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RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Kellach Woods - 02-10-2015

I can HQ anything consistently up to 2-star.

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Parvacake - 02-10-2015

For me?
  • Study the shit out of the market board. Look for items over a 3-4 day period that consistently sell. Any good step towards making money in any MMO is to get a feel for the overall economy.
  • Crafting materials (lumber, ingots, threads, cloth, etc.) are always a valuable resource and will always be in demand so paying attention to those are a good start!
  • Level at least three crafting classes. My recommendation? CRP, GSM, and BSM. LWR, WVR, ARM is another one too for some.
  • Dont put up more then 6 or 7 listings of an item at a time. Because more often then not if they don't sell quickly you'll have a bunch of people undercutting you and you may not get your money's worth. Dabble in a few places and move along.
  • Check the MB regularly for differences in trends.
  • Do some research. Google is your friend! Take a peek at items that may be hard to come by, find a way to get them, and GO GO GO!
  • Exploit the fact you can level up your retainers to get stuff for you. Especially have at least one maxed combat and one maxed gathering class for use.


RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Faye - 02-10-2015

Sell my body, and my soul.





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Both are pretty cheap so I'm still broke.

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Oriel - 02-11-2015

Everyone's offered very sound advice.  If you want to avoid crafting to earn steady gil and don't mind putting in some time, gathering materials for the crafters to use is a good shot.  Things that are used a lot (such as alumen, silver ore, or if you'd like to farm stuff with a combat class, skins/fleece) are a sure bet.

Spiritbonding is also a good alternative, however there is a lot of RNG involved (the best money makers are grade IV's, and getting them is not guaranteed).  Whatever you do, just know that you will have to put some time and effort into it.  Dedicated a set amount of time a day to whatever you want to do to earn money will eventually pay off.

I would really, -really- recommend that you invest in at least one crafting glass, if only to do the Ixal dailies.

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - SicketySix - 02-11-2015

(02-10-2015, 10:48 PM)Faye Wrote: Sell my body, and my soul.





.......




Both are pretty cheap so I'm still broke.

Hmm, I will buy both at your low price, then resell you at a higher markup!

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Kellach Woods - 02-11-2015

On Spiritbonding -

The rule of thumb is :
Gathering Materia is pretty much low return. There are some that will actually have good return (Guerdon 1/2s - Guerdon 1s are around 25k/30k a pop and they can come from entry level gear), Grasp IVs (necessary for right-hand melds but don't sell more than one at a time), but overall crafting materia tends to yield better results for your time. Although if you're SBing to avoid the market like I often did, it's not a waste of time to do these.

Crafting Materia is a much safer, less lucrative alternative to battlecraft materia. While you won't get the returns you'll see on Savage Might IVs or Savage Aim IVs, you'll see much more steady returns by virtue of this category being unable to yield any elemental or primary stat materia. All the materia obtained from crafting (and gathering) materia can be sold at a profit most likely.

Battlecraft Materia is for gamblers. The returns can be massive (upwards of 500k-600k for an in-demand level IV materia) but the RNG can screw you over in all sorts of ways. Giving you a bad (elemental or primary stat, but if you got a Vitality you might be lucky - they sometimes sell quite well) materia, giving you a level III (still good, just not the mad amounts of cash you want), etc.

Most of this is info you'd get on your own so that's not much of a problem sharing it.

Source : I seen more Urth's Fount before Odin came out than after.

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Inessa Hara - 02-11-2015

You could also set up a static and sell endgame runs and such. Granted that its not the biggest moneymaker due to the fact that not many people buy the high costs for the runs but on occasion, it is a quick way to make an easy 3-5 million, though that would be the max payout for a group of seven. Divided up, each person would get less than a million of that.

IMO, the selling system is somewhat outdated due to the fact it requires a community with alot of money for it to work. Pretty sure it will kick up again when 3.0 comes out though because new endgame content.




I really wish the game had a continent or massive land expanse that was open world PvP like ArcheAge. Would be easy to make money that way as well if there was things like merchant packages or territory wars.

A good idea to take to all of this is that you should think of this in real world terms. There will always be a demand for something. You just gotta think of what makes the most as well as how easy it is and do that said thing.

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - SicketySix - 02-11-2015

(02-11-2015, 10:56 AM)Inessa Hara Wrote: A good idea to take to all of this is that you should think of this in real world terms. There will always be a demand for something. You just gotta think of what makes the most as well as how easy it is and do that said thing.
Oh I do, that's why I'm currently broke in game lol

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Rosamund - 02-11-2015

*frantically takes notes* Nothing to add here but a huge thanks to everyone who offered tips. Very helpful!

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - SicketySix - 02-11-2015

(02-11-2015, 12:20 PM)Inarah Wrote: *frantically takes notes* Nothing to add here but a huge thanks to everyone who offered tips. Very helpful!
That will be a 25,000 charge for stealing advice from my topic!

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Inessa Hara - 02-11-2015

(02-11-2015, 12:45 PM)A Wrote:
(02-11-2015, 12:20 PM)Inarah Wrote: *frantically takes notes* Nothing to add here but a huge thanks to everyone who offered tips. Very helpful!
That will be a 25,000 charge for stealing advice from my topic!
that will be 100k for trying to pull a quick one without paying the 'fee' for our advice.  xD

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Gegenji - 02-11-2015

(02-11-2015, 12:45 PM)A'mon Vespar Wrote:
(02-11-2015, 12:20 PM)Inarah Wrote: *frantically takes notes* Nothing to add here but a huge thanks to everyone who offered tips. Very helpful!
That will be a 25,000 charge for stealing advice from my topic!

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Pssst, hey. Hey, kid. C'mere. I got some grade A tips here fer ya on all sortsa topics. 20k gil a pop. Whaddya say?

RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Rosamund - 02-11-2015

(02-11-2015, 12:45 PM)A Wrote: That will be a 25,000 charge for stealing advice from my topic!

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RE: What do you do to earn gill? - Kismet - 02-12-2015

I just spritbind. Dat sexy Savage Might IV materia profit.