Whats the best Combat based activity to make gil?

Hello im looking for a new way to make some money because i got bored of crafting and gathering stuff.


I usually play solo and don't do raids, maps (i never find a group) or bosnia stuff. If someone has a few ideas plz let me know, i dont mind if it dosnt give as much as crafting or gathering.

If solo is your mindset then not going for Bozja is a mistake. You don't even need to actively participate in FATEs or Criticals, you can just go around farming mobs for Fragments, doing this actively and efficiently even solo is a great way to make gil. It's actually what I'm doing most of the time at the moment so I can progress relics.

There is also attempting solo Heaven on High and Palace of the Dead. It'll take you a while to reach the higher floors, and consistently, but when you get there, the Gil you can make from it is incredible.

Aside from that, just running dailies, and doing solo raids like Coils of Bahamut and then doing desynth'n loot from both is quite nice. Granted the former you generally do passively.

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Originally Posted by Kaurhz

If solo is your mindset then not going for Bozja is a mistake. You don't even need to actively participate in FATEs or Criticals, you can just go around farming mobs for Fragments, doing this actively and efficiently even solo is a great way to make gil. It's actually what I'm doing most of the time at the moment so I can progress relics.

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Hm do i need max lvl in Bosnia for that, im still at lvl 7 or something like that because i really dont like that zone. Btw. are the deep dungeons scaled down if you do them solo instead of a group like less monsters, hp or something like that? The Bahamut stuff sounds like something i would like, i allways thought the desynth stuff from that loot was pretty worthless. Thing im gonna check that out. Thanks for the ideas

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Originally Posted by Missbone

Hm do i need max lvl in Bosnia for that, im still at lvl 7 or something like that because i really dont like that zone. Btw. are the deep dungeons scaled down if you do them solo instead of a group like less monsters, hp or something like that? The Bahamut stuff sounds like something i would like, i allways thought the desynth stuff from that loot was pretty worthless. Thing im gonna check that out. Thanks for the ideas

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Deep Dungeons don't scale in accordance with the number of people in the group, but if you can find more people then that is all the better! You don't really need max level no, but it certainly helps with having access to better essences and duty actions. For example, at Rank 15 I'm using Bloodsucker, with Banner of Noble Ends, and Cure II with Reraiser, and I'll just run around and train a massive bunch of mobs, personally I do the Worms in the middle area with a friend, and get between 3-5 fragments per pull, with each fragment going for anywhere between 5-8K Gil. They don't take long to top off either, and being the Rank that I am I just do Castrum as and when it pops to progress my relics from 500 > 510, as well as get some coins which I can use to sell the augment coffers. It's not for me to say obviously, but Bozja is a lot more fun when you play it in a varied way as opposed to just move from one Skirmish to the next endlessly.

If you are a lower level rank though, then you can pretty much look into fragment farming with Lost Reflects, but they do require very specific weather and the price per fragment is quite a bit lower. But you can sell these all the same as people will buy them for whatever need they have, including to get the Bozjan Earrings for the +10% EXP rate.

Desynthesis is weird.. Generally, it's not something to proactively do, especially with respect to dungeons, but it gives an additional use to the gear that you loot roll on. I mean, why after all across the course of an expansion wouldn't you desynth items to passive make good Gil? Coils can be a bit weird at times, but given how fast you can farm them the loot over-time can be quite nice, but mainly for orchestrion rolls. I guess a certain degree of crafting would be involved, and the demand wouldn't be as high as the supply.. But like the Faded Copy of White Raven goes for 50K~ here on Chaos and then the Answers final scroll around 150K~.

Hunt Trains would be a good way to make some gil too!

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Originally Posted by Missbone

Hello im looking for a new way to make some money because i got bored of crafting and gathering stuff.


I usually play solo and don't do raids, maps (i never find a group) or bosnia stuff. If someone has a few ideas plz let me know, i dont mind if it dosnt give as much as crafting or gathering.

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I know you're specifically asking for combat based, but I am curious what kind of gil you're looking to make. If you're trying to get, say, 1,000,000 a week? or just 100,000?

I ask because there is a huge amount of gil to be made just by doing passive stuff (retainers, Doman weekly donation, etc). I just want to make sure you're not missing out on the easy fruit, so to speak.

..Now all that said, to your question: Kaurhz handled it nicely; Hunt Trains are solid, steady work... selling Bozja drops (For now) is decent and the Deep Dungeons are your options for solo (or at least working with a faceless horde)

You might also consider wondrous tales, but in my experience it has a lot of randomness to the prizes, so while it can pay well.. it doesn't always work out.

