This post is exclusively for people like me, who have tried digging around a ton for present-day experience on how to get the Racing Chocobo Mask, how long it takes, and simple factors that help you get through it faster. I am a trial player, but if you are subbed to the game, you get access to one extra easier method to make racing better. This post assumes you know how to start up chocobo racing, how to retire + breed chocobo, and how to actually control your chocobo in a race (hold W basically).
The short: It took me 331 races to reach Pedigree 9 and earn the Racing Chocobo Mask. Use stamina abilities and breed chocobo until your racer does not have 1 star stamina. I got first place roughly 55 times, and earned about 210,000 MGP from regular races. I completed this in 6 days. Feed your chocobo Tier 2 food as much as possible, don't spend MGP on food.
The long: Prepare for a long monotonous journey of the racing minigame. A race takes about 2 minutes and 20 seconds to complete, queue time for the race is always 30 seconds (longer if you have player racers not clicking accept--but player races increase exp gain regardless of placement). The race finishes when the last racer crosses the finish line. Here's some easy bullet points to make your chocobo racing life easier.
- Starting out with your first chocobo, pedigree 0, nothing special needed. Infact, feed isn't really needed until Pedigree 3 or 4, but if you have gil, you can just feed them to your heart's content
- If you have gil to spare, buying T1 food from the vendor is a tiny boost to a stat, but you can buy or craft T2 food (if you are NOT a trial, you can buy T2 food from the marketboard). Never spend MGP on T3 food if you plan on using MGP in the future, only spend it on maxed out chocobos post pedigree 9
- Skip the cut scene showing off the track name/race rank at the start of the race, it saves so much time oh my god why did it take me so long to notice this
- If you hate your chocobo's racing ability, you can use the chocobo supply vendor to purchase a super cheap book for 10 MGP to unlearn it, and then spend (up to 2400)MGP for a book to instantly learn a better ability
- Good racing abilities that can be bought include most abilities that restores stamina (or steals stamina from racers), Dressage III (ONLY if you consistently place 5th or better, +30% xp is huge), Paradigm Shift to re-roll junk racing item into something potentially game changing(fairly RNG, but I found it consistent enough to be useful), Choco dash II
- Bad racing abilities (in no particular order, as some can be situationally 'ok' but worse than the above) are resistances/immunes to debuffs, choco steal, choco esuna, speedy recovery, mimic, breather, super sprint(only good if you have exceptionally good stamina, I never achieved this), choco reflect
- Do your absolute best to not breed chocobo's with 1 star stamina; this is the single most important stat to have in a race, because running out of stamina puts you at the slowest speed achieveable; buy new breeding stock and try again. You have 10 breeding attempts on your retired racer (only buy breeding stock with the same pedigree level as your retired racer). One star stamina in higher pedigree levels means running out of stamina just over the half-way point of a race and coming in dead last fairly consistently + relying on stamina replenish items
- The goal of the race is to accelerate from start to finish of the race without ever slowing down; if you are running out of stamina, invest in feeding your chocobo stamina+endurance food. Pretend lathered doesn't exist
- Speed makes you faster but consume more stamina, Endurance lets you consume less stamina from high speed, Stamina is really good, Acceleration is a placebo, 0 idea how efficient cunning is but the first three stats are way more useful
- As you increase in pedigree level and achieve higher Rank (Rank=All chocobo stats added together (doesn't include stats granted from feed)), exp gains go up but so does exp required to increase chocobo level
- Retire the moment your chocobo hits level 40, there's no reason to continue to 50 for reaching pedigree 9
- At racing rank 81-100 and beyond, only race on the Desert race track, because the NPC racers will hit stamina reducing hazards a ton when you will be jumping over them. The other two tracks won't slow down NPC's nearly as much
- If you get frustrated, take breaks. Take as long as you need to.
- Don't grief player racers. NPC racers have better stats than you, focus your debilitating items and skills on them
- NPC racers all have unique names and always perform about the same. Try to hit the top performers as best as you can with items
- NPC racers will cheat and grief you, and especially in later races, will hold onto some skills and items specifically to hit you and only you (because NPC racers often have resistance passives, and they will rarely ever use items on a racer with a resistance)
- You want to place top 4 consistently and never lower-- Dressage III (+30% race exp) makes placing in top 4 better than 1st place without Dressage III.. but if you think you can place 1st or 2nd place consistently without dressage III, you will earn more MGP throughout your career (particularly towards the end in high rank races, at nearly 1000 mgp per 1st place placement)
This is everything I can think of that I wish I knew before I started racing (and wish I understood more of while racing). I hope maybe someday, someone will hit up (popular search engine) wanting the cute Racing Chocobo Mask and come across some of this information passed down through forum posts. If you have extra tips for achieving pedigree 9, please let me know!!
Much love, and good fortune on your journey!
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