Demystifying Chocobo Raising Plans And Food!

You get to skip the handkerchief process, and I recommend trying to skip running into Brutus and learning Canter by breeding multiple times until you get an egg with it inherited since the addon works on eggs from Finbarr.

Go for 254 4 254 128 or 254 34 224 128. The ELM saddle from C1 races gives +16 END during the race and as the best saddle it's all the END you need.

Honestly, I don't even know how to breed a chocobo... I have to get a Chococard from someone else? I can't just like, breed with a NPC?

FFXIV had the right idea, letting you purchase from a NPC.

I don't mind trying to find Brutus! That seems perfectly reasonable. I guess it might make my END too high but we have food and training plans for that.

You just need two chococards, M and F. You pick a plan to favor abilities/gender being passed along, and the color is a mix from the parents plus a random color I believe. You can get a new egg once per day.

Nothing random about the color inheritance lucky. It's a simplified 3x3 Punnett square for figuring out your color results based on the parents.

Example:
BLACK RED YELLOW Male
RED RED BLACK Female

Only possible egg outcomes:
BLACK RED YELLOW
BLACK RED BLACK
RED RED BLACK
RED RED YELLOW

Oh that's interesting, good to know.

Having decided to raise another chocobo, it's 29 days old and at adulthood!

Using Care Plan = Listen to Music (actually Exhibit to the Public now that it's fully grown) and feeding 2 Zegham Carrots and 1 Azouph Greens to get DSC/RCP up.

Two questions:
1) Do item feeds... actually do anything positive? I'm using Ivaar's Chococard lua to track the exact stats and before/after feeding I had 0 change to DSC/RCP and -2 to STR. Am I better off just feeding Gysahl Greens? I saw the log on the previous page where Vomp Carrots did something literally 1/6 of feeds.

2) What's the optimal way to raise STR? I know (from the previous page's excellent posts) you can get 4/6 (alternating) points per 80 chocobuck "training session" - is that + buying Chocotrains from the AH the best way or is there a better method I don't know?

2.5) Okay, I lied. Related to that, I should hold off on STR until the mental stats are done if I'm in no hurry, right? Because I can use the care plans to do mental stats faster when STR is at 0 and I don't care about dropping it.

1. Maybe someone else with more experience can chime in here. I haven't tracked stats from feeding, but you should be using food better than Gysahl Greens. You might not get a stat gain after every item, but over the course of weeks, it will add up.
2. Once you can race and earn chocobucks yourself, will probably be faster to buy your own chocotrains rather than wait for them to show up on AH.
2.5. Assuming you are building a race chocobo, you want to focus on mental stats first until you learn the abilities you need, then you can work on STR/END.

I do have a previous race chocobo online, I'm farming some Chocobucks daily, just a question of when I spend them - can only hold 1k but that's fine, that's still 12 training sessions.