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Originally Posted by kaynide

I know you're specifically asking for combat based, but I am curious what kind of gil you're looking to make. If you're trying to get, say, 1,000,000 a week? or just 100,000?

I ask because there is a huge amount of gil to be made just by doing passive stuff (retainers, Doman weekly donation, etc). I just want to make sure you're not missing out on the easy fruit, so to speak.

..Now all that said, to your question: Kaurhz handled it nicely; Hunt Trains are solid, steady work... selling Bozja drops (For now) is decent and the Deep Dungeons are your options for solo (or at least working with a faceless horde)

You might also consider wondrous tales, but in my experience it has a lot of randomness to the prizes, so while it can pay well.. it doesn't always work out.

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Doman donations gave gil? Didnt had them done in a long time. My aim is to make several millions through combat stuff and if possible something that doesn't lose its value to fast, so that i have something that i can do regularly. Im checking out right now the coil stuff Kauhrz suggest and that seems like something i could get use to also i like PoD but for everything above 100 you need a fixed group sadly, never tried to do this solo so far but i remember from lvling my other jobs that the floos between 60 and 100 took quite some time and im not sure if the drops you get from the bags are still worth something today.

Also Farmin dungeons for collectables would be an idea i could get use to, but for that i would neet something like a loot list where you can see which dungeon bosses drops what, but i have never seen something like that.

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Originally Posted by Missbone

Doman donations gave gil? Didnt had them done in a long time. My aim is to make several millions through combat stuff and if possible something that doesn't lose its value to fast, so that i have something that i can do regularly. Im checking out right now the coil stuff Kauhrz suggest and that seems like something i could get use to also i like PoD but for everything above 100 you need a fixed group sadly, never tried to do this solo so far but i remember from lvling my other jobs that the floos between 60 and 100 took quite some time and im not sure if the drops you get from the bags are still worth something today.

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They do, you get bonus Gil from the items, so it is better than vendor selling them, generally. Coils may be a little finicky to do.. Like White Raven can be annoying to solo, but equally, he can take 45 seconds if you use a Samurai and burst him on a specific cast.. Either dying before the last phase or skipping ads entirely, which is quite nice!

Heaven on High you can still get the Gyr Abanian Plait which is worth 2M Gil. But the going loot rate is incredibly bad, and that is something you can get from floors 21-30 which is generally the leveling floors. If you have classes you need to get from 61-70 then it can be a multipurpose opportunity.

EDIT: Gardening comes to mind too if you have a house to access!!

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Originally Posted by kaynide

I know you're specifically asking for combat based, but I am curious what kind of gil you're looking to make. If you're trying to get, say, 1,000,000 a week? or just 100,000?

I ask because there is a huge amount of gil to be made just by doing passive stuff (retainers, Doman weekly donation, etc). I just want to make sure you're not missing out on the easy fruit, so to speak.
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You can easily make 60K per day simply doing a map run, some daily quests, and a roulette or two. That's ~2 million a month doing almost nothing.

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Originally Posted by Kaurhz

They do, you get bonus Gil from the items, so it is better than vendor selling them, generally. Coils may be a little finicky to do.. Like White Raven can be annoying to solo, but equally, he can take 45 seconds if you use a Samurai and burst him on a specific cast.. Either dying before the last phase or skipping ads entirely, which is quite nice!

Heaven on High you can still get the Gyr Abanian Plait which is worth 2M Gil. But the going loot rate is incredibly bad, and that is something you can get from floors 21-30 which is generally the leveling floors. If you have classes you need to get from 61-70 then it can be a multipurpose opportunity.

EDIT: Gardening comes to mind too if you have a house to access!!

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Yea i have a house but gardening seems a bit hard to handle in this game, i have tried it in the past even with guide and so on but it allways ended in crap. Also the final product wasnt much more worth than the seeds, tried it around last summer.

For now im sticking with final coil 3. It easy, i can lvl my desynth a bit (not sure if it even helps today) and the stuff you get out of it is still worth something on my server. I could also do Final 4 but that takes way to long, even if the body part is still worth a lot.

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Originally Posted by Missbone

Yea i have a house but gardening seems a bit hard to handle in this game, i have tried it in the past even with guide and so on but it allways ended in crap. Also the final product wasnt much more worth than the seeds, tried it around last summer.

For now im sticking with final coil 3. It easy, i can lvl my desynth a bit (not sure if it even helps today) and the stuff you get out of it is still worth something on my server. I could also do Final 4 but that takes way to long, even if the body part is still worth a lot.

