Eorzea's Richest: Who's got the most gil?

[Oscillate_Wildly]

From what it sounds like, just the lower ranked items are getting the watered down treatment, though higher ranking recipes are keeping their parts, for the most part.

[TheVedis]

From what it sounds like, just the lower ranked items are getting the watered down treatment, though higher ranking recipes are keeping their parts, for the most part.

higher ranked wont have parts, but will require more materials(and more high end in general)

so hemp may take the 4 mats listed
while linen may take 8 mats(and most of them require higher crafts to make)

but no parts

[Xenor]

332mil. http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3954/gilz.jpg

This is all from HQ jewellery, faction NM drops, HQ crab bows, HQ jade crooks, HQ vintage kite shields, botany and gold ore/sand. Unfortunately all those markets have dried up now except crab bows and those are on the way out too. I'd like to reach the gil cap but with gil becoming harder to obtain and crafted items becoming less desirable over raid loot (even if the crafted item is better) I can't see that happening.

[Aina]

ewww,how to make money srsly?
its when the doublet was worth more than 20M and u had more than 100wings stocked within 2 to 3weeks.

u dudes dont make things so complicated ok!

[Rorix]

Woah! Ok, first, I'm not rich, I'm actually really poor I only have like 10,000 gil at the momment. xD

But if you guys don't mind me asking, how do you get those amounts of gil? Does crafting really makes you get tons of gil in this game? Or most of that is from quest reward?

As you can see, I just started a few days ago but was wondering why people had so much gil and I was like... really poor. xD

[Holyomen]

Woah! Ok, first, I'm not rich, I'm actually really poor I only have like 10,000 gil at the momment. xD

But if you guys don't mind me asking, how do you get those amounts of gil? Does crafting really makes you get tons of gil in this game? Or most of that is from quest reward?

As you can see, I just started a few days ago but was wondering why people had so much gil and I was like... really poor. xD

If you've been doing leve quests for the past year it'll amount to alot of gil.
If you've been grinding mobs and selling items/crystals in the wards for the past year it'll amount to alot of gil.
If you were fast enough to level up a craft and corner the market early on and sell at super inflated prices, then you'd be mega rich.

[LateReg]

I know a lot of people who did the so-called "market cornering" and still don't have more than 200~300m

Mega-richness came from re-selling everything for me. Dodore solo and duo helped too, btw.

[Picoman]

1st Generation Crafters and Gatherers made a ton of Gil.

They were grinding crafts as others were grinding battle so they would start with selling all their 100s of Copper Rings then Brass, Silver for decent money at the exact time the maximum number of people needed them. Now you would be lucky to sell a Cotton Coif for 1k within 4 weeks on retainer.

I was able to sell logs and moss in the street and would have to sell to highest bidder because demand was so high. (This was pre MW search and 99 stacks o_O)

[Xenor]

The buying and re-selling thing is interesting. I've done that on a much smaller scale. I remember seeing like 600 oak logs up at 1k each once, I bought them all and relisted them over time at 2.5-3k. You clearly did this kind of thing better than me LateReg lol, I've probably made no more than 5mil from this.

[Vesper]

the title for this thread should have been ...stroke your epeens