Furnishings

[Pastahnak]

If u don't want to craft look for items Crafters need that can be obtained from mobs or learn the market and get ahead of the curve on something. As a fairly new lvl 70 when eureka anemos released I made somewhere around 60-70mil off materia and I'm constantly killing select mobs to sell certain items that can net 100-300k per 99 stack.

On housing items I think they are fairly priced, anything that looks like a pain to craft myself I'll go out and buy.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I made probably 100 million gil total off maps and dungeon roulettes, you don't have to be a crafter to make a lot of gil. It's handed out like candy as it is.

I know people who have played a long time but have no money. I am very frugal with my gil, even though I have little to spend it on.

[Vstarstruck]

Because there is nothing to spend gil on, so for the stuff actually that has any kind of demand is inflated higher then it would be, then if the game had true opportunity costs. So for example, if we had a situation where person A needs to spend 100000 gil to enhance progressing where person b would want to spend 100000 gil for housing because they may not care about progress, or done it already, you have more of a balance. But the situation in FFXIV is, everyone has gil, nothing to do with it, so if you have 1 item available, and 5 people want it, where one person can buy it for 500000, and the other 4 can only pay 100000 it is worth 500000 and that one person gets it, thus the law of supply and demand (actually this is more of a simplified version of it, as there are concepts such as quantity demanded at work here)

Or the basic way of saying this, SE did not put much thought in FFXIV's economy as a whole to make a healthy market.

Gil is easy to come by if you put effort into doing so, how long you played makes no difference for this. The reason has to do with what was stated above, find something no one is selling because of lazy or whatever and you will make gil. Reselling stuff you can buy at npc is also an option.

[InkstainedGwyn]

You can also find the recipes online, and take a look at buying or gathering the materials. While in some cases the materials can be prohibitively difficult to get (re: marine ester wax, etc.), you can frequently get the materials at a fraction and then advertise in a main city to find a crafter if you don't know someone already who can make them.

[LadyKairi]

Furnishing your home doesn’t have to be expensive. I have an FC that spoils me and helped me make the furniture for my medium in Shiro, along with my castle walls for the exterior. They provided some mats (tho they provided the majority of the mats for the exterior), but I also busted myself trying to get a good portion of mats to help, since gathering is one of my favorite activities. Oh I need primal mats? I go out and farm what I need and bring it back to have it crafted.

It takes more time than just buying it, sure, but I feel it’s more rewarding. Plus, it’s far easier on my wallet.

[Vrankyl]

Most of the stuff that is priced for 300k or more generally requires a pain to get mat. Whether that is a script mat, dungeon mat, or a timed node mat they are things people have to go out of their way to get which does inflate the cost more. In addition a good portion of those are also Master craft furnishings, meaning someone has had to get to level 70 and churn out a lot of yellow scripts to get their master craft books. If you wish to craft your own a few pieces of advice, one Carpenter is hardly the only crafter that makers furniture. While it makes the most out of all the crafting classes, other classes have some pretty on demand ones as well. In addition if you want to unlock all of the furnishing recipes you are going to want to level all the crafting classes to at least lvl 50 to get their cross classes so you are able to deal with collectibles to get yellow scripts.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I also recommend levelling up your free retainers if you haven't. Quick ventures have a chance to not only bring back rare furnishings, but also rare mats and rare items that can be sold for gil.

[hynaku]

If it's not from Event my furnishings. Its all been crafted by me. Most time crafting items yourself is way cheaper than buying then from MB if they not item sold by a npc. Think that's only reason leveled all my gathering and crafting to max. Good way to make gil just do stormblood hunts and level gathering. Some mats sell really fast.

[Avatre]

Black Pegasus says hi, young Padawan.

25mil on Cactuar right now.

[hynaku]

Dodo mount think selling for way more than it is Night Pegasus. Last dodo mount saw on market board was 20mil and night Pegasus 12 mil.