Broke and Broken

[Kasern]

I am level 50, currently farming Castrum for ATP and have found myself broke and broken. I am completely out of Gil and my gear is all at 0% durability.

I hit level 50 with about 200k in my pocket, pretty confident that I had a nice little nest egg. Then I started the Relic Reborn quest and ATP grind. First I bought my Relic precursor, 60k, then I bought two Quicktongue III materia, another 60k each, leaving me with a mere 20k or so left.

I shrugged it off, figured I would make enough money for repairs during my ATP runs. What a mistake. Half way to my Darklight gear and I have found myself completely out of Gil and all my gear in serious need of repairs.

Wtf do I do now? I started leveling my Botanist but so is apparently everyone else on Behemoth server and as such material prices are looooow. Not to mention how long it takes to level the class, while I still need to farm ATP to keep up with my FC.

I have no problem with money being a chore to obtain, requiring time and grind but I should surely still be able to recoup the losses I obtain by simply playing the game. Else SE has created a game where you slowly kill your character simply by playing.

[Zakalwe]

Yes, lots of folks are approaching where you find yourself. See this thread, now up to 55 pages, and still growing:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...d-in-this-game.

I do expect SE will eventually do something about this, but not sure folks can wait for the big 2.1 content update. So far the only 'solution' folks have figured out is leveling alts for the sole purpose of harvesting the main quest gil.

[MalcolmReynolds]

Damn that's some expensive materia. That's probably your problem...blowing 120k on two pieces.

There are ways to make the money back and asking for it to be essentially done by the game as you "simply" go about your business isn't one of them. Otherwise Gil would be kind of useless, no?

[Tanoshii]

Its for this exact reason i've pretty much put off working on my relic weapon for now. If I happen to luck into either the precursor or materia, then great. If not, i'll just wait until 2.1 (dailies?) to see if they figure it out.

[Kasern]

So far the only 'solution' folks have figured out is leveling alts for the sole purpose of harvesting the main quest gil.

Tried that, can't make new toons on Behemoth.

Damn that's some expensive materia. That's probably your problem...blowing 120k on two pieces.

There are ways to make the money back and asking for it to be essentially done by the game as you "simply" go about your business isn't one of them. Otherwise Gil would be kind of useless, no?

I watched the prices for several days and that was the cheapest I had seen it. It's a rare materia apparently. And I don't want to make millions by playing, but I'd like to earn enough doing dungeons to pay for my repairs or to very, very slowly accumulate some wealth.

Its for this exact reason i've pretty much put off working on my relic weapon for now. If I happen to luck into either the precursor or materia, then great. If not, i'll just wait until 2.1 (dailies?) to see if they figure it out.

Content is kind of limited, so I really wanted to do my Relic.

[Issac]

Its for this exact reason i've pretty much put off working on my relic weapon for now. If I happen to luck into either the precursor or materia, then great. If not, i'll just wait until 2.1 (dailies?) to see if they figure it out.

I'm actually quite curious about the "daily quests" suggestion.

Don't we already have these? You get 3 every 12 hours. They're called levequests, yeah?

[Kasern]

I'm actually quite curious about the "daily quests" suggestion.

Don't we already have these? You get 3 every 12 hours. They're called levequests, yeah?

Yoshi-P says they are more like WoW dailies, with a quest hub area designed to introduce more lore regarding the various Beastman tribes. I am not expecting money from them, but instead more repair bills in exchange for unique Beastman weapon/armour skins.

[Tanoshii]

Yoshi-P says they are more like WoW dailies, with a quest hub area designed to introduce more lore regarding the various Beastman tribes. I am not expecting money from them, but instead more repair bills in exchange for unique Beastman weapon/armour skins.

Why wouldn't we get money from them? They would serve no other purpose and I really doubt they would introduce gear that would be equal to Amdapor. If it was worse, nobody would get it because it would be the same ilvl as AF and if it was better, nobody would ever do Amdapor again. I really doubt they would kill off all dungeon progression with the first patch.

[Kasern]

Why wouldn't we get money from them? They would serve no other purpose and I really doubt they would introduce gear that would be equal to Amdapor. If it was worse, nobody would get it because it would be the same ilvl as AF and if it was better, nobody would ever do Amdapor again. I really doubt they would kill off all dungeon progression with the first patch.

You're probably right, but leves don't offer any reason to do them, do they?