Well, here we go, continuing from last entry – General Information on Chocobo Raising.
Here are rough guides on Digger Chocobo and Racer Chocobo, based on my first-handed experience in raising a digger of my own, and babysitting my brother’s runner. My methods of raising chocobo are based on of information obtained from reading various sources, mainly FFXI wiki, and from asking some experienced chocobo raisers.
For detailed raising methods, day by day, I’ve kept a record of my own digger here, in Google Document.
*Participating in Kamp Kweh and then letting your chocobo play with other chocobo will allow you a chance to get small bonus in one of the stats. This can be done (successfully) once a day. If you haven’t gotten any stat rise with one chocobo, you can still try with other chocobos. However, repeating “Let it Play With Other” with the same old chocobo that didn’t give you any stat on that day will never gain you the stat. It seems like the system of whether you get stat bonus is based on one-time random per day per partner. *
*Kamp Kweh can raise chocobo’s attributes even after the growth stops after Day 64, so keep doing Kamp Kweh everyday will help you a lot.*
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Digger Chocobo
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As an owner of a Digger Chocobo, or Chocobo with more Psychological Attributes, I would suggest this…
(Day 0 – Day 3)
Of course spam “Watch Over” on the egg.
(Day 4 – Day 18)
Feed with Zegham Carrots.
Set Care Schedule to “Listen to Music” in order to boost Psychological Stats – Discernment and Receptivity.
*Listening to Music will decrease Physical Stats – Strength and Endurace* << But don’t worry, those are already at lowest level, Poor.
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(Day 19 – Day 28)
Keep feeding with Zegham Carrots. Should add Azouph Greens too, to maintain high affection level.
Change Care Schedule to “Exhibit to Public,” boosting Discernment and Receptivity even more.
*Exhibiting to Publiv will also decrease Strength and Endurace*
*Exhibiting to Public will decrease Affection faster than Listening to Music*
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(Day 29 – Day 64)
Feed Zegham Carrots and Azouph Greens on regular basis.
Read your chocobo the story for Burrow, Treasure Finder, or Bore if you wish.
*You can only teach 2 skills to one chocobo*
Keep on doing the “Exhibit to Public” Care Plan, but….
If you want a big, big boost on Discernment, while not caring about getting any Receptivity, use “Dig For Treasure.”
*Digging For Treasure will decrease Endurance*
*Digging For Treasure will decrease Affection much faster than Exhibiting*
Use “Raise Attribute” option, by spending 80 Chocobucks at a Chocobo Racing Authority to upgrade any stat that you want.
* Will require about 7 upgrades to fully raise the attribute 1 level, i.e. from A Bit Deficient to Average*
*Keep racing and digging for Chocobucks everyday*
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(Alternate methods don’t have to start right on day 29, you can start it when you feel like, or when you think you get enough stats of your desire and want to change method.)
(Day 29 – Day 64) Alternate Method 1
If you think your Chocobo has more than enough Discernment to learn any ability that you want….
(Actually, you should stock it up very high, for future decrease)
Still feed Azouph Greens for affection.
– Either feed Zegham Carrots to compensate with the opposite Care Plan or
– Change feed to Vomp Carrots to help boost Physical Attributes.
Change Care Plan to start boosting Physical Stats instead….
– Either use “Carry Packages” to increase both Strength and Endurance, but this will lower Discernment and Receptivity.
– Or use “Deliver Message” to big boost only Strength, while sacrificing with the loss of Receptivity.
*There’s no Care Plan that can big boost Endurance alone*
*Carrying Packages will decrease Affection as fast as Exhibiting*
*Delivering Message will decrease Affection as fast as Digging for Treasure*
Mean while, everyday, read your chocobo the story for Burrow, Treasure Finder, or Bore if you wish.
*You can only teach 2 skills to one chocobo*
*They said that even when you fail to teach the ability, reading stories to your chocobo can help increase Discernment a little*
Use “Raise Attribute” option, by spending 80 Chocobucks at a Chocobo Racing Authority to upgrade any stat that you want.
* Will require about 7 upgrades to fully raise the attribute 1 level, i.e. from A Bit Deficient to Average*
*Keep racing and digging for Chocobucks everyday*
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(Alternate methods don’t have to start right on day 29, you can start it when you feel like, or when you think you get enough stats of your desire and want to change method.)
