Making Gil

[Niwashi]

Crafting may not make as much income as some people would like it to, but it's a good way to save money.

Anapingofness mentioned taking the allagan coins as quest rewards, but that only becomes worthwhile if you have some other cheap way of acquiring gear. Taking a 500 gil coin rather than a helmet doesn't help if you spend 1000 gil to buy that same helmet. The standard NPC price of gear is nearly always higher than the amount you'd get by taking the allagan coin alternative as a quest reward. Market board prices are usually higher as well, although it's worth checking periodically to see whether there happens to be a particularly cheap deal on anything you need (or will soon need).

The way to be sure of getting cheap gear is to make it yourself from materials you gather yourself. That way you (1) don't have many expenses; (2) can freely take the allagan coins from quests so make some money there; and (3) can make some money by selling extra pieces you make. The combination is more powerful than just the #3 that most people look at when considering what crafting earns them.

[OSUBuckeye4]

Anapingofness mentioned taking the allagan coins as quest rewards, but that only becomes worthwhile if you have some other cheap way of acquiring gear. Taking a 500 gil coin rather than a helmet doesn't help if you spend 1000 gil to buy that same helmet.

On my server, market board prices are between 10-40% the value of the Allagan coin reward. (high quality stuff is considerably more, but, why bother with high quality when you're only going to be using the gear for 3-4 levels anyways?)

Example:

I finish a quest. I can either get a piece of scale mail armor, or 3000 gil (6 silver allagan coins).

If I hop on the market board, a piece of scale mail armor is going for 300-600 gil.

I've yet to encounter a quest reward item (outside of untradeable ones of course) that is going for more on the market than the coin reward.



And besides, why take the quest reward when in 3-4 more quests you're going to gain access to a new dungeon that is going to have gear that is better than the quest reward stuff anyways?


EDIT: I took the "item" option up until about level 15 (prior to gaining access to dungeons)... after that, I've accepted nothing but Allagan pieces and have had no problems with any of the content. Just make sure you're running your daily roulette every day and rolling for gear that your class can use. The few times I've had to buy gear because stuff wasn't dropping after multiple dungeon runs, I've been able to get it for under 1000 gil (lvl 35-42 stuff)