Quote Originally Posted by Elmeron View Post
The sad part is the ending of the letter is pretty much true... Outside of crafting (which not everyone enjoys, I've always hated crafting in every MMORPG I've played) and doing soul bonding for materia for hours and hours (an activity that is so mindless and boring that I only do it when drinking), there is really no way to make gil, unless you can manage to find a group that is willing to spam a dungeon where a large amount of mobs can be pulled in one spot (not sure about others, but on my world parties usually want to faceroll through dungeons as fast as, possible so it's not always easy finding a group that wants to spam a dungeon for gil purposes).

I am constantly losing gil unless I do one of the three because quest rewards really don't offer enough gil.
What are you spending the gil on? The only necessary thing I can think of is teleporting, which the challenge log and duty roulette easily cover any reasonable amount of teleports.

Having (and spending) gil is pretty much a commodity. The things you buy with it is either to save time (buying materia, rather than trying to soul bind it on your own), or for commodities (house, glamour gear, etc).