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Not sure about the whole thing of advanced Gardening, but there are even basic things you can do such as Voidrake and Althyk Lavender, both are very easy and have a 24-hour growth time, so you don't really run much risk.. Not even entirely sure they even need tending to. These items you can use as a currency for trading with the Curious Crop Exchange with the Merchants for items such as ingots, ores, and nuggets even! For instance: https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/A...%20Exchange%20

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Thank you so far, i could get quite a few ideas out of this thread. Im going to try gardening now and see tomorow what happens. If it goes well i have something new to do and can save a bit money for mats. Also i found a good reason to lvl a few more twinks, so thanks again. I guess i will ignore the relic farming in this expansion, they don't look that good and grinding all that stuff is not really that much fun.

It's this kind of question that makes me wish that FATEs had some sort of decent return on them. I can FATE grind for hours, right up until there is suddenly no levels / profits / items to gain from it. If there was something added to it that made them at least mildly rewarding to consistently do, I would be doing them all day every day. I'm of the mind that I would much rather make my money killing things all day long instead of sitting in town playing the markets or crafting. To each their own, obviously, for those that like to do just that, but being out in the world, even if it is flying from one FATE to the other, is much more preferable to me than running instanced content.

I hate going through an old zone that I like and it being void of life and activity, which is sadly most of the game. I could spend days in Lakeland. Il Mheg. Coerthas Western Highlands. The Lochs. And so on. If FATE grinding would allow me to spend more time in these zones while also netting me rewards at the same time? What a dream.

Roulettes give roughly 100k as adv in need per day.

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Originally Posted by Malmstrom

It's this kind of question that makes me wish that FATEs had some sort of decent return on them. I can FATE grind for hours, right up until there is suddenly no levels / profits / items to gain from it. If there was something added to it that made them at least mildly rewarding to consistently do, I would be doing them all day every day. I'm of the mind that I would much rather make my money killing things all day long instead of sitting in town playing the markets or crafting. To each their own, obviously, for those that like to do just that, but being out in the world, even if it is flying from one FATE to the other, is much more preferable to me than running instanced content.

I hate going through an old zone that I like and it being void of life and activity, which is sadly most of the game. I could spend days in Lakeland. Il Mheg. Coerthas Western Highlands. The Lochs. And so on. If FATE grinding would allow me to spend more time in these zones while also netting me rewards at the same time? What a dream.

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Yea getting some decent gil from FATES would be really nice. There is no much point in doing them once your jobs are capped and you don't farm relic stuff. You get more Gil, GC Points and even Tombstones from Dungeons in the same time. I also have a few zones where i like doing fates, sadly there is no point in doing them. To me the fates in this game feel like a wasted opportunity, other mmos had solved this stuff better.

I miss getting gil from current-level FATES. Those were the days.

Trading in those gems for materials and selling them on the market is one way, but honestly I just wish their were more raw-gil outlets attached to them.

If you have gotten yourself to Hydratos in Eureka both Pyros and Hydratos bunny fates can net you an insane amount of gil, the FATEs are balanced to the number of people in the instance so if your by yourself go nuts.

Fates pretty much.

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Originally Posted by DracotheDragon

If you have gotten yourself to Hydratos in Eureka both Pyros and Hydratos bunny fates can net you an insane amount of gil, the FATEs are balanced to the number of people in the instance so if your by yourself go nuts.

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This sounds like a real good reason to visit Eureka again, i will definitely check it out tomorrow and see what happens.

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Originally Posted by Malmstrom

It's this kind of question that makes me wish that FATEs had some sort of decent return on them. I can FATE grind for hours, right up until there is suddenly no levels / profits / items to gain from it. If there was something added to it that made them at least mildly rewarding to consistently do, I would be doing them all day every day. I'm of the mind that I would much rather make my money killing things all day long instead of sitting in town playing the markets or crafting. To each their own, obviously, for those that like to do just that, but being out in the world, even if it is flying from one FATE to the other, is much more preferable to me than running instanced content.

I hate going through an old zone that I like and it being void of life and activity, which is sadly most of the game. I could spend days in Lakeland. Il Mheg. Coerthas Western Highlands. The Lochs. And so on. If FATE grinding would allow me to spend more time in these zones while also netting me rewards at the same time? What a dream.

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So grind gemstones. The Orchestrion rolls, housing items, crafting materials and materia can all be sold on the MB. Two hours of FATEs, buy one of the more popular Orchestrion rolls and you've got yourself 400-500k gil plus gil from whatever you buy with the leftover gemstones. Even sticking to the crafting mats is good for at least 100k an hour. It all adds up over time.

Don't forget to complete your daily map if you don't feel like selling it!

