A Sprouts Opinion of FF14 

In your room in the inn. There is a book. That allows replaying all cut scenes. In order. You can watch the whole thing like a movie.

Getting glamour (transmog) isn't an issue of money, but befriending an omnicrafter oil baron friend.

One way to make money by killing things is to do the treasure dungeons. There's a blue quest to unlock treasure maps. A treasure map has a location marked on it, you go to the location and dig, defeat the mobs that spawn, and collect treasure. Maps are either solo maps or 8 person group maps. The group maps have about a 70% chance to also spawn a portal into special treasure dungeons where the best loot is found. The rarest items can go for 100,000 gil or so. If you don't want to get a group together to run treasure dungeons, Gatherer classes can easily collect one treasure map per day, and these can be sold on the marketboard for decent money too, so 5 minutes a day will make you about 10,000-40,000 gil per day, depending on the level of the map. You can also make money from rare drops in the Deep Dungeons like Palace of the Dead. POTD is a dungeon with 200 randomly generated floors with unique mechanics, lots of mobs, rare drops, and a boss every 10 floors. You can go in solo or with a group. If your group wipes, you get kicked back to the last save point. There are 2 other Deep Dungeons later in the game in Stormblood and Endwalker.

Raid gear usually is a safe bet for good glamour, no Gil needed. Later content rewards more Gil per run. The gold saucer has decent glamour, and the events... all the events.

Items that are for daily Grand Company turn-ins sell for 25-30k. Make few extra and put them up on MB. You can find a list of Grand Company turnin items and make some money that way.

In Stormblood, there is side content called Eureka. In Eureka, there are unique character levels, at max level, on the 3rd and 4th map, there are "bunny quests" where you save some bunnies and they ask you to follow them. Follow them playing a hot and cold minigame. Once your find the right place, you will find a treasure chest. In that you get 10k, 25k, or 100k gil FLAT based on the rarity of the chest. They will also give you items that can sell for 5k-60k minimum. In total, I made 10mil over about 15 hours of semi-afk second monitor bunny fates while watching RU-vid. You say you like grinding and killing, so this might be for you.

Hi, welcome to our community 🎉 first of all, you can view back missed cutscenes in the Unending Journey desk in every inn room. Helps for if you've accidental missed something big. Like a lot of other people said, unlocking Eureka and Bozja is a great way to farm gil. Treasure map runs are also good, try to stick to the 60, 70, 80, 90 8-person maps that trigger portals to dungeons (you will need at least a minimum of 5 players to complete treasure dungeons comfortably). Keep in mind also you can only gether one map every 18 hours. Another thing that isn't mentioned much is tribal quests - you can find some really cool mounts and emotes among the different tribes. Dyes that are rarer sell pretty well, you can get the from trading in fete tokens or skybuilders scrips at the Firmament from Enie.

The story honestly feels the most alive of any MMO, a lot of the characters have their own lives that we get to seez and outside of the MSQ we can explore those things, I recommend doing a quest that explores the history of the calamity and Louisoix!

Just a correction on 10:58 in regards to losing your sprout (as someone that just lost theirs recently). You have to have 300 hours played AND have made it to Endwalker. So you have to go through all of Shadowbringers and its patch quests.

