How Do You Make Your Gil?Follow

What level is your main?

lots of luck..

and BCNM

thats all i know.

I harvest or i used to i'm not sure on prices today but stuff i got was worth alot per stack i forget the name tho.

Fishing. Best consistant moneymaker.

Target moatcarp to start, they'll sell nearly instantly, certainly overnight.

Other than that I'ld recommend farming something that stacks, or you can easily make into something that stacks.

A good example would be making sheep leather. Bring dark crystals, distilled water, and windy tea leaves and go kill sheep. Every time you get a skin synth it into a sheep leather. You'll skill up to 2 leather and make some money.

Oh, well, in that case, quit FFXI and play Grand Theft Auto...I heard you can haxxor money there.

As a 30BLM, I farmed beehive chips, silk threads and stole cotton in saruta. My method was to go the hill in w.saruta, run around poisoning stuff and when the group got large enough, I'd -ga them to death.

Before someone questions the drop rate for -ga farming. I didn't have /15thf at the time so not sure if that changes the drop frequency when -ga farming or not. I did find I got about the same drop rate using single target spells and -ga spells, only I had to rest far less frequently = more kills = more money.

I fish and craft. Fishing, Cooking, and Alchemy all go hand-in-hand and are fun!

XP'ing in ToAU area's usually nets you enough Imperial Standing to get imperial coins. These sell well in the AH for the most part. (15k for mythril, 35-45k for gold) At least that's how i've been making most of my gil nowadays. >.> Level's up my BRD and nets me gil, {/cheer}

I did about the same thing when I started, only I used 40 water jugs for my mule ... that gives a me 120 slots on one mule (30 backpack, 80 storage, and 10 safe) for only about 8k gil per mule.


I'm now up to 8 mules, each with 120 slots and varied purposes. One holds all the seeds, bulbs, etc., I find/farm and he also handles all my gardening. Another holds all the food ingredients, and she's a level 66 cook right now. Another is a level 65 Carpenter with mid-high levels of Bone, Cloth, Alchmey, and Leather. I did not power-level any of my craft trades ... I just collected items as I farmed or xped and, when I had enough of what I needed, crafted up a level or two at a time in each trade. I also have one mule who holds nothing but crystals.

Basically, I started out as a packrat, deciding it was worth the extra few $ each month for the mules. I don't do any one thing to earn gil ... my focus has been to diversify. I farm, craft, and BCNM for gil. With so many mules, I'm able to keep over 50 items on various AHs at one time, which usually provides a steady stream of income.

By using nothing but the information found on Alla's Tradeskill Forum, I've generated enough gil to earn compliments for my gear from nearly every party I join (even when I'm leveling a sub or sub-sub). All it takes is patience. I recently added a few more mules to store consumables for this Christmas (arrows, drinks, ammo, oils, etc.). I don't know that we'll re-enter an inflationary cycle, but if we do, I stand to make a fortune. If not, it's all stuff I'll probably use eventually anyway.

Edited, Sep 29th 2006 at 10:19am PDT by Thoronmir

i do a combo of farming and crafting, and this is despite having a 100+3 in a craft, a mule that is 100+3 in a craft, and another mule that is a high level alchemist.

some of my favorites is sea serpent grotto (where sahagin drop about 100 gil per kill and some drop items that sell to vendor for 400-900 gil each), fei yin (ore golems and clockwork pods: send shards to mule to make cermet chunks and I always bring several stacks of fire crystals to turn mythril ore to ingots), castle o (5th tier nin yags drop elemental ni scrolls and couple of them fetch around 100k a pop). stealing mythril beastcoins is still good profit (25k a stack of mythril beastcoins and on a average farming session i tend to steal 1 to 2 stacks of them)

if you don't have time to wait on the AH, i suggest entering carpenters landing from sandy and farm flytraps. vendors offer over 1300 gil per leaf. the drawback is leaves don't stack, and unless you have TH2 those leaves may not bleed off the traps. you can also do lightning clusters (the one type of crystal that was unaffected by the expansion and as a result did not drop in price like fire and wind crystals did) when it is thunder elemental season there (usually may-september in vana'diel time). those clusters will sell at a high turnover rate, especially in bastok or sandy.

if you farm during full moon, you will be disappointed. full moon has an tendency to nerf the treasure hunter trait to some extent. you will find better rates around 10% to 60% moon.

don't rely on nm camping at all. my drop rate with wurr in SSG even with TH2 is 2/18. the drop rate is just not worth the time you spend camping those mobs. even with the fact they are lottery, the average respawn tends to be 4 to 6 hours, sometimes as long as 8 to 12 hours. if you must, stick to ones that only drop synthesis materials because they have a much reliable drop rate than the ones that drop the good weapons/armor. NMs that are spawned are also a good option if the pop item is inexpensive to obtain and the NM drops an item that you can sell it. (those items don't tend to sell as much as the ones that are botted by the RMTs, but they provide a much more consistent stream of gil)

if all else fails, just kill mobs that drop gil (gigas, goblins, and sahagin all drop a lot of gil). It will take a lot of them, but on a good week I can easily rake in over 100k in gil drops, drops sold to vendors or AH, or stuff that came out of treasure chests.

I farm in E. Sarutabaruta around the Tower on the right of the map (half-way along it on the y-axis) for Beehive Chips and Silk Threads. Plus around the rivers there there's a slight chance of running into Spini Spipi (drops Mist Silk Cape, 150kish on my server).

All of my characters have gardens and I mess with them once a day.

When not LFP, I make durables with woodworking to sell on my mules, and fish then cook what comes of the fish.

If I'm lfp on THF, now I usually hunt in Kon for rams, bees, sheep and saplings. Leathercraft rawks.