Is it possible to level all crafting classes with low Gil investment?

[keroo]

I am not very rich in game but I want to level my crafters to 50. Is it possible?

[StouterTaru]

Hitting 50 doesn't take a whole lot of gil, unless you want to do it quickly. The money goes into gearing up once you hit 50.

[baopee]

yes, if you level gathering classes at the same time.

[Alx789]

Yes. I purchaced my fc house when all my crafts were at 20-25 level. But i leveled all craft and gather (exept fisher) in parallel.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

The short answer? Yes.

It's very possible that you could level up every crafting class you have without spending a single gil past what you make as you level, but the grind to do so is immeasurably longer than if you buy the materials for it. You'd essentially have to balance all of the crafting and gathering classes and level them all up at once. I'm sure one can find some sort of appeal to this method of leveling up the classes, but it's definitely easier, faster, and more economically sound to level up the classes by investing gil into materials.

You could also use the Ixal dailies to boost a crafting class about a level per day, and you can get a good amount of gil from the Ehcatl Sealants if you sell them on the marketplace. This is unfortunately limited to once per day though and isn't realistic if you're trying to get every crafting class to 50 within a reasonable amount of time.

Once you hit lv50 for each of the crafting and gathering classes though, it's a completely different story. You pretty much HAVE to invest money in materia and top gear in order to make anything that's worth selling anymore on the market place, and if you want to get gathering up to where you can get the latest materials you have to grind for gear in addition to buying the expensive sets.

[LineageRazor]

Is it possible? Yes. In fact, leveling a craft can be incredibly profitable if you're patient. It's not an exaggeration to say that during my first year playing the game whenever I wanted to make some money, I'd pick a new craft and level it to 50. Doing so would usually earn me a couple million gil.


Start by leveling every craft to 15. You can do this entirely within each town, buying all ingredients from the Guild NPC at very low prices. With crafts at 15, you'll have all the cross-class abilities you need to HQ items.

Each craft you level, craft every item in your Crafting Log at least once, and try to HQ. Sell the result, HQ or NQ, on the Marketboards. Each item that you craft for the first time gives you bonus exp, so even if the item doesn't sell well, at least you got the extra exp. Very few items, though, don't sell for at least the cost of ingredients, even if the result is NQ.

Leves are good filler after you've done this, but I recommend targeting leves at a lower level than you are so you can more easily craft HQ items to turn in. This will earn you much more experience than turning in NQs for leves at your current level.

Other good filler includes crafting tons of NQ crafting ingredients, like Ingots or Lumber. This stuff sells really well.

[keroo]

I just got from a very long busy days. Wow! You're replies are so comprehensive. Right now I am leveling each classes little by little. Thank you for your answers!