I reccomend one of the following Treasure maps:
Boarskin
Peisteskin
Wyvernskin
Gaganaskin

Fastest method to make money with combat is bozja cluster farming.
You need a group but they are found by "lfg cluster farm" and if there is none then just rejoin bozja until you get into a other instance.
You should be rank 10+ but that's easy done with a few fates.

In a group you get like 200 cluster in a hour.
You can exchange 3 cluster for a action fragment and they sell 25k+ each.

why need combat class when socializing is the key to make gils!

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

You can easily make 60K per day simply doing a map run, some daily quests, and a roulette or two. That's ~2 million a month doing almost nothing.

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Hmm, daily quests alone with adventurer in need role bonus gives you more than 100k per day, I think. Need to make sure you get the bonus tho.

That Coils idea is interesting, hmmmmmm. I am at level 8 in Bozja, man, I need to do it I think but I just dislike the place, urghhhh.

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Originally Posted by Zarkovitch

why need combat class when socializing is the key to make gils!

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Could you maybe explain this a little, i have no idea what you mean. For the why, simply because i want to do something combat based.

This thread helped me a lot too. Thank you everyone!

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Originally Posted by SecretIsland

This thread helped me a lot too. Thank you everyone!

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Yea the result was better than what i have expected, i could get a lot of new ideas what to do out of it myself.

If you're level 80 I recommend looking for Zonureskin Treasure Map parties in the Party Finder. It's recommended for a full party, but if you have enough people with good gear and understanding of their jobs, you can do them with 4 or even 3 players. If you get into the dungeons associated with those, everyone gets a decent amount of gil no matter the loot drops. And the loot that does drop in there is worth a lot of gil. Many parties follow a "your map, your loot" rule where the person who dug up the treasure rolls Need on everything while the rest roll Greed, but some are "free for all". People usually state in the description of the party which it will be. If you're lucky, there are minions that sell for multiple millions, or materials for crafted glamour clothes that are worth a lot on their own too. Plus it's just fun and thrilling!

Sorry a bit late to reply, but if you just straight up donate 40 Allagans coins you get from max level retainer ventures, you easily get 40k/week (1k per 500g coin, so double what you’d get vendoring them)

This is assuming you have max retainers and max Doma level.

If you want to get more passive/easy gil, remember that each of your characters can have 2 retainers at least. With minimal effort, you can max out fishing on a sub character and have fisher retainers hauling in lots of easy gil. The catch is you have to eventually get ventures...

I have my wife lv 80-solo Great Gubal Library while I get the drops. 1 run usually gives enough gear to convert to Grand Company currency then to ventures to last for a couple of days.

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Originally Posted by kaynide

Sorry a bit late to reply, but if you just straight up donate 40 Allagans coins you get from max level retainer ventures, you easily get 40k/week (1k per 500g coin, so double what you’d get vendoring them)

This is assuming you have max retainers and max Doma level.

If you want to get more passive/easy gil, remember that each of your characters can have 2 retainers at least. With minimal effort, you can max out fishing on a sub character and have fisher retainers hauling in lots of easy gil. The catch is you have to eventually get ventures...

I have my wife lv 80-solo Great Gubal Library while I get the drops. 1 run usually gives enough gear to convert to Grand Company currency then to ventures to last for a couple of days.

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Can you elaborate? I honestly didn't know FSH was worth it so I always just left my fsh retainers do exploration.

Sure;

Basically any particular retainer is not necessarily better than the others, but the requirements for gear to do a max level 18 hour venture is very lax for DoL. like.. vendor gear or lower end crafted.

...so you max out FSH doing that cruise out of Limsa, then as long as you can provide ventures for your retainers, they bring back 3-5 silver Allagan coins and a random fish every day. Occasional minions instead of fish. (Silver coins worth 500g each)

The only thing is getting ventures, especially if it isn’t a main account.

Additionally, if you do FSH for both retainers, it only requires leveling 1 class in future expansions. There really is no reason to diversify retainers outside of a very few possible drops which are easily found in the market board.

People always fail to mention the easiest, quickest way to make money in this game.

Sell NPC shop items in the AH. People are too lazy to look up or travel to w.e you get the items from. Find some items being sold for high amounts (like Emperor's gear) and make dat cash. 15 minutes of your time in research and 2 whole minutes to get it done. Then you can do your dailies or w.e

Or if you want to be crafty, buy things in other servers and sell them back in your server where the price is double or triple. Especially new released stuff. Granted I haven't done that in a long time so I'm not sure if they did anything to now prevent that.

Combat based? Do the daily roulettes with some mates each time, get a pack of gil. Desynth the junk armor/accessories and sell the mats to Market Board. Use the Allegory if you wish for free mat selling, or use them to craft Pots for raid.