Quote Originally Posted by Shirai View Post
And yet, I manage to make several hundred thousand gil a week with only a couple of hours work and knowing what sells well.
No, I'm not going to share my secret with you but crafting/gathering is far from useless.

Anyway, apart from repairs and teleports there is absolutely no need, at all to carry large amounts of gil around.
From that perspective, the game vomits gil at you with dailies, treasure hunts and dungeons, that alone is enough to sustain you and have gil left for other things.
Seconded. Know where to look. Identify any big players in your server's crafting community and manipulate your market. Buy out everyone and sell inflated.

Or even less involved than that, just look around. Things sell. I've almost single-handedly supplied my FC's current housing fund.