What is a common amount of gil to have by now?Follow

Now I have noticed that killing weak stuff (30 or less?) with level 50 crafted gear will not raise the spiritbond on that gear at all. They have to be within range (no idea what that range is). For instance, I thought I would be all badass last night and take my boar skins from my leves and autocraft them to leather once I hit 50, then sell them for profit while I spiritbond my new leatherworker lvl 50 gear. The boar leather is a level 30 something craft. So I crafted two stacks of skins into leather, check my spirit bond, and while everything 49 and under gained spiritbond, the lvl 50 gear sat at 1%. Woot . So I assume you would need to kill high level stuff to spiritbond high level craft gear. Just FYI

Edited, Nov 14th 2013 10:33am by Valkayree

On that topic, if you spiritbond Lv.1 gear on a Level 50 monster, it jumps around 3 to 4% on each kill. So the reverse is true as well.

You can! Basically anything can get spiritbond gain whether it's DoW/DoM/DoH/DoL-based gear. But that's not what we do.

Basically I make this stuff here in quintuplicate, since everyone in my group has a Disciple of War job at level 50:

Militia Barbut (ARM)

Militia Mitt Gauntlets (ARM)

Militia Harness (LTH)

Militia Subligar (LTH)

Militia Caligae (LTH)

Raptorskin Voyager's Belt (LTH)

Imperial Operative's Choker (GSM)

Imperial Operative's Wristlets (GSM)

Militia Earrings (GSM)

Aetheryte Ring x2 (GSM)

(As an aside you can swap some of the accessories for other accessories if you want to focus on a craft accessory for craft materia, so it's up to you.)

I'm fortunate to have FC mates who gather the shards/crystals/materials for about 80% of this stuff, while I handle the other 20% plus crafting and materia melding. It's time-consuming but ultimately pays off well enough for us.

@Valkayree (whoops, got the wrong name at first!): Sorry to hear about that crap going on in North Thanalan. I mean it's honestly not even worth the time to go and do something like that. Castrum Occidens, Samsa Spawning Grounds, U'Ghamaro Mines, and so on and so forth ... those are all not only superior places to spiritbond due to the mob level and mob density, but also away from people actually trying to do FATEs.

Edited, Nov 14th 2013 12:25pm by Satisiun

Yes. It's a 2 to 1 synths to spirit bond ratio so it takes 2 stacks of cobalt ingots to completely bond a piece. Since I can complete a synth with one Careful Synthesis II it usually takes me about a bit over an hour to complete bond on a set. Switch to next set, convert, throw ingots on market and repeat

Are you building quality on those or just progress?

Yeah that's pretty much what I do, I spent ALOT of time working the AH in WoW, one of my friends calls me "The little Auction *****" pretty much all my income in WoW came from buying and selling.

It's not that hard really, just a lot of leg work. I make a majority of my gil by selling 6 items, usually 2 at a time. Whenever I log in I check the boards to see how empty or saturated the market for each item is. I then synth and sell whatever is favorable. By the time those items have sold the market for other items is bare so I switch. It's helped my income stay consistent. The undercutting will make you want to kick a kitten though, so be prepared.

Its risky, and I've been burned more then once, but sometimes the pay off can be worth it considering the minimal amount of effort it takes. Mostly it just takes a lot of patience waiting for stuff to sell, and dealing with trying to undercut everyone else. I know to some its not a lot of gill, but I have around 300k invested in the ah, and if it pays off, i'll be sitting roughly at around 800k.

Basically, I look for people who don't check prices before posting stuff, and post things under the current market value, and just buy them and re-post, even if its something I might only make 5-10k off of, profit is profit.

I typically don't try to control a market, just cause I have been burned pretty hard trying to do that in the past.

Then I place all my hopes in the players that are too lazy or impatient to wait for prices to drop and just buy whatever they want no matter the cost (or players who are filthy rich and just don't care lol".

I am by no means a "pro" at this, but it works enough for me to make some gill so whatever.

I have about 8 mil but have stopped playing b.c I was actually now losing money since everyone caught up. Waiting for the patch to see if it fixes anything.

Nice! I'll try that out later, thanks!

Tested here:

http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=152&mid=1381819785256125050&h=50&p=1#16

According to those results, quick vs manual is no difference in spiritbond rate.

Yep. Materia plummets on Saturday, and rises again steadily Monday thru Thursday.

Yea it just got boring. I am waiting for the Housing.