Woah ... Slow down a bit ...

[Absurdity]

From 1-50, you can get sufficient leveling gear from vendors, or from previous dungeons (remember, you're now guaranteed at least one piece of job-appropriate gear at the end of a leveling dungeon). And from Heavensward on, you're gated by MSQ progression on dungeons anyway. There's no real need to spend tons of gil unless you really want it for glamour.

The low gil is however a consequence of the extremely fast leveling. When leveling still took a lot longer you were simply forced to do side content, be it roulettes, leves or fates, all of which gave extra gil. Now you're basically only chasing the MSQ in hopes to get it up to your actual job level which eliminates all the extra income you would've otherwise had.


It's neither a good nor a bad thing, simply a consequence of the increased exp gain...and for some apparently an issue.

This leads into a larger connected issue, stuff isn't really worth all that much anymore. Back in Stormblood it wasn't just glamour items that were worth significantly more than they are now, making Treasure Maps actually worthwhile, but you also just had random items from all different levels sell for more gil on the marketboard.