Glam collection comes from a variety of sources. Yes, leveling gear and dungeon gear is *a* source of glam, but since dyeable glams are preferred, a lot of dungeon drops aren't going to be high priority. There's PvP, which awards both crystals and Wolf Marks which can be exchanged for various dyeable glams. There's Raids, both Normal and Alliance. The glams from Normal Raids are usually undyeable but the Savage iteration, which can be unsynced if it's old content and you get some friends or are SEVERELY overleveled and overgeared, are dyeable. Alliance raid gear is sometimes dyeable, sometimes not, and sometimes the models show up in later dungeons or in crafted variations as dyeable. Later raids (Shadowbringers and later) have all been dyeable from the outset and it's massively increased the perceived value of the gear, which makes getting the queues to pop that much easier. For instance, and this is the best one I can think of at the moment, the gear that drops from the Level 50 Alliance Raid, the World of Darkness, is undyeable. However, that gear shows up in the endgame dyeable crafted gear for, I think, Heavensward or Stormblood, so check the L60 and L70 sections of the Market Board and they'll be "green" items. (The gear from the L60 Alliance Raid "The Void Ark" is definitely repurposed as L70 endgame crafted gear in dyeable variations, at least for the Casting/Healing sets. The L60 raids have inconsistent implementation as dyeable options elsewhere.) However, they *also* show up as dyeable dungeon drops for the L79 dungeon in Shadowbringers, with some style variations for Tanking gear helms. If you want the L50 gear from the Labyrinth of the Ancients, though, you're going to need to PvP because dyeable variations are available for PvP currency. There's a formerly tomestone purchased endgame gear set available for Hunt currency in Heavensward that ended up repurposed as undyeable dungeon gear in the L67 Stormblood dungeon. One of the Stormblood endgame tomestone gear sets that is now available for Hunt currency (the Ala Mhigan set specifically) was later re-used as the Ovim Wool crafted set at approximately L76, I believe. The L80 endgame crafted Neo-Ishgardian set was repurposed as the regular crafted L88 set and my brain blanks on what it was called at that point. Repurposed sets are usually recolors of some form or flavor, so fashionistas will sometimes prefer some variants because of what the secondary colors are in terms of matching their outfits. This is likely to become a WHOLE new thing in Dawntrail, though, with some of the upcoming changes to the glam system that have been revealed. There's also the Moogle Event, which is a recurring thing every time there's a major patch. The month before the patch drops, the Moogles send the player base into old content/various content for a special form of tomestone that can then be traded for items. Sometimes those items include L1 Unrestricted variants of various glam pieces. And then there's the glam drops from maps, Deep Dungeon, and Exploration zones that you can sometimes find for really affordable prices on the Market Board. There's some pieces from Eureka that I tend to call "Babby's First Glam" because of how affordable they can be. Sorry for the infodump. Glam sources in FFXIV is something of a Special Interest for me because apparently my WoL is my Barbie Doll and half the point of playing Barbies is to dress them up.

Desynthasize stuff and sell crystals! Everybody uses the crystals for crafting, it took me awhile to wrap my head around the materials/crystals system but from what ive heard desysthisizing for crystals is the way to go! Hope this helps bro

Leveling your retainers can be a good way to make Gil. They can go on field ventures to gather specific items that are tedious to gather yourself. Other people feel the same so sometimes those items can be worth a solid chunk of change.

