I am so tired of see'n people with crappy gear, seeing unleveled subjobs and people without food or the ability to support their character. So i am going to share a couple methods of making money in this game from the gauranteed money makers to the get rich quick plans and hopefully people can take this to heart and use these methods to not be that second rate character. When i am tarutaru warrior and out damaging a elvaan dark knight, there is problems and it was all directly related to the gear, i had the good gear he didn't simple as that and YES mages gear effects you just as much, don't be under the mistaken impression that gear doesn't effect you.
1). Crawler madness
Areas: West Sartabarta, East Sartabart, Tahrongi Canyon, Buburimu Peninsula, etc...
Battle Plan: obviously you can't be level 1 when trying this method but around level 9 - 10 you can kill crawlers really easily if your in the correct area for your level. Kill crawlers and collect "Spool of Silk Thread" and collect a full stack (12) in your server i'm sure it varies but from what i have noticed they sell from about 9 - 12k a stack. Your best bet with this method is to get a thief to level 15 for Treasure find because you will increase your drop rate 2 fold so it's definitely worth it.
Time spent / money made: per hour: 6 threads - 2 stacks per hour
with treasure find you greatly increase your chances i have made as much as 100k in about 6 hours with treasure find. the key to this is also killing them as close to your level as you can where you can still kill them fairly fast with little downtime as possible otherwise you should move back down another level of crawlers to where you can kill them faster... but the closer they are to your level the more often the threads will drop.
2)Crafting
areas: Any
Battle Plan: this is self explanatory, but unfortunately there is a catch, early level crafting requires you to farm the materials to get any money from it, but if you allready have money to dump into crafting, once you get them to higher levels you can make very good money. Food crafting once you get it to Meat Mithkabob level you can start making pretty good money.. and it still builds from there, with clothcraft, goldsmithing and other you have to get it to higher level before you can just buy materials and expect a return greater than what you put in. lower levels like i said you have to farm the materials to make the money
time spent/ money made: It varies to much, but at lvl 36 i can spend about 20k on meat mithka's materials and make 12 stacks of meat mithkas and sell them on a return for about 30 - 35k making 10 - 15k without doing anything, this is what i do before i go to bed, i'll make 12 stacks place them on my bazaar setup my character in jeuno and go to bed, come back the next morning and i have more money.
3) Fishing
areas: Everywhere there is water
Battle Plan: My fishing isn't very high, but quite a few of my friends have considerably high fishing, once you hit about level 40 fishing, which yes does take a considerable amount of time to accomplish but once it's there, its a gauranteed way of making money.
time spent / money made : per hour / varies, overall in a 6 hour period i could make ranging 50 - 200k in a day. and it only gets better as your level gets higher.
4) Camping Notorious Monsters (aka: shoot me)
areas: .. Lots and lots, good ones South Gustaburg, Valkurm Dunes, Maze of Shakrami, and others..
Battle Plan: /sigh is all i can say about this, but this is also the place where i have been most successful this is an extreme get rich quick method that almost anyone can do just varies on your level. when you get about 12 - 13 you can camp the Leaping Lizzie for the Leaping Boots in South Gustaburg Near the Fumaroles, when you get to about 35 - 40 you can camp the Valkurm Emperor for the Emperors Hairpin in Valkrum Dunes on the Whitesands beach area both sell anywhere from 180 - 250k
time spent / money made: like i said it's a hit or miss i have been fortunate enough to get this multiple times Emperors Hairpin i have accumulated about 8 of these, one of which i wear the rest i have sold to the community for good amounts of money, the amount of time spent i would rather not mention becuase yes i have wasted an entire day of my life sitting there killing damselfly's in a mad attempt to make the valk emp appear faster and hope that my NA *** can get it over the 50 japanese thief/rangers wandering around. granted i have ranger and thief as well but if i'm not mistaken i believe they have a slightly lower latency problem than we have encouraging their success over ours. but this is how i have funded ranger to 45 is through this very method, you can also spend an ungodly amount of time and go camp Argus in Maze of Shakram for the Peacock charm which sells for abotu 4 million, but the spawn rate of the NM is about 24 - 36 hours Real time.. good luck!
5) Elementals
Areas: All
Battle plan: Kinda self explanatory but if you must know, all of these drop anywhere from 1 - 3 clusters of it's own element, for example: kill fire elementals get 1 - 3 fire clusters, which sell for the exact same amount as a stack of fire crystals but be careful becuase these things are very tough for melee to kill unless your quite a few levels ahead of it, if not your in for a rough ride.
time spent / money made: hmm... per hour i would say if you have ranger subbed and you know commmon spawn points for the elementals you can use wide scan to gather them up quickly and gain quick amounts of money, it also helps if your in an area such as buburimu peninsula then you can farm crawlers and get air elementals at the same time to make money.
i have quite a few other methods of making money which i don't want to share them all but hopefully all you noobs will take this to heart and learn some things.