Earning in-game currency in significant amounts is one of the tasks that tie down many players. Players of the Final Fantasy XIV role playing game are not an exception. You’d need to be rich in Gil, the game’s currency, if you want to be able to deck out your characters in the best gear that the game’s world could offer, for instance.
Most players think earning a lot of Gil requires a lot of grind. Well, that’s partially true. It does take time to amass money, even in a game like FFXIV. However, if you play it smart, you can avoid a lot of the guesswork and spend more time in activities that are more productive towards your final goal – earning millions of Gil for your character.
Just like in real life, you’d have to spend time looking out for the opportunities and methods through which you can net a considerable amount of FFXIV gil. In this guide, we’ll show you five of the proven ways of earning lots of Gil in FFXIV that requires as little time as possible.
Grand Company Delivery Missions
Expert delivery
When you run dungeons, roll on everything. You can then turn in your gear for grand company seals.
The grand company seals can be traded in for material, such as smoked bacon and roasted coffee beans, which can be sold on the market for around 300-500 gil each.
Levequests
The quest called “A cookie for your troubles” from Eirikur near the Crystaline Mean Aetheryte in the Chrystarium. It’s a Coffee Biscuit and a triple turn-in leve.
For 100 leves you need
- 300 coffee beans
- 500 upland wheat
- 500 garden beets
- 2100 water crystals
- 3400 fire crystals
The items in the above list can be gathered by Botanists. Some of these such as the coffee beans can also be bought using grand company seals. You can also easily purchase all of these at the marketplace. Each leve is worth around 18k Gil. So if you got 100 leve allowances you are looking at around 1.8 million Gil in a couple of hours crafting. Really nice! You get around 42 leve allowances per week, which comes out to around, which comes out to 120k Gil per day or 840k per week.
Crafting
In FFXIV, what you do is craft some high-quality equipment that you can sell on the market.
This is one of the most lucrative ways of earning in-game money, because the market is very active. As long as you craft really good items, you can earn a significant amount of profits from other players. Now, bear in mind that the landscape is very competitive, so you’ll need to remember these tips when crafting armor and weapons, and selling them for a price:
- Study the different classes of the game. Each class has different requirements for their gear, and you should design your work around those to attract more buyers.
- Level up your own Gathering and Crafting classes. Seek out the non-playable characters that give out LeveQuests for this purpose. If you invest time (at least twice a week) to level up your Crafters, you can turn out more powerful gear that your customers will surely buy!
- Be competitive with your pricing. Remember, there are many of you trying to earn money from the market. This does take a little bit of competitor research, which the Market actually allows you to do.
- Visit the Market Board often. The Market Board will save you from guessing or thinking about what you’ll have your Crafters create for selling. Just take a look at the orders at the Board, craft the necessary item, and make your bid!
The beauty of crafting is that you have a team of NPCs working for you, so you can simply give them tasks while you go out and grind some more for Gil. That brings us to the next method of mining FFXIV for currency, which is….
Duty Roulettes
Duty roulettes are everyday dungeon raiding tasks that you should partake in. You can consider these as daily tasks, from which you can earn a lot of rewards including Gil and experience points. You also get tomestones, which you can exchange for items worth Gil.
Some people think it’s counterproductive because dungeon raiding itself involves some grind. You’ll have to fight powerful monsters and formidable bosses alongside other players you happen to be assigned to a dungeon with. It does take some time because of the difficulty levels of the monsters that you encounter. However, the game compensates each of you fairly by rewarding you thousands of Gil and other valuable items.
Dungeons are arranged according to tiers. You start with the lower tiers, as your current character level fits. The higher the tiers, the more lucrative the rewards will be. For example, a Tier 80 dungeon could net you a possible 6300 gil, together with 60 Allegory and 40 Revelation.
It’s all about time management. You don’t have to do dungeon raiding all the time, because it does get boring when done repeatedly. Twice a week would be effective, depending on what your specific goals are for earning in-game cash.
Retainer Duties
You’ll love this part. You’ve probably taken your Retainers for granted, and limit their usefulness to storing excess Gil and items, or posting them on the market to sell-off. If you don’t know yet, there is one task that you can put your Retainers to use and earn in-game currency in return. That task is called the Venture.
Ventures are more advantageous than grand company quests or dungeon raiding because your character remains free to take on other tasks that can also earn you money. What you’re doing instead is sending out your Retainers to do other tasks that has the same result together with what you are pursuing as of the moment.
The Venture is the equivalent of “passive income” in the real world – your NPCs are doing several tasks for you in parallel with each other, and with your own efforts as well. It multiplies the potential income you can earn in a week by several factors, and you also receive loot as well like materials that you can use for crafting. It’s like compounding your profits. Before you can use the retainer you need to gather the item at least once yourself.
Quests
Quests are ideal for those who like to spend time acquiring gear or the materials needed to craft those. If your character has been equipped with a Gatherer or Hunter class, then quests are your ticket for earning a lot of money in-game every week!
This approach is actually connected with the Crafting tip that you’ve read above. Gathering is when you find all of the materials that are needed for the equipment that the Market Orders you want to fulfill require. You also gain a lot of experience points towards your character’s levels, which can unlock more content and more lucrative tasks to take on in the game. All it needs is an investment in time, and in playing the game smart.
When Gathering or Hunting, make it a priority to go after high quality loot only. Don’t waste your time on low quality loot that you might not be able to sell on the market. That’s a loss in terms of time expended. That’s why you should also participate in Grand Company Quests as soon as you are eligible to – these are excellent opportunities for gaining rewards and high quality materials that you can sell, or use for Crafting.
Farming and Mining
Early on in your game, you should level up your Mining and Farming classes, in addition to your Crafters. These classes work well with each other, as Crafters will need the Miners as well as the Gatherers to obtain the materials necessary. If your character already has a Miner or Farmer class, it’s a good idea to spend some time, maybe twice a week, to farm for materials out in the real world.
As compared to Quests and Dungeons, farming and mining is simpler and takes less time. Two hours is already more than enough time to allocate for this task, and the rewards are more than you bargained for. The trick to this method is to know exactly what it is you’re looking for. Again, the Market Board is great for this because it has all the information that you need, including the potential prices that you can charge based on existing bids. Again, focus on high quality.
It’s time to close this article with a saying about investment from the real world: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” The perfect strategy for earning millions of FFXIV Gil is a combination of the five methods as described above. Utilizing all the available methods at your disposal has the effect of establishing multiple “income streams” that could net you millions of in-game currency quickly!
It also enhances your gaming experience, as you’re not stuck in a grind performing only one repetitive task after another. Good luck, and here’s to you finally hitting the 1-million Gil mark per week in Final Fantasy XIV.
