There are tons of activities to do in FFXIV, and I guess Square Enix wants to encourage us to try them all out. 3 are from past seasonal events: Starlight Barding (from the Starlight Celebration Seasonal Event), Egg Harness (from Hatching-Tide 2014), and Paramour Barding (from Valentione’s Day 2015). 3 more are from loot boxes: Abigail Barding (Palace of the Dead Deep Dungeon), Allagan Barding (Eureka Orthos Deep Dungeon) and Red Mage Barding (Eureka Anemos). There’s also the Machinist Barding which can be obtained with Skybuilders’ Scrips and the Queen’s Guard Barding which is a direct drop from Delubrum Reginae. Many of these buyable ones can be crafted using materials from extreme trials.

There are 38 bardings you can buy and sell on the marketboard. Keep this in mind if you would rather spend gil instead of time. If you’re curious to see how the bardings look in game, I’ve made sure to link to clear images of all bardings further down, and I’ll be covering how you get every barding in the different categories.Īn asterisk (*) denotes a barding that can be purchased from other players on the marketboard. Simply head to any area outside city walls and use a bundle of Gysahl Greens so you can play around with different Barding combinations and see them displayed on the Chocobo right in front of you. The visual of your Chocobo in the Companion Window will only display the bare model in the current colour, without any barding shown. Unfortunately this won’t allow you to actually see the Barding displayed on your Chocobo unless you’re outside of a city and have it summoned in front of you. You can select the currently selected piece from the list to unequip it and leave that slot empty. They don’t have to be wearing a complete outfit either. Therefore, most Bardings are really a set of three pieces, and you can mix and match these pieces for your Chocobo to wear. The appearance tab will show you the current colour of your Chocobo, as well as the barding equipped on its head, body, and legs. Once there you’ll see three tabs: Actions, Skills, and Appearance. Head to the Companion Window under Character > Companion. It’s an Armorer Specialist Master X Recipe, meaning you’ll need the Master Armorer X Recipes and the Soul of the Armorer in order to craft it. The Voidcast Barding can be crafted using a material drop from The Voidcast Dais (Extreme). The second barding is from the new Extreme Trial.

The Horrendous Hoarder will sell it to you for 4,000 Seafarer’s Cowries. The first is the Felicitous Barding which can be purchased on your Island Sanctuary. I’ve organized the bardings into categories based on how you go about obtaining them, so you can see which ones are easy to pick up, and which ones will require more time (or money) to collect. You might also be a completionist looking to get as many of these bardings in your collection as possible. While barding is typically a type of armour, for gameplay purposes it’s purely aesthetic and doesn’t affect your chocobo’s stats or survivability in any way. The second customization is to change the barding it wears. The first aesthetic option is to change the colour of its feathers, which requires access to a Chocobo stable, either from a private estate, FC estate, or apartment building. As soon as you unlock your combat buddy you actually have the ability to change its appearance without requiring any further quests. If you’re the kind of player who’s interested in glamour, I’m betting that probably extends to your Chocobo companion as well, and you’d prefer to give them a stylish look that complements your own attire.

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