Making Gil without crafting/gathering: Is it Possible?

[BeautifulNerf]

Yes it's probable to make gil outside of being a gatherer/crafter. I was originally making a how-to guide as a response. (Denied by character limit). Then later tried making a new thread topic (Denied again by character limit).

The simple answer is, "Yes, just play the market board." However, since I can't fully explain it (nor do I have the patience of making multiple sub-threads). You'll have to read a book on economic trends and analysis. Cheers!

[Seezur_Undies]

Yeah its call RMT

[ChameleonMS]

Here is basic DoW Gil Guide.

[RojGardoth]

Running quick ventures with retainers and selling what they bring back.

[konage]

-roulette
-level
-retainer
-beast tribes
-buying from vendors and reselling at a higher price.
-sb
-etc

Plenty of ways to make gil without gathering or crafting.

[Falar]

Do DoW retainers return anything worth selling at max level? If so I'm thinking about buying the ability to add 2 more. It will take a long time to level them but the sooner I get started, the better. Right now my DoW retainers are 35/26 so I still have a long way to go for them to get to 60.

[MomomiMomi]

Do DoW retainers return anything worth selling at max level? If so I'm thinking about buying the ability to add 2 more. It will take a long time to level them but the sooner I get started, the better. Right now my DoW retainers are 35/26 so I still have a long way to go for them to get to 60.

Obviously depends on your server, but yes, they do.

How against crafting are you? I would recommend desynthesis. It's a great supplement for making gil through battle. You won't actually have to craft anything outside of unlocking and possibly leveling the skill. You'll need to invest some gil into it, but it should pay off fairly quickly.

[Tint]

you can try to farm diadem. you can buy grade 5 materia and some other stuff with the diadem tokens

[Blitzace]

Without crafting/gathering, it surely is possible but it is not nearly as fast nor as much as you would with crafting/gathering.

Daily roulette's give quite a nice chunk of money(With needed class)
I know farming certain items from mobs can give you quite a bit of money, I used to make so much money with Fleece,Alumen and stuff like that. But that was prior to 3.0
Still there are quite some crafting items that are worth quite a bit of money, But you'll have to look around in the MB since prices flux quite a bit + Different servers and all.

But all in all, It still is faster too level all your craft classes 0->60 and then make money imho.

Spend 4 minutes crafting yesterday made 1.2M, Its very unlikely you will be able to reproduce that with farming items unless you get a minion drop or something similar

[Falar]

Obviously depends on your server, but yes, they do.

How against crafting are you? I would recommend desynthesis. It's a great supplement for making gil through battle. You won't actually have to craft anything outside of unlocking and possibly leveling the skill. You'll need to invest some gil into it, but it should pay off fairly quickly.

I take zero enjoyment out of anything in the game that does not involve combat. I do have over 500 ventures, however. So far anything I can buy with GC seals sells for nothing on the MB, so I'm thinking if I get a bunch of retainers at high level maybe I can get them to provide something useful. Trouble is, my highest one is currently 36 so I'm not sure what they can bring in at 50+.