How to make gil? Tips

I have some tips on how to make gils. Since gathering and crafting classes are pretty useless for making profit (on my server it is).

Here is how to make profit without knocking on market board.

1. Treasure Hunting Maps. Very important that you have gathering classes at 50 to gather pesitskin maps only or have Gil to buy them. Start or join the party through party finder or with your friends. Must fill up to 8 and each one have to have one or more pesitskin maps.

With that, you make 13K+ daily. 70K+ per week. Don't bother selling maps unless price is over 15K.

2. Doing dungeons. You may barely make Gil and at same time repair remove that profit you made. So better grind like a hell. AK gives 3K Gil by clear all mobs.

That's all I know for now. Keep in mind that is possible in 2.2 will bring gathering and crafting classes profit again.

Got any better idea? Discuss

shards, crystals, clusters they can sell pretty well if you want to use all your time to gather. leves can also give you some gil probably not that much but if you did the highest leve 500+ gil per run and you get 6 leves a day.

6? Why not save up your leves and do like 100 at once or something.

There's 4 ways to make decent to big amounts of gil in this game.

1. Put vendor crafting materials on the action house for gil. Highest profit margin, but requires a lot of micro management.
2. Crafting leve turn in items (HQ) and selling them to crafters who are leveling.
3. Crafting leve turn in items for yourself (HQ) and turning them in for gil profit (usually requires you to be able to gather most of the mats).
4. Level Goldsmith and Miner, and make ilvl48-49 electrum accessories for free. Then run dungeons and such with them, spirit binding into materia to sell. This is what I do, and I do ok on Balmung.

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Originally Posted by Krokov

6? Why not save up your leves and do like 100 at once or something.

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Also possible but it pretty much boils down to the same in the end.
With one you blow through a lot of allowance for a stash of gil at once, which is handy if you need a certain sum for something.
With the other you get a steady daily income to cover for your teleporting and repair costs, but regardless of doing 6 a day for 3 weeks or saving allowance for 3 weeks and blowing through them in one day, the total amount of acquired gil remains the same.

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Originally Posted by BamDeafPie

2. Doing dungeons. You may barely make Gil and at same time repair remove that profit you made. So better grind like a hell. AK gives 3K Gil by clear all mobs.

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The profist from a dungeon won't be destroyed by repair costs, it'll take 3/4 full runs before you are even in need of repairs unless you happen to wipe a lot.

That said, Duty roulette will up the amount of gil you get from a dungeon and you'll get even more if you queue up as tank.

Apart from that, beastmen dailies will also net you a little gil per completed quest and those don't take too long to do either.

Add popular items on the Market Board to your wishlist (such as Vanya- or various housing craft items and minions) and wait for somebody to muck up the sell price (like forgetting a 0 or trying to undercut other sellers by a ridiculously broad margin), then buy it and sell for a profit!

Of course though this occurs very rarely.

Farming shards and crystals in demand can earn you a quite a fortune if you can dedicate a (massive) portion of your time online to gathering them on a daily basis. Be sure to check the Market Board daily, given the prices tend to fluctuate every couple of days.

I just watch certain things. For one you gotta have some Gil or start small, then you set a bottom and top line on ten or so stackable items, a line you buy and sell at. If you watch a day or two and use the history you get a pretty good idea where those lines should be, sometimes it's much longer timeline than that and those are your moneymakers. I only let that out though because I own portions of my market, I'll drop price to bait an undercut then buy you out and relocate your Gil into my bank. I make 20 grand in around 20 minutes if I use my retainers, it's not instant but it works

Making steady amounts of gil is easy...

- Treasure maps
- Dungeon runs
- Leve turn-in's
- Buying up market board items that are selling for less than the NPC sell price


Making millions of gil is harder, you need to pretty religiously follow the market boards and devote quite a bit of time to running around gathering materials.


Then again, unless you're looking to finance your FC's medium or large house all by yourself... there's no real need to try to make millions of gil. It's overkill really.

Trends are all over the place right now. The market for HQ darksteel nuggest on Sarg has spiked to highly profitable levels, for example, and likely the ore has become incredibly valuable as well. I would suspect that something similar is happening on the clothcrafting end.

Flax and Cotton are pretty hot sellers, even with NQ, for lower level botanists.

