Did I waste my time?

[Nixxe]

Since "worth" here doesn't seem to be a question of monetary gain, but of convenience, it's really up for you to decide. Once you get more cross class abilities, you probably won't need a bunch of HQ gear to HQ stuff, but if you're just starting, it may be helpful and you'll be able to use it for all your stuff as you level. 300k is barely anything anyway. For instance, I spent 3 million today on a whim and I'm only a million down from where I started this morning with a couple million more in items on the MB than I had this morning. I don't even have that much gil (<20 mil). Easy come, easy go.

[Hitsuzen]

Since "worth" here doesn't seem to be a question of monetary gain, but of convenience, it's really up for you to decide. Once you get more cross class abilities, you probably won't need a bunch of HQ gear to HQ stuff, but if you're just starting, it may be helpful and you'll be able to use it for all your stuff as you level. 300k is barely anything anyway. For instance, I spent 3 million today on a whim and I'm only a million down from where I started this morning with a couple million more in items on the MB than I had this morning. I don't even have that much gil (<20 mil). Easy come, easy go.

I hear that a lot. No idea how people are able to hold onto that much gil. Maybe I just don't play enough. I currently have about 30,000gil. You can't just assume everyone is rolling in gil you know lol.

[Nixxe]

I hear that a lot. No idea how people are able to hold onto that much gil. Maybe I just don't play enough. I currently have about 30,000gil. You can't just assume everyone is rolling in gil you know lol.

It's not about "rolling in gil." What I have is chump change, honestly. There are people with literally billions of gil out there. If you just look for opportunities to make gil while going about your day and never vendor anything you could sell for more on the market board, you'll probably start to see a lot more income. For instance, I did Ixali dailies to level my crafting classes. When you get to the higher ranks, you get oak nuts and materia. The oak nuts can be used to purchase crafting and gathering materia I-III, as well as some specialty crafting mats, like Xelphatol water. Blue IVs still have value because they're used even for BiS crafting gear. They go for 20k a piece on Balmung if you do it right, and Balmung is ridiculously cheap on most items relative to other servers. That's an easy way to get some extra money. Make sure you do WT and get Mhachi demimatters when you can. Blue Vs are worth quite a bit. I get potsherds I can trade in for battle Vs by leveling alts in PotD. Look for material flips you can do while leveling your crafters, such as when I was able to convert 600 gil worth of cobalt ore and shards into cobalt plates worth 2,000 gil. I spammed plates for five levels on both BSM and ARM and made idk, probably a few hundred thousand off of it (don't remember how many I made). You'll have to check your server's prices of course, but there are numerous ways to make decent gil just by playing the game.