Best way to earn seals 1.21+

As the title suggests.

Has anyone experimented which methods to earn seals as fast as possible?

I'm aware of the different ways to accumlate seals, but am curious as to what is the fastest.

Would value your inputs and experiences post 1.21 in regards to this.

My own opinions is that camping NM's and handing in their EX drops would be the most efficient.

But this is because I have yet to retry Caravan escort, which I found previously to be inefficient.

i tryed nm's 1 drop out of 12 kills 3 different nm's.

i hope someone has a better way as im after seals to

do toto rak guys, thats the fastest, you are guaranteed at least 3 drops a run. Only bitch is you need someone to help you enter.

Caravan Rescues! Many Caravan Rescues!

NM drops probably are the best... There are locations with multiple NMs close to each other, such as East of Cedarwood (Gertrude and Old-Six Arms) or Nanawa mines.

A good darkhold run can net you a massive amount of seals but of course you'll need 8 people. Other than that I still think provisioning is the best and the safest now that they reset after 28 hours.

I text all method here is the list (remember, this is for lvl 50 with the quickest way w/o trouble or add in annoying feeling):

GC quest 3 stars (solo):
/poke quest : if you only kill he mobs have crystal & the mobs need to hunt, you ll earn 110 seals in 4 min max
protect: the most boring, 110 seals 15 min
kill as many as possible: to earn 110 seals you need to have 7/2 on 3 type of the list

note: the 3 stars are lvl 46, the reward is 100 seals for complete, the last 10 are from bonus for did the job well. You can do this with 4 stars but it is not worth it as you got 5 seals more and will waste more effor

Caravan escort (best setup is 6-8 player with: 2 WHM 6 BLM or 1 PLD 2 WHM 5 BLM)
160 seals to 240 seals /10 min or 15 min depend on the kill speed and the protect. By the time you finish the escort the next one should be up in 2-3 min or instant depend on the time you finish, so it is a never ending of boring grind

DH.....not even worth it, the time consume + not everyone in the pt got seals, it is the worst farm method imo

NM hunt:
you can do this as farm method but I will not recommend you to do, because it is just not worth it base on luck to get items and the competition + the mob respawn time for 250 seals that might required 5+ kills to get

conclusion:

the Best: Caravan escort
good: GC solo quest
ok: NM hunt
worst: DH

note: I dont say totorak in here is because it is the same as DH, it might be faster and if you take the longest route, most in pt should get seals, but by the time you finish it, you might got more seals by do caravan escort or GC solo quest

Totorak is the best. Go in with 2 people, guarantee 4-6 drops if you are able to pop 5 chest, that is roughly 1.5k seals per run which takes about 20min.

Dark Hold, we've scheduled regular weekly darkhold runs for GC seals, full party of 8 everyone randoms at the start to get drop order, which just rotates after each run, can easily fight 4-5 runs in a night to get 2 weapons each which is 3000 GC seals, and anything that drops randomly from chests on the way down goes to the person it drops to, no arguments, no drama, just quick clean runs, we even managed a full clear in under 25 minutes and got all 5 chests, give it a few weeks and we'll be doing it all the time.

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

I text all method here is the list (remember, this is for lvl 50 with the quickest way w/o trouble or add in annoying feeling):

GC quest 3 stars (solo):
/poke quest : if you only kill he mobs have crystal & the mobs need to hunt, you ll earn 110 seals in 4 min max
protect: the most boring, 110 seals 15 min
kill as many as possible: to earn 110 seals you need to have 7/2 on 3 type of the list

note: the 3 stars are lvl 46, the reward is 100 seals for complete, the last 10 are from bonus for did the job well. You can do this with 4 stars but it is not worth it as you got 5 seals more and will waste more effor

Caravan escort (best setup is 6-8 player with: 2 WHM 6 BLM or 1 PLD 2 WHM 5 BLM)
160 seals to 240 seals /10 min or 15 min depend on the kill speed and the protect. By the time you finish the escort the next one should be up in 2-3 min or instant depend on the time you finish, so it is a never ending of boring grind

