Returning player trying to save for a house.

Hi, I'm a returning player and currently have a level 70 DRK as my main. In the next few weeks we will have access to new plots for housing and I'm looking to save up for when this happens. Currently I'm only at 1.3m GIL but I do have infinite time on my hands basically.

I've been off and on with this game for years and have finally came back with lots of free time and am looking for a good way to do this because I'm totally lost. I started leveling miner, but looking on the market board, it looks like high level ores are only selling for like 500gil each? I have no idea what to do or where to start! Any help would be greatly appreciated!~~

Simplest things. Not the fastest money makers tho would be

Making sure to do retainer ventures. Quick exploration frequently brings junk but sometimes your retainer comes back with something worth a few hundred K

Selling grade 6 materia. Do this by either farming clusters/crystals and exchanging them or they actually drop randomly in expert roulette duties. If you are farming duties you can burn all those extra tomestones on crafting materials. The key thing though when doing this is to not flood the market

Find a group and do some lv 70 treasure maps. Most tend to go with map owner rolls need on rollable drops but there's a lot of basic drops that auto distribute and bonus look if you open a portal. I decent night of treasure maps might take you a few days to sell off everything if you only have 2 retainers

Gathering anything except for the absolute highest level, high quality materials (usually the ones locked behind folklore books) will not net you large chunks of change in one go. There are a few lower level materials you can gather which won't sell for excessive amounts but are used quite a bit so they sell at a low, but very consistent rate; alumen comes to mind as an example, but it will vary by server. Similarly, crafting won't make you much in large lump sums unless you are making the highest, endgame level stuff or very sought-after glamour pieces. The market for housing furnishings can also be lucrative, depending on the server. If you aren't willing to invest a lot of time in it (both leveling and stalking the MB to know what to sell and when,) I wouldn't bother. Ritsuko gave some good ideas about non-gather/crafter ways to make money.

Some items that are actually rather simple to make can fetch unusually high prices due to lack of supply.

Look around at the sale history of items with little to no stock and see how much people are buying them for, and you might be able to find yourself a non-competitive market to take advantage of.

Do all your roulette's every day. Seriously at 70 it adds up to a nice chunk of change. Do your challenge log as well, because most of those provide a /lot/ of money over time as well.

Learn the value of reselling as well as gathering, though if you don't have gathering leveled yet the former is your best bet in the immediate future. You'd be surprised how laziness prompts people to buy items from the market board at nearly ten times the value you bought it for; case in point I put up a Glade Flooring today for 70k as a joke because there was only one other seller available and they were pricing it at much higher. I figured I'd help prompt an eventual market crash and had only the faintest of thoughts that it'd actually sell. Except it did not even ten minutes later. For clarification you can /buy/ that item at the Housing Merchant in every residential ward for /5k/. I've been able to sell other things like /Honey/ for similar mark ups by watching the market and made around 500k before people caught on and crashed it into oblivion. You'd be surprised how little people care to check out of the way vendors or level the ARR beast tribes whose components generally sell well even today. If you pay attention to the marketboard and invest just a little bit, it can pay off in big ways.

Also remember to run instances for items that can't be gotten elsewhere. Stuff like rare crafting items and even minions that only come from /one/ dungeon can sell for a lot depending upon the world you happen to be on. Same thing with your retainers. Send them out every day and sometimes they'll come back with something amazing for you at the higher levels.

Complete Khloe's sticker book each week and pick the map, cluster, crystal, and or stuffed Khloe doll every week. The dolls and the materia have furnished my house from their sale.

I notice you have a 61 paladin job. Leveling this job to 70 on daily duties and dungeons is going to make you a lot of bonus Gil. if you have not finished the MSQ I suggest using your other class for that and level the tank just on these things.

Good Luck on the house, bye! :)

You can get enough gil by selling the materia you get by doing leveling roulettes as an adventurer in need (so tank). Bear in mind though that Free Companies with 4 or more people get housing first and there is no date on when private owners get to start buying the new houses.

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Originally Posted by Reinha

You can get enough gil by selling the materia you get by doing leveling roulettes as an adventurer in need (so tank). Bear in mind though that Free Companies with 4 or more people get housing first and there is no date on when private owners get to start buying the new houses.

