To all you rich players... How did you do it?

[Luna-M]

I have all my crafters at 70 and don't make use of them. I really need to change that XD
But yeah, my friend crafts all the time and watches market boards incessantly. She has "MB Dominator" in her search info and she means it. Makes like 30m a day without even trying... it's insane.

Okey, I think your friend is worse than me. I'm happy if I make 10/day lol

[LineageRazor]

As a crafter I'm far from hardcore. Still, I was able to save up for and buy a house, when they first became available to individual players, and I'm sitting on more than a hundred fifty million after five years of play. Here's some tips:
- Level all the crafting and gathering jobs.
- Never buy mats, if you can reasonably gather them yourself. If sold cheaply by NPC (like Steel Ingots from the Ash tribe), this is also acceptable.
- Keep a stock of common crafting materials on your retainers for this purpose - NQ only, don't bother to store HQ, sell those instead.
- Never buy equipment, if you can reasonably craft it yourself.
- If a dungeon drop can be refined, crafted, and sold, do so - don't just sell the drop straight (e.g., if you get a Cracked Shepard's Belt on a Qarn run, lot it, craft it into a Vintage Shepard's Belt and then sell it. Don't NPC those Clear Prisms, craft them into Glamour Prisms and sell them), and certainly don't NPC it. These items may not sell for a mint, but they're generally in high demand and will earn you plenty over time.

Note that a lot of these tips exchange time for gil. It's way faster to buy a mat or piece of gear than it is to go out, gather the goods, and craft it yourself. If you don't have a lot of free time to spare, they likely won't do a lot for you. Crafting profitably can be a time-intensive process.

[hynaku]

Crafting items doesn't make you much gil with all under cutting. I make most of my gil from selling red and yellow scripts items also some from beast tribe items.

[Rangar]

DESYNTH . . . made a fricken fortune from doing that

[Ryaz]

I'm no longer rich after buying my mansion, but for me it was a combo of retainer ventures, crafting, gathering, weekly custom deliveries (and selling scrip items).

Certain mb items as well. The Stuffed Alpha doll, for example, sells for quite a bit. But the items are easy to gather and the feather is dirt cheap, so lots of profit.

Biggest key is patience. It takes time to make money.

[Super_Bee_Brian]

If you are skilled with combat, selling runs will get you as much or more than crafting, depending on skill and some other factors.

Do people really do this??

[XiXiQ]

treasure maps certainly make you a chunk of gil if you get into uznair.


I've always had my craft/gatherers levlled, but don't really make gil from them that much, unless I accidentally notice a hole in the market now and then (which can happen every friday after everyone knows what's needed for the fashion report). You can certainly make a lot crafting just after a new housing release.



I've mainly played the market - if something is cheap (assuming it's not some NPC bought item), hold it, eventually the glut eases and there'll be a better opportunity to sell. If something is going to end up with lower supply when no-one is doing X content anymore, hold on until the excitement wanes.

[Vahlnir]

I mainly rely on retainer ventures myself and selling my daily gazelleskin map on the MB, but I also sell some tome mats on occasion. I'm never rich, but I never do without either. Over the past week or so I've been able to make about..3-4 mil or so. Not too shabby, I'd say. I level at least 1 crafter for beast tribes and a gatherer for maps, but never really bother to gear them. Basically, it's entirely possible to make a ton of gil without ever actually having to craft anything. I run 4 retainers though, so I need a constant stream of ventures. Grade 6 materias are also a decent thing to sell on Tuesday reset.

[RareItems]

10 lvl 70 retainers spamming 1 hour ventures can get you a lot of gil, provided you check on them every hour and have the ventures to pay for them .

For ventures, you can get them easily by doing roulletes and lotting all the gear that drops and turning them into the Grand Company Officer for GC seals which you can use to buy ventures.

For best results, use a tank class when doing daily roulletes xD.

You can also sell excess Mendacity by selling Mendacity crafting items. You can buy thanalan or Shroud Tier 3 soil using Poetics in Iddylshire.

I chose 10 Paladin retainers, so when the next level cap increase happens, I just need to level Paladin to the next level cap and all 10 retainers can start leveling as well.

Although a Miner/Botanist Retainer is probably a better choice xD.

[Mirch]

highest profit for [work*time*cost/gain] was buy selling houses, you need to spot the best deals and catch the best moments and players though so it is highly RNG based
then comes selling content
then comes crafting gear to hc raider on day one/two of release
then it really depends on your server

at least this is how it works on our

our guild made about 800 mil during heavensward period only by crafting and selling gear (pve or glam) so this includes tems from maps, gathering, and some mats/tomes farming.
a member made about 300 mil just form maps, he literally spam maps everyday, idk he finds them fun.
one made and empire by playing real estate on our server, he was giving away mil of gils to random people whenever he felt bored, do you know what it feels to have 2 retainers full of gil, he placed them on the extra retainers so he dont waste them on the first occasion, as you have to buy them from mog station every month to unlock
our guildmaster made enough gil to provide us more than half ward

you just really have to find what is trendy at the moment on your server and speculate what would be next so you prepare for the future