Song details for Chocobo Mazurka  

AS A MATTER OF FACT - your fictional amounts are incorrect.

If Normal running speed = 10
Flee/Chocobo = 20
then Mazurka = 12.5 - not 15

Mazurka is the same speed as NIN AF boots (which are 25% faster)

Also - cast time is 6 seconds - which would mean that all your sums below are incorrect.

This song is not worthless. Actually, AS A MATTER OF FACT, Chocobo Mazurka is the fastest method of transportation without getting on a chocobo or airship, etc. Let's take a look at the math real quick...

=== Speeds* ===
• Normal running speed is 10 m/s
• Flee speed is 20 m/s
• Chocobo Mazurka speed is 15 m/s

=== Durations ===
• Normal running is infinite
• Flee lasts for 30 seconds
• Chocobo Mazurka lasts for two minutes

=== Casting Time ===
• Flee is instant
• Chocobo Mazurka costs 8 seconds to cast

Here's a table for you to see it all happening. TIME is in seconds, BRD and THF obviously stand for "Bard" and "Thief" and PFT means "Percentage Faster as THF" to show the overall percentage of a lead that the THF has over/under the BRD.

TIME BRD THF PFT
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0s 0m 0m 0% [BRD starts casting Mazurka; THF uses Flee]
8s 0m 240m 100% [BRD finishes casting Mazurka]
10s 30m 300m 90%
20s 180m 600m 70%
30s 330m 900m 64% [THF's Flee effect wears off]
40s 480m 1000m 52%
50s 630m 1100m 43%
60s 780m 1200m 35% [1 minute total time elapsed]

After traveling for one minute Flee is clearly faster. You will see, however, as time goes on (now in 20 second increments) Mazurka pulls ahead.

80s 1080m 1300m 17%
100s 1380m 1400m 3%
120s 1680m 1500m -11% [2 minutes total time elapsed]

At the two minute mark BRD has pulled ahead in distance traveled and overall is moving 11% faster than the THF. However, the BRD is about to have to stop for 8 seconds to recast Mazurka. As you will see, however, this doesn't slow him down enough for the THF to pull ahead.

128s 1800m 1580m -20% [BRD begins casting Mazurka]
136s 1800m 1660m -8% [BRD finishes casting Mazurka]
180s 2460m 2100m -17% [3 minutes total time elapsed]
240s 3360m 2700m -24% [4 minutes total time elapsed]
256s 3600m 2860m -26% [BRD begins casting Mazurka]
264s 3600m 2940m -22% [BRD finishes casting Mazurka]
300s 4140m 3300m -25% [5 minutes total time elapsed; THF uses Flee]

At the 5 minute mark you can see that BRD is ahead by 25% and would reach the destination first. Now the THF has Flee available again, but, unfortunately for him it is not enough. The BRD has to great of a lead on him and at the end of Flee's duration the BRD will still be ahead by 9% and then continue to gain from there into infinity.

330s 4590m 4200m -9% [Flee wears off]
360s 5040m 4500m -12% [6 minutes total time elapsed]

It continues this way endlessly. So to sum everything up:

Flee is fastest only if your total travel time is under 2 minutes.
Anything over 2 minutes and Mazurka is the fastest.

Seeing as how most traveling outside of cities takes over 2 minutes (usually more like 10 to 15 minutes as in the "Xarcabard and running to Fei'yin" example given elsewhere) it is much more preferable to have Chocobo Mazurka than to have Flee.

* Speed numbers and distances are fictional units made for simplification the example. Obviously you don't travel at 30 meters per second with Flee. >_>

I cant wait for the day i can save money on chocobos and just play this song and RUN!

FACTS

1. this song does NOT stack with Flee
2. cannot be used in dungeons.
3. song works in all choco areas + cities, Qufim, glacier area, Moon, and Sky.
4. this song makes u run faster than those peeps wearing city Aketons^^

Edited, Fri May 6 12:04:24 2005

I'm going to post this here since more higher level bards are likely to read it than if I posted under Minne, Madrigal or Minuete.

When you spend merit points to increase minne, minuete or madrigal, it does NOT raise the song by one level (+10 or so points). Rather, it does what it says it will do and raises it by 1 (lousy) point.

spend your merits elsewhere is my advice, unless you're maxed in other catagories.

oh something aspiring bards should know about this song: if you get hit, it wears off so don't plan on using it to run away (unless you're not the one getting hit)

this sounds like a great song but then again you could just get thf up to lvl 25 and use flee. But then again it'd be cool to get something up to lvl 73! ^^

i dont know what some of u are say how this is "usless". but i can tell u MANNY ways it is usful. 1)running thru a long zone i.e. quifum to jeuno. or runing from on spot to another(NM hunting).

and of corse the BIGGEST reason... your group member pulls somthing and *UH OH!! LINK!* then 4 mosters come at your party. *oh ne we cant escape!* DUN DUN DA DA!!! BARD TO THE RESCUE!

simply put.

now rate me up. ^_^

EDIT: oh yea to answer some of the post to where people are geing theese. they sell at chocobo people...i heard they are cheepest by the one in kazam



Edited, Sat Dec 25 17:11:00 2004

Where else are ppl getting these? They are being sold at the AH in juneo for 30k.

You can use this in towns as well. And it doesn't seem to be exactly 50% more than regular speed, more like 35-40%. Hopefully it will scale up a bit more with skill-ups. I would however disagree that it's "not all that impressive". It's a great timesaver when your whole group is on it and you knock several minutes off of your regular run time (say if you're TP'ing to Xarcabard and running to Fei'yin).

would this stack with flee?

This song seems uber l337, too bad its lvl 73 :(

Edited, Sat Jun 12 21:58:10 2004

Does this work like Haste? Does it just make you attack faster? Or does it make you literally move faster, like Flee? That would be awesome if it did both.

It's sold at the Chocobo Stable in Souther San d'Oria as well. About 55k.

Edited, Tue Dec 16 20:37:43 2003