DH.....not even worth it, the time consume + not everyone in the pt got seals, it is the worst farm method imo

NM hunt:
you can do this as farm method but I will not recommend you to do, because it is just not worth it base on luck to get items and the competition + the mob respawn time for 250 seals that might required 5+ kills to get

conclusion:

the Best: Caravan escort
good: GC solo quest
ok: NM hunt
worst: DH

note: I dont say totorak in here is because it is the same as DH, it might be faster and if you take the longest route, most in pt should get seals, but by the time you finish it, you might got more seals by do caravan escort or GC solo quest

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DH the worst? Go in with 4 capable people, pop 4 chests. Do it 4 times, 4 items for each person. 6k Seals right there in roughly 2h(if you're slow). Otherwise, yeah Toto Rak is prolly the best.

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Originally Posted by TirionCrey

DH the worst? Go in with 4 capable people, pop 4 chests. Do it 4 times, 4 items for each person. 6k Seals right there in roughly 2h(if you're slow). Otherwise, yeah Toto Rak is prolly the best.

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how often do you do darkhold and get something in every chest every time you go? cause i for sure don't

If you beat batral you are guaranted something, and you dont really need a full party. 6 people should be enough.

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Originally Posted by Eruantien

how often do you do darkhold and get something in every chest every time you go? cause i for sure don't

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I'm talking about Batraal chests. With an effort of like 20-25min you will get 4 chests with an item, each worth 1.5k seals handing it in. Do those 4-5 times, and everyone in the group will have 6k seals.

The items on the way to Batraal are just "extra"

But considering your comment I assume you never cleared DH, otherwise you'd know Batraal drops are guaranteed.

I have completed batraal many times, just never with 4 people

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Originally Posted by TirionCrey

I'm talking about Batraal chests. With an effort of like 20-25min you will get 4 chests with an item, each worth 1.5k seals handing it in. Do those 4-5 times, and everyone in the group will have 6k seals.

The items on the way to Batraal are just "extra"

But considering your comment I assume you never cleared DH, otherwise you'd know Batraal drops are guaranteed.

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Unfortunately the items aren't guaranteed, when we did it on Monday a couple of chests only had Vampire Plants in it. Still, I agree with Thug (I should do, he organised the runs after all) that the DH runs are very efficient, I came away with 5450 seals after an evening of running (3 or 4 hours), that's the equivalent of 50 GC leves or about 12.5 hours of continuous effort and a lot more interesting.

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Originally Posted by AndrewN

Unfortunately the items aren't guaranteed

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thank you
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I dont think the dungeons are good. In all my time doing Dark Hold I've seen 3 items in total lol.

I did Toto duelbox in 1 night, I knew exactly where to go, which ones to pop to get 5 chests and do it all as fast as possible, it still took near 15-20 min and sometimes I didnt get an item, so I'd walk out empty handed, this happened way to much and the 15 minute quest would of just been so much more worthwhile as its: 1. Garaunteed and 2. more lazy :D I can go hit all mobs in about 4 mins, then just AFK/watch tv until 15 min hit XD

boss chest is 100% drop >.>

DH is by far the quickest with a few people to help you run through to the end. After a couple runs from all the AF collecting going on, I was able to nab a few drops just helping other people out. I added that too some of the old DH drops I've had lying in my inventory for forever, and I had around 10k worth of seals right there, without really even "trying" to farm anything. The DOWNSIDE to DH is you can't actually get seals from those drops until you've already reached the highest promotion level IIRC. So it's not good for trying to rank up, but once you've reached the max, it's the best way to grind seals for all your GC purchases.

I did it with NM drops. I was very lucky and got my drops after 2-3 kills. Did the NMs near Limsa Lominsa and near Camp Bloodshore and got around 4000 seals in 2-3 hours.

Toto rak is best you can get to the third boss in 15 mins or less if you know what you are doing. spending about 40 mins in there got me around 4000 seals

I'm sorry to ask this but..

Can anyone tell me how the caravan quests work? I like to solo most of the time.. Don't really like the hassle of doing dungeon runs (most of the time, with random people we fail) So I think my best bet is caravan escorts thus my question. But I never did them.

Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Arcanum26

I'm sorry to ask this but..

Can anyone tell me how the caravan quests work? I like to solo most of the time.. Don't really like the hassle of doing dungeon runs (most of the time, with random people we fail) So I think my best bet is caravan escorts thus my question. But I never did them.

Thank you.

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If you want to solo, roll with GC leves. Caravans is group content.

So I can't just go and sign up for caravans alone and find out other people are doing it?

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Originally Posted by Arcanum26

So I can't just go and sign up for caravans alone and find out other people are doing it?

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yeah you can

TotoRak is the best. Don't let anyone say otherwise. It's fast, fun, and I got my chocobo barding armor (4k) in 3 runs.

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Originally Posted by DeadRiser

TotoRak is the best. Don't let anyone say otherwise. It's fast, fun, and I got my chocobo barding armor (4k) in 2 runs.

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How? That'd mean you'd need 10 items per run, wouldnt it? The most you get is 200 per item...

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Originally Posted by viion

How? That'd mean you'd need 10 items per run, wouldnt it? The most you get is 200 per item...

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most you get 200-350 from Toto-rak 400 for the more rare stuff.

Make sure you've done all the GC quests like When Alchemists Cry, that require you to go to the Beastmen strongholds and simply poison the food, which is like a ??? 3 times then you're done. Also there's a grand company quest call Two Vans are better than one make sure you've done that. If you have oh well, someone else will read this and go do it. After that, then I'd say best way is to have a crafting class that can easily make the provisioning missions because you get more seals for it than the gathering ones, and they don't fill up as fast, but I understand not everyone has that, then Toto-Rak farming is the best, easy enough to get maps online that show every light you need, and you can easily get every chest and beat boss with 2 50s. I'd stay on classes though if you don't have 4 people. Just in case you need the cure/raise, mobs are still easy though, but hey we've all be overwhelmed by adds before, but on 2 50s on classes never been overwhelmed by that dungeon, i was thm btw.

well the gear from dungeons and NM's gives u a lot of seals, in some cases when the gear is wrote in blue gives u 1500 seals per piece, so is far better farming gear in dungeons and helping new players at the same time, maybe in 1.22 doing hamlet defense will give more

what is the best drops to get, i sold 1 item without looking and got 1.7k seals, i was excited. i ran to my containers to collect all that crap. and every piece givin to them was 250, ofcourse the log doesnt tell you which item youve sold. so what items = more seals?!

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Originally Posted by Mushy

what is the best drops to get, i sold 1 item without looking and got 1.7k seals, i was excited. i ran to my containers to collect all that crap. and every piece givin to them was 250, ofcourse the log doesnt tell you which item youve sold. so what items = more seals?!

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Mushy. the patch notes gave a per item breakdown of seals per item.

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Originally Posted by Chardrizard

Totorak is the best. Go in with 2 people, guarantee 4-6 drops if you are able to pop 5 chest, that is roughly 1.5k seals per run which takes about 20min.

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if you go with 2 ppl that know the place and split up to get the little orbs you can burn right through toto rak to the third boss and pop all 5 chests in 14-15 minutes. do 3 or 4 runs and split drops you can pull 3-4k seals each in about an hour.

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Originally Posted by AndrewN

Unfortunately the items aren't guaranteed, when we did it on Monday a couple of chests only had Vampire Plants in it. Still, I agree with Thug (I should do, he organised the runs after all) that the DH runs are very efficient, I came away with 5450 seals after an evening of running (3 or 4 hours), that's the equivalent of 50 GC leves or about 12.5 hours of continuous effort and a lot more interesting.

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Out of dozens of Darkhold runs, before 1.19 and after 1.21 now, we had 1 Dark Matter in the golden chest ever...that's about it.
99,99% is enough for me to say it's "guaranteed", and if you're not being dumb you will get 4 chests at least, if not 5, so you will get some drops guaranteed.

gonna go with everyone else on this one and say totorak. Did it with 3 people multiple times and it only took about 12-13 minutes.