World Transfer Help/Advice?

[Stormrider]

You could also consider buying allagan pieces and clear demimateria as they have a solid set value if you can stockpile enough. Not to mention the items being sold on the board for below vendor cost.

[raela]

You could also consider buying allagan pieces and clear demimateria as they have a solid set value if you can stockpile enough. Not to mention the items being sold on the board for below vendor cost.

No, this is a terrible idea that is in no way practical in the game.

I transferred with the Chaos move and had 15 mil gil at the time. I bought a variety of things (minions, thav crafting mats, thav onions, shards, materia). From my experience, I'd say shards/crystals/clusters were the best - very high demand, so stock is always moving, and if you sell in small amounts (100~300 instead of 1000+), you can get people to buy them at a slightly higher price. The prices on the other things fluctuated a lot due to the lower demand. It took maybe a month for me to sell the non-shards off.

EDIT: to pull up numbers I compiled before:

Just to help kill some spread of misinformation.. in order to transfer even 1 million gil, you would need 2,000 silver coins, 400 gold coins, or 100 platinum coins. As of right now, on Cactaur:

Allagan Silver Piece (sells for 500): 13 sellers, only 5 at vendor rate, 57 at 800 gil, 71 at 900, 106 at 1000, 1 at 1 million, 2 at 99,999,999
Allagan Gold Piece (sells for 2500): 1 at 4000, 10 at 5000
Allagan Platinum Piece (sells for 10000): 2 at 500k, 1 at 1 million, 2 at 4 million

Much better alternatives: look for popular crafting mats, materia, and/or shards+crystals+clusters. From my own transfer, I quickly realized it was much better to go for slightly lower value things that sell often. I still have some mats that haven't sold, and the price keeps dropping

[BlackValse]

Thank you to everyone who's responded so far!

Try posting in their subforums asking? http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...Group-NA-EU%29 or change the title seeking help from those servers?

That's definitely my next port of call, I'll see if I can ask the players directly on those servers for advice. Thanks for pointing me over there, I'm still new to the Forum so embarrassingly it's something I missed. Also, don't worry about the misinformation, ExKage, someone beat me to correcting you! I didn't realise they reduced the cost. Makes my virtual life a lot harder to transfer.

Thank you so much, Reinha, for the extensive server information. It certainly gives me a better idea of where to go. Not to mention it's interesting to look at. I'm researching as much as possible before I make my transfer application. It's not something I plan on doing again so I'm trying to get it right first time.

[BlackValse]

I looked up the Allagan pieces you suggested Stormrider, but they're selling for ridiculous prices and are no where near a fair trade. On Zodiark I saw Platinum pieces selling for 35k each! Thanks for bringing clarity to the information I've been given Raela, I'll definitely take up your advice regarding Materia and clusters. If anything I need to meld Materia into my Sphere Scroll anyway, so I suppose buying Materia won't put my gil to waste.

I'll be honest and say I'm unsure about crafting mats. I've only ever really dabbled in weaving and being a botanist. An explanation would be appreciated. Again, thanks so much for all the great responses. It's more than I expected! I'll see about directing players from Phoenix and Cerberus here for more advice before I make the move and I'm still all ears for any further tips. For now, I'll be stockpiling crystals and Materia. Thanks!