Thread: Post 2.1 Ways to make Gil ?

I don't know about you guys, but the economy on my server has crashed hard. Prior to 2.1, I could make 100-300k in a few hours if I tried on a good day. Now i struggle to 50k a day. Part of me dies when I fully stock my Retainer with things to sell before going to bed only to wake up and find 0gil waiting for me and prices of what I was selling undercut by several hundreds to thousands.

Everything that use to be profitable has went down the drain. Fleece went from 200-300to about 50each, Same goes for Diremite Webs , Materia IV-III prices went from 50k-100k+ to average 10k or less. Tomes are dirt cheap, Crystals are in the single digits, and even prices for 2star Crafted gear have drop severly.

Before you guys say "Level a Crafting or DOL Class" I'd like to say I have GSM, CUL, CRP, ALC 50. My main source of income before were GSM, CUL, and my Miner but now I barely break even. With the market becoming more volatile, things are barely moving out of my retainer.

Has anyone found good ways to make gil from the system ? I say System because most people wont share thier secrets of making gil from players. And even if they did, posting it on here will surely boost their competition. I really wish SE implemented more ways to earn money from the game instead of other players.

Some of SE decision makes me wonder. Make housing cost millions but implement changes so that the most profitable items become worthless. That makes so much sense....

It would be nice if:

1. You could sell items to vendors for more than one gil.

2. Beastmen mobs dropped gil, or allagan gil bags

3. If Dungeon gil scaled according to level... It was a nice step in the right direction to add gil to dungeons, but getting 2k from a 45min (AK) dungeon is almost useless. 2k might have been nice when i was level 10, but at 50 thats barely enough to pay for the repairs and a teleport.

1000 characters ...

Edit:

Originally Posted by Ksenia

The reason over world mobs don't drop Gil is the static nature of spawns.

This game is a botters delight.

As for all 1 gil mats, see above. For a full 50 character, getting mats at 50 is identical to getting mats at 5. Run in a circle and mash insert.
A Botters dream come true.

Yeah this is a shame, crushed the value of gathered mats. If they had just kept the system from 1.0 or something similar where you actually couldn't just click-grab the exact item you want w/ near 100% accuracy there might actually still be some value. Oh, and of course making the purchase of any gear completely pointless didn't help.

Food and Pots are about the only place where you will see continual sales, i70 crafted accessories too I suppose. Now that food doesn't wear on death you will see more and more people willing to use it for content. Pots I expect will still be rather niche, other than ethers maybe, since a few second stat buff isn't enough to make most part with their gil.

Sadly, without a revamp of the gathering system, and making a change to what drops in dungeons (removing most, if not all of the gear, and having instead rare mat drops for crafting that gear) there isn't likely to ever be a bounce back for the markets. At least not until a level cap increase, assuming it doesn't take 2 hours to recap and start getting dungeon drops that are again better than anything crafted.