Botany and making money

I have officially got addicted to harvesting my way around Eorzea and making lots of gil. I got up to titan in the story with my white mage but since then have just been right into botany. Loving it

What are u selling?
i haavent found really anything that actually sell well. I get a hit every now and then.

I too have been making a ton from botany. Each time I log in I check my retainer and they have sold everything, so I restock my retainer and go about my business.

I've been wondering what's the best thing to sell? I'm not level 50 yet(only 34) so there's probably not much that well sell for me until I get a higher level. But I'd still like to know the best things to put on the market in the future ^^.

I'm only level 27 and I am making quite a lot of gil. for example last night I put about an hours worth of harvesting stuff on the market board and wake up this morning and its all gone and my retainer has 30000 gil waiting for me. iv found logs sell really well and there's always shards and crystals . they go straight away most of the time. I don't do any crafting at the present time so everything I harvest I sell

Some other things that sell well are highland parsley, lavender, elm logs, walnut logs, sun lemons faerie apples, noble grapes just to name a few. but it depends what you would describe as making lots of money. what I think is a lot other people might think is not much so yea

I think it depends on server too. I just switched servers and noticed that the prices are much better in favor of the botanist.

Hmm I'll try gathering some of those things, thanks for the suggestions :D. I just need enough gil to keep me from going broke xD.

Shards and crystals. My botanist is 50 and while I can make money on other items I make 90% of my gil off shards and crystals. Make sure you have all the wards (miner up to 20 as well ) just go to the level 31 nodes where 2/4 nodes give crystals. One of those nodes will give you +2 shards with each swing. Every other pass you pop a ward for 300GP at that node for +4 shards per swing, and in a hour you should have gotten hundreds of shards and crystals. Check daily which shards are in demand and going for the best prices, or save them for the weekend crafters like I do. If you want to gather items try to go for those items used in leves, and find the items used in the 3x turn ins like walnut logs. I cannot stress enough you must proactively check your boards! Market is always in flux.

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Originally Posted by l3rownEyedGirl

Hmm I'll try gathering some of those things, thanks for the suggestions :D. I just need enough gil to keep me from going broke xD.

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Do leves. Leves are easy money.

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Originally Posted by Dschlitz

Do leves. Leves are easy money.

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I have been doing leves ^^, just I would rather sell things that I gather :D

Just wait til you get to 50. crawler cocoons and spruce logs are like an endless supply of gil.

All the botany stuff sells for shit on my server. Just hit 50 with it and while I didn't level botany to make money, I'm disappointed by how horribly things would sell if I decided to do it for cash. Crawler cocoons sell for the most at 200 each and 600 for HQ along with Vampire Plants. All the rest sells for shit.

Kind of annoying really.

goblin is great for making money. guessing might have something to do with it being one of the unpopulated worlds or something i guess

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Originally Posted by l3rownEyedGirl

I have been doing leves ^^, just I would rather sell things that I gather :D

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how are botany leves any good at making gil?...

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Originally Posted by Aronos

All the botany stuff sells for shit on my server. Just hit 50 with it and while I didn't level botany to make money, I'm disappointed by how horribly things would sell if I decided to do it for cash. Crawler cocoons sell for the most at 200 each and 600 for HQ along with Vampire Plants. All the rest sells for shit.

Kind of annoying really.

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One of the perils of living in a legacy server.

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Originally Posted by gigi_frana

how are botany leves any good at making gil?...

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Ehhhh not really >_<

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Originally Posted by gigi_frana

how are botany leves any good at making gil?...

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If you consifer 56 gil good yes.

I think of them as quick leveling + spare change.

hmm im new botanist, will try selling and leves tomorrow

I would rather save leves for DOH classes as they make leveling up much easier, and you make more money harvesting nodes and selling. Sure, DOL leves are fun, but otherwise they are not worthwhile. Even on DOW/DOM classes you can find treasure chests with free gear in leves. DOL leves give no items and very little gil and the exp is slow compared to DOH classes.

I would save leve's for DOH too but thats me, maybe you not doing DOH yet but IF you use leve's for DOL aim for the evaluation types they give the most xp, the ones that says with every swing "Your evaluation increased by X number" , its easy to identify if you know the card. Its been a while I want to say its the CARDS with with a guy in a robe with his hands on this head.

Also for money for leve's in addition to the evaluation getting the Cordial(sp?) potion is a plus they go for 4k piece on my server but I saved mine, got 19 so far they replenish 300GP.

Walnut Logs are needed for a bunch of level 30-35 leves. They still don't sell for terribly much.

I don't like DoL leves - you can usually gather something that sells for more than the reward, or gather something you need for DoH.

The only reason I have DoH is to feed my DoL... and the whole "experiencing the game" thing

On my server elm logs always seem to be worth a little bit. i generally sell them for over a 100 gil

Hey, guys. So far, I've noticed that crawler cacoons sell the best, followed by clusters from Mor Dohna. I'm going to leave it to the game being too new for the cause of the majority of items to sell like crap. I think as the game grows and a lot of new recipes are released, more items will find more demand.

If you want to make some gil while leveling your DOL I would suggest leves. There are a few items that sell well due to extra DOH leveling for the cross class abilities (mainly logs, flax, shards). However the most time efficient way to make gil is farming Tome items. ~25k per item when you can do 10-15 min. WP runs for 100 tomes is pretty hard to beat. Rough math that's about 75k per hour (not to mention the extra you may get for spiritbonding). I know it's not DOL gil but I've yet to find a more effecient way of earning gil.