As a crafter main for four expansions now I can confirm.. Crafting and Gathering is a whole other half of the game, that often can push you into content you might not have explored otherwise and isn't something more casual players catch themselves trying outside of a friend requesting their help in an instance. (lol this was definitely the case for me but.. I'm the sort who likes making stuff for people and their houses lol! 'oh you want the lightning lamp? TIME TO UNSYNCH RAMUH FOR HIS ORBS BRUH! >:3 [drags two friends with to speed run multiples]') Getting straight into crafting as a new player CAN be super expensive: *UNLESS,* you get smart about it and invest in appropriate gathering a little ahead of your crafts. Up to lvl 50 they're incredibly easy to level. After that however, it does get harder (more consuming in both time and materials; and an added type of timed nodes, and instances just for treasure chest hunting for higher end materials that aren't collected through mobs themselves.) As with any job, you want to keep doing your job quests for each one. I recommend (with gathering) trying to collect those ahead of time if possible.. they ask for a lot in some cases, and the XP does help towards levelling that job as well. Gear does matter after level 20-25.. especially accessories that make HQ turn ins easier. By appropriate gathering I mean.. at least get your main ingredient gatherer going: though be warned they throw other gathering stuff at you as secondary components, like adding leatherworking and some weaving in, if not woodcraft for weapons. If you wanna craft swords and heavy armor, go botany and woodcraft as secondary, and mining/smith for the first fifty levels of main components. If you're a transmog/glamour fan? Crafting can feel a little slow compared to running content as far as getting gear but... you do obtain teh avbility to craft dyes about halfway through? I think it's 25-30, it's been a long time since I passed that benchmark: but I do know it's been streamlined overall since) A major issue with the high priced items is the fact that many of the items required to make them; often require you to run PVE content anyway (8mans like shiva etc, dungeons (omg don't get me started on how many time's I've done hauke's manor for the wax), post-Heavensward treasure instances (...LOTS of those PVE gambling dens lol,) deep dive dungeons (this one gives out the most overall static rewards actually) are the examples I think of off the top of my head. If you want faster more steady Gil.. first you need to get your crafting and gathering to at least lvl 25-30 or higher. Why? Because that's the material cutoff for in-game vendors material supply. Almost anything 15-20 sells for dirt cheap in the housing areas if not at the job vendors themselves in your job guild. Honestly gathering and the refining end of crafting at lvl 30+ nodes is the best way to up your intake FAST. Iron, silver, electrum, cobalt, and black alumen are base mining materials above copper that cannot be bought for cheap from an in-game vendor (houses, apartments, etc): which means either you go get it yourself to continue crafting gear, mounts, airship parts and furniture (the three of which are a slower but more lucrative market.) And depending on the teir especially, you can make a crazy amount of money just supplying other crafters who don't want to, or don't have the time to put the work in, in that way. What do I mean by refining end of crafting? Each job has two types of crafts; gear/main craft (for culinarian it's buff food as the main craft, rather than say weapons or armor): and refining crafts that produce another material from the base collected through gathering. The alumen I mentioned for instance is useless on it's own.. but for a leatherworker at level 15 and again at higher levels with black alumen especially? That alumen is a required to craft your raw leather into the type you use to create gear from shoes and belts, rings for your gathering classes early in, to main gear pieces: and you can only get black alumen through mining. It is not sold by any vendor in the game. Likewise, for as much as some of these will sell unrefined.. they sell even better when for instance: you refine an entire stack of iron ore and bomb ash into steel ingots as another example. And, the higher up you go in level, the more the supplying herd thins: for the most part. Some teirs from heavensward to SB for instance (51-60) are often blown through.. and teh result is: not a lot of supply for the demand: meaning the price tends to stay relatively high even for basic/white gear, leve turn ins and job class turn-ins (yes you can craft most of those and sell them at a decent price: though for some it can be a waiting game.) Anyway, if you do get into crafting: early in the best advice I can give to also make it go faster is this: USE YOUR CRAFTING JOB LEVES.. AND ALWAYS TURN IN HQ ITEMS OVER REG QUALITY FOR EXTRA XP WHEN YOU CAN. You can find a kitter most days (a person who will craft you the items for your leves and your job quests in HQ ahead of time, usually at a price unless you have a goomba like me in your FC who does that kind of thing free for FC mates) but honestly, the first 50 levels are very easy to manage; can be done in under two hours: and will teach you a lot about how to craft and where to get your stuff without paying for it in anything but your own time and effort as you gain levels too. Anyway rambling, lol! Hope some of that helped...?

The mats for glams are mostly found in treasure maps. Trials. Raids. Etc.

Great video, man. I think you gave a perfect rundown of what it's like to be a sprout running through the game for the first time naming most of basically all the pros and cons. Also, that farming thing you were wanting to do to make money i.e getting rare drops that are worth a lot will be at lvl 70 after Stormblood in a place called Eureka. Crafting and gathering can net you large amounts of gil also but you gotta level basically all of them to see massive returns.

here's a way to tell if a cutscene is voiced before characters even start talking: sound effects. voiced cutscenes actually have sound effects for everything, while unvoiced cutscenes have hardly any all. i only ever pay attention to this so i know when to turn on auto-advance. i don't skip because i actually have an attention span.

The items that drop from the current extreme fights - not something you’ll have access to yet, but a future potential - are usually worth a lot, and can be an excellent prize while grinding out your mount drops. There’s also Eureka, the relic exploration zones from Stomblood. There’s good drops in there, too, but they’re rare. Generally, I’d recommend treasure maps (with portals, so all of the 8-man maps from heavensward on) for gil making, as a lot of people have already said. More of it will come naturally as you try to find something on the marketboard, realise it’s very expensive and/or very few available and then work out how to farm and sell the items yourself.

Money gets better at higher lvl, you can spam roulette and get 500K per week if you do them all. But yeah before max it's a bit a pain :/ If you want some money now you could do deep dungeon and go high, you can find transmog from secret chest there that sell for a lot. You can desynthesis gear you find in dungeon you can get mat to sell on market board that sell usually higher than the items themself. And if you really want to grind money, lvl a blue mage, get some spells and farm the vault solo synced, use to be an okey way to make money maybe better tech now. Or treasure map that someone said. But honestly get 90, do roulette and get apassive income is probably the less painfull if you dont do market board :p

Im a sprout level 57 bard and I make damn near all my money from market board. It’s evil but it feels good logging in to like 30k Gil

You do not farm mobs in this game for items. It just doesn’t work like that. Join an fc. Do treasure maps. That’s where the loot and gil is.

