is my exp gimped and why doesn't my bird get the same amount as I. 12,339 xp on a fate and I just duo-ed the whole thing with my bird as the tank and he only get 170xp. That's broken. How much would my xp be if I was level 50 instead of 44. even now at 47 it says im below level even though I been able to solo it with my bird since 44. My bird want his xp lol.

[AreeSoothsayer]

Gridania has one. Go to the crystal. Head north. The shop on the right just before the cave.

[Decoyninja]

Don't pretend this mechanic is something we should have known about.
"Pay attention?" This system does not mirror any other system in-game.
"Warning message?" Yeah, not buying it.

I'm happy with my chocobo's spec currently when on my main class. I just think it is hilarious that we are playing a game designed around multiclassing and then are given a combat companion that doesn't work within such a system. Currently the system is all about working your butt off for a companion that will be helpful to some of your classes and useless to others.

I'm not so impatient with MMOs to where I will moan forever if something is incomplete* at launch, but give us some information before we start rather than waiting for people to figure it out on their own and give us some information about what you plan to add to fix the problems.

*And yes, the current system SCREAMS "incomplete." They have hinted at more in future patches. So stop defending the incomplete design as if it were good.

[Doki]

I really don't understand the developer's reasoning on this. We have characters that can be EVERY class. I can level every last disciple of war and magic, every last disciple of the land and hand on one character. Chocobos? Nah man, they can't do that.

[Smashington]

(I agree that you should be able to reset.)

That said, the initial Grand Company Chocobo is not the only companion you will get!

For one, you will be a getting a black chocobo chick for your veterans rewards. Which you can raise and spec in a totally different way.

From what I've seen posted on this topic, you will still have your other Companions available too. So there is potential to have all Companions of different types, each with one of the 3 trees maxed, as well as a hybrid chocobo (like the one you may be thinking you already messed up).

To be honest, even though the Rank 10 skills look nice, having the three Level 1 Skills unlocked is probably the most useful spec for soloing/questing at this stage of the game.

[Meui]

That said, the initial Grand Company Chocobo is not the only companion you will get!

For one, you will be a getting a black chocobo chick for your veterans rewards. Which you can raise and spec in a totally different way.

From what I've seen posted on this topic, you will still have your other Companions available too. So there is potential to have all Companions of different types, each with one of the 3 trees maxed, as well as a hybrid chocobo (like the one you may be thinking you already messed up).

I'm curious to know where you came across the information regarding multiple companions? Maybe it was under naïve assumption but I had just thought the black chocobo chick awarded via the Veteran's Rewards was just a minion like the Wayward Hatchling. I'm honestly just curious about your sources and whether you'd be kind enough to supply them for me!

[Smashington]

Yoshida:

Q22: Please tell us more about chocobo raising!
A22: We’ll first be releasing housing, but you’ll be able to set up a chocobo stable and purchase a baby chocobo to raise. Once you have a chocobo stable you will also be able to do things like breed chocobos and train them.

Dev Post:

'Hello,
... As your companion ranks up you’ll gain SP; however, the amount of SP you receive is limited, so it will not be possible to acquire every skill for all three stances (defender, attack, and healer)...

Altho their is nothing said about a reset lots of people are requesting it on the forums, since they feel without the proper explanation they are now stuck with a 'poorly allocated chocobo'. Also rumors are that you might be able to train different chocobos after the chocobo raising has been introduced to get a chocobo for each of your stances.