(Day 29 – Day 64) Alternate Method 2
If you think your Chocobo has just barely enough Discernment to learn abilities, and don’t want it to decrease….
Change Care Plan to Basic Care to preserve Discernment (and Receptivity) while increase Strength and Endurance for small amount each day.
Still feed Azouph Greens for affection.
– Either feed Zegham Carrots to help increase in Psylogocal Stats or….
– Change feed to Vomp Carrots to help boost Physical Stats.
Mean while, everyday, read your chocobo the story for Burrow, Treasure Finder, or Bore if you wish.
*They said that even when you fail to teach the ability, reading stories to your chocobo can help increase Discernment a little*
*You can only teach 2 skills to one chocobo*
Use “Raise Attribute” option, by spending 80 Chocobucks at a Chocobo Racing Authority to upgrade any stat that you want.
* Will require about 7 upgrades to fully raise the attribute 1 level, i.e. from A Bit Deficient to Average*
*Keep racing and digging for Chocobucks everyday*
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(After Day 64)
To save money, you can change feed to San d’Orian Carrots from now on.
Keep the Azouph Greens on the menu if you wish.
Since Care Plan on Schedule won’t help any stat anymore, change it to Basic Care, permanently.
Keep racing, digging, and upgrading attributes of your choice.
Keep reading the stories of your choice if your chocobo hasn’t learnt the skill.
Dont forget Kamp Kweh. You can still gain stats from Kamp Kweh at this stage.
My Chocobo, ArashiZetsuei, is now on Day 99. I’ve followed my plan carefully, making few mistakes.
I’ve raced her a lot everyday (if I didn’t forget to), earning as many Chocobucks as I could while avoid spending ridiculous amount of gil.
I’ve tried to dig for treasure and Chocobucks everyday.
I’ve used Chocobucks to upgrade her stats, as recorded in my Google Doc.
I’ve tried to do Kamp Kweh as often as I could.
Now her attributes are as follow;
Strength: Impressive (lv 6)
Endurance: Average (lv 4)
Discernment: First-Class (lv 8.)
Receptivity: Better Than Average (lv 5)
Abilities: Burrow and Treasure Finder
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By the way, I’ve kept a record of all I’ve done in raising my chocobo in a Google Document >HERE< In case someone is interested in the details.
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Racer Chocobo
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Basically, for a Racer Chocobo, or chocobo with more Physical Attributes, we must do everything opposite to what I had done to my chocobo.
(Day 0 – Day 3)
Of course spam “Watch Over” on the egg.
(Day 4 – Day 18)
Feed with Vomp Carrots.
Set Care Schedule to “Take a Walk in Town” in order to boost Physical Stats – Strength and Endurace.
*Taking a Walk will decrease Psychological Stats – Discernment and Receptivity* << But don’t worry, those are already at lowest level, Poor.
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(Day 19 – Day 28)
Keep feeding with Vomp Carrots. Should add Azouph Greens too, to maintain high affection level.
Change Care Schedule to “Carry Packages,” boosting Strength and Endurace even more.
*Carrying Packages will also decrease Discernment and Receptivity*
*Carrying Packages will decrease Affection faster than Taking a Walk in Town*
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(Day 29 – Day 64)
Feed Vomp Carrots and Azoup Greens on regular basis.
Keep on doing the “Carry Packages” Care Plan, but….
If you want a big, big boost on Strength (for speed), while not caring about getting any Endurance, use “Deliver Messages.”
*Delivering Messages will decrease Receptivity*
*Delivering Messages will decrease Affection much faster than Carrying Packages*
*There’s no Care Plan that can big boost Endurance alone*
Use “Raise Attribute” option, by spending 80 Chocobucks at a Chocobo Racing Authority to upgrade any stat that you want.
* Will require about 7 upgrades to fully raise the attribute 1 level, i.e. from A Bit Deficient to Average*
*Keep racing and digging for Chocobucks everyday*
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(Alternate methods don’t have to start right on day 29, you can start it when you feel like, or when you think you get enough stats of your desire and want to change method.)
(Day 29 – Day 64) Alternate Method 1
Before starting this method, you should boost the Strength a great deal for speed, and for future decrease.
*With very high level of Strength, you can still win races easily even with lowered Endurance*
Still feed Azouph Greens for affection.
