Make it easier to make gils

[Demon6324236]

Yes, my way was slow, but I wasn't in any real rush. It could be that I am more patient than a lot of players, that I do the tedious grind and don't really care about rushing into endgame. Methods are out there if you are looking to build a slow and steady income instead of waiting for that one big windfall.

How long did it take you to get to level 7? My friend went outside of Windy and hit level 7 in less than a hour during double XP, so normally you are looking at around a hour and a half. He was not rushing, but again, unless you run around the wiki for hours learning how to make money and what to do, you will end up to broke for things. I spent about 3 hours just farming up money for level 10 gear for his WAR and a Claymore, now hes on the real game and actually likes it cause I loaned him 100k to start him off, before he hated it.

[Xantavia]

I started a few months before WotG came out, so I can't say how long it took me to get to 7. But no field manuals and the old xp rates, along with xp loss, I can say it took more than a day. I didn't even know about the wiki at first (just Gamefaqs), but I talked to almost everybody in town and was able to figure out some quests that way.

[Luvbunny]

A lot of people were able to hit level 12-13 outside the starting zones in less than an hour during double xp weekend - and if you have the xp ring. Probably around 60-90 mnts top for newbies. Yes the game is so archaic when it comes to giving new players explanation on how to do things the right way. What is baffling is this, they can give brand new players a symbol next to their names but cannot give NPC Quest similar symbol to make sure people know who to ask.... This company and this game is indeed very backward and antiquated...

[Vagrua]

How long did it take you to get to level 7? My friend went outside of Windy and hit level 7 in less than a hour during double XP, so normally you are looking at around a hour and a half. He was not rushing, but again, unless you run around the wiki for hours learning how to make money and what to do, you will end up to broke for things. I spent about 3 hours just farming up money for level 10 gear for his WAR and a Claymore, now hes on the real game and actually likes it cause I loaned him 100k to start him off, before he hated it.

I was lucky enough to have someone loan me 20k when I first started to get me on my feet. Some moat carp fishing gave me most of my income when I first started the game. That small amount gil doesn't amount to much anymore considering end game gear is 1m+ for most useful items.

You have to take your chances with either Voidwatch getting plates/cells to sell from shout groups or farm Dynamis/Limbus these days. The only other choices I can think of are mercing or if you have a linkshell, to farm ADL/PW for gil splits.

[Demon6324236]

My point was with the leveling at the speed it is today people can not make that much money as fast, its why new players often end up either in gusgen at level 30+ with level 1 gear or they end up running around soloing things in much the same condition, but occasionally die and get a free warp back home, where they might find some level 7 gear they can buy one or two pieces of gear for before heading back out again.

[Mirage]

To the OP:

Why? If gil is made easier to gain, the relative value will sink. End result: Shit's just as expensive as before, just with an extra zero or two behind all values.

[Crusader81]

if they do what it looks like with R/E/M then it's actually going to become much much much harder to make any money in this game, to the point I don't even see how the average person will make any.

[Luvbunny]

if they do what it looks like with R/E/M then it's actually going to become much much much harder to make any money in this game, to the point I don't even see how the average person will make any.

Well SoA new weapons currently besting the R/M?E so (almost) every one (who is not too casual) could get one eventually (when you manage to farm your bayld). Unless it's not 100% drop, and you are forced to farm bayld the way you farm your dyna currency - by whacking more roots and rocks, till you are bored to death and just quit lol.

[Alhanelem]

To the OP:

Why? If gil is made easier to gain, the relative value will sink. End result: Shit's just as expensive as before, just with an extra zero or two behind all values.

on a semi-related topic, people made the same kind of loud noise over the plans to chop a digit off of gil in FFXIV- everyone's gil, all NPC prices, etc were all had a digit dropped from their values- so the relative value of gil vs price of goods stays the same but everyone screamed "YOU"RE TAKING MY GIL AWAY WAAAH!".

[Horadrim]

Economics 101

Pretty much.