Ok I've been keeping updates on the bulletin but since it doesn't actually say when it gets updated (that I know of) I'll just kinda summarise mah findings so far.

I did some researchin on the forums and stuff and its so crazy how much debate there is over what makes a Chocochamp. People seem to be leaning towards smarter or balanced birds with race abilities rather than the faster, stupid birds. Comparing my own results with my dumb-as-a-box-of-rox PureJade to theirs, it actually seems quite even. Well, as far as races against the super chocos go.

These chocobos make me so mad! Almost as mad as this stupid 888 number that keeps calling my cell phone at all hours of the day and never leaves a message and just GRR.

Anyways... Against the super chocobos, PureJade always places second. I'm not quite sure how to beat these guys and apparently on the forums even the chocobos that have gotten trained through chocobucks and have Maxed STR and pretty high other abilities are only able to beat them once in a while. Ohohoho and it gets worse. I just had a race today where all 3 of the super birds were racing. Poor Jade managed a 4th place finish, even with a gysahl bomb tossed off near the end.

And I dunno what way they tweaked the items, but it sure doesn't seem to be doing me any bit of good! Did my third circuit race today and placed last. But I started out first and held it for a good time until some fathead tossed a pepper biscuit at my birdie. She instantly fell to last place and stayed there for a while. Managed to catch back up only to get hit with 3 (yes 3) gysahl bombs. I don't even know who the winning choco was, I was just irritated at the whole process by then.

Which is making me rethink a couple things. I'm not sure which stat helps your bird resist items. I'm hoping its Discernment cause I've decided to stop spending chocobucks to race in the circuit and official races for a while. I'm going to keep recording my free-run results but right now I'm hoarding up chocobucks to train Jade's discernment. Hopefully I can manage to get her to learn Gallop before day 65. I'm taking a risk and putting her on dig for treasure training. It will tank her endurance (this is what happened with my previous bird, who never recovered). But as long as I can get that ability, it might not matter so much.

I guess we'll see. If endurance starts tanking too much I'll put her back on speed and endurance training and go with what I got. Might be time to beseech my alchemist hubby to craft me up some gysahl bombs. Fight fire with fire, eh.

As long as I can beat that midget StarOnion bird, I can be satisified. :3 The other 2 super birds can keep their trophies, but the TARU IS GOIN DOWN!

Tags: Chocobo Racing Kyleet PureJade Raising

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