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Sorry for the delay, was out of town for a few days. Well to be honest I havent tried all this star selection stuff in practice yet. Im still at pedigree 3 as I decided to farm MGP a little before investing further. But I think that for R240 you dont need to worry this much. This guy who wrote the guide calculated the requirements to never grow out of R240 even on rank 50. So you would be interested in either of:
– A pedigree 7 chocobo with 17 stars total
– A pedigree 8 chocobo with 12 stars total
– A pedigree 9 chocobo with 7 stars totalIt means that for pedigree 9, you actually have to downgrade your stars lol, because if you go any further you’ll get pushed into R300 eventually. Getting a 1 star stat is as difficult as getting a 4 star. So imo its better to stay at pedigree 8. In order to do that you have to buy only Grade 7 breeding permissions, because your next chocobo is always +1 pedigree from its lowest parent.
You are right about getting male and female. The most important thing here is to acquire the same number of stars on some stat on both of them. This way the stat gets locked and not influenced by random anymore. The main obstacle here would be chocobos inheriting stars through generations. Even if you breed 3 star male with 3 star female its not guaranteed that their chick will happen to be 3 star unless all grandfathers and grandmothers are also 3 stars. And the only way to get around this is inbreeding.
Here’s a quick example. Ill take the two of your chocobos you showed earlier as examples if you dont mind.
https://gyazo.com/8453b0b52e1bd835d82530f916dd7167
https://gyazo.com/b46f94fb282506050f6f8498d856dfeb
Let us work on Endurance here. Imagine we want to lock it at 3 star forever. We have a pretty good start already. 3 star on both female parents, 3 star on male’s father and 3 star on male’s mother. Now we go and register them. Female gets 3 star on Endurance no matter what, so we just raise her and retire for breeding. Male can get either 3 or 4 star (its a random roll at the moment of registration). But it doesnt matter anyway because his parentage stars stay there no matter what. So we raise him and retire too.Now comes the breeding. When they breed, their own stars are forgotten completely. After 6 hours we receive our fledgling and this is the moment of truth.
– If we get a female fledgling, we make them breed again. Because we don’t need another female.
– If we get a male and his parentage has 4 stars in Endurance, we make them breed again.
– If we get a male and his parentage has ONLY 3 stars in Endurance, its a win.
Now we have a female with 3 stars (mother) and a male with 3 stars (son). By inbreeding them we will always get a 3 star Endurance fledgling.And then we start working on other stats… To be honest I still hope that there’s a much easier way out there. Maybe Im overcomplicating things. But my mind cant find anything else at the moment. If you manage to do it Ill be glad to discuss your version of the breeding hell. Lol.
Only other thing I’ve noticed is that I keep getting killed at 23.7, 25.7 in the Hinterlands with the Hardsilver Ore one. 🙂
I took a look at this spot but couldnt figure it out. The area seems pretty deserted. Theres a lonely Damselfly but its too far away to see you. Have you noticed what killed you? Maybe theres a FATE spawning here from time to time. Id recommend changing Mount waypoints to Foot or even Stealth but Im not sure if its a real problem. Ill try using this grid for some time and let you know what happens.
Hmm sorry to interrupt but I got an idea all of a sudden, maybe it will help. Dont mind me if it wont its just a guess.
Jony do you have the latest video drivers installed? Now that I think of it I had some weird crashes in dx11 version too. But it was a long time ago, a couple of weeks into Heavensward. And it wasn’t about Miqobot at all, Miqo didnt even exist yet. I have a GTX too by the way. Dont remember clearly now but it seems the problem went away after I installed new video drivers.
Here’s a hint page: http://www.geforce.com/drivers
Go there and select your GPU model. It will give you the latest driver. If I read your specs correctly the driver you want is 364.72 released on Mar 28: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/100862Wouldnt hurt to install it anyway since its the official software. Im going to upgrade this thing for my PC as well, been almost a year since the last time lol.
Yup correct. You can start working on stars whenever you like since they are random and do not depend on pedigree. Though I’m not sure, maybe higher breeding Grades give you better 4 star rates. Anyway getting pedigree 9 first is the best decision because it unlocks all the racing content and lets you farm more MGP for your breeding program.
Hopefully yeah, you should try getting more acceleration. A possible option would be to buy a lot of breeding permissions, till you get an ultimate 20 star breeding bird. But it would be able to breed only once so it’s not very practical.
Achieving a BiS star chocobo is a long and tedious road as I understand. You’d have to choose one stat and maximize it first. Then you choose the next one and maximize it as well and so on. Let’s say you want Stamina 4 stars. First you get it from random rolls and raise this choco (no matter the pedigree). You need to raise a sire and a dam this way. After that you breed them twice and then inbreed their children, because stars pass through a generation. This is the point where you get a perfect gene pool for Stamina.
Then you do the same process for Acceleration 4 stars, and so on. Overall it means raising two chocobo lines, male and female.
Here’s a short version: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=72
P.S. I also went back to check on lower classes on my alt character. And it turned out that default R60 preset (which Miqo has from the start) works great for R80 and R100 as well. It doesn’t try to dodge big monsters in R100 though, but they are too random anyway. And with the current EXP boost it takes only 5-10 races to rank up and switch to R120.
Thanks Lyfox! This helps alot! I think i’m getting the jist of it now!
Any thoughts on this?
This is my last choco I just made.
https://gyazo.com/b46f94fb282506050f6f8498d856dfeb
Currently leveling him up, he is level 16 with Hereditary choco dash II 🙁Hey Morbol Green! Definitely should keep him just for the color lol.
But seriously, I think these are very good stars at pedigree 3. Mine has a couple of 1 star lines and still it races pretty good. You should definitely keep this one for inbreeding later. And don’t bother with Choco Dash III for now, since you would have to pass it with 50% rate to every next pedigree. It’s like getting BiS – best to do at the endgame stage. Choco Dash II is perfect for this birdie.
