Chocobo and BRD (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Rain reached first class in discernment and learned Bore on the third attempt, so tonight I retired him. New egg starts tomorrow. I hope to finally, finally get a female, and black (the egg's mother is black).

I'm nearly certain I reregistered him after he learned Bore, but when we went digging tonight we didn't get a single new object. Luck/un-luck? Or did I not really reregister? Well, I reregistered him tonight (twice!) to be sure, and I'll try him again tomorrow.

Went to a level 6 Besieged as WAR 32/WHM. Ha ha. Didn't die once, got ~430 XP. While I need XP on WAR, I'm not going to do that again; it wasn't any fun. Problem is, going on DRK is useless (wasted XP, I have like 55K IS and no use for it), and while I love going on BRD, I'm already leading edge in our static.

And speaking of static, it met tonight. Since we now need two random DDs, we grabbed the only two DDs seeking (handy, huh?). A THF and a MNK. The THF was great -- both an insane puller and stuck hate amazingly well.

Thf: *pulls*
Nai (NIN tank): Voke's not up, be careful.
Thf: *trick attack* *Shark Bite*
Hate: *stuck with superglue*

More than the hate thing, he was just such a darned good puller. Fast, almost no downtime, and while there was aggro all around us, he almost never got links/aggro. I wanted to ask what his main job was (he was on THF 65, rank 9), but I was worried he'd say BRD, then I'd be all embarrassed again. :P



TristanTrotter (male, yellow, substandard dis&rec) bred to Caboose's QuantumTorpedo (female, yellow, substandard dis)

Prouduced HighlandRain (male, yellow, first class disc, average rec)

HighlandRain (male, yellow, first class disc*, average rec) bred to Aurian's NorthernWind (female, black, outstanding disc, average rec, Burrow/Gallop). Breeding plan to try for traits from the female.

*First class at time of retiring. Outstanding at time of breeding.

Egg to be turned in tomorrow.

Comments

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

I'll be interested to hear what you get from bore.
Shouldn't you re-breed your chocobo as first-class? It's only 500 gil for the extra chococards, and I guess 1 more day wait.

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Chocobo breeding is involved and potentially interesting. :)

Having fun?

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

Wind was Outstanding Disc and Average Rec when you had her breed with Rain. :3 She also knew Burrow and Gallop, so the chick has a chance of learning one or both of those from birth, I believe.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Woo, thanks! *fixes*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

No, not really. Like so much of FFXI, chocobo raising is a lot of busywork that ends with (so far) a useless thing.

Rain, for example: I spent ~20 minutes a day, almost 50 days on him. Got him up to first class discernment... but that means nothing. A bird with the lowest disc does exactly the same at chocobo digging as first class (the highest).

Birds can learn two digging skills: Burrow and Bore. Both let you dig up more items... but none of those items will be worth more than the original items. And since you can only dig up 100 items a day, you're shooting yourself in the foot by using them.

So what's the point of all this? Be damned if I know.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I considered doing that, but what's the point? As far as I can tell, disc doesn't make a difference in digging. And chances are, we won't really want burrow/bore, so a high disc to learn faster won't be important.

The longer I do the chocobo raising, the less point I see in it. Might as well go for an endurance bird so it doesn't toss me off as fast and ignore all else.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

If you do get a female, when she grows up you're more than welcome to breed her with Autumn Wind. He's got first-class endurance and outstanding speed. That is, if you're not sick of the whole thing by then.

And no, I am not propositioning you through our chocobos. ;p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but I really am getting tired of this. I'm going to breed for a color bird (black black black) and keep killing them off if I don't get one. Once I have a color one, I'll raise its stats and teach it any abilities I want. Then I'll be done, unless S-E changes things to make them actually useful.

And no, I am not propositioning you through our chocobos. ;p

; ; Tease!

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

Yeah I just mentioned it in the spirit of might as well.
Even endurance as a stat is kinda useless, the ride is already quite long and you can immediately use another charge if one ends, or go to a craig or a place with faster chocobos and switch there to a cheaper and faster chocobo.

Right now colors seem to be the main interesting thing to try to get, purely for looks.

Hopefully when the chocobo racing circuit opens there will be some more uses for these stats and for older chocobos... maybe a 1st class discernment can use complex physics and open a wormhole in space-time to win a race, and win you a hefty 100 gil reward!! =P

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Totally understandable. I'm starting to get tired of the whole thing, too, although I've just stuck with one bird. I've contemplated retiring him, since I'm really happy with his stats and they seem to be finished increasing, but I'm stubborn enough to wait until auto-retirement just to see when it happens.

Even if I did have a chance to get a colored one, I'm not sure I'd feel like going through all the trouble all over again.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Check my post in the BG thread about chocobo digging! Bore isn't useless~! Yay!

http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/11-08-2006-Bore.jpg

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Right there with you~

;)

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

Eh actually I got a darksteel ore in m.mountains with Burrow too, but is that better than adaman ore? It isn't =\ I also get phoenix feathers and spider webs, but those are always way lower in value than the rest, and for each one semi-valuable item I get a lot more useless junk items too, like bronze beastcoins etc.