Ways to make Gil?

Good morning,

I'm struggling trying to figure out how to make gil while also doing things I enjoy. I like running Treasure maps but I've noticed the solo maps never drop anything worth while but the ones that recommend 8 people do. Outside of running those with my sister, when she's online, I can't seem to find a way that's enjoyable.

Is the only way to make gil efficiently is by gathering jobs?... I'm struggling trying to keep myself entertained while going at doing those. After about 10 or 15 minutes, I just go back to Extreme's or running Dungeons.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you

I'm not into crafting, but I level my gatheres except for fisher to max level. I'm not as rich as a lot of other people are, but I'm currently sitting at ~23 Mil gil doing the following things:

- Gather the 8 man treasure map everyday (/every time I'm online) and sell it on the market board, unless I know that I'm running maps in the next few days.
- Sell the items I get from my retainers.
- Sell items from ex trials / potd / hoh
- Sell materia I don't need
- Sell crystals that are needed for crafting (!)
- Run daily roulettes
- When the beast tribe for the gatherers and crafters was released in Stormblood, there was one item that sold really well. I don't remember the name, I think it was something containing the word "god". I did my daily beast tribe quests with my gatherers, got that item and sold it on the market board.

That's basically it, more or less.
Certainly not the best way to make money, but at least I'm not poor and can buy some things I want xD

Level up gatherers and sell the mats. They sell often but maybe not for the highest cost. Especially if you seek out Levequest items and GC turn in items and gather them in HQ. Consistent income

Retainer Quick Ventures can sometimes be fruitful in what they return.

Instead of vendoring, go to Doma and donate for a multiplier bonus to your vendor amount, resets each week.

If playing through the msq you get a lot of HQQ gear you can sell off. Just check the Market board for the best item to sell off of the available options for the quest completion and pick that when you finish the quest.

Likewise, in Shadowbringers you get a coffer for a specific level and gear piece. It is based on the job you are when you open it. SO if you get the level 78 head coffer and the casting head piece sells for the highest, open it as a caster and sell. If it's dragoon, open as a dragoon and sell. Likewise for all the other coffers you get. Takes time but can net you a lot of income and is also a good free GC turn in/Leve quest turn in if you don't need the gear. It can take time but if you have some time spare and some coffers left just browse the jobs and see what sells highest. Open in that job and sell it.

Spend hours of your day browsing the Marketboard looking for that 1 person to miss a 0 off the end of their listing xD Night Pegasus selling for £3m? Don't mind me lol - semi serious suggestion.

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Originally Posted by supaiku

I'm not into crafting, but I level my gatheres except for fisher to max level. I'm not as rich as a lot of other people are, but I'm currently sitting at ~23 Mil gil doing the following things:

- Gather the 8 man treasure map everyday (/every time I'm online) and sell it on the market board, unless I know that I'm running maps in the next few days.
- Sell the items I get from my retainers.
- Sell items from ex trials / potd / hoh
- Sell materia I don't need
- Sell crystals that are needed for crafting (!)
- Run daily roulettes
- When the beast tribe for the gatherers and crafters was released in Stormblood, there was one item that sold really well. I don't remember the name, I think it was something containing the word "god". I did my daily beast tribe quests with my gatherers, got that item and sold it on the market board.

That's basically it, more or less.
Certainly not the best way to make money, but at least I'm not poor and can buy some things I want xD

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I just realized I have a ton of HoH items and PoTD...where do I sell them?

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Originally Posted by supaiku

- When the beast tribe for the gatherers and crafters was released in Stormblood, there was one item that sold really well. I don't remember the name, I think it was something containing the word "god". I did my daily beast tribe quests with my gatherers, got that item and sold it on the market board.

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Stormsap? Was the mat used to make the Lvl 70 Onishi crafting set. Or a component of it. Not sure how well that would sell now though but if levelling crafters and gatherers up to 70 using them then why not once you got the mount. It's all money even if it's only selling for 5k a piece, you'll get hundreds of tokens during the levelling process.

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

I just realized I have a ton of HoH items and PoTD...where do I sell them?

