Quote Originally Posted by Frizze View Post
Treasure maps
Good point! It actually came to my mind 15 minutes later during my little afternoon-walk...

Aswell as:

- Desynth - as CUL you can level that easy enough by taking all the useless fish you catch apart. Most wont yield anything intresting, but there are some fish that swallod glamour-gear (bikinis, obviously), materia, allagan pieces or even a pet - some of that might sell for a bit! (There might be more useful classes to invest your desynth skill into later - but leveling cul up is cheap, thanks to the fish and you can craft books to reset your desynth-skill. They use mats that you buy with the Ixal-currency though but you'll have lots of that anyways, right? )
- Growing flowers in flower pots in your FC-house/FC-chamber/apartment - they're crafted into glamour-pieces (mostly hair-pins) aswell and specially the "rare" colours (black, white, mixed, special colour) might sell well! I made quite a bit of gil from selling white and pink cherryblossoms!
- Roll on every piece of gear you can in a dungeon! Turn them in for seals, buy seal-mats (or retainer-venture coins), sell!
- Send out your retainers! Either gamble during quick ventures, send them out on 18h ones that can bring back pets or let them get specific mats that might sell well (consulte your local marketboard for that!)
- Exploit lazy/uneducated people! A lot of furniture can be bought cheaply from the vendor in the housing area (or even from one that you can put up in your house). However a lot of people dont seem to know that and are paying 5 times the price on the marketboard! I recently redecorated some houses and had some stuff leftover - I had paid 5k gil for a Hingan sideboard, ended up not using it, put it up on the marketboard and someone bought it for... 30k. You might feel a little dirty, but hey...
- EX-primal drops - this wouldnt be my first recommendation, but if you and some people from your FC are more into fighting than crafting (and maybe even still need mounts from certain EX-primals) you can try and farm for their special drops. Those are often crafted into housing-items, (glamour)-weapons, chocobo-bardings or pets. Depending on the primal they're more or less valuable - I dont think you'd get to much for any ARR-one, but drops from Nidhogg, Sephirot, Bismarck, Sophia and Ravana might be worth a bit! Aswell as the drops from Shinryu, Byakko and the newest primal - those drops are depending on luck though, obviously. (And on your ability to actually farm those primals)
Same goes for the music scrolls though - might sell well!

There are, infact, a lot of ways to make some gil! Not the millions (by selling one piece) you can make as a fully geared master-crafter, but actually quite decent ways when you know what to look for, are willing to invest a bit of time and legwork and are okay with some of the things (specially pets and furniture) selling slower than raid-food and potions would.