Soulbinding is a long gamble for some good money. Soulbinding high level crafting and gathering materia is a huge trend, and will be for the foreseeable future with the new redicuf**ktastical requirements for three star products and the lack of a new gear tier (everyone's stuck pretty much at i55)

Right now on Gilgamesh gathering materia level 1 is selling for 10k each. Before the patch it was like 500gil each. Going to spirit bond a lot low level gear today.but

You can now do all the Guildhests once per week for ~40k gil.

The Challenge Log rewards aren't a ton of money but since a lot of it is for things you'd probably be doing anyway it's worth keeping an eye on to see how you're filling it out.

The new "Expert" dungeons also drop considerably more gil than their predecessors by the way.
Especially when you roulette them.

I don't think I am exaggerating when I say I fetch close to ~9k gil from a single run as a DPS when I roulette an Amdapor or Brayflox.
On top of that they add another 4500 if you roll as tank.
(Haven't checked if the older dungeons have gotten a boost since I still have to finish Pharos one of these days, had a ton of bad luck with people bailing the second they rolled it pre-update.)

i tend to keep a short list of things that tend to do better than others, and then check that list, then gather or make ONE of those things in bulk and then sell in portions.

I personally think there's a 'sweet spot' amount of gil people both have on hand and are willing to pay, but I'm not sure what it is, but im guessing its 2-10k. Seems to me a broke character can earn only so much gil reliably and those are the customers I want, because they can reliably crank out a few grand here and there and buy my reasonably priced stuff.

To say there is one particular item you can always sell to make X amount of gil is foolishness. Prices fluctuate by orders of magnitude and vary from server to server. Sell what sells, skip magic wonder do it alls. They don't exist. Even shards vary from week to week and element to element. Is it 14 gil or 145 gil? Who cares! Sell something that costs more, when it goes down, sell something more valuable.

Multi task better; (do a leve to bind gear)

Make yourself a set of ilv55 Bsm or Arm quicksynth (nq) a couple hundred(?) cobalt ingots to 100% spiritbond. Use the ingots for the arm leve in st coinach's. Convert the gear to materia. Use the cobalt ore and ice shards to make more ingots to turn in and spiritbond more gear, sell the earth shards, make mossyhorn scale gear from the horns, vendor the tattered chest piece. Repeat until out of leves.

If I have 99 leves, and make HQ gear to convert and meld it with some crappy materia, so it binds faster and convert it as soon as it hits 100% and make more to bind, I'm confident I can make 1M doing this (400k bare minimum). If you afk the QS the only time consuming part is running the short distance back and forth to turn in the leve.



Know what people need, or are going to need: (materials for new crafting stuff) Volcanic Rock Salt is needed for Spirit of Salts for Alc master MH and head. I sold HQ Rock salts for 5k each last night, NQ were a few hundred. You can get 6HQ 100% of the time once every 24hrs game time. This is differnet than what people want - such as seeds - which fell in price exponentially in a very short peroipd of time.



Sell crafting materials purchased with Myth tomes. 150 tomes for tawny latex, which is currently selling for >50k on my server.

There's a good steady market for HQ low-level gear (Bronze Hatchets, Copper Rings, Cotton Shepherds' Tunics and the like.) These are dead easy to make from NQ materials once you have leveled up your crafters. You may only sell them for 1500 or 2000 each, but you can sell several per day, and it adds up. Check the sales history on the market boards, and see what's selling reliably.

Consumables almost always move.
With a little practice and foresight, you can predict which ones are set to spike, and which ones are set to fall.
Once you do that, you can also make the predictions on related crafting materials used for them.

I haven't really farmed anything myself for a while, other than a little spirit binding myself, and I'm also getting gil I have no real use for at a fair amount :P

I just made about a million over the last two days :) pretty easy if you know what to do. I went in with stacks and undercut in 1-2 Gil increments with multiple stacks. Predictably I was undercut, which I wanted. Now the price dropped 8 Gil for me and one or two for the undercutters. I dropped the price again, 500 stacks 3-4 a time, 1-2 Gil increments. Under cut again. Now it's risky, I'm undercutting to a point very close to my buy price so I switch to 1-200 stacks, 5 at a time. Undercut again. This time I wait then buy them out. Got about 15000 items 40 Gil less than I'll sell them for. Boom boom boom. Oh and I rerose the market just by buying :)

I see this thread was created in March by someone from my server. I've always made loads of gil via crafting and gathering, including the 2.1 days. You just need to know your market. Bam, contact me in game and I'll give you some great tips about our servers tendencies.