World Transfer Help/Advice?

[Chrolo]

Entry subscription lets you make another char on other servers. Just delete it again like 1 day before your transfer, so it doesnt come into conflict with your main char. This way you can still look up prices on different servers you might have interest on

[Yukileonhart]

Well you said u had eyes on Phoenix so am telling you this Phoenix crafting mats sells the most

[raela]

You could also consider buying allagan pieces and clear demimateria as they have a solid set value if you can stockpile enough. Not to mention the items being sold on the board for below vendor cost.

No, this is a terrible idea that is in no way practical in the game.

I transferred with the Chaos move and had 15 mil gil at the time. I bought a variety of things (minions, thav crafting mats, thav onions, shards, materia). From my experience, I'd say shards/crystals/clusters were the best - very high demand, so stock is always moving, and if you sell in small amounts (100~300 instead of 1000+), you can get people to buy them at a slightly higher price. The prices on the other things fluctuated a lot due to the lower demand. It took maybe a month for me to sell the non-shards off.

EDIT: to pull up numbers I compiled before:

Just to help kill some spread of misinformation.. in order to transfer even 1 million gil, you would need 2,000 silver coins, 400 gold coins, or 100 platinum coins. As of right now, on Cactaur:

Allagan Silver Piece (sells for 500): 13 sellers, only 5 at vendor rate, 57 at 800 gil, 71 at 900, 106 at 1000, 1 at 1 million, 2 at 99,999,999
Allagan Gold Piece (sells for 2500): 1 at 4000, 10 at 5000
Allagan Platinum Piece (sells for 10000): 2 at 500k, 1 at 1 million, 2 at 4 million

Much better alternatives: look for popular crafting mats, materia, and/or shards+crystals+clusters. From my own transfer, I quickly realized it was much better to go for slightly lower value things that sell often. I still have some mats that haven't sold, and the price keeps dropping

[BlackValse]

Thank you to everyone who's responded so far!

Try posting in their subforums asking? http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...Group-NA-EU%29 or change the title seeking help from those servers?

That's definitely my next port of call, I'll see if I can ask the players directly on those servers for advice. Thanks for pointing me over there, I'm still new to the Forum so embarrassingly it's something I missed. Also, don't worry about the misinformation, ExKage, someone beat me to correcting you! I didn't realise they reduced the cost. Makes my virtual life a lot harder to transfer.

Thank you so much, Reinha, for the extensive server information. It certainly gives me a better idea of where to go. Not to mention it's interesting to look at. I'm researching as much as possible before I make my transfer application. It's not something I plan on doing again so I'm trying to get it right first time.

[BlackValse]

I looked up the Allagan pieces you suggested Stormrider, but they're selling for ridiculous prices and are no where near a fair trade. On Zodiark I saw Platinum pieces selling for 35k each! Thanks for bringing clarity to the information I've been given Raela, I'll definitely take up your advice regarding Materia and clusters. If anything I need to meld Materia into my Sphere Scroll anyway, so I suppose buying Materia won't put my gil to waste.

I'll be honest and say I'm unsure about crafting mats. I've only ever really dabbled in weaving and being a botanist. An explanation would be appreciated. Again, thanks so much for all the great responses. It's more than I expected! I'll see about directing players from Phoenix and Cerberus here for more advice before I make the move and I'm still all ears for any further tips. For now, I'll be stockpiling crystals and Materia. Thanks!

[Valkyrie-Amber]

oh sorry about the super late reply really on a JP server you have to get used to auto translate.... its quite the pain but there still are a reasonable amount of eng people on jp servers and biggest is tonberry but take my advice don't go there.... its like elitist central there.

main advantage of a JP server is JP people tend to be somewhat less elitist one death your out like tonberry that's the eng version of a jp world.... and a few other eng servers tend to be like that too Masamune is more calm even if quiet and df queues though like only 5 mins for most things.

[BlackValse]

That's alright, Valkyrie. I didn't realise XIV was also affected by elitist groups. I'll be sure to stay away from them - I like to think I'm a relaxed player. Zodiark is mainly very friendly, but higher level dungeons and raids can bring the odd rage quitter or two. There's also certain groups that just have no patience and their temperament simply isn't suited for online play.

Does anyone know of any dedicated roleplaying servers? I've always wanted to RP but I find it hard to find an FC dedicated to it, let alone an entire server. Since I'm preparing to jump ship, it'd be nice to find a place I feel at home in.

[Twilite]

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Phoenix is high population for sure, I was there a few months before moving to Ragnarok(also high pop being that it's a legacy server), but keep in mind.. high population doesn't exactly mean it's a good server to be on.

That's alright, Valkyrie. I didn't realise XIV was also affected by elitist groups. I'll be sure to stay away from them - I like to think I'm a relaxed player. Zodiark is mainly very friendly, but higher level dungeons and raids can bring the odd rage quitter or two. There's also certain groups that just have no patience and their temperament simply isn't suited for online play.

You will be disappointed if this is one of your reasons for transferring. Rage Quitters are on every server. Take it from me as a tank. If I botch a pull, someone is going to leave, because oh noes its going to be bad from here on out, apparently. BISMARK is the MASTER RAGE QUITTER trial.

[Teryaani]

That's alright, Valkyrie. I didn't realise XIV was also affected by elitist groups. I'll be sure to stay away from them - I like to think I'm a relaxed player. Zodiark is mainly very friendly, but higher level dungeons and raids can bring the odd rage quitter or two. There's also certain groups that just have no patience and their temperament simply isn't suited for online play.

Does anyone know of any dedicated roleplaying servers? I've always wanted to RP but I find it hard to find an FC dedicated to it, let alone an entire server. Since I'm preparing to jump ship, it'd be nice to find a place I feel at home in.

Balmung and Gilgamesh are the two best known. Balmung, I think, gets brought up more often.

For gil stockpiling I'll echo raela on the materia especially. Depending on your economy you may find some for less than list price and many more at list price.

[ExKage]

Balmung and Gilgamesh are the two best known. Balmung, I think, gets brought up more often.

There's nothing official but Balmung and Gilgamesh do have RP. Balmung... it's pretty easy to find FCs. A few of them even have it listed XX-RP. If you walk in Ul'dah you will see it quite a bit and there's usually public event every week. There's a few resources players keep to try and spread info. RPers pretty much openly RP, not hiding it etc.

Take this with a word of salt as I don't play on Gilgamesh, but Gilgamesh RP is apparently there and people are dedicated but you will have to do some digging. There is a website dedicated to Gilgamesh RP to help those on Gilgamesh find their RP as it's mostly in-FC, in LS, etc. Mostly done privately and not out in the open.