Gil with Mining?

[awesomeuno]

I have a 50 miner and botanist, and the most money I have made in the game BY FAR is just gathering clusters when they pop while i'm doing pretty much anything, then selling them. I make at least 15K per in game 4 hours (intervals) usually more if not a lot of people are gathering certain clusters (wind clusters are up to 2K on my server right now) it's pretty easy, and I also have my retainers gathering shards (getting 60 shards every 40 minutes, $$$)

[Kinseykinz]

I have a 50 miner and botanist, and the most money I have made in the game BY FAR is just gathering clusters when they pop while i'm doing pretty much anything, then selling them. I make at least 15K per in game 4 hours (intervals) usually more if not a lot of people are gathering certain clusters (wind clusters are up to 2K on my server right now) it's pretty easy, and I also have my retainers gathering shards (getting 60 shards every 40 minutes, $$$)

Umm...

1 stack of ANYTHING that sells for 200gil ea = 200x99=19,800 before market taxes. And any 'normal' mats (Ie not on timers), can be gathered, by the stack in 10-15 minutes. So no offense, but your cluster gathering overall is typically not the best 'time for money ratio'...unless you are gathering other things inbetween and/or unless your 15K/per every 4 hours is wrong. I can make 15K gathering walnut logs for heavens sake in 10 minutes. Many other things work like this too.

But as Dark said, the best advice is research YOUR servers marketboards, see what's selling for a decent margin for the time/skill involved and sell that.

Look for things that are 1. selling high and/or 2. selling fast and/or 3. in limited supply currently on the boards.