Where are the hardcoded (non-MB) gold "faucets" in FFXIV?

[Omedon]

Buying an FC room or apartment or house is a gill sink but that is only the beginning of the expenses given that furnishing those will cost a lot more in the end that the room itself.

Really? Even if one makes it all as a crafter? I assume that's an option, isn't it?

[LaylaTsarra]

Really? Even if one makes it all as a crafter? I assume that's an option, isn't it?

Crafting your own furniture is certainly the way to go but that does involve leveling crafters and gatherers for gathering mats needed to make the items. NPC's do sell many furniture items but the more desirable items are MB purchased or crafted on your own. Personally I've made lots of money on my home world Siren with gathering where my main is an Omni and on Gilga where I have an alt with a small FC on the beach in Shiro where i leveled miner/bot.

I recently purchased a small FC home for example on Chocobo in Japan where I have an alt. I got one when they added wards 18 to 21 in Mist on the beach. I had the money for the house and am slowly purchasing furnishing for the garden and indoors but taking my time. Prices atm are pretty high with the new housing so the items are in demand and sell pretty high. Prices will drop over time and I'm not in a rush. I did not and do not plan on leveling gather/craft there. I'm already over committed as an altaholic.

I make gil there pretty much by running dungeons and selling materia and tome mats. Gear from dungeons can also generate gill with Grand Company turn-ins for seals where you can buy items like Petrified logs and other items that you can sell as well.

Using world transfer btw by server hopping in Limsa is also a good way to be sure you get things for the lowest prices possible. Prices for some items can vary by a significant amount on different servers.

[Raltar]

Your item level problem can be easily fixed by running the MSQ each day and getting tomestones to buy Ironworks/Shire/Scaven gear and then augmenting it. Even without augmenting it, you will get a high enough item level(minus 1, though you can just augment the ring and buy a non-augmented ring to fix that) to run all of the ARR/Heavensward/SB dungeons after they added the min item level to those dungeons.

As for making gil outside of the market board, the others have it pretty much covered. You aren't going to be making gil hand over fist like you can running old raids in WoW or doing dailies, but the challenge log can give a decent amount. And if you run dungeons at max level as an adventurer in need, you get get some extra cash there as well.

[Tyssyn]

You can make most of it as a crafter, I do that myself. Retainers also can bring housing items back from quick ventures. To craft without spending a lot of gil, you will also need to level all your gathering classes, which aren't too difficult, do the daily GC provisioning turn ins, and make them HQ. You can level crafting that way as well a bit, also 1-50 you can do Ixal beast tribe for crafting, then 50-60 moogle beast tribe dailies and the namazu for both crafting and gathering for 60-70.

[LaylaTsarra]

Your item level problem can be easily fixed by running the MSQ each day and getting tomestones to buy Ironworks/Shire/Scaven gear and then augmenting it. .

Totally agree this is the best way to go with gear and poetics are pretty easy to get from running roulettes which are very generous with these tomestones. Certainly a lot better that spending money on gear with NPC's and or marketboard.

[Omedon]

So from what I'm seeing here... even just owning an apartment is a "blow your fortune that you won't see again for a long time" kind of commitment? That's... I'm sorry but that's dumb.

It also makes my current FC's 3-week inactivity kick look particularly audacious should one buy an FC apartment.

[Halivel]

Not exactly faucet, but Daily Roulettes give a bit of Gil. "Needed" role also receives additional bonus Gil for doing roulettes, but those are usually Tank or Healer. The only Roulette where I see DPS needed more or less often is Alliance and Raid one. You can't get rich with it really, but it's still not a bad way to recieve some money.

[LaylaTsarra]

It also makes my current FC's 3-week inactivity kick look particularly audacious should one buy an FC apartment.

Personally I wouldn't buy a FC room. I think apartments are a much better investment and there was talk about upgrading those to small, medium and large. You can't lose that apartment and there is no activity timer for them like there is for housing. That discussion took place back around 4.2 so it's hard to say if that will even see the light of day.

You don't risk losing an apartment with a FC kick and that's pretty sad if they actually kicked you with an inactivity of only 3 weeks.

[Iscah]

The reason for the huge jumps in ilevel at used-to-be-endgame levels is that they originally came out patch by patch and increased the level gradually. Because they're all the same "actual level" you now just ignore the middle tiers entirely and jump straight to buying the highest-ilevel stuff available. Marketboard gear if it's cheap, but usually the poetics gear (Ironworks at 50, Shire at 60 when you reach Idyllshire, Scaevan at 70 once you clear Stormblood) is the easiest way to go. Plus your job relic gear of course.

It's worth mentioning that buying the weapons from the tome sets is a bit messy due to the way they're handled when current - you need two different sorts of tokens, one of which you originally had to acquire from endgame raids (and can still do it that way if you prefer), but now can be purchased.

Generally speaking, when you get to the endgame vendors, you want to find which one is selling weapons and see what items they want you to trade for them. Then you find the one who is selling items for tomestone currency, and buy those items to trade.

Then there'll be a third person who upgrades the tome gear for yet another type of upgrade item... which could be nearby (in the newer expansions) or could be in another city (ie. Gerolt's forge in Hyrstmill for upgrading gear from Mor Dhona). Upgrading isn't completely necessary if you're continuing through to the next part of the game, but it will last a bit longer and it also becomes dyeable.

Really? Even if one makes it all as a crafter? I assume that's an option, isn't it?

You can definitely cut down the prices a lot if you're a crafter (and also depending on your taste in furniture!).

I decorated my house by crafting most of the options (eg. all the possible floorings) then trying them out and selling the ones I didn't like. I might have even come out ahead overall.

Not gonna lie, since I'm not used to anyone who calls the currency of FFXIV "gold" I thought you meant you needed faucets for your house and I was immensely confused by your post until i realized what you meant. (not a big MMO player outside this one lol)

Oh good, I'm not the only one who thought that.

[Omedon]

Personally I wouldn't buy a FC room. I think apartments are a much better investment and there was talk about upgrading those to small, medium and large. You can't lose that apartment and there is no activity timer for them like there is for housing. That discussion took place back around 4.2 so it's hard to say if that will even see the light of day.

You don't risk losing an apartment with a FC kick and that's pretty sad if they actually kicked you with an inactivity of only 3 weeks.

Oh I'm absolutely not buying an FC apartment. I expect these guys to kick me shortly after the WoW expansion launches haha!