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I have not spent much time on other things than DoL and DoH. I have marauder at level 5 and archer at level 12 and that's it. I don't really do much else than fishing/mining/botanist when I have time to play the game. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to have a Chocobo so I looked in to how I was to obtain one.

Apparently you have to join one of the Grand Companies. In order to do this you would have to be level 22 DoW/DoM.

Are there really no way to obtain a Chocobo as a crafter or gatherer? I find this hard to believe but it seems this is actually the case.

So I am asking... is there no way for us gatheres (and crafters) to get a personal Chocobo or will I have to get archer (or other class) to level 22 and join the grand companies?

If this is the case I think SE really have to reconsider. It seems very strange that a player who have spent enough time in the game to get all DoL and DoH to level 50 (this is not me, just an example) should be able to get a Chocobo. A player like this would of course be able to get a DoW/DoM to level 22 and join the grand companies fairly quick but this should not be required in my opinion.

One could also argue that DoH don't need the Chocobos as they don't travel as much but this is certainly not the case with gatherers. They may be some of the people who spent most time in the game running around.

Let me hear your opinions please. I may have misunderstood something because this seems folly to me as I really don't have any interest in DoW/DoM

As I understand it DoL and DoH will be greatly simplified. Apparently people have been moaning and groaning and complaining a lot that they have to switch class in order to craft or mine or fish.

The producer is adamant that the main story lines require fighting. However, he did say that DoL and DoH will remain a part of the game because some people prefer it. There will be an option to still gather and craft, producing better results than the quick craft that is being introduced.

Time will tell. Until we get more details I do not think it's worth speculating.

I really don't hope that they will make gathering skills instead of classes, that would be such a turn off... I can understand why people would want to gather while using other classes but switching is very easy (IMO).

We will just have to wait and see I guess but I must say that I am not in favor of a move like that.

Seems to me that Yoshida is tailoring the story related stuff more towards battle classes. The old dev team made it to where crafters/gatherers could complete the main story, but this new company stuff doesn't favor those classes at all.

I don't know if they have plans to make it to where crafters/gatherers can do things alternatively to join a company or not. Once you're actually a member of a company you can turn in craftables/gatherables for company seals, so you don't need to do leves to accumulate those.

There's 3-4 company quests you have to do that require fighting before you can get to that point, and even then without doing the level 25 dungeon I don't think you'd still have enough seals to get a chocobo, so you'll have to do turn-ins. They've said they're making it easier to do turn ins for these items, I just don't know if it's coming in 1.20 or not.

I've noticed this as well Courtney. Once my miner hit 28, I started mining the hell out of mythril and cobalt. I was leveling armorer so it wasn't actually for profit, but I imagine I could have made a pretty penny selling it.

I'm not sure what the market is like for ore on my server since I'm not exactly buying/selling it, but I did find that while I was doing cobalt in Cedarwood that I was getting a TON of iron, and it actually sells pretty well. There was a guy that had one stack up for 500g each and everyone else was like 1200+. I bought his stack and listed my other 2 up for 1000g and they sold in the time I listed them in the morning till when I got home from work. So you might want to look into iron some too, as it's a component to make cobalt ingots and used in a myriad of other items that people are probably power leveling through.

On an aside, it was mentioned that Yoshida is supposed to be detailing his plans for gatherers in his upcoming letter concerning class changes. From what I hear from Reinheart, who does translations of the JP community rep posts, the JPs are really up in arms about gatherers due the information released that they won't see to be able to do story related stuff going forward and it's going to be tailored towards battle classes. I'm eagerly awaiting that letter he's posting to see what he has to say about that and the other class changing incoming.