Making Gil through crafting

[M I L K]

So I’ve been playing for a bit of time and never really understood how crafting could net someone so much Gil. I understand new patch days if there’s new armour sets and whatnot, but what about long term crafting. Could someone enlighten me?

[Tervuren]

You have to be the right sort of person.

One that looks for holes in the market and fills them.

It takes time, figuring out opportunities and pricing.

Finding help on the subject will be difficult because no one making a lot of Gil at crafting wants someone else trying to fill their chosen holes.

[M I L K]

Originally posted by Tervuren:

You have to be the right sort of person.

One that looks for holes in the market and fills them.

It takes time, figuring out opportunities and pricing.

Finding help on the subject will be difficult because no one making a lot of Gil at crafting wants someone else trying to fill their chosen holes.

I guess that is fair. People wouldn’t want their method to be oversaturated. Do you know besides crafting if there’s any other method of getting Gil of the same quantity?

[FlyingTorcensoredWhale]

Originally posted by M I L K:

Originally posted by Tervuren:

You have to be the right sort of person.

One that looks for holes in the market and fills them.

It takes time, figuring out opportunities and pricing.

Finding help on the subject will be difficult because no one making a lot of Gil at crafting wants someone else trying to fill their chosen holes.

I guess that is fair. People wouldn’t want their method to be oversaturated. Do you know besides crafting if there’s any other method of getting Gil of the same quantity?

Yes.
But I'm not telling.

I'm milking my French Gil Cows as much as possible

[causality]

Fake market barons thinking they have esoteric knowledge of publicly available data and market trends lol.

[Antares]

best way to make gil: submarine.
need time and a guild

[M I L K]

Originally posted by Antares:

best way to make gil: submarine.
need time and a guild

What if I don’t have a fc house? I’ve heard those submarine expedition are another way but isn’t it based on rng?

[Jethro]

Housing items

[Alternity]

Originally posted by M I L K:

Originally posted by Antares:

best way to make gil: submarine.
need time and a guild

What if I don’t have a fc house? I’ve heard those submarine expedition are another way but isn’t it based on rng?

It's rng but there's an average. You make a couple mil a week with 4 subs.

[Daniel]

Originally posted by M I L K:

So I’ve been playing for a bit of time and never really understood how crafting could net someone so much Gil. I understand new patch days if there’s new armour sets and whatnot, but what about long term crafting. Could someone enlighten me?

I don’t know who this ‘someone’ is but if you’re talking FFXIV YouTubers who smugly put their x hundred million Gil on display then well, they all buy it and have even admitted doing so.

[Alternity]

Originally posted by Daniel:

Originally posted by M I L K:

So I’ve been playing for a bit of time and never really understood how crafting could net someone so much Gil. I understand new patch days if there’s new armour sets and whatnot, but what about long term crafting. Could someone enlighten me?

I don’t know who this ‘someone’ is but if you’re talking FFXIV YouTubers who smugly put their x hundred million Gil on display then well, they all buy it and have even admitted doing so.

Sources for everyone of these?

[FlyingTorcensoredWhale]

Originally posted by causality:

Fake market barons thinking they have esoteric knowledge of publicly available data and market trends lol.

It's not about esoteric knowledge. It's about making French pay 4000% cost of things, because they don't know any better.

It's about sending a message.

[MOSLEY]

Originally posted by Antares:

best way to make gil: submarine.
need time and a guild

Doesn't take much time and you only require 1 friend with a couple of alts to help set up an FC on an alt.

[The_Hagen]

Originally posted by M I L K:

Originally posted by Tervuren:

You have to be the right sort of person.

One that looks for holes in the market and fills them.

It takes time, figuring out opportunities and pricing.

Finding help on the subject will be difficult because no one making a lot of Gil at crafting wants someone else trying to fill their chosen holes.

I guess that is fair. People wouldn’t want their method to be oversaturated. Do you know besides crafting if there’s any other method of getting Gil of the same quantity?

Treasure maps are a fun thing to do and make Gil but that’s more up to luck than anything else level up a gatherer and you can find the maps for free. Gathering has the same as crafting finding a market to buy your wares

[Sel Und Irae]

You want a super easy one? Cloud Mica whetstone.

Used to be my go to till people started being annoying with the 1 gil gouge 5s after i lower my price they'd lower theirs couldn't win.

They deserve the incoming market crash regarding them, You will almost always make 2x what you put in 4x if you self gather and only buy the winds for crafting.

Not going into it more than that, Get a 4 stack of 99 and you can sell them for a pretty penny while leveling up goldsmith. By time you get 80 Goldsmithing and the advanced recipes you'll have a better method available if you check market.

Alchemy is also very profitable, Leatherworking, Botany.

The rest are oversaturated, You can make really good money off cooking and high end fishing but aside from that it's not worth your time to sell.

Don't sell stuff for 300 g only stuff that sells for 1,200 or more per, Odds are you'll need the 300g stuff in future and you'll thank yourself when you have it stockpiled inside retainers inventory.

Alternatively, Get desynthesis and unsync farm lv 50 dungeons you can get demimateria lll (5000 Gil) very consistently from certain ones, Though i'll let you experiment if you do that one cause then market really will crash.

You could also farm one of the final SHB Dungeons unsynced (The one with the poxie queen & matoya) for the minion, Last one i got sold for half a mil. You can solo it as MNK with IL710 Gear (No materia affixed)

Also, This is advice but . . IF you can afford an FC house and one is available on your server then i'd suggest asking people to help youform an FC then buying a plot. You can run a FC as only yourself after it's been founded and the airship stuff is really not hard to do. You can unsync desynthesis farm a lot of the materials from ramuh, moogle king (Hard) and botany timed nodes the rest are from mining.

Do not sell repair kits, If price is below 2700 you're getting jipped or the seller is dumb and didn't do their math. Don't join an FC if you want to use Airship they almost all hog it and refuse to distribute despite any effort you put into it (supplying repair kits, materials for new airship, ETC)

People won't share their methods of making gil faster, Just as i wont but atleast i'll give you my old methods.

Matoya minion last time i checked on wiki was 10% droprate? + you get dyes & other stuff running it including small chance for cloth that sells for 26000 during desynthesis.

Never buy mats, Only shards , crystals & clusters.

And only when they aren't being price gouged, You'll make gil really quick when you become self sufficient and show a little patience.

You can also farm ancient one minion but their value plummeted thanks to SE devaluing it with moogle event.

[M I L K]

Originally posted by Alternity:

Originally posted by M I L K:

What if I don’t have a fc house? I’ve heard those submarine expedition are another way but isn’t it based on rng?

It's rng but there's an average. You make a couple mil a week with 4 subs.

Oooo. I’ll definitely have to look into that if I get an fc house. Thanks!