– Either keep feeding Vomp Carrots to compensate with the opposite Care Plan or
– Change feed to Zegham Carrots to help boost Psylogical Attributes.
Change Care Plan to start boosting Brain Stats instead….
– Either use “Exhibit to Public” to increase both Discernment and Receptivity, but this will lower both Strength and Endurance.
– Or use “Dig for Treasure” to big boost only Discernment, while sacrificing with the loss of Endurance.
*Exhibiting to Public will decrease Affection as fast as Carrying Packages*
*Digging for Treasure will decrease Affection as fast as Delivering Messages*
Watch for your Stats, should not let your main stats drop too much, or your chocobo will become the jack of all trades who’s good at none.
Use “Raise Attribute” option, by spending 80 Chocobucks at a Chocobo Racing Authority to upgrade any stat that you want.
Either repair your Body stats, or help upgrading Brain stats.
* Will require about 7 upgrades to fully raise the attribute 1 level, i.e. from A Bit Deficient to Average*
Read your chocobo the story for Gallop, and Canter. Auto-Regen might be good too, but I honestly have no idea.
*They said that even when you fail to teach the ability, reading stories to your chocobo can help increase Discernment a little*
*You can only teach 2 skills to one chocobo*
*Keep racing and digging for Chocobucks everyday*
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(Alternate methods don’t have to start right on day 29, you can start it when you feel like, or when you think you get enough stats of your desire and want to change method.)
(Day 29 – Day 64) Alternate Method 2
If you don’t want to sacrifice any of the Physical Attributes….
Change Care Plan to Basic Care to preserve Strength and Endurance while increase Discernment (and Receptivity) for small amount each day.
Still feed Azouph Greens for affection.
– Either feed Zegham Carrots to help increase in Psylogocal Stats or….
– Change feed to Vomp Carrots to help boost Physical Stats.
Once its Discernment reaches A Bit Deficient, start reading your chocobo the story for Gallop, and then when get Average, start teaching Canter.
*They said that even when you fail to teach the ability, reading stories to your chocobo can help increase Discernment a little*
*You can only teach 2 skills to one chocobo*
Use “Raise Attribute” option, by spending 80 Chocobucks at a Chocobo Racing Authority to upgrade only Discernment, to help speeding up the increase of chance in learning.
* Will require about 7 upgrades to fully raise the attribute 1 level, i.e. from A Bit Deficient to Average*
*Keep racing and digging for Chocobucks everyday*
Dont forget Kamp Kweh.
(After Day 64)
Same here, to save money, you can change feed to San d’Orian Carrots from now on.
Keep the Azouph Greens on the menu if you wish.
Since Care Plan on Schedule won’t help any stat anymore, change it to Basic Care, permanently.
Keep racing, digging, and upgrading attributes of your choice.
Max out your Physical stats like Strength and Endurance, and/or increase Discernment for the ease of skill-teaching.
Keep reading the stories of your choice if your chocobo hasn’t learnt the skill.
Dont forget Kamp Kweh. Your chocobo can still get bonus in stats from this activity after Day 64.
My Brother’s Chocobo, ChocolatCiel, is now on Day 89.
He has neglected his baby every once in a while, skipping the check, the feed, as well as Direct Care for 1 day for a few times.
Occasionally, he forgot to register Care Plan Schedule, so the Stables Person put his Chocobo on Basic Care, hindering the boost in stats for one or a few days each time.
I’ve raced his chocobo with moderate effort, upgrading his Discernment for several times.
I’ve tried to dig for treasure and Chocobucks with this chocobo a few times.
I’ve tried to do Kamp Kweh as often as I could, gaining more Intelligence (which I believe is Discernment) on several occasions.
Now his attributes are as follow;
Strength: First-Class (lv 8.)
Endurance: First-Class (lv 8.)
Discernment: A Bit Deficient (lv 3)
Receptivity: Poor (lv 1)
Abilities : Gallop (Have just learned on Day 89!!!)
>>> Then on Day 96, at Average Discernment, he finally learned skill Canter!
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Finally done with writing these entries!
Took me the whole day to do this, and I was absorbed in the writing that I even forgot to have dinner muwahahahaha!!!
Well, I hope this helps. Enjoy raising your chocobo!