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Let the npc identify the items and sell whatever you don't need / want on the market board. My best one so far was the mount from hoh which got me more than 10 mil gil :D

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Originally Posted by Rhus

Stormsap? Was the mat used to make the Lvl 70 Onishi crafting set. Or a component of it. Not sure how well that would sell now though but if levelling crafters and gatherers up to 70 using them then why not once you got the mount. It's all money even if it's only selling for 5k a piece, you'll get hundreds of tokens during the levelling process.

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Maybe that was it, I'm not sure. I play the game in german so I'm not too familiar with the english names.

If you’d like to make some Gil quickly it might be worth considering the tomestone (Goetia) crafting materials. You won’t be making massive amounts of money but they sell quickly and frequently, so it’s good for making small amounts fast. Personally I find my always capping on tomestines so there’s always scope to get more

I tend to be a 'broke' player (I only have 10-50mil most of the time, and that's as an omnicrafter), but once you hit cap, I've found a few different ways to at least keep a slight positive...an ultra-lazy way to make gil, if you will:

1.) Do whatever dungeons/trials you were going to do. Roll 'greed' on all the gear you don't need for upgrades. (Rolling 'need' if you don't need it is rude, and not recommended.)
2.) Prior to patch 5.1, if you haven't already, level desynthesis and break those items down. If you're unlucky, you might get a mat worth only 500-1000 gil. If you're moderately unlucky, you might get clear demimateria (vendors for 5k gil). What you're really aiming for here, though, is Battlecraft Materia III. This regularly goes as high as 12.5k each week, sells pretty quickly and regularly, and you can get more than one per piece you break down.

Using these two alone, I can easily make 50-100k in a day without even so much as trying. However, this might change in 5.1 when desynth no longer has levels and anybody can do it.

3.) Gather maps. You can get one every day if you have a lv75+ gatherer that sells for roughly another 100k, and sells pretty quickly.
4.) Turn in goetia for mats to sell to high level crafters. I don't know the exact exchange rate offhand (I neither buy nor sell in that market [I'm lazy, remember]), but I did see just last night somebody offering a million gill for 2k goetia worth of mats. That would imply it's worth at least that, if not more.
5.) Level and send out your retainers. Quick exploration in particular is my favorite choice here, as while it's not always consistent, it can give you items that go for hundreds of thousands of gil, or even millions in rare scenarios. To fun ventures for your retainers, take the items you can't desynth, turn them in to your GC for seals, and use the seals to buy more ventures.

At this point you should have a decent baseline economy going. It won't make you rich (roughly 1-2mil/week), but it will fund any gil needs you have for almost everything the game has to offer.

6.) Custom Deliveries. Buy mats/materia, and sell them. This should add another decent chunk of change to your wallet.
7.) Wondrous Tails. The rewards can be sold.
8.) Sell those extra materia you don't need (particularly grade 6/7/8)
9.) if you can get enough gil for grade 6 materia, convert poetics into materia. If not, convert poetics into demicrystals and vendor for roughly 15k gil/800 poetics.

This should be enough while being lazy, but now you can start trying to build gil (for large purchases, for example)

10.) Level crafters to at least 10 levels below cap. This is practically free between GC turnins and beast tribes, and allows you to repair your own gear basically for free (and on the fly, to boot!). A gil saved is a gil earned.
11.) Level crafters to cap. Now you can meld your own stuff, too.
12.) Do some research into how to 100% HQ crafted recipes. HQ stuff and sell it. However, be wary of crystal costs, etc.
13.) Learn to play the MB.

Once you've done these, you'll probably be far richer than me (I'm broke, after all). Good luck with your gil. However, bad news: it's pretty much worthless after the first 50mil unless you're going hardcore into glamour/housing.

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Originally Posted by Yamr3

Is the only way to make gil efficiently is by gathering jobs?

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Gathering is for poor people. It turns time into gil at an inefficient rate, albeit a rate that's better than just about anything you can do with a battle class (besides run 8 person maps efficiently, but that still requires crafting for maximum profit). There are times certain nodes are worth hitting for basically anyone, but those are generally very limited opportunities and don't last long.

Crafting is a step above gathering, provided you know how to use it effectively.

Flipping is the true endgame. It requires the most investment of existing capital, but the least amount of time and yields huge profit if you do it well.

A question: What do you need the money for?


