Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
5. Treasure map parties - joining treasure map parties can get a decent amount of gil in a couple of hours not to mention what you'll get when you sell any loot drops you get. Make sure to take a couple of maps with you to share with the party. Sometimes they seem a bit expensive on the MB but with a good party you'll get a lot more than that back.
Important first note is that if you take maps with you, that its the 8man maps. You want portals, and only the 8man maps can create these (and you only need 3 people to reliably beat them).

It also depends on the number of players which value for a map is worth it, since gil rewards are always the same. They are not spreaded between players which means that if there are more who bought such map, it still piles up.

Lets say a map on average gives 20k. 4 players buying 1 map each will still generate like 80k per map to a total average of 320k. Yet with 2 players, that would only be 160k. This is why parties are such a good way for this. It will reduce the chances on rare drops though, which in some cases can be worth millions. But this is also partialy compensated because 4 players are significantly faster at beating the maps (and in the end, you spend less on maps). And with bad luck you might not get any of the rare items. The stable gil is for that reason the thing you should go for and everything else is just a bonus.

Its generaly recommended to at least gather 1 map per day. If you cant use them and are overflowing on them, just sell them. And in that case you can even decide to sell a map you arent interested in at all (ie. if you only do 90s maps, then 70 and 80 maps are worth it for selling). Its not as much as portals would generaly give, but its still a steady income. Even if you do not intent to complete any map, its still a nice daily bonus income that takes less than 5mins to obtain.

If buying them, the best day to obtain the maps is generaly when the WT restarts as this will often cause a lot of new maps to be generated which are then dumped on the market. Reselling these is often not realy worth it though as the market here can be quite unreliable (they generaly wont be worth less than 10k though, because then getting the map from the WT isnt worth it anymore and people will take the gil directly instead).