Making gil is almost impossible on most servers

[Zourin]

Or those of us who understand such things as "HQ item spiritbonds faster = Quicker generation of high lvl materia = much profit"

adding 1 low lvl materia to HQ items further increases spiritbond speed which inturn increases the rate of materia creation.

Materia will always sell, regardless~ even those element resist lvl1 materia will sell because they are cheap and you'd rather not waste a good materia on something you intend to convert tbh.

The worst market, right now, is the two star market. With philo being fully deprecated in 48 hours, people by the weekend are going to start the easy road to the i90 Myth gear rather than waste time or money on i70 goods. I fully expect a 'three star i90' set of recipes to exist, requiring "Myth" (which is really just philo-grade) ingredients to set i90 as the new 50 base level

ilvl 55 gear is still good for soulbinding for all classes, and we may see base materials spike in price over the weekend while crafters scramble to identify the difficulty curve of i90 crafting.

The biggest money will be in prisms for the next two weeks at most before the market settles.

[Rein-Yagami]

So you move to a different set of items on the market~

As I said in another thread, It's ridiculously easy to make gil if you simply watch the fluctuations.

last week was making Vintage HQ Kite Shields because the cost/profit was amazing. less than 500 for the materials (Mahogany+Aldgoat leather bought, siltstone mined myself) turned into 10k+ in profit.

You can't tell me that I was the only person who noticed that because now "My" market is selling at 3.9k~ so I'm materia selling now until there's another major fluctuation.

seriously people, get your head in the game and just think ffs...

[Gelesto]

So you move to a different set of items on the market~

As I said in another thread, It's ridiculously easy to make gil if you simply watch the fluctuations.

last week was making Vintage HQ Kite Shields because the cost/profit was amazing. less than 500 for the materials (Mahogany+Aldgoat leather bought, siltstone mined myself) turned into 10k+ in profit.

You can't tell me that I was the only person who noticed that because now "My" market is selling at 3.9k~ so I'm materia selling now until there's another major fluctuation.

seriously people, get your head in the game and just think ffs...

This ^ All of this, research your MB see whats selling, check again see how often its selling, craft a bit sell your goodies rinse and repeat a little effort goes a long way.

[Shirai]

get your head in the game and just think ffs...

That's the problem, while people are perfectly capable to, they don't want to think for themselves.
They want to have others do the thinking for them, they want to be told, to the letter, what to do and how to do it because if it doesn't lead to instant results they can always point their fingers to other people.

Blaming themselves for their own mistakes and actually learn from them, oh no, we can't have that.

[snakey77]

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.

in all fairness though the markets are dictated buy the type of server if theres a lot of farmers craters etc the prices are dirty cheap forcing you to make lower and less profit than others hence you might make 200k others might be lucky making 50k with just the same amount of time spent crafting gathering etc!!!

[therpgfanatic]

Low level crafting materia sells for 100-500 gil, and it's not a "reliable rate" when it costs more to repair the darn items before the SB is 100%.

Higher level materia (IV) sells for 20k-30k but they don't move fast since once people get their set level 50 set finished they are done. They have no reason to buy materia ever again. And the people who need the materia are capable of making their own HQ gear to convert into materia.

Also. Telling me to "Stfu" or "gtfo" because you're embarrassed for getting called out? Weak.

[therpgfanatic]

...it wasn't even until recently that new chara restrictions on legacy servers got removed.

Would you like to try again?

[Vandesaan]

Hi I'm on a legacy server and I've spent about 3 million gil on buying materia, ask me anything

[therpgfanatic]

Again. Questionable value.

You don't need an overmelded i70 ring gear to play your class in end-game dungeons that drop i90 gear.

You want to have the BiS, because that's a personal goal of yours to have. But it's not 100% necessary.

And end-game raiding? I've been part of progression guilds in WoW. It's all the same. If you honestly believe you need to have as much HP as possible to clear a dungeon and are going to fret over a minor stat boost, you are too serious. FFXIV encounter design is focused on learning a boss pattern and having a full party. With or without overmelded VIT gear you will end up dying the same until everyone learns the boss strategy.

You act like this is such serious business, but it's a videogame. You're supposed to win. The game is designed to allow you to win. Get over yourself.

[Rein-Yagami]

Again. Questionable value.

You don't need an overmelded i70 ring gear to play your class in end-game dungeons that drop i90 gear.

You want to have the BiS, because that's a personal goal of yours to have. But it's not 100% necessary.

And end-game raiding? I've been part of progression guilds in WoW. It's all the same. If you honestly believe you need to have as much HP as possible to clear a dungeon, you are too serious. Encounter design that is focused on learning a boss pattern. With or without overmelded VIT gear you will end up dying the same until everyone learns the boss strategy.

You want to have Gil but it's not 100% necessary~