Making Monies

Hey everyone,

I'm a noob, not gonna lie. I played FFXIV early beta, it was horrible, I never went back (from the sounds of most peoples opinions of it, maybe not a bad thing...)

Anywho, fast forward and here we are.

I'm low level, can't progress thanks to the instance bug - so decided to go and learn some crafts. I've spent all my money, made no return on it, and now I'm poor. So poor infact, I can't even teleport any more =-P

So my question is: How does one make money?

I'm not looking a "make millions in 5 minutes@!@!@!" guide - literally just how do I make money? Fighting NPC's is a bit hit-and-miss, as you're relying on items. I'm in Limsa Lominsa which seems limited on gathering skills (although maybe I'm wrong?).

Any advice is very welcome - thank you! :-)

Instead of crafting, How about you go gather some crystals, woods etc etc and sell it?

Mining, botanic and fishing.
Grab the item and sell it... It's a long way to make money but stay positive you'll grown up with level and exp... ;)

Well for starters, why would you spend all your money on crafting, when you don't have access to a retainer to sell your stuff?

Secondly, you make money through the market board, which requires you to first have a retainer.

As someone already stated, you should be doing gathering instead. You can make money much easier by selling crystals and what not.

Hmm: do quests, levequest, craft and sell, do fate battles, gather and sell.

Hopping this helps!!!

Stian

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Originally Posted by Mosmordor

I've spent all my money, made no return on it, and now I'm poor. So poor infact, I can't even teleport any more =-P

So my question is: How does one make money?

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Tradecraft Leves + HQ turn-ins.

Sitting on almost 20k from crafting. And I still have 41 allowances left =^.^=

The other thing that helps is, I don't teleport around a whole lot. Since I'm still working on getting all my DoH to 20, I've been sticking to one city at a time. Also, the main cities are flagged as "favorites" for me so I get a reduced teleport fee when I do have to teleport to a different city.

From my experiences teleporting is a bad idea unless you're sitting on a huge pile of money, like Isyaan right here. Always prefer chocobos/rafts/airship.

Fishing is the gathering of choice if you only have access to La Noscea.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you actually cant sell on the marketboard untill level 20 and after doing story quest to get a retainer? If this is true, then the only option is to sell to vendors or start spamming /sh to sell your gatherables I take it?

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Originally Posted by Mimzel

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you actually cant sell on the marketboard untill level 20 and after doing story quest to get a retainer? If this is true, then the only option is to sell to vendors or start spamming /sh to sell your gatherables I take it?

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Correct, you need a retainer in order to sell on the market board.

Crafting and selling to the vendors however, is a BAD idea, as you will spend more money, and time crafting everything, then you will make selling to the venders. The best option for anyone, is to just not put to much into crafting until you have a retainer if your sole intent is to sell what you make. Gathering you can do no problem, you really wont spend much money gathering any way.

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Originally Posted by Mimzel

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you actually cant sell on the marketboard untill level 20 and after doing story quest to get a retainer? If this is true, then the only option is to sell to vendors or start spamming /sh to sell your gatherables I take it?

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The level requirement is actually 17, though I guess most people are close to 20 when they reach the phase in main quest.

Yeah. I think it is a very bad idea to sell anything you've crafted to vendors. Even if you are providing all the raw materials yourself, you only sell for 20gil or so. I am fairly certain that is at most, an 8 gil increase for most items considering the raw materials alone sell for 1-2 gil each. Note, these numbers are just from memory. If someone has some more accurate numbers, please tell me.

You should first hit one of your main battle classes to 50 and do the main storyline, after that you can gather some really nice stuff that goes for good price and live only from farming or gathering. To say the truth, you will start getting really good money once your able to take NM's or primals (ofc you need good raid party for that as well), than you can craft expensive stuff and sell it at astronomical prices.
Hope that helps ;)

For low levels, do side quests and leves. You can pick up and finish several leves in one location, so you won't have to teleport. You're not going to get rich, but you should easily make enough money to teleport when it's convenient.

At low levels, I wouldn't worry about spending money on the newest possible gear. You'll get most of the gear you need through class quests and side quests.

As for teleporting, don't forget the "Return" function. It's a free teleport every 20 minutes. And don't forget to Register the places you're going to often as "Favorite Locations," so the costs of teleporting are much lower.

As Isyaan suggested, level your crafts with Tradecraft leves. You get your materials for free. And in addition to getting XP for every item you craft, you get an XP bonus when you turn the materials to complete the quest.

If not, you need to gather your own materials. Otherwise, you're going to spend way, way more than you can make.

Keeping in mind that it is pretty much impossible for me to progress my story to even get a retainer thanks to the wonderful bugs plaguing this "early access" launch.

I appreciate the advice geared towards lower levels - unfortunately at the moment things I'm catching are 3-4gp ea at a vendor, so I'm going to be here a while... X-D

So our best bet for cool money is Crystal shards by mining?

You get ore & shards at the same time, sell both and you will get some starting money. But remember, this is time consuming. If you have only an hour ... better go and farm some stuff (you can farm elementals for shards also, they always drop some and they have pretty high chance for clusters) ;)