I am also almost always comparably poor (right now I think 660,000 Gil). I used to be very much under pressure because of my funds ingame. That stopped as soon as I realized I do not need that much actually. I am just running my dailies, roulettes and some story quests, I could so far afford gear, Materia and all that stuff that got me always further in the story or at least a significant improvement with the Gils I made inbetween.

Apart from FC house related things, are you sure you even need those Gil?


If it's a personal sort of highsore you want to achieve then I can't help you. Or levelling crafters or something for the materials. But you are Level 80, so you should've figured out that Gil are not that super important as it's just a minor currency (compared to e.g. Tokens or Tomestones). Just to take off some pressure of your chest of the actual "need" to make Gil.

The easiest way to make gil without having to do much of anything is to send your retainers out to get you things that sell well.

In the case of combat retainers, leather and certain alchemical reagents are likely decent sellers.

In the case of gathering retainers (which requires you to level gathering jobs and to gather each item you want your retainer to get at least once), you can send them out for ores/plants/fish currently in demand.

For any retainer there's also quick ventures which are pretty hit or miss but can come back with some valuable things to sell. Certain housing or glam items they can return with will sell quite well on the MB. There's also the 18 hour exploration ventures. While not the most efficient means of earning gil, they do come back with allagan coins you can simply vendor for gil.

There's also the Doman Enclave weekly turn ins. That can net you 40,000 gil a week. I like turning in 4 clear demimateria for that since I have a ton of them and nothing to use them on.

Even if you aren't a fan of collectibles but can stomach doing the weekly Deliveries (which doesn't take very long or require high end gear), you can use the scrips rewarded from that each week to buy some crafting or gathering materia to sell on the MB

If you're drowning in GC seals like I usually am, and have hundreds of venture coins and cordials already, you can also buy housing items to sell on the MB with them or even the tradeable items for the old HW relic which still sell for people going back to collect them.

If you play a job that can take advantage of the adventurer in need bonus for roulettes that award crystals used to buy materia, you can sell that materia for decent gil, especially the grade 8's.

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Originally Posted by Nixxe

Gathering is for poor people.

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Oh guess making billions doing it makes one poor right?

Run roulettes as the adv in need. A seriously underrated gil making method.

You get over 50k and upwards of 80-100k for doing all of the roulettes as adv in need, per day.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Run roulettes as the adv in need. A seriously underrated gil making method.

You get over 50k and upwards of 80-100k for doing all of the roulettes as adv in need, per day.

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This is basically how I make my gil. But gil is pretty worthless. I've yet to come across anything to spend gil on.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Oh guess making billions doing it makes one poor right?

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That's a lot of time you threw away for no reason doing an inefficient activity.

As someone who isn't a crafter, or really does farms (other than for cosmetics). I made 2.5 mill a little over actually in a day (probably chump change to some people) by selling materia I bought using clusters from hunt trains, mats sold using tomes, and I sold a couple things out of my old Pagos boxes that I had hundreds of. What can I say, I really wanted that hooded jacket..

I have been recommended mining, scale farming, etc.

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Originally Posted by galbsadi

Rolling 'need' if you don't need it is rude, and not recommended.

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It's perfectly fine to roll 'need' whenever you can. It's playing the game exactly how it was designed, and is not rude at all.

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Originally Posted by Bahd_Monkey

It's perfectly fine to roll 'need' whenever you can. It's playing the game exactly how it was designed, and is not rude at all.

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It's *allowed* so you can get priority over other players on pieces you can equip, so you have first shot at upgrades over another role.

Using it for desynth/vendor/seals is rude, and players who do so are indubitably baddies.

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Originally Posted by Bahd_Monkey

It's perfectly fine to roll 'need' whenever you can. It's playing the game exactly how it was designed, and is not rude at all.

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Only times I've ever had an issue are map parties with specific rule sets and people not reading them. Generally in most other cases rolling on need is recommended unless your raid group states otherwise for savage coffers.

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Originally Posted by galbsadi

It's *allowed* so you can get priority over other players on pieces you can equip, so you have first shot at upgrades over another role.

Using it for desynth/vendor/seals is rude, and players who do so are indubitably baddies.

