Ninian's Guide To Chocobo Raising V2
Ninian's Guide to Chocobo Raising v2
High enough mental stats Phex? I personally have seen a correlation with mental stats and the ability to walk into the NPCs.
So far DSC on average and RCP on poor. Others met Brutus x3 with less they told me. Its totally luck-based then?! I go on working on DSC to be able to learn Canter incase i get the story. If your thesis is right Zedoma, this may match one day :-)
This is only my second chocobo ever, but I got all 4 Story KIs by Day 35. My first chocobo never got any. Something I did: I watched my egg 610 times in the first 4 days. (The guide mentions 150) ...and I make sure to deplete it's HP every day in a specific way. I deplete it's HP by doing the task for the stat I want, like carrying packages for STR/END (I forget which). This results the bird having some HP left, but not enough to do anything, besides Watch Over Chocobo about a few times, until it's HP Bar is depleted. As a result, my affection levels have all ways been very high, "Regards you as a parent", every day etc.
Is this why I got all 4 KIs? ...Maybe? I have no idea. So, again, this is just my anecdotal experience.
Is this why I got all 4 KIs? ...Maybe? I have no idea. So, again, this is just my anecdotal experience.
Just luck maybe, did the exact same thing, message instead of package, watch and care this bird that I have always been a parent, day 41 now, and not met Brutus once. Met the taru girl 3 times in a row though. DSC had been 134 since at least day 30, that when I swap to message. RCP was always low, sub 40, just starting to raise that using chocobuck item. But nothing I read (or remember) about RCP and stories.
So luck imo. Also the guide does say past 64 (?!?) you won’t lvl stat and swap to basic care, still leaves you 60 something days for the story
So luck imo. Also the guide does say past 64 (?!?) you won’t lvl stat and swap to basic care, still leaves you 60 something days for the story
Oh really? So you can't learn a story after Day 64? Is that correct?
I just beat the Dream Race on my 4th attempt and my chocobo is on Day 55 of it's raising.
My bird is First Class/First Class/Better than Average/Poor for STR/END/DSC/RCP and has both Gallop and Cantor.
My bird is First Class/First Class/Better than Average/Poor for STR/END/DSC/RCP and has both Gallop and Cantor.
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Can I only do 1 racing chocotrain a day? or as many as I want per day
People are price gouging.... R Chocotrain STR's are 1m now...
It's making it rather difficult
I'm at the point where I did all my DSC up to S, had RCP up to 120 but now delivering letters to train STR has dropped RCP down to ~70 already, but my STR is up to 150.
I feel like I should keep delivering letters until STR maxxes out, then act in plays to fix RCP... then Fix STR again from the play acting with Chocotrains? It feels like an awkward give and take at this point. I'm at like day 53 iirc
It's making it rather difficult
I'm at the point where I did all my DSC up to S, had RCP up to 120 but now delivering letters to train STR has dropped RCP down to ~70 already, but my STR is up to 150.
I feel like I should keep delivering letters until STR maxxes out, then act in plays to fix RCP... then Fix STR again from the play acting with Chocotrains? It feels like an awkward give and take at this point. I'm at like day 53 iirc
If you're planning to cap str, I would do that asap and keep it that way. I doubt it will happen in 10 days from care plans but its significant progress. STR is probably the most importsnt to stst for getting your own chocobucks to then fix whatever stats you still need.
Chocotrains for 200k to 300k were dumb. Could do 48 runs and spend around 680k to do the races (plus time) to have enough for 2 chocotrains. Throw in a C2 or C1 win and maybe close to 3 chocotrains. 1M is fair for the amount of time invested, or just wait it out and spend an extra month waiting for stats.
Felgarr said: »
This is only my second chocobo ever, but I got all 4 Story KIs by Day 35. My first chocobo never got any. Something I did: I watched my egg 610 times in the first 4 days. (The guide mentions 150) ...and I make sure to deplete it's HP every day in a specific way. I deplete it's HP by doing the task for the stat I want, like carrying packages for STR/END (I forget which). This results the bird having some HP left, but not enough to do anything, besides Watch Over Chocobo about a few times, until it's HP Bar is depleted. As a result, my affection levels have all ways been very high, "Regards you as a parent", every day etc.
