Talk:Chocobo Raising/Gallop

Information posted by Grodark on main page moved to discussion page: --Wayka 06:06, 26 February 2007 (EST)

Chocobo Speed Test

After my chocobo learned Gallop, I decided to test the speed increase that this ability gave.

Here is the experiment I set up.

3 chocobos would race from the Crag of Dem to the zone of Pashhow Marshlands.

Chocobo 1 has Lv. 1 Strenth (Poor) and has no abilities Chocobo 2 has Lv. 1 Strength (Poor) and has learned Gallop Chocobo 3 has Lv. 2 Strength (Substandard) and has no abilities

I did not set up a strict path, but I told everyone to take a path as similar to everyone else as possible.

Results: All three chocobos ran the same speed or close to for beginning portion of the race. When everyone zoned, the order was Chocobo 3, Chocobo 2 and then Chocobo 1. Riding on Chocobo 2 at the end of the race, I noticed Chocobo 1 and 3 had a similar gap away from my chocobo. So I believe Gallop increased my speed by .5 of a level. Since my chocobo has A rank in both Intelligence and Receptivity I can't test to see what the effects of this ability are at later Strength levels. But I believe that Gallop has a percentage boost, rather than a straight Level boost so it could be possible to achieve Lv. 10 Strength with this ability and Lv. 8 Strength.

If anyone else could perform this sort of experiment to either confirm, disprove or elaborate on my findings I would like to see it.

This is a post on the FFXIclopedia forums by a person named Priest, I have not changed the wording. To see this post, click here

I disagree with Gallop.

Gallop tested 3 chocobo's all Str: Impressive, 1 chocobo had Gallop.

15 races, straight line. 6 races failed tested do to bad starts.

other 9 races each chocobo started and matched each other. The Chocobo with Gallop started at the same speed as the other chocobo's for 30 seconds then began to increase speed.

As a result my friends and I, came to the conclusion that that gallop increase a chocobo speed 30 seconds after its been running, and increases the speed by one Stat level. So making a chocobo with impressive Str become outstanding. If the chocobo with gallop stops then starts running again, it takes another 30 seconds before gallop starts taking effect again.

I wanted to do this test 100 times to comfirm the results but that would have taken hours. After the chocobo winning 9 times with equal starting and never having the other chocobos winning, it was enough data for the 3 of us.

I think the rumor of Gallop only working in races is a BS. Gallop does in my opinion does help Chocobos for riding. But it is a very small increase and often not noticeable.

Also, looking at Chanter, I have no idea why anyone would think this only works for chocobo races. At what point does this become useful or where endurance comes into play with Chocobo Racing?