Any tips on making gil?Follow

Are the only ways to make gil in the game questing and selling items to other players via the auction house/retainer? It seems most things I gather or craft sell for 1 gil, equipment for 15 or less usually. I wouldn't say I was broke during P4, but I certainly didn't feel wealthy either. Does anyone who played Phase 3 have any general tips on how to earn that cash money?

My whole time during phase 3 the only thing that I actually bought was food and this was at the cap of 35. Would imagine as the cap here in p4 is 20 and the only thing I was buying was food. I would imagine as time goes on and people level up their crafting they will be making a more steady income. You can't expect to make a lot of gil when just starting out, unless you find the hidden money tree myth.

Use teleport sparely. This will eat your gil up fast if you just warp all over the place.

I think the main reason I was somewhat broke is because I decided to level crafting classes before gathering classes...just to see what it was like. So I was buying a lot of materials from NPC's and such. Then on the last day of beta I went out and toyed around with Botany and Mining, both of which I actually really enjoyed (Didn't think I would at first which is why I avoided them). So I should be alright now that I have my Mining and Botany at 15+. Thanks for the tips guys

Guild behest give tons of experience, and a huge gil amount the first time around, so make sure you do all Guild behests at least once.

Oh nice i was wondering how unspoiled spots work, that sound really fun im stoked. I was makeing some gil doing gold smithing selling HQ needles to the weavers around, i did my own mineing so it would be no cost to me, im lookin forward to tryin the market boreds see how all that works.

People did use food in 1.0 very often. In addition to granting bonus stats, almost all food has EXP bonuses! So yeah, cooking should be awesome still, but it might take longer to see returns as you wait for the community to realize the benefits.



It was SO reminiscent of FFXI and camping NMs.

There were like 9 miners in Coerthas and the second a node popped you just hear 9 whistles and an army of birds racing in the same direction. They really put an emphasis on gear for crafting and gathering.

For example, I previously had pretty damned good mining gear, but i had to spent a bunch of time in the beta melding perception and gathering to my gear. It became obvious that you'll need 2 sets of gear, as you cant max both stats with melds. With my gear, I had a 72% chance of mining dsteel, and only about 10% chance for HQ. I have 210 gathering 270 perception!



They are the same node for all miners in the zone, but there's no competition. Everyone gets 1 try at the node (which means about 6 mining attempts, based on gathering stat).

The biggest stat is going to be GP. I don't have enough GP to use my highest ability. Additionally, you need to use the 300 GP ability to render the materials "reachable" (they start as unreachable every time) so that left me with only 210 gp to mine it. It's tough!

Edited, Aug 19th 2013 12:17pm by Louiscool

Thanks a lot man, I'll start this Saturday. I've been looking for a good path forward for making gil and mining seems to be my ticket.

I concur, teleporting will eat your coin for breakfast and turn around and steal your lunch money.

If you level many classes, you can reuse most of the gear you got as rewards from your first class type (i.e., level CNJ and keep the gear rewards, then level THM or ACN and reuse the gear and take the bag of coin as the reward). Other than that, quests give some, leves give some, once everyone gets to the market place then that will take off. Live it up now though, I am sure things will get more costly later on.

As far as I can tell, yes. I believe the * is for difficulty above the normal level 50, and the ????'s for location mean it's fro ma random unspoiled node. The nodes can appear anywhere really but there are set locations. For example, the Dsteel was only obtainable from a certain node that popped (always in the same location), while other nodes would spawn and give things like Astral Stone, etc.

Edited, Aug 19th 2013 1:08pm by Louiscool

Edited, Aug 19th 2013 1:09pm by Louiscool

For those 3 crafts, 99% of the stuff you need will come from mining or the other 2 crafts, since those 3 intertwine regularly. There are the random exceptions, like a crow feather here or a cotton thread there, but it's mostly all from mining. That's the path I'm taking as well with those 3 to start. I do agree that it is ideal to level ALL crafts eventually, as there will always be some gear that requires an oddball craft like weaver or carpenter to meld onto.

All I will say is, mine the CRAP out of stuff like copper ore, zinc ore, and tin ore at low levels. You will use an insane quantity of it while crafting. Like 100's and 100's.

Leather also has an amazing level 15 CC skill. I suggest getting them all. I think it's level 15/37/50 for cross class skills in crafting. All to 15 is the easiest, but Cloth and Leather would be my priority.