**RETAINERS!** Others have mentioned Treasure Hunts as direct gil making, but don't forget about retainers. They're the absolute best passive way to get gil and glam at the same time, you'll build up your dresser and coffers before you know it. This will be a long tip, but trust me. Retainers can only be as high a level in their job as you are at that same job, so give them the same job as one you have at max or intend to max and level them using the 18 hour expeditions. It will take a little bit, but once they're maxed you get them into at least the highest tier crafted gear (NQ is ok). Then you send them out on 1 hour Quick Ventures, and they have good odds of bringing something of value back. It can be anywhere from 1 crystal (ouch) to a venture coffer. Coffers contain dyes, including pure white and jet black - those are good money makers if you're lucky (450k-500k per dye on my server). Retainers will regularly bring dungeon and raid gear back too, and sometimes those make for cool glam. Lastly, you will randomly get expensive (150k-600k) crafted glam from Quick Ventures. If you don't want to keep it, you can sell it and get the ones you do want. Alternatively, you can tell retainers to get specific beast drops for you so you don't have to go farm them yourself if you want a consistent, guaranteed income. Or if they're a gatherer, they can gather specific mats to the same effect. I personally like using Quick Ventures because receiving the dungeon and raid gear to turn in for GC seals ensures that I always have more ventures to spend, continually feeding the machine. But there are lower level mats required in higher level crafts, meaning there's always a demand there since nobody wants to go back and kill mobs to farm them. And if you are able to pay the extra money per month to get even more retainers, absolutely do it. The passive income generation by retainers is unmatched. Side note, look into doing Frontlines roulette. You don't have to win, and you get a good amount of Wolf Marks for doing it as a daily roulette. Most of that 70+ gear is all really cool. Plus PVP series exp, which gives access to more glam and emotes via crystals and series rewards. Also a great way to passively level other jobs, because you can change jobs while in there and get exp for the one you queued on. And it's a LOT of exp. That was a lot, but I'm actually decent at making gil in this game whereas I'm normally very bad and I was excited to share when you said you were having trouble! I hope it helps, and welcome! I'm so glad you're enjoying this game! :D

Very nice take. I also have adhd so yes it's been hard to focus some times and I definitely thru some things out of my memory immediately after seeing them but I have always read a lot of books since I was young (got to do with the way I was raised and maybe that I am a bit of the dreamer type adhd) Oh and if you're willing to, would you tell us what server you're on? I have my main in the EU but I recently made an alt on an American Server too so I might be able to come visit. Btw the sprout stays until finishing Shadowbringers by now. I have 160 days of playtime by now... how many hours is that even...

welcome to FFXIV and enjoy Japan! consider checking out the Eorzea Cafe (FF14 themed cafe) in Tokyo/Osaka if you have the chance :^)

Most of my glams come from dungeon and raid drops in ARR and HW. It costs zero gil to look badass but you gotta explore side content to get the good stuff. Moneymaking is done passively just by doing daily roulettes (especially Adventurer in Need) and sending your Retainer out. Retainers can bring back lots of stuff. Make sure you're high enough rank in your grand company to be able to turn in old dungeon and poetics gear for seals. Use grand company seals to get Venture tokens and use those to send your retainers out on Quick Ventures. You can sell or desynth what they bring you. It often doesn't sell for much but occasionally you get lucky and can get 200k+ items, or they'll bring back dungeon gear or even crafted glams. If you level gathering classes, darksteel ore is always going to consistently sell well and if you make your retainer a miner you can send them out on hourly missions to collect it for you so you don't have to worry about timed nodes. You'll need to give them decent gear (meet the minimum Gathering stat and then as much Perception as you can stack) so you can get 11 ores per venture. Grand Company seals are often an underutilized form of currency/income, not just in ventures, but some items like Coke or Hardened Sap can sell for a lot. Check your local marketboard for whatever material is selling the highest currently, and sell them in stacks of 10 or so. Check your allagan tomestones of poetics currency. A lot of people let it sit capped at 2000 tomestones. This is a massive waste. If you can't get anything better for your current job, gear up another job, or buy tons of the highest ilvl rings available just to spend your poetics and turn them in for grand company seals which you then turn into ventures or gil. If you're short on tomestones, go do blue quests and unlock new content and run it. You get massive tomestome bonuses for first time completion bonuses. You'll cap very quickly. while leveling, you should be using poetics to buy capstone equipment (Lv50, 60, 70, etc) and dungeon gear to gear up. Instead of equipping crafted gear you get from normal quest reward coffers, sell those equipment instead. They're often 20~80k crafted pieces from those coffers and is better off being sold than equipped when poetics and dungeon gear outclass it quickly if not immediately.

