Quote Originally Posted by Missbone View Post
Sure if you are really short on money it may seem a bit much, but on the other hand there are plenty of ways to make some so that even without DOL/DOH Jobs you can get enough in a couple of days. One thing is doing your roulettes every day, you dont get that much but still it should give you something between 100-200k each day if you do all. Turn the Dungeon drops in you GC for marks and buy something that sells on the market board or Venture marks for your retainer and hope they bring back something good.

Do maps, this very lucrative especially for DOW/DOM only chars and can get you easly 500k at one evening if you and your group gets a bit lucky. Farm symobols/clusters from Eureka or Boznia and sell them on the MB. Also do fates in the new zones for diamonds (you get 12 each fate) and buy something from the NPCs that sells good on your server, requires a little market research but can be a very easy way without a group or good gear to get some good money. Another good source of raw money that dosnt require anything selling or MB related stuff is doing bunny fates it eureka. Its not the fastest but savest way, each treasure gives something between 10k-100k gil and and the bunny fate spawns every 15 or 20 minutes (i think). Also you get a few symbols that you can sell while you are there.

Thats just some ideas how to get yourself a bit money to buy the gear and with a bit luck and pation it also dosnt take to long.
Ok, while I'm sure these are all viable directions, what is truly mindblowing for me (and I absolutely concede that this is clearly just a difference between games, but, man...) is that all of this... is to advance the story one step! Like, that doesn't strike anyone here as being a little nuts?

"Run dungeons for the week"

"Go make a fortune"

"Unlock this other convoluted world boss zone"

... To have enough gear to advance the story... a questline that has provided gear here and there... that is on its own not good enough to advance the story.

There are multiple degrees of community interdependence (roulette, market board, mass FATEs) to advance the story!

That doesn't strike anyone as a little crazy? Maybe it's my WoW brain haha!