Making Gil..

Anyone have any advice on obtain gil easily? Looking to work on my crafting, but funds are scarce. Not looking to obtain mass amounts, just a nice satchel!

class missions and guildhests and leves.
The first time you do a guildhest...it gives double the rewards! So do them all as soon as you can access a new one!

I notice the bonuses on the first go, but then the gil earned drops drastically. Do higher level guildhest/leves give better gil rewards?

As Tezeret said, guildhests and leves can help supplement your gil needs. If you don't have them unlocked already, just keep playing the main story line. They will eventually open up to you.

Also, if you do crafting leves, try to turn in high quality items for what ever is asked of you. You will get more exp and gil.

Yes. Xp and Gil from ALL sources...gets higher as you gain levels or do higher missions etc.

doing hiest and turning up the difficulty..and completing option objectives gives nice bonus gil.

You can also play the AH a bit. People are stupid and like to just list items for the default price, or cheaper.

Why people would sell an item on the AH for less than it vendors is beyond me, so take advantage of the situation and enjoy your gil.

Guildhests only give good gil the first time through as a first time bonus. Pick up a crafting an gather class. I made a killing just from selling ore from lvl 1-20 on Miner and I haven't even begun to mine the good shtuff.

I'd have recommended gathering and leves. As a fisher I seem to make 1k gil in around 20 minutes because I seem to get alot of high level catches and HQ catches too (level 14 currently)

@Shori

What fish you selling and for how much roughly?

I love fishing! but i haven't even bothered trying to sell any cause i use it for food. but i could always use fuller pockets too..

I've been wondering this myself.

How does the Market Board work? Are they exclusive to each city, or does it share between them? If it doesn't I have a feeling certain items will be worth more in certain cities, like selling ores to Limsa because they have Armorsmithing and Blacksmithing, but no mining. I haven't bothered trying to sell anything yet, I'm still getting my crafting and gathering classes up

Does the Market Board automatically default your price to the next lowest price?
If anyone played Vinditius knows what I mean. I don't wanna look around and compare prices.
I heard Crystal Shards give a good gill.

Market boards are supposed to be linked between starter cities.
Prices default to around what vendors would buy the items for. you gotta manually increase them.
You can't sell anything till around lvl 19 in your story quest..when you get access to hire a retainer.

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Originally Posted by Tezeret

@Shori

What fish you selling and for how much roughly?

I love fishing! but i haven't even bothered trying to sell any cause i use it for food. but i could always use fuller pockets too..

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HQ merlthor gobys were a winner around level 6 or 7 then since 10/11 its been River Crabs caught in Upper La Noscea which are bigger.

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Originally Posted by Shori

HQ merlthor gobys were a winner around level 6 or 7 then since 10/11 its been River Crabs caught in Upper La Noscea which are bigger.

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really? I figured trout or cod would be better sellers. Used in cooking, and creates good buff food.

I'll have to look up prices when i get home :)

Well you guys seem to have a handle on it just want to throw out there is an achievement for making gil through leves alone so doing them helps that too for those that care about that.

I've been making a really good profit making low level gear (Lv20-25 -- stuff you can't buy at the starter cities). Bought stacks of 99 for 3 different requisite mats for about 15-25k each. Made a bunch of various armor sets and sold them for 3000g each (5000g for HQ). I've sold over 50 items so far, so I've made well over twice the amount I started with and still have plenty of mats to spare, and that's just from about an hour of play during the weekend. I spent most of my time dungeon crawling, so an hour of crafting for about 80k gil is really good IMO, especially considering I don't play at all during weekdays.

Question about fishing: I thought fishing was only for trophies? I thought they said it wouldn't affect the market, which is why I haven't taken it up. So you can sell fish and use it in cooking?

Yes fishing and cooking go hand in hand.
As a matter of fact, the Princess Trout quest needed for a dish on CUL quest, you can fish for that and there you go.
It's pretty fun how it works that way.
I believe mining or botany is the all around since they get Crystal you need to cook and do alchemy I think.
A lot of the crafts link together.

Alchemy uses some fish to make fish glue and fish oil. Culinary obviously uses various fish for food. Goldsmithing can also use coral acquired through fishing for some jewelery. Fishing thankfully isn't useless, but there are a lot of fish that don't have a real purpose.

Good to know! I love fishing and generally being lazy while waiting for dungeon finder queue, but I tend to do things that only progress my character, so I've been putting it off.