Ways to make Gil?

[mario710]

HUh? I have like 3.4 mil just from main scenario, roulettes, and selling low level mats on MB----I'm not even half way through Stormblood. BTW in my community anything under 20 mil is broke.

I doubt you speak for your entire community.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I doubt you speak for your entire community.

I have almost 70mil and a medium house, and I'm not a crafter. Nor do I capitalize on early time mat or gathering sales either. Maps and roulettes are most of my fortune.


The bump to roulette adv in need bonuses during heavensward and stormblood made getting gil ridiculously easy.

[Jimmymagic]

I doubt you speak for your entire community.

ask anyone on there if you don't believe me? I have people in my former FC sitting on 100 mil or more. Gil is a non issue unless you buy everything and don't farm.

[Yamr3]

I am a crusty old woman who doesn't do Discord but do they ever post in Party Finder? Hunt train sounds more interesting than the crud I've BEEN doing...

Hang around player hubs and ask in Shout Chat if anyone can invite you to a Hunt Linkshell. Most of the time, Hunt Trains send out the notification that they're starting in Discord and the Linkshells. It may take a couple hours to find someone to invite you.

[Gihwezi]

I'm floating between 300k and 400k. The most I have ever had is 600k. I'm not selling very much atm cause I need stuff to level crafters.

Well tbqh I'm not a crafter either :x I don't have all my crafters to 50, and don't have any that's even 70. I also spend big money on glamour all the time because I'm big dumb and have extremely bad impulse control and will buy something just because I want it, so I blow gil pretty fast. I still have 20 million.

[Gwaeron]

The game throws money at you for doing almost any activity. Just don't be wasteful and almost anything, even stuff that seems worthless, can be turned into money.

Turn old gear into GC seals and GC seals into money.
Desynth what you can.
Join roulettes as adventurer in need and get extra money, extra seals and possibly clusters to trade for materia.
Get Wondrous Tails rewards that can be sold directly or turned into something that can be sold.
Don't throw or sell worthless materia, take it to Central Thanalan and try to Get A Good Materia. The probability of getting DoL or DoH materia isn't too bad, and that stuff can be worth tons of money.
Don't take the Allagan bronze/silver/goldpiece rewards from quests, they're always worth less than other optional rewards.
Spend tomestones whenever you're about to be full. Check which material, orchestrion scroll or other tradeable item gives the most gil per tomestone at the moment.
Do the weekly custom deliveries. Gives tons of scrips, that can be traded for materia and other stuff that sells well.
If you find gathering for materials in one place for hours on end too boring, try the High-Octane Super Exciting version of traveling around to get legendary or unspoiled nodes.
Or just gather your daily Zonureskin map, usually worth around 100000 gil on my server, for a minute or two of work.
If you don't want to spend much time gathering but still make money, just spend the four Eorzean hours when you happen to be free and an ephemeral node spawns. Easy 400000 gil in just a few minutes from aetherial reduction with my poor gathering rate - I'm sure people with actual good gear can create much more aethersand => more money than I can in one cycle.
Buy stuff from the AH that is easy to turn into something considerably more valuable. ARR primal drops into barding, faded orchestrion scrolls into useful orchestrion scrolls. No farming required, just takes a minute to buy the material and do the craft.
Finish the facet quests, the last quest in each questline gives DoL/DoH materia VIII rewards so they're worth a few million all in all.

[Kokomi]

The most scalable way to make gil is through gathering/crafting and knowing the marketboard. There are lots of other ways to make gil which have already been mentioned, and it should be more than enough to buy what you need unless you're interested in something like savage week 1.

If you want a consistent way to make millions of gil then IMO there isn't really an intrinsically "fun" method. I have fun crafting and trying to play the market because of the gil-making possibilities (and then proceed to never buy anything and hoard gil). But as a gatherer/crafter the sky is the limit, the only cost is your time spent on it when you could be doing other things that might be more fun.

[AlphaFox]

Majority of my cash came from crafting materials, minions and orchestrion rolls from new content. Kinda helps not having a "OMG I need X now!!!" mindset. Usually rebuy or farm when it's cheaper or easier. Recall the bluebird, I think it was from the Aquapolis was about 10mil.

[RyuSaarva]

Majority of my cash came from crafting materials, minions and orchestrion rolls from new content. Kinda helps not having a "OMG I need X now!!!" mindset. Usually rebuy or farm when it's cheaper or easier. Recall the bluebird, I think it was from the Aquapolis was about 10mil.

it was a rare drop from the solo level 50 green map, it became worthless soon after they added it to other content.

[AlphaFox]

it was a rare drop from the solo level 50 green map, it became worthless soon after they added it to other content.

Yeah was quite sometime ago but still cashed in on the craze before the price drop.