What's your daily routine playing gathering and crafting?

[FinaSel]

I work little by little on completing my crafting logs.
I've made all of the non-housing items for all classes and all the carpenter housing items. Next is blacksmith housing items!

When my levequests reach 100, I spend 1 day doing all of them for crafting (for the achievement).

I try to do the Provisioning and Supply quests for Grand Company Seals. I use the seals to buy mats.
Do hunts to exchange for items to exchange for GC Seals to buy more mats. (An ventures to let me retainers get crystals)
I also try to gather my own crystals if I can. I find crystals in area where I haven't gotten the gathering achievements yet and gather them there.
I try to run Roulettes every day for Lore and gil. With the lore I buy mats.


I go to nodes when they pop to get mats.

Then I spend an hour or two "Crafting up a Storm" and then sell everything on the MB.

It's too much to do in 1 day, but I try my best to at least do Grand Company supply / provisioning and Roulettes every day. If there is time, I gather and and actually craft with everything I've saved up.

What I can't understand is how people can afford to buy tons of V materia and new armor when having no crafting jobs leveled up...

[ChameleonMS]

What I can't understand is how people can afford to buy tons of V materia and new armor when having no crafting jobs leveled up...

RMT and selling clears.

[Neela]

RMT and selling clears.

easiest answer right?... i play since more than 2 years and haven't any gatherer/crafter myself - but money flows anyway mostly of my 8 retainers and oh... you avoid primals huh? your bad... aside from my retainers i got the 2nd most amount out of them – and ironically guess which money it is? yeah right it's yours, the crafter ones.

but yeah everybody without crafter jobs is messing with the darkside – come on guys there is more than just black & white ^^

[ChameleonMS]

easiest answer right?

Yes it is the easy answer because it is frequently true. I personally know many DoW/DoM only players that do these things for large infusions to their revenue generation.

... i play since more than 2 years and haven't any gatherer/crafter myself - but money flows anyway mostly of my 8 retainers

DoW Gil Guide
That guide does not even cover Aquopolis, which is a fantastic source of potential revenue and materia, and several other sources of newer revenue.

and oh... you avoid primals huh? your bad...

A personal attack, [em]sigh[/em]. I do not do them because I am a casual player with RL commitments preventing me from ever being more hardcore. Try getting in to a learning party 3 weeks after content released. Why 3 weeks, well it takes me almost that long usually just to complete all the new content; normal difficulty for each patch. Those learning party collapse like there is no tomorrow, this leads to poor game play enjoyment. I cannot join a static due to the aforementioned RL commitments.

but yeah everybody without crafter jobs is messing with the darkside – come on guys there is more than just black & white ^^

No not everyone but if you do not have crafter/gatherers and you are rich and you do not dabble in the darkside. Then you are in a pretty exclusive group of players.

As a crafter, I can, when I commit to it, I can earn a couple million in a few hours. Only a very lucky/dedicated DoW could do the same.

[FinaSel]

but money flows anyway mostly of my 8 retainers

8 retainers?

I know that this is a luxury for some people, but others prefer not to spend real money in order to make money in the game.

[Neela]

well there are some reasons for this... first of all like i said before i don't have time for crafting or time bounded gathering spots, second im fc leader so 2-3 retainer are just for fc stuff (furniture, airship/company project stuff) and rewards/gifts for my members. although i have a good paying job RMT isn't an option for me so... taking the optional retainer is my way to go for increasing my ingame-income ^^

[Roth_Trailfinder]

8 retainers?

I know that this is a luxury for some people, but others prefer not to spend real money in order to make money in the game.

This is why I consider the rental retainers "Pay to Win".

[Neela]

This is why I consider the rental retainers "Pay to Win".

And here we go i just waited for someone like you ^^

[ChameleonMS]

And here we go i just waited for someone like you ^^

I see a bridge dweller.

[Silverbane]

This is why I consider the rental retainers "Pay to Win".

To win what? A big pile of make-believe money? Heck, you can print out a billion-gil bank note on your printer, or draw one with a crayon. Doesn't seem like much of a win.

The only "win" in FFXIV is enjoying yourself while playing it.