How to make money?!

[SinfulExistence]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this in. I've been level 60 for a while now but my Gil seems to go down a lot. Can anyone give me suggestions on how to make money in the game?

I have no experience of gathering and crafting classes so I guess this would be something to look into?

Can anyone give me some tips and pointers?

[AskaRay]

Well, I make a ton of money gathering:

1. Level up all gatherers (takes time and a few Netflix series)
2. Adamantite Ore with King's Yield II (that's 25/half hour if you are lucky) OR fish up big fish and sell them to starving CUL OR ....I don't know I hate botanist I literally only use it for scrips
3. ???
4. Profit

You make more money if you craft guaranteed but... the gil investment early on is higher. But the returns are better.

Edit:
Oh also
Never use materia, always sell it for fat stacks of gil.

[SinfulExistence]

I did start levelling botanist... Looks like I know what I'm doing tonight! I will be streaming Walking Dead and levelling then.

[Callback]

Well, I make a ton of money gathering:

1. Level up all gatherers (takes time and a few Netflix series)
2. Adamantite Ore with King's Yield II (that's 25/half hour if you are lucky) OR fish up big fish and sell them to starving CUL OR ....I don't know I hate botanist I literally only use it for scrips
3. ???
4. Profit

You make more money if you craft guaranteed but... the gil investment early on is higher. But the returns are better.

Edit:
Oh also
Never use materia, always sell it for fat stacks of gil.

Craft/gather materia has a use. I don't see how combat materia does considering there's no endgame stuff that even allows melding. Why does that stuff sell so high?

[Werhusky]

Craft/gather materia has a use. I don't see how combat materia does considering there's no endgame stuff that even allows melding. Why does that stuff sell so high?

I have a Str/Vit melded tank and accuracy on my SCH... its a raidthing plus with 3.2 you will be able to meld the tomestone gear/Alex gear (the new ones).

You can "easily" grind materia with Diadem too. Just brain off - bash some dinos and trade your loot for spoils and the spoils for materia... if you are really patient for making gil sell the materia once 3.2 hits. As a side effect you may get some lucky 210 loots.

[Callback]

I have a Str/Vit melded tank and accuracy on my SCH... its a raidthing plus with 3.2 you will be able to meld the tomestone gear/Alex gear (the new ones).

You can "easily" grind materia with Diadem too. Just brain off - bash some dinos and trade your loot for spoils and the spoils for materia... if you are really patient for making gil sell the materia once 3.2 hits. As a side effect you may get some lucky 210 loots.

I would kill myself before going back in the diadem. Boredom hell x1000.

[Werhusky]

I would kill myself before going back in the diadem. Boredom hell x1000.

Hehe hence wrote "easily" I do 1-2 runs in 2-3 weeks and use the spoils for materia I might need in 3.2 XD

[ruskie]

For botanist and miner - if it's log or ore or alumen - just level off of gathering those and selling them. HQ stacks in smaller numbers, NQ in full stacks. Should start you off nicely. The rest well you'll get there eventually.

Also if you are running duty roulettes you get gil from those and mob kills and such.

[SinfulExistence]

Brilliant, sounds like a plan then! Many thanks.

[Malicewolf]

With crafting and gathering, it all depends on what you do really. They can also be HUGE money sucks if you don't do them correctly (i.e.-buy all materials on MB instead of gathering your own or asking friends). Even worse when your friends aren't online and you end up buying their materials on the MB (yea... happened to me a few times, but we always refund each other).

Myself, I'm a Culinarian and Fisher, which I think is a great combo. If you add in Botanist too, it's pretty much perfect (but my FC has like, 5 lvl 50+ botanists, sooo I just let them run around). But I can say, people love food. Get a decent level and make some of the higher stuff (heck, even the lower stuff still sells well honestly). I used to sell food on the MB, but lately, my FC has come up with a plan for stockpiling ourselves, but with only 2 CUL doing it and 20+ players... uh, I don't really have the mats or time to spare :P (but there is money to be made there).

Also, shards, crystals, catalysts ALWAYS sell. They are needed for crafter's. People are always crafting. Prices are almost always high due to people selling low but in huge stacks.

Me personally, I like using Fishing for majority of my retainer income. I've found a few fish that just sell on a very constant and stable basis. So I just keep those coming in with my retainer and selling them in small stacks of 3-5 usually. The problem with the Market Boards though is they differ from world to world. In mine, Bluebell Salmon, White Coral, Red Coral, and just about any shark sells nice and high constantly. Bluebell are a bit iffy though. They come and go (like, I won't sell any for a few days, then all of a sudden, people are buying up all of them).