Is this why I got all 4 KIs? ...Maybe? I have no idea. So, again, this is just my anecdotal experience.
Is this why I got all 4 KIs? ...Maybe? I have no idea. So, again, this is just my anecdotal experience.
Watching the egg doesn't do anything any more, you start at max affection. That's out of date information.
You get KIs by running into NPCs on walks, which Zed and I think is related to DSC (and maybe RCP) stats, bird that are focusing physical ones seem to rarely run into them, while mental ones see them often. Third encounter with each of the four gets you four of the possible books. Another comes from winning three "Race against others" which you unlock after meeting the NPC on a medium walk. Last one is from doing the missing chocobo chick sidequest with the NPC.
Felgarr said: »
Oh really? So you can't learn a story after Day 64? Is that correct?
I just finished a bird where I learned a story long after 64 due to terrible luck getting Brutus to show up, so yes, you can.
Asura.Dexprozius said: »
People are price gouging.... R Chocotrain STR's are 1m now...
It's making it rather difficult
I'm at the point where I did all my DSC up to S, had RCP up to 120 but now delivering letters to train STR has dropped RCP down to ~70 already, but my STR is up to 150.
I feel like I should keep delivering letters until STR maxxes out, then act in plays to fix RCP... then Fix STR again from the play acting with Chocotrains? It feels like an awkward give and take at this point. I'm at like day 53 iirc
It's making it rather difficult
I'm at the point where I did all my DSC up to S, had RCP up to 120 but now delivering letters to train STR has dropped RCP down to ~70 already, but my STR is up to 150.
I feel like I should keep delivering letters until STR maxxes out, then act in plays to fix RCP... then Fix STR again from the play acting with Chocotrains? It feels like an awkward give and take at this point. I'm at like day 53 iirc
It's effectively impossible to max more than two stats without using trains due to the care plans removing stats from opposing stats almost as fast as you gain them. The general most efficient raising is to pick a double plan to raise up two stats while keeping the others at 0, switch to a single for one of the two when you hit the stopping point for the other, then chocotrain the other one or two stats to where you want it.
Ranoutofspace said: »
Chocotrains for 200k to 300k were dumb. Could do 48 runs and spend around 680k to do the races (plus time) to have enough for 2 chocotrains. Throw in a C2 or C1 win and maybe close to 3 chocotrains. 1M is fair for the amount of time invested, or just wait it out and spend an extra month waiting for stats.
It's entirely an argument for time and gil. If you're willing to only do like 8 free runs a day, you can earn each chocotrain for like 30k, but it will be slow. If you do 24 a day, it still only costs you about 100k in gil worth of runs to get a chocotrain, which is about what they typically were sold for on Bahamut. Doing more runs than that starts getting really expensive really fast, to the point where it costs 100k gil per 3-5 chocobucks so you're spending millions each.
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Kayte said: »
I just finished a bird where I learned a story long after 64 due to terrible luck getting Brutus to show up, so yes, you can.
What is your mental stats for the bird at? As mentioned, DSC seems to affect running into NPCs more often at least, but long walks are kind of shitty because you have two different NPCs you coinflip on every time. I ended up running into the taru like 20+ total times before I got my third Brutus, it was aggravating.
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While I do have a dirty handkerchief, I do remember reading somewhere that you have to try each zone (à la limbus) to get it (implying the item is in 1 out of 3 area and not the others). Find mine on the medium walk. So cycle it (or luck and irrelevance worked).
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Phoenix.Gavroches said: »
While I do have a dirty handkerchief, I do remember reading somewhere that you have to try each zone (à la limbus) to get it (implying the item is in 1 out of 3 area and not the others). Find mine on the medium walk. So cycle it (or luck and irrelevance worked).
edit: 0/7 on Long Walk -> 0/1 on Short Walk -> 1/1 on Mid Walk. Thia was totally correct, thank you so much!
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