Most Lucrative Professions for making Gil?

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I am a miner, and goldsmith, but so far I havent really been able to make like in the hundreds of thousands per item. I'm level 50 in both, and was wanting some advice on these things.

Also any other professions that would be more lucrative right now?

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The only items that sell for "hundreds of thousands" are overpriced junk that uses items bought with tomestones.
If you're actually making a profit, consider it lucrative.

I dont know man... A lot of vanya gear sells very quickly for a million plus gold.

I mean... I dont think a lot of it is overpriced because some of those mats are extremely expensive.

To make a profit from Vanya gear, you practically need a couple of DoH at level 50 anyways, so you can't just pick one DoH and expect loads of gil rolling in.
Also whatever is mentioned here to be the most lucrative might backfire because of people reading this thread and going to try the same thing you are.

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Originally Posted by LeviathanElite

I dont know man... A lot of vanya gear sells very quickly for a million plus gold.

I mean... I dont think a lot of it is overpriced because some of those mats are extremely expensive.

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On my server the tomestone materials for making a 2 star part like that goes for like 90k each, so basically 1.8m gil you could make by just selling the materials directly. You'll barely make a profit from selling a 2 star item and even worse if you don't HQ it, then you will lose gil.

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Originally Posted by LeviathanElite

I dont know man... A lot of vanya gear sells very quickly for a million plus gold.

I mean... I dont think a lot of it is overpriced because some of those mats are extremely expensive.

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There's only hefty profit if you HQ and meld the crap out of it... And yeah, it's still overpriced. There's very few crafted item level 70 items worth bothering with due to the stat caps, nevermind the price. If you're a Goldsmith, you'd be focusing on the astral/rose gold accessories. Most of it's just gear for lazy/ignorant gil buyers. :\

Ok thanks guys, but what about other professions that are lucrative?

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Originally Posted by LeviathanElite

Ok thanks guys, but what about other professions that are lucrative?

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I'm making a lot of money from GSM and LTW by selling crafting gear.
On weekends you will make less because of a million people undercutting each other with 20%+.

I don't know about the most profitable, but I can tell you that there seems to be absolutely no profit in fishing, which is kind of a shame.

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Originally Posted by Ryuni

I'm making a lot of money from GSM and LTW by selling crafting gear.
On weekends you will make less because of a million people undercutting each other with 20%+.

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Alright thanks, yea I was thinking about leatherworker. How is getting the mats to get to 50? Is it hard? How long does it take? Is it expensive to get to 50 as a leatherworker?

The only way I can see to actually make gil is to level all gathering and crafting classes to 50 to supplement each other. XD Otherwise, things cost too much gil.

I couldn't possibly tell you .. or more like I will not >.>

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Originally Posted by Rakashu

I don't know about the most profitable, but I can tell you that there seems to be absolutely no profit in fishing, which is kind of a shame.

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https://pay.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ts_wut_wuuuut/

Try that, I haven't had the time yet to level my fisher & test it out, just found it after doing some search about making money lol
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anyone else?

You're not really going to make big amounts of gil so early in the game.. Just keep bringing in the small profits to add it all up. to me, Spirit bonding is more beneficial than crafting in terms of profit at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Luda

You're not really going to make big amounts of gil so early in the game.. Just keep bringing in the small profits to add it all up. to me, Spirit bonding is more beneficial than crafting in terms of profit at the moment.

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Well there are so many people with millions of gold and I'm sure some of them got it legitimately. I was hoping they could share some of their knowledge.

...Black market.....

Ok..that might not be a good idea..

At least for me, I used to gather mats and gave them to my LS mates.
After they got to 50, basically free gears to materia and sell.

Takes a long time to see the results, but useful.

Gil seller

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I think you will not get so many advice:
1/ If there was a job that allowed you to make loads of money, everybody would do it
2/ if such high money job existed, I am not sure people who are benefiting from it right now would share the tips on the worldwide board and shoot themselves in the foot

So try a bit of everything, see what you like the most, become and expert in it and you should find something to make some money I guess

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

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Stuff like this doesnt really help.

I've found that making HQ gear as a weaver, for tradeskills, to be very lucrative. Tradeskillers need to upgrade their gear quite often while skilling up, and go through new gear very fast, as well as convert souldbound gear to materia. Anyways, Weaving is very profitable when you craft HQ DoH gear.

Step 1 : Go to the market board
Step 2 : Look at the "Sells to NPC price"
Step 3 : Buy all the gear you can get which is lower than the price in Step 2
Step 4 : NPC that gear

..... what? It's pure profit!

The best way to make any gil is to sell materials/gear to other crafters because they are the only characters who need to aquire anything made by crafters. Battle classes get their gear handed to them with quests so it will be a few months until they burn out their quests and are required to actually interact with the community on a economic level to suceed in the game.

Buy NPC items and resell them on the marketplace. I do this with a few key items that makes me 1000+ per sell on a constant basis.

If you have botony high enough, flax sells very high on my server.

There's always demand for shards. It's very easy to make 600-700k a week with little effort while watching TV, tube or whatever. Doesn't even take that long. Pays my repairs and alts.

Dont make any gil, seriously, SE is banning anyone with alot of gil...

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Originally Posted by Neasa

There's only hefty profit if you HQ and meld the crap out of it... And yeah, it's still overpriced. There's very few crafted item level 70 items worth bothering with due to the stat caps, nevermind the price. If you're a Goldsmith, you'd be focusing on the astral/rose gold accessories. Most of it's just gear for lazy/ignorant gil buyers. :\

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Or...you know...people that spend their time crafting and making money instead of running dungeons endlessly. The witch hunts by asshurt people who stumble along with their 50k gil at all times make me laugh. I took every DoH to 50 during 1.0 and now instead of slamming my head against dungeon runs for DL gear I can craft 3 ilvl70 pieces to sell which gives me a free one for my toon.

If u want gil farm mats and make food, ppl will always buy food.

Leatherworking and Weaving.

Make crafting/gathering gear. It sells better than everything else and doesn't have insane material costs.

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Originally Posted by LeviathanElite

Well there are so many people with millions of gold and I'm sure some of them got it legitimately. I was hoping they could share some of their knowledge.

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I dont have millions of gold, but I know a few people that has 6-20mil.
Most of them got their first bucket of gold off the initial wave of level 50s who paid top gil for their relic, others just farmed materias and sell, using their own crafted lvl 40+ gear running fate then convert.
Nowadays are transactions between gold buyers and 2-stars high quality items, they'll pay million for each piece... but as you know, SE is cracking down on these RMTs so expect the cash flow to slow down now.