For the longest time, my only gilmaking source was gathering Darksteel Ore and Spruce Logs, it is still quite a lot of gil with very small time commitment. Also doing daily roulettes as class in need gives you quite a bit of gil each day.

For gil, there's a specific dungeon you can run, I recommend blue mage, otherwise, you'll need a friend. Run through this heavensward dungeon synced and you get around 500k per 30 minutes. So this several times and you'll have a mil. Also, sell stuff, anything, on the market board. You can get a lot of stuff you don't need or want and sell it, you can spend tomes on things in more dhona or buy mats with seals from your grand company. Find which ones sell the best, you can check pricings online or in game with your retainer.

Doing your duty roulettes gives you a fair chunk of gil. I'd recommend sending your retainers out on 'quick exploration' they bring back all sorts of stuff there from old content gear that can be sold, used a glam or traded for company seals but they can also bring back rare dyes and glamour/housing items and minions.

In raids i had the distasteful experience of pple not waiting for pple to finish cutscene before launching into the bosses. Also ablut the cool gear its usually weak when you finally get it so its a glam in the end. Also my coolest armors arent from gill but wither from pvp, or trials/dungeon's extreme. In idleshire you can trade boss drops for parts for your class and theres allagan tumbstones too, im also a sprout(losing it soon) but one of my fav things to do is find cool drops. Also arr relic is a grind but it sure looks cool. Also you can get into crafting and have an animal crossing moment of gaining gill😂

If you play this game long enough, you will have plenty of gil and glam options. I've been playing FFXIV for maybe 2 years now and I have all the gil and glams I could ever want. It's been pretty painless to get, too. So I decided to get into crafting early in my FFXIV life and had all the crafting and gathering professions maxed out before my first combat job if I recall correctly. To do it properly, I needed more storage for mats so I decided to splurge and get 4 extra retainers in addition to the 2 I already had. Then I found out about sending them out on retainer ventures. Pretty soon, I had them going out on quick explorations bringing back random items every hour. Some of those items I was able to sell on the market board for insane gil. Some were just nice to have for myself as gear, furniture, glams, mounts, and minions. And all it cost me were ventures which are easy to come by. Well, that and the IRL $ of the monthly extra retainer fees.

Dancer was the second job I picked up, I hope you enjoy it if you try it out!

If you need money i would look into getting maps. Each expansion has their own specific maps but a little research may help clear somethings up!

Most people don't truly understand the benefits of a retainer. As as most people take the free to play route. It makes you money. By the time you actually subscribe. Its so lagging behind your progress. It becomes a grind to level up. Where it was a casual progression.

Great video! I love some of the things you brought up about WoW vs XIV community, esp the mention of how people in WoW would throw your damage meter up in the party chat. I was like traumatized by that behavior and over the almost-a-decade I played WoW, the group experience just got worse and worse and worse. Been playing XIV for about 1.5 years now and I love the community so much. I was able to try things in this game (like tanking!) that I wouldn't have dared to even try in WoW. You still run into occasional unpleasant people but it doesn't ruin my experience like it did in WoW because it is so decidedly not the norm.

FF people are very relaxed and happy, it's hard to find bad people It's a crazy change from playing wow for years and going to FF.

Hey, welcome to FFXIV! A great way to make gil is going to grind things that no one wants to do. When you unlock Eureka and Bozjan Southern Front there's a lot you can do, and it's also a great way to level up alt-jobs (jobs that aren't your main). There's many very very expensive items from those areas.

