Originally Posted by Nakti  |
During adult stage at least, you can get away with 1 Gysahl Green per day and the chocobo will have full energy (minus what the Care Plan uses) the next day.
I think Azouph Greens are a waste of money if you're going the budget chocobo route. 1 Azouph Green = +17 Affection (a little more than 1/2 level of Affection) and 1 Gysahl Green = +11 Affection. You can feed your chocobo a maximum of 2 Azouph Greens (+34) or 3 Gysahl Greens (+33) per day. Much cheaper to just buy the gysahl greens probably.
Here's the research I've compiled so far.
Chocobo Food Hunger Satisfaction and Affection
Chocobo Direct Care Affection
I've got more data on Direct Care and Care Plans, but I'm still compiling it. |
On Asura, right now, you can get a stack of Azouph Greens for 2000gil (167ea) on occasion, but they hover around 4000gil (333ea)--Gysahl cost under half this (70gil). If you're not visiting the chocobo or taking it on walks, it'll take more of them to raise affection to Parent. I have only recommended the use of Azouph Greens for raising affection quickly while on rigorous careplans, or to quickly get parent status for the Whistle Quest.
The reason I use Azouph, is that I'm trying to feed the chocobo only
one green and fill it up the rest of the way with 2 carrots. If I can maintain affection on one Azouph and I get to feed two carrots, that's the way I'm going for maximization. If I fill it up with Azoups, then I can't feed any carrots. I suppose if you have a low affection level, though and need to get it up quickly, Gysahl would be just fine--since I always have a few Azouphs around (I ran out recently because my garden hasn't come up and I have 4 chocobos), I usually don't worry about it. I didn't recommend Azouphs for the Budget Chocobo. The difference in price for 2 Azouph vs 3 Gysahl at the price I paid at the Bastok AH is around 124gil. That's probably a lot for a single point of affection, but it saves me the trouble of having more than one green stack to cart around. If my affection is full, I always feed carrots instead. I did change the Emergency Chocobo to Gysahl only.