Do Chocobo Skills stack?

[Paramecium]

For the % increase to str, hp, accuracy, etc. if I select a hybrid of two trees do I get the cumulative of the bonus?

for example, will selecting rank 3 of both attacker and defender give me 15% boost to hp?

[Krolic]

I am hoping they do because I am picking both attacker and defender traits and leaving him on free stance to use whichever of the two weaponskills he wants. I am not sure how he chooses but he uses each of the two I currently have fairly often. I would assume he has 10% bonus strength now.

I am really bummed that I can't be in the duty finder while using him, he gets a lot less xp because I want to run dungeons.

[Bahd_Monkey]

I am really bummed that I can't be in the duty finder while using him, he gets a lot less xp because I want to run dungeons.

Agreed, if a duty comes up and you have your chocobo out, he should just be dismissed and you pop into the dungeon. This really needs to be added.

[OmegaXtc]

They do. My defender chocobo is lvl 5 1/2 now and he will use choco kick and choco drop. He actually can keep aggro if I give him 2 hits at the start of a fight (40 BRD)

[Gabber]

i'm interested in this also. i've read conflicting information though out the forums of wether or not the passive skills stack. i would like to make a hybrid chocobo of both the attack and healer trees. i'm just not sure if the crit bonuses from both trees will stack.

in one topic titled something like "chocobo philosophy" it states that it does. in another topic i read it states that it does not stack in free stance but there wasn't any info on it stacking in healer stance ( for instance ).

so i'm still scratching my head on this...

[Maelwys]

i'm interested in this also. i've read conflicting information though out the forums of wether or not the passive skills stack.

All available skills (from any tree) get used when in Free Stance.
I'd be surprised if passives were any different, in fact I've been building my chicken under the assumption that they're always available and always stack.

The easiest passive to test this on would be HP, since you can see the HP readout of your Companion easily in party view (e.g. Take 5% and 10% HP boosts and see if the HP Bar changes to a value that'd correspond to 15% HP). Next rank I'll be picking up my Chocobo's second HP% buff, so I'll be able to see this first-hand... but at the moment it looks like that'll be some time away yet- it's taking longer and longer to raise his exp bar when I'm running around on other lowbie classes! However, it definitely looks like the first HP buff applies no matter what stance he's in, so I don't see any real reason that stances would limit passive stacking.