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I may need seals just as much as someone else needs gear. If it's tank or healer gear and it's a dungeon, well if you want it, ask. If not, go on that job if you want the gear.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

I may need seals just as much as someone else needs gear. If it's tank or healer gear and it's a dungeon, well if you want it, ask. If not, go on that job if you want the gear.

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Sure, you may need seals *just as much* as someone else needs gear. That's reasonable.

HOWEVER, when you're rolling need when they cannot, you are suggesting that you need seals MORE than they need gear.

If you do that, it's rude, and you'll always be a baddie in my book. Period.

Don't get me wrong, that's not the type of thing I'll say anything in group about...I just immediately start doing the exact same thing you did (and normally I'm the healer or tank so NOBODY can roll against me)...and if I was going to commend you...commend someone else instead...because I don't commend rude people.

I came to see if anyone had said "ERP" yet...

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Originally Posted by galbsadi

Sure, you may need seals *just as much* as someone else needs gear. That's reasonable.

HOWEVER, when you're rolling need when they cannot, you are suggesting that you need seals MORE than they need gear.

If you do that, it's rude, and you'll always be a baddie in my book. Period.

Don't get me wrong, that's not the type of thing I'll say anything in group about...I just immediately start doing the exact same thing you did (and normally I'm the healer or tank so NOBODY can roll against me)...and if I was going to commend you...commend someone else instead...because I don't commend rude people.

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That's OK, I have like 3700 commendations. Could be needing it for glamour too, which as we all know is the true endgame. The game throws gear at you. If you need a specific piece, ask for it in chat, more than happy to pass. Otherwise, it's a free for all, and I'm gonna need on stuff.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

That's OK, I have like 3700 commendations. Could be needing it for glamour too, which as we all know is the true endgame. The game throws gear at you. If you need a specific piece, ask for it in chat, more than happy to pass. Otherwise, it's a free for all, and I'm gonna need on stuff.

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Yes, i know, belts make fantastic glamour pieces. ;)

See if any of these minions are on your MB and maybe do the FATEs, get them and sell?

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They're not quite the same thing but the fates Clearing the Hive, Attack on Highbridge Act III, and one of the three fates over at Poor Maid's Mill in Upper La Noscea reward an npc in the respective area that sells items in those areas until the fate spawns and is then lost, which sell minions you can only get from them.

They're the Baby Raptor sold by the Boughbury Trader for Clearing the Hive

The Tiny Rat sold by Chachamun for Attack on Highbridge Act III

And the Baby Bat, sold by Junkmonger Nonoroon for clearing either Poor Maid's Mishap, Poor Maid's Mess, or Poor Maid's Misfortune. Doesn't seem to be a clear answer which, or it might just be any of the three. It does take him a while after the correct fate is over to show up, he slowly waddles in from outside the area iirc to take up his spot near one of the houses.

As far as I'm aware there aren't any other fates that reward npc shop spawns, which make them sort of unique.

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Originally Posted by WaterShield

I view what you're doing as vindictive. Pretty sure you forfeit the high ground because of it.

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That's nice.

Sell your body for gil.
There's probably some brothels around.


Other then that play the MB, run group maps, adventurer in need duties, mix of gathering/crafting and retainer items. and/or you could also solo old content dungeons for certain minions that sell high.



Depends how much time you want to invest and what you want to get? Do you want to reach the gil cap? That's gonna take several months of hardcore gathering & crafting. In SB I became friends with a person and he was at the gil cap. But it turned out that he was already a hardcore player since the original Final Fantasy XIV, when A Realm Reborn came out he focused mainly on gathering and crafting. Also worth noting is that he played no other game and he had a lot of time to play every day.
Eventually after some years he got up all the way to the gil cap.
I've lost contact with this person for almost 3 years now but last time I remember he was still not buying anything and just make stuff himself and just sit with that max gil.


You should think on what you want to buy with it and how much time you want to put into it. But imo reaching the gil cap is just a waste of time. Personally I found 100mil gil more then enough.

Do people actually make serious gil off ERP?

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I trust all you people who 'need' on gear announce that you're doing so, right? So that players who don't have that....erm....'mindset' are aware that rolling greed like a massive number of people is, you know, guaranteed to lose?

Or is that conveniently overlooked?

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Originally Posted by Lissyl

I trust all you people who 'need' on gear announce that you're doing so, right? So that players who don't have that....erm....'mindset' are aware that rolling greed like a massive number of people is, you know, guaranteed to lose?

