Gil: What pleasures can you indulge yourself with it?

One of my favorite things to do in an MMORPG is make money and spend that money on fun things. Whether it be casinos, items for show (like fireworks), buying new emotes, etc and things along those lines, what pleasures can I use gil for?
The only thing I can think of is housing.

Would be awesome to play in casinos, duel (freely) against your friends for (optionally) money/items on the line, buy and setup party tents, hire companions, maybe even try some of Wineports finest wine, etc, and pretty much anything that brings the game to life.

Doesn't it come to a point, where you're maxed out and all the combat/crafting labor is done. What is left? Gil/money is my usual guess.

I'm new to this game so I'm wondering if I should just quit trying to make gil if there isn't anything fun to spend it on.

Good question. I am also new here and have heard from different people that Gil later on is pretty useless... I love gathering and crafting and making money so I hope there would be a good use for it.

There are lots of pretty shiny new i90 crafted gear you can dump mounds of gil on. Same with the new level 1 gear for vanity. You can invest that gil into gear crafting and materia to be able to make and harvest all the new shinies.

Besides that, like you said, housing can be a huge gil sink. Make it your goal to own a mansion on your mule thats a FC of 1 (just make sure to log in every 35 days to keep it).

That's basically what people are saving their money for - housing and everything that goes with it. There is some nice vanity gear recently added that is quite expensive to buy too (ala, the sailor outfit/spring dress), plus the glamour prism items needed for the whole vanity system are very expensive if you don't craft them yourself, so that's another option.

Also a casino of sorts is coming later (the Gold Saucer, from FFVII), which is bound to include all kinds of minigames you can blow your gil on too. :)

One of the things I like to do, is craft gear/accessories for low levels. One day I had a ton of low level GSM materials and so I stood in Ul'dah offering free jewelry crafted upon request.

I thought it would be nice to do, but it turned out to be fun, and later see them using it on their characters gave me a nice feeling when I ran into them later.

I even began to spend my gil to get some mats to make more specialized items for people later on. The mats are cheap/easy to farm and so I was able to make tons of it for anyone who needed.

mounts barding and housing is all im interested in atm

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Originally Posted by MP4LIFE

One of the things I like to do, is craft gear/accessories for low levels. One day I had a ton of low level GSM materials and so I stood in Ul'dah offering free jewelry crafted upon request.

I thought it would be nice to do, but it turned out to be fun, and later see them using it on their characters gave me a nice feeling when I ran into them later.

I even began to spend my gil to get some mats to make more specialized items for people later on. The mats are cheap/easy to farm and so I was able to make tons of it for anyone who needed.

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Very cool!:) Very nice thing to do!:)

I have nothing to spend mine on, I'm close to buying myself a FC mansion just for the shits of it lol

saving for a house. Got no interest in crafted i90. imo the marketboard and crafting and trying to gain gil is a fun all in itself.

I want a house to garden. I think in a future expansion/patch there might be chocobo breeding in relation to housing???

well frm a rumor i heard, i think theyr doing choco breeding and airship workshop but may be only for mansions, though till they release proper info its only a rumor

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

That's basically what people are saving their money for - housing and everything that goes with it. There is some nice vanity gear recently added that is quite expensive to buy too (ala, the sailor outfit/spring dress), plus the glamour prism items needed for the whole vanity system are very expensive if you don't craft them yourself, so that's another option.

Also a casino of sorts is coming later (the Gold Saucer, from FFVII), which is bound to include all kinds of minigames you can blow your gil on too. :)

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this right here is what im looking forward to xD well that and the chocobo breeding :P

Looks like I'm saving up for a house then!

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Originally Posted by MP4LIFE

One of the things I like to do, is craft gear/accessories for low levels. One day I had a ton of low level GSM materials and so I stood in Ul'dah offering free jewelry crafted upon request.

I thought it would be nice to do, but it turned out to be fun, and later see them using it on their characters gave me a nice feeling when I ran into them later.

I even began to spend my gil to get some mats to make more specialized items for people later on. The mats are cheap/easy to farm and so I was able to make tons of it for anyone who needed.

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Pretty cool thing to do.

And besides the Free Company housing that's currently in game, they're planning on adding personal housing. (I think it's update 2.3 that's planned for.) That will add another fun gil sink.

Gold Saucer will also be added at some point which will likely have opportunities to throw away gil.

I bought myself a Sailor Shirt, Spring dress and uhh some of them Retainer looking equips (Patrician? something like that).


I don't like the idea of making my endgame gear look like noob gear and the price of some of these items are REALLY high... so I had to both save up and cry when I pressed the purchase button :o

It's okay though, I think I look nice ^_^


Other than that, there's not much to purchase other than materials for crafting. Most gear is obtained via dungeons/other methods.

I don't know about pleasure, but I still have 6 sets of crafting gear and all my gathering gear to blow up with materia. It's proving to be an expensive endeavor - so much that I'm about to start spiritbonding gear to try to offset the costs.

When you have maxed out any of the beast tribe quests, you can invest your money in a mount (costs 120k GIL) and a companion (25K if I recall correctly). Right now there are four beast tribes in the Game and with each major patch there will be two new ones. So right now you can spend already more than half a million of GIL for these goodies. You can also check the market boards for companions you don't have yet. Some of them cost a fortune, other ones are quiet cheap.

Right now I am investing my gil into Materia for one of my crafting classes.
Later on it'll be my Fisher's turn to be reconfigured.

I'm more of a "live in the now" kind of person, while it's nice to have the personal houses later I will see when I get there.
I'm not one for having millions on the bank "for later".
As far as I am concerned, the idea of having my own room in the FC house is good enough.