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Do all of your levequests, guildheists, and story line quests. You shouldn't have an issue with gil at that level. Like Arriverderci said, get the allagen pieces when you can. You don't always have to select armor from your quest options since you can level pretty quickly at lower levels. They stack up and sell for quite a bit of money all together. However, this is not to say you need to get the coin pieces all the time. I don't think I started doing that until I passed level 30.
I make money through the market for the fun of it but there's nothing right now that requires a lot of gil. You can look into crafting classes to make items and sell through the markets if you have the patience for it. You'll need to make it to your part of the story quests where you obtain an retainer before you can do so though. Another option is hunting for certain monster drops. Some of them sell for decent money and you don't have to be incredibly high level to start hunting some of them.
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All the previous posters have given good information. Let me add: learn to use the Market.
Once you've gained access to the two Retainers that we can have, you are in a position to begin selling items via the Market. Establish your prices based upon the prices charged by the NPC Vendors; set your prices - up or down, it's up to you. These Vendor prices are what the Developers have decided are the "floor" prices. Anyone who sells for less than these prices is leaving a lot of money on the table with each transaction.
The L1 to L20 items you make are comparable to what the City Vendors have to offer. Above L20 there are Vendors located in many of the Level-appropriate areas. When you run across these guys, add their prices to your market research as well.
If you set your prices fairly, the money will come rolling in. Price gougers and item-dumpers loose out, big-time. I guarantee it.
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Also, do the guildhests. !st runs on those give pretty good bonuses.
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While i am often broke i find you can make nice amounts of money selling stuff on the market.
For this however you will need to be further into the story line in which you then hire a retainer to sell for you. I also almost always take Allagan pieces as rewards from quests as some are worth 100 each, some are 500
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At level 25 my first time around playing this game im at 26k .
It would be over 30 but I spent some
I havent sold anything on the market, just quested.
I also have 13 years of MMO exp though so that may count for something? idk