I don't understand how people make so much Gil in this game

[AmpelioB]

I inherited a materia farm from my late granfather

[george357]

been playing sence arr and gil is not that hard to make have all my jobs capped including crafting and gathering so making gill from them also.

[SasakiItou-Malboro]

I will say straight up I do not have any crafters/gatherers capped, leveled partially but not capped. My 1 retainer is only 57 so she brings back little of value.

Still, even considering crafting I do not understand how some people have 50-100million + gil, enough to afford a mansion, or even a medium. Spending a few weeks doing my roulettes + spending tomestones + wondrous tales has barely netted me 5 mil. At the rate I'm going I would need to spend nearly a year. How in everliving hell do people 50 several tens / hundreds of millions make their gil? This is insane. I don't believe crafting is really that profitable alone. Surely there's some shady secret here that nobody is openly disclosing since I cannot get a clear answer from anyone as to this question so I assume it is via shady means, since this game gives you no clear options to make heft sums of gil in a reasonable amount of time.

As it stands roulettes absolutely suck for gil and feels like everything combined is barely worth the effort, to the point where I've started to not even consistently do roulettes outside of leveling the one remaining job I haven't yet capped because I just do not care for the measly amount of gil I get it's that utter dogshit. I've reasoned that at the rate I'm accumulating (and I dont even spend my gil save for repairs) it's hardly worth the time and effort other than for exp (which also sucks) or just to do the content which is my primary reason at this point. Gil making just sucks so bad so I don't see how people make so much gil unless they're resorting to shady means.

Made 5 mil in about 2 hours. Just do maps bro

[Avatre]

Most of my gil comes from retainers. I do the 18hour ventures Sunday evening through Thursday evening since I'm not logging in until the following evening, then on weekends I tend to do the quick ventures. Sometimes they bring back stuff worth a decent amount, sometimes not. I also grab most of the orchestrion rolls from dungeons/raids, and sell those...again, depending on which one you might make profit, or you might sell to NPC because it's on the MB for 150, and after taxes you are gaining less than if you just NPC it.

And as SasakiItou said above, maps. Get a gatherer to 90 and collect your daily map(can hold 1 on each retainer, 1 in saddlebags, 1 opened, and 1 in inventory - plus can hold up to 20 in the mail if you have a friend that will return them to you). You can make good bank off those, or even the extreme fights with the mats they drop.

[AngelCheese77]

But in the end gil has no real worth because there is nothing to buy

Could I have some gil then? I have a lot to buy!

[AirlineFood]

So firstly, without grinding gil too much, you can make 100k+ off ur challege log every week. and while ur doing it ull earn even more from doing your roulettes and shit to complete ur challege log prob a potential of 200k a week by just doing that. otherwise there are many many many ways to make gil. You can do treasure maps, you can play the marketboard, there are people who buy crafting stuff off npc's and sell it on the marketboard at an upcharge for people too lazy to go to the npc. basically crafting is a pyramid scheme. so use it to ur advantage. people farm gold so bunny fate in eureka or bozja stuff. using your skills in battle to farm for rare stuff to sell, for instance you could do potd get the Black pegasus mount and sell that shit for a fortune atleast on my server that shits worth like 10m+ normally. less time consuming but less gil might be farming EX mats for crafters to craft cool weapons Hades's Auracite normally sell for a good bit. everybody has a different method for making gil. there is no one true way to do it. but most of them take putting in effort.

[AmpelioB]

I'd love if this community would actually clearly explain things to someone unfamiliar rather than layer everything under 50 different secret metas that someone just playing the game normally would never know about. This community operates like a giant fucking clique. It's why I don't interact with anyone ingame outside of my FC. The most absolutely impenetrable community I have ever encountered.

Have you, perhaps, tried asking what it is? like I get you don't understand but have like, tried to look up what it means, asking people? or maybe looking youtube for "ways to make gil on ffxiv" you would be surprised how many videos about it there is but if you are willing shelling yourself in I don't think you got that much reason to complain about you don't getting what people mean.

[Raim]

Crafting and gathering. Selling materia from Hunts and spiritbonding. Sometimes super rare drops like in deep dungeon or Eureka.

[Colt47]

The FFXIV "minimum wage" is pretty generous from the roulettes if you play a favored job as well as from doing challenge logs, hunts, etc. It mostly comes down to knowing how to use resources correctly to save on gil costs. Like having piles of aetherite tickets around so you don't spend 1.5k per teleport, and always finding ways to be thrifty on spending when dealing with end game. Like getting end game crafted gear is always going to eat your money into oblivion week 1, which is why I don't really engage in it and instead sell into it.

[Avoidy]

Gil making just sucks so bad so I don't see how people make so much gil unless they're resorting to shady means.

Level a crafter now, while the game's in kind of a lull. Then when the next set of crafted gear comes out, just log in on the first day and make armor/weapon sets for people. I knew a guy who opened a partyfinder room and basically just spent the day doing "commissions" for people, where they got him the materials and he made them the gear. They'd "tip" him for his trouble, and I'm pretty sure those tips made him rich. Basically it's all about timing. Whenever there's a new raid tier out and people are grabbing crafted gear, be the one supplying it and you'll make bank. Last time was so vicious; by the end of the first day, undercutters were on the scene making it ridiculous to keep up unless you were stood at the retainer bell personally relisting your item every minute. Gotta get in early, set up shop, and then get out before the masses get home to ruin it.

Alternatively if you don't want to craft gear, you can just supply the materials needed to craft gear. Materia, too. When the new raid tier came out, I spent the first day using my crafting collectible tokens to buy crafting materia and sell it to hopeful wannabe crafters. It sold better and faster than any gear I listed, and continued to sell well through the first week. I'm not an omnicrafter, but the gil I made in that one day from just planning ahead and doing collectibles and selling materia/gear has kept me "afloat" ever since, but it's not like I have anything to spend it on so it's kinda moot. Still, it's nice having extra gil to craft fun things for friends or w/e

Any attempts to make money right now will be rough. If you find a niche, it's only a matter of days before some idiot finds it as well and undercuts you.