Final Fantasy XIV: Chocobo color changing made easy

Rawr! :) So, I put together a list of some of the chocobo colors available on Reddit in both pic, and fruit formula, and how people got them, with credit to the people who figured out the colors, but honestly, I went to do my own chocobo color and didn't really understand, from the in game info, how to get blue, other than feeding it berries, but what blue, would just be a guessing game, and how many fruit, who knew. So, I looked it up, and found out that it is actually really simple to get the round-a-bout color you want, just by knowing what amount of fruit to buy, and then giving your chocobo , still the starting color, the ratio of fruit, but less than the total said by others to use. For instance, the blue I personally desired said to use 30 berries and 10 pears. I ended up using total, 8 pears and having 8 berries left over after all was said and done, and still had my blue. I fed my bird twice, and got it, just by knowing the foundational info to build my base from. So, for anyone who doesn't know, or maybe is new to FFXIV, chocobo color changing is actually very simple. Just go to your house, or if you don't have a house, to your Free Company's house, and then walk up to the stable and say you want to put your bird in. Then, tend to your own chocobo and feed your chocobo fruit, and it will say the feathers are changing and that your bird is growing new ones. Once you have given the chocobo a decent ratio of the recommended amount, say half of what it says in the video or a little over that, then you wait 6 hours and it will show up with new feathers. Based on what color it is, you adjust as needed. The first feeding I got corpse blue, so I knew I was on the right track, but that my bird needed some more food. It was actually really easy. People online, when I went to look up how to do it, had all these equations, and sliding scale bars for color. None of that is important if you just know the base amount that worked for someone, and then use that same ratio, far as I could tell. The rest is over-complication for people who are into that. If you want simple, just do it this way. :) Not all colors are in this video, soz, some were not on Reddit, or had a picture but no fruit list, or basically ALL the yellows looked almost exactly like the original color of the chocobo. But, to offer some examples of colors I didn't post: Wine Red (I wish I could have found this one) Sky Blue (Litterally looks like raptor blue, but slightly less bright) Celeste Green (A pale version of turquoise green) Lotus Pink (almost white pink) Bone White (off white instead of the snow white) And there are plenty more. But the intention was to get a range of colors for you to use as a base, and not to get every single formula. There is no pure black, due to getting the black chocobo when you learn to fly in Heavensward, but there are some really close options, which I tried to include in the video. Anyhoo, the whole point of all this, is that it took a while to find this kind of info for my own chocobo color changing experience, and I hope it saves other players time and all. I wish you as much love of your chocobo color as I love mine! :) Rawr :)

Final Fantasy XIV - The Rising

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So right now while writing this, there is an event going on in the world of FFXIV called The Rising, which I completed on the first day it launched, but I can't stop thinking about it, so decided to make a post.

In the event, you do your normal "save everyone" quest and then discover that actually, behind the face of the in game minstrel asking for your help is the real life face of one of the main creators of the game! Not only do you get two cute minions and some fun, but, the completion of the quest grants you access to a special secret floor in the game where the real life makers of the game, the heads of all the diff departments, dwell at their desks in the game, as they would in real life, except, with fantasy themes, like unicorns and dragons and such. Plastered on their walls are production art and glowing shapes, and each one wants to tell you about what they do for the game and how much they appreciate you playing.

After you do all of this, enjoying their witty references to Final Fantasy titles from the past, and remarks about current concerns of players in the forums, such as housing, then you talk to the head guy again, only to have him explain that long ago, in this same world, they made a mistake, and were quick to realize that they needed the heroes as much as we needed them. They put out content that was not worth putting out and went back and remade the world into one worth saving. They love their world. They wholeheartedly care about it and the people in it that they have invested so much of their own effort and time and money into. And they won't ever let that prior mistake happen again.

What he is talking about is the orig version 1.0, where, it had bad reviews and whatnot, but then, they, of their own volition, remade everything, and listened as much as they could to every complaint and thought of ways to incorporate player wishes into A Realm Reborn, which has been a giant success of a game. But he didn't stop there.

He then had all the in game versions of the real life game makers circle around you, cheering for you, thanking you as a unit, and he said something that has stuck with me.

He said that sometimes the heroes and the makers argue and disagree, but he appreciates it all the same, because it shows how passionate both sides are about the world and it being the best world it can be. He appreciates heroes wanting to save the world, because he loves the world, and by me, and every other player, wanting to save it and love it too, we become the makers' heroes. Every player who loves their creation like they do is their hero and not merely an in game hero.

I have gamed since I was 5. I have loved gaming without needing anyone to thank me or without anyone needing to applaud me and say anything about it. But, especially after Blizz's deceptions and lack of concern about player input or whether or not players stick around and want to be there anymore, I will unashamedly admit I cried when I saw such an all out level of appreciation on this big of a scale done for us who play Final Fantasy XIV. They went above and beyond to express how much their game means to them, and how much their players do.

I love gaming. I always will, even when FFXIV has long passed away into the annuls of gamer history, but it has taken a place, even though I have only played for such a short time, as one of the greats for me, and Square Enix, which I have always admired Square since I was just a kid and playing the first FF on the orig Nintendo, has only uplifted its already prestigious name as a gaming company. I used to feel like Square and Blizzard were decently on par with each other, one a master storyteller with incredible gaming graphic and gameplay feats, and the best rpgs, and the other with the best rts games and super innovators of whatever niche they chose in gaming, taking something common and remaking it awe inspiring. Blizz has stepped down from that, into making games that are easy, but not amazing, and are mass played, but only because they are there, repetitive, and made by a known gaming company.

Square, on the other hand, is still pushing itself to expand its own greatness and it is very wonderful to experience. Square Enix has done everything they could to make me feel safe with a gaming company again, safe to trust them and not worry that they will just be heartless money suckers, without me even having to express to them that I felt that distrust. I feel like someone who broke up with a lying jerk, and met someone awesome, who didn't even know about my ex, but still made up for everything they did.

I never had to be thanked for gaming. To me, I always was grateful to the makers of the games for giving me such wonderful worlds and lives to lead. But now that I have been thanked, and in such a fun and sincere way, I am just so happy. That which I love loves me back. I couldn't be more pleased that I am giving my money to someone who cares about their product and their customers on this level. It is nice. Really nice.

Rawr :)