New Players Gil Guide

Hi all,

I've made a new players gil guide here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4hvMV6nzvg

My advice is as follows:
1) Convert unneeded gear into materia and sell it.
2) Do not repair gear unless its at 0% condition.
3) Sell unneeded quest rewards.
4) Unlock the Challenge Log at level 14.
5) Finish the main scenario to guide you to level 50.
6) Do not buy anything from market board or vendors as quests will provide.
7) Use your retainers to sell items and control your bag space.
8) Set a minimum gil balance for yourself.
9) Use the dungeon roulette every day.
10) Once at level 50 and with some gil start crafting.

The video description is a lot more detailed then what I can post here.

If you have any other way of making gil as a new player let me know. Hope it helps.

~ Mithrie

Oh hello, Mithrie! Didn't know you posted on the forums!

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Originally Posted by Mithrie

2) Do not repair gear unless its at 0% condition.

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I wouldn't recomend this, you risk running into a dungeon or any party situation and having your gear break making you a burden on your party.

Spend the handfull of cash and always keep your gear in top condition please.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

I wouldn't recomend this, you risk running into a dungeon or any party situation and having your gear break making you a burden on your party.

Spend the handfull of cash and always keep your gear in top condition please.

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It's true, though when I leveled up an alt to 50 recently I rarely got any piece of gear to 20% condition before it was replaced. Guess keep an eye on it.

11) Do not teleport everywhere, use airship and chocobo porter.

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Originally Posted by Erendis

11) Do not teleport everywhere, use airship and your own chocobo.

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fixed it for you :) Chocobo porter is 15 whole gil that can be used elsewhere :P

It's not necessarily bad to start crafting and gathering now as you level, because you can gather your own materials and sell the extra stuff. Although for a new player it may be too overwhelming to keep track of all the crafts and materials.

At least have all 3 gathering classes (no need to level them) and do the gathering section of the Challenge Log, they're extremely simple and can be done quickly.

Stuff like never repairing until the last minute or never buying anything on the market board seems a bit restrictive.

It's not a hardcore economy. Don't starve yourself until 50. At 50 it hardly does anything anyway, it's mostly for just for pets and fashion.

Well if you want a personal house, you do have to work to earn gil, now that good small sized plots are all bought up and you're looking at either bad plots or 10 million plus medium plots.

I have been playing what about 4 months now, tbh it is extremely easy to make gil in this game. I leveled 4 crafts to 50 before my first job class to 50, currently 3 star weaver full artisan hq gear almost max melds and all crafts except alchemy and cooking 50

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Originally Posted by Stupiduglytaru

I have been playing what about 4 months now, tbh it is extremely easy to make gil in this game.

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Agreed. I've been playing for five months or so and only just started leveling crafting classes-- even after buying an FC room and a bunch of glamour gear, I'm still sitting on nearly 3 million gil just from quests, leves, selling stuff from retainer ventures, etc.

When you can, start doing the Beastyman Dailies. You'll get a couple thousand gil for a half hour of work. Might not seem like a whole lot, but doing them every day adds up. Also, I think crafting leves offer a ton of money if you had in HQ items and do the ones where you can hand in 3x the required amount, but that requires getting a crafter up to 50 asap.

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Originally Posted by Mithrie

2) Do not repair gear unless its at 0% condition.

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Is that actually necessary? Doesn't the cost to repair gear at the NPC vary based on its condition? If you're replacing it sure, but letting gear drop to 0% seems extremely risky. I recall repairs at the 90% condition mark being particularly cheap compared to a full repair, so I'd suggest repairing gear then if you think the gear will last long enough to drop to 0%; Better to pay 10G to get an extra dungeon run out of it when it is at 90% than to pay 100G to repair it at 0% when you're only going to use it for one more dungeon.

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Originally Posted by Lucke

Also, I think crafting leves offer a ton of money if you had in HQ items

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They do, you get about double the amount of gil and EXP for turning in an HQ item.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Doesn't the cost to repair gear at the NPC vary based on its condition?

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They do. Although they didn't always do that. Early on in launch (last year) you'd pay the same to repair a piece at 99% and at 1%, but it was changed soon afterwards, probably by the first patch. So there's little reason to delay repair.

level ixal beast tribe and rake in a million gil a week from selling sealant.

Or go the extra mile and do repairs yourself so the gear lasts longer.

Level your crafts

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Originally Posted by Mithrie

2) Do not repair gear unless its at 0% condition.

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Oh hell no...

Please don't do this. When your gear breaks in a dungeon you are useless. Repair when it hits 50% at the latest.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have updated the description of the video to include the suggestions about doing beast tribes, and also to take advantage of favored and free teleport. The whole repair thing is debate really because as I said in my case gear never broke before getting replaced, so was no need to spend even 1 gil on it, but that's just me. The general point is, is think about everything that costs gil and try to restrict so the end result is, you have saved more gil. :D

Good video - I posted it on our FC website for the new players to see

There might come a time during the leveling process that one or two items (gear) will lag behind from your current level. When you feel like the content is getting hard, check your gear to see if you have one or two items that 5 levels lower than your current level. If that’s the case, you might want to check if you can replace them without spending a lot of money.

If you go about shopping for gear, shop wisely. Check both the Markets as well as the Vendors in the area you are leveling. But, also check out the Guild Leve’s, since they are also a source for gear and money. (^_~ )

Also, low level gear is easy to make, so don’t be shy and ask if people (preferably friends) can help you out with some gear. High Quality Gear have a slight increase in stats that might just give you that edge you need and will delay the need to replace your gear a bit longer. But… Just don’t ask for items with the intent to sell them for money… That’s a big no-no… (^_^; )

Finally, running dungeons (next to the daily roulette) is a good source for gear as well. If you end up with gear you don’t need anymore and you can’t convert them into Materia, check if you can sell it for Company Seals at the Grand Company you’re affiliated with.

Each Grand Company sells gear at certain levels, which will also grant you additional set bonuses, when you equip more items from the same set. If you are set with gear, but have a lot of Company Seals, try buying either venture coins (in order to send your Retainers out an ventures) or crafting materials that sell well on the Market Boards.

Playing a tank is also helpful for generating cash, since they usually add the "adventurer in need" bonus to use the dungeon roulette. Low level roulette tanking not only adds a ton of exp but also nets you a ton of cash (7500 gil bonus at level 50). Even if you don't want to main a tank, playing one just to have the adventurer in need bonus is lucrative.

I would also add to remember to do your Guildhests for the first time for each class - guildhests are quick and the first-time completion bonus gives a lot of gil and you can get that bonus for each class.

And lastly, you mentioned the challenge log but it should be emphasized that it can get you 20-30k gil each week pretty easily. It forces new players to do different activities (dungeons, fates, guildhests, leve-quests etc.) to get them used to all the different content and also boosts their exp a ton so not only are they getting a lot of gil but they are leveling quicker too.

The good thing about these suggestions is that they all involve raw-gil generation and don't rely on selling stuff on the market board.

Do the Crystal Tower chain quest and sell the materias !