Or is that conveniently overlooked?

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I'm sure they do. As you can tell by their responses to me here, they're the friendliest people on the planet and they would never fail to consider the impact of their actions upon others. /s

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Originally Posted by WaterShield

At least we aren't being vindictive and going out of our way to "punish" people who upset us, because they are not playing the way that we have decided they should. Never mind there being no rule against us playing the way we are :)

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Choosing not to reward you isn't punishment. That's choosing not to reward you. Punishment would be something like kicking you from the group.

If me rolling 'need' on gear because you are is punishment, what is you rolling 'need' on gear because you can?

I thought it was universal across MMO's that the need button is actually the greed button. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by WaterShield

Having read back through the whole thread... wow this has gotten off topic.....

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Yeah, I got that whole 'Airplane' "no parking in the red zone" vibe from it, lol.

Free market baby!!!!

Made a 100k gil dancing half naked in the beehive in Eulmore...As a male character!

Im just going to come right out and say it and its probably going to make a few people pissed but hey, theres already enough of us doing it. Few more who read this is going to be small.

I see youre on Crystal DC.
Join the Centurio Hunt discord, and do hunt trains. You can make 3m per hour/hr and a half with them since there are so many players doing it, so a full train may last 90 minutes or less only.
You said you fall asleep gathering, this you will not. Besides the rate of gil per hour doing this exceeds anything except for MB waiting.

Take all the Goetia from one train, buy items in eulmore for goetia once train is over, sell items on MB, easy 1 million gil.
Take all the cluster drops, convert them in eulmore into whatever materia is selling good on your server, another 1.5-2.5 mil.
All within 90 minutes.

Proceed to upgrade all your gear to 450 since you can afford it now for only 90 minutes of a hunt train. Repeat process 1 more time and use all the clusters to put materia on your own crap, problems solved. Repeat as needed for greed.


As a gatherer, I can attest that the income is low on crystal DC because people are stupid and dont know how to cut by a penny, they cut by 80% multiple times until a 3000 gil item is only 70 gil.

Dont do it until SE handles the bot problem if ever. I make money on it but no where near as fast as 3m per hour doing hunt trains.

And yeah, maps are a waste of time. They are like going to a casino. They are fun but you typically are not going to come out ahead in the end. The above is guaranteed money for your time, and requires 0 effort into gather or crafting roles, just be lvl 80 thats it.


Do not think discord links can be posted here.
Just try to keep an eye on your party finder (world) during daytime hours, noon til midnight for hunt trains, If you see it, join them, then ask for a discord link.
They run 12 hours of the day pretty much, they do a train > swap servers > repeat all day.

If you went ahead and just dedicated an entire day off to trains you could easily make 15 mil +
Be sure to thank Melodius for putting this together for Crystal.

P.s. if people can stop high jacking the thread for personal bs thatd be great. Stop arguements and crap like sell your body, someone asked a legitimate question and theres like 3 legit responses in 6 pages. Is it toddler hour?

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Oh guess making billions doing it makes one poor right?

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No one said it makes you poor, only that it is what you do to make your first small fortune so you can start flipping on the MB for greater profits, which is an inavailable option if you don’t have the resources to dominante a part of the market if needed be.

Oh, really? I thought ppl were just being smartas*es lol.
Yikes, glad Im not on Mateus!

A few gil tips for new players.

At lv30 crafter you unlock Desynth. Mass quick-synth Brass Rings of Crafting (using vendor mats at the Armorer Guild in Limsa) and desynth them for a chance of a Field Demimateria. Prices vary but they're 22k a pop on my realm and the mats are near-free.

Housing vendor furniture (Oasis furniture) costs about 2k from the vendor, yet can sell from anywhere between 5-30k. Other easy items are Soot Black/Snow white dye from the Ixal or Steel Ingot from the Amal'jaa and many Dyes. It's a nice starting-off profit.

Mostly unrelated but we had a market crash in Siren the last week ish where everyone undercut eachother and dropped all the prices of things like dirt cheap lol. So things that were going for 10k+ were suddenly just a couple hundred gil. The market has stabilized a bit now, but it’s still zimbabwe over here