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This, however they /are/ looking into expanding apartments so even if you can't get a house I wouldn't despair as you'll have more time to save for that.

As other have said, Cracked Clusters into Materia VI should see an increase in price in 4.2, as people get new gear.

If you're saving for a personal house. Good luck! All houses will be sold out to single FC's after 4.2

Eh? You think so?

Housing purchase will be restricted to free companies only in the next patch until they unlock them for personal purchase unfortunately.

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Originally Posted by Danatoth

Eh? You think so?

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Housing-Update

^ This is all the compiled information from the liveletter.

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Change to Plot Purchasing System - Updated! 01/19
Plots designated to free companies will be limited to purchase by free companies with at least 4 members.
Individuals will be restricted from purchasing personal plots for a limited time.
Only one FC plot and one personal plot may be purchased per world per service account.
Yoshida has stated these changes will not affect currently owned houses, just the purchase of plots moving forward.
Relocation will not be affected by the above restrictions (both fc and personal plots can be relocated to any available open plot regardless of purchase restrictions).

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Oh no T_T
I really wanted a house :(

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Originally Posted by Danatoth

Oh no T_T
I really wanted a house :(

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You still might get one! FC's just have the first crack. Keep on trying to save regardless.

Since the first round of houses will be FC only, I would take advantage of that. Use your seals and buy grand company things to sell, especially the portraits. Do some low level crafting recipes for houses. They don't need to be completed items, just parts, like varnish or straight up lumber. I think granite and limestone are used in a lot of housing recipes as well since you have miner leveled. Just check what materials are needed for some of the lower end housing supplies in the crafting log. Those parts will usually sell quicker that the finished product themselves.

I wish you luck.

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Originally Posted by DevonEllwood

Since the first round of houses will be FC only, I would take advantage of that. Use your seals and buy grand company things to sell, especially the portraits. Do some low level crafting recipes for houses. They don't need to be completed items, just parts, like varnish or straight up lumber. I think granite and limestone are used in a lot of housing recipes as well since you have miner leveled. Just check what materials are needed for some of the lower end housing supplies in the crafting log. Those parts will usually sell quicker that the finished product themselves.

I wish you luck.

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Mortar is also /highly/ useful and it's a low level craft and gather for the parts. They sell for a pretty penny here on Balmung.

I would like to point out that the economies of Japanese servers are extremely different to those of other regions. I haven't checked Tonberry in particular, but from my knowledge, most Japanese servers basically have much lower prices than others. Because of this, much of the advice on here is probably misguided. Keep that in mind when you're taking advice, or giving it for those of you offering some.

As I haven't checked Tonberry specifically, I'm afraid I can't offer much. But things like adventurer in need is actually pretty nice for servers with low price economies.

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Originally Posted by Enla

Mortar is also /highly/ useful and it's a low level craft and gather for the parts. They sell for a pretty penny here on Balmung.

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...I haven't made millions from mortar at all. Nope...

Also, check housing npcs. They are scattered around but people forget about them and will often pay much more for an item that can be found cheaper. There's a housing npc in mordona that sells themed items. It will take money to buy them but you can make money back easily.

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Originally Posted by MomomiMomi

I would like to point out that the economies of Japanese servers are extremely different to those of other regions. I haven't checked Tonberry in particular, but from my knowledge, most Japanese servers basically have much lower prices than others. Because of this, much of the advice on here is probably misguided. Keep that in mind when you're taking advice, or giving it for those of you offering some.

As I haven't checked Tonberry specifically, I'm afraid I can't offer much. But things like adventurer in need is actually pretty nice for servers with low price economies.

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Right now on Tonberry, the highest selling VI Materia is going for 40k

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Originally Posted by Danatoth

Right now on Tonberry, the highest selling VI Materia is going for 40k

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Holy F***** damn

Not sure what the prices on your server are but Shards and Crystals sell consistently, always in demand.

How much is black pegasus on your server? Do you POTD?

I'm not sure what that is. And yeah I've probably spammed like 300+ 51-60 potd to level characters but that's about it lol