This game really encourages hoarding Gil, but what for?

[Nelain]

Since price is always dropping, there is no point to store anything you don't need at the moment: things like Materias should be sold immediately.

But I'm not sure what's the point of having all these Gils either. With ilv80 gears/more myth gears, you don't even need ilv70 and the materias that go into them.

Maybe 2.2 will bring some use for Gils? I'll have lots by then.

[Ozpa]

This game needs ilvl 80 crafted gear that could really compete with allagan/myth items, including weapons. Makes no sense that you can get highest ilvl gear from running sub-average difficulty dungeons like AK/WP.

[scarebearz]

Totally agree.

Anti RMT "counter measures" sapping the fun from legit players, yet RMT is as active as ever.

[ApolloGenX]

Gil is pointless. Housing will use it. There might be rent to pay on the houses, but generally - pointless. Even with housing it is just for superficial "fluff" stuff.

[Deifact]

Can I have some of your gil then? You could always give some of it away if you don't need it.

[Rrylia]

I agree, if you have a tiny amount of patience and don't mind running dungeons then there is very little point spending much money as it stands right now. I know some people love to MIN/MAX but I'm not too bothered about this and the difference is so negligible that I don't value it as being worthwhile. Personally I preferred the FFXI model where you could make a fortune but it was high risk and there was more to buy for most players, at least when I gave my account up in 2009, than 99% of players could ever hope to buy. I don't think that will be SE's model in this game so until then I craft because I find it enjoyable but I don't get very excited about money.

[TomTom1968]

Gil is pointless? I need at least 3-5k per day for teleporting because I am too lazy to walk to the zones I need to go to. Equipping a DOH or DOL char with HQ items and Materia also costs over 100.000 Gil per character.

If you ever want to buy a Vanya or other high end items, you will realize that they also cost you a fortune if you can't make them on your own. Two star crafted gear with forbidden materia slots can be better than some of the ilvl 90 Myth gear you get in Mor Dhona.

If you wanna have more than one Relic weapon, you need something between 40-60k for each char just to get the base weapon and materia.

If you play only one character, it might be valid that you do not need a lot of GIL. If you wanna play a few chars, you need tons of Gil if you want your chars to be equipped well before it's 2020.

[AltaneenXIV]

I intend to use all my gil at the Gold Saucer. I hope.

[Krokov]

Hoard gil cause there's no efficient/simple way of earning gil atm. Yeah thers leves and guildhests and yes you can earn some that way but not much else. Items on the market are outrageously priced. We need dailies like they have in FF11 and WoW. Granted alot don't like them and yes they can become tedious but its s way of having a process of earning an income.

Atm I'm making what I can and only spend what and when I need too. I know I can also sell the market boards I have very little done so but at the moment I personally don't know what is a sales or has a good return if it is put up on the market for but yeah I would and usually have sold stuff on the market boards and do sell some stuff on the market boards but I don't know what all sells for a lot must do research I guess.

[ApolloGenX]

Fair enough... gil is pointless if you level multiple classes. I level crafters, so I can meld my own relics, extract my own material... and I just use tomes for armor... so other than repairs and teleporting (which is super cheap), I don't have much use for gil. The only thing I use it for is leveling crafting... which is why I said gil is for crafters selling to crafters.

Now that I have leveled my crafters, I don't really use it. I did send gil to my friends... they used it for crafting and teleporting, too... but none of us have logged in as much since we leveled the classes we like and have run everything and some of coil and have our AF 2 pieces we wanted.