If you get into crafting, whenever you do the crafting quests while leveling up, craft 2-3x the quantity of items you need to turn in for the quest, and sell whatever you don't turn in to the quest giver on the MB. You'll learn how to craft better, and make easy money from lazy people in the process. Another one that's been suggested that I agree with is doing treasure maps: not only are they just fun to do in and of themselves with some friends (or randos), but you make decent gil from prog'ing treasure dungeons that you can sometimes get teleported into from completing treasure maps, and sometimes end up with rare mats that can be sold as-is on the MB for decent gil (~2-5k+), or easily crafted into highly-sought-after transmog/glamour pieces that sell for pretty good gil (~150k-1M+, depending on the item). The more you learn about the game's content, crafting, and gathering, and your server's economy, the more gil you can make.

this is really great review! i can tell you really played the game and played it the right way. i saw ppl bought skip, skipped everything went to endgame, no idea what to do and say they got nothing to do. they let them selves got stucked. they want to do hard stuff 'coz they saw ppl do it or that they are hardcore player from another game, some seems to think they can buy everything with money.

I feel u in regards to Gil! What might help u is doing all daily roulettes!

2:45 Of all the cutscenes to snag your interest in the msq again, that one is a good choice. I went back and named my chocobo after that adorable cabbage.

If you have the time, after doing MSQ, I would do every side quest, not all of them are great, or even good. But they add a bit of flavor to the world. You may be asking yourself questions about how these people live or what daily life is like, or maybe you want to meet an entirely new character, side quests give that context.

Eorzea Collection has a bunch of sets that people have come up with. PVP has some cool gear too that is really easy to get

Came back to say, level all your disciple of hands. Goldsmith, leatherworker, etc . Lots of Gil to be made there , and you might not feel so bad selling things on the market if you craft them yourself.

One way you can make money without being at end game is running deepdungeons like palace of the dead and heaven-on-high. If you can find a couple chads to run with you to the high floors, you can have a chance at good drops. Palace of the dead can drop the nightmare pegasus mount (floors 150+) which can sell for 10-20 mil depending on the server. Otherwise, the dungeons can drop other minions, gear, dye that can sell for up to a 100k. I'm sure there's a video on youtube that explains all of this. I'll just add a caveat that the dungeons can be quite difficult at the higher floors where you can find the good loot, so that's why I suggest joining some friends or putting up a party finder.

easy gil making at end game is forming unreal trial every week getting token to trade for certain mounts and selling them on the marketboard. Crafting and gathering is big money at the start of each expansion and making the highest newest tier battle potions and food for eachbraid tier is easy consistent gil. the biggest money maker is FC submarines once they are high level and decked out with the right parts (that takes a while to set up) but that is usually controlled by fc leaders or friends of depending on the FC of course.

Need money? Roulettes, dungeon runs, and leves. Leves are actually a great way to earn money. They’re largely overlooked, but often give as much Gil as xp. I find each dungeon run gives me about 3-5k. Especially since each kill drops you cash. I started over a new character and was always short of cash until I started running dungeons and using my leve allowances. I attain 100k each day without meaning to earn it, just by leveling my classes with dungeons or doing leves for achievements.

Newer player here. The 1-50 story was an absolute slog. The amount of fetch quests and busy work to get into Heavensward was incredible, after that it gets much better, but I feel like they could streamline this section a bit more.

Most of the cool glamour (transmog) is acquired through various side contents :)

I know dungeons around storm blood and up have some pretty good armor drops you can use for glam. I am no expert but I looked up a guide an was able to ring the cooking class to 80 and made a ton of money selling my stuff on market boards that I was making. People use food all the time for raids and other things, as well as there are some delivery quest that you can go to the market, buy the ingredients and then make the meal and sell it for rewards and exp that is pure profit from what you spent on ingredients. I made 2.5 million Gil in a few days of working at leveling this

Gil making is a fairly mindless endeavor for me, mostly revolving around gathering and/or crafting. 1) New patch/expansion hustle. When a new patch drops that has new craftable gear, the materials to make it will be in high demand, so mindless grinding gathering stuff works well. For the combat class focus, then treasure hunting specific maps will possibly net you some valuable materials. 2) High end crafters will need stuff when they are first setting up. Mostly, materia. To get materia there are a few things you could do... Find something easy to make, to get white/purple (colour will change with new patchs/expansions) and trading them in for materia that sells ell at a good price. You can do crafting and spirit bond a piece of equipment and extract materia from that. Do your weekly Wondrous Tails book and try to get 1 line, take the bronze scroll and trade for the correct Cluster or Crystal to exchange for 3 materia.... Right now the Craftman's Cunning VII goes well, as most crafting gear is capped at +7 CP from melding, for example, and most guides I've seen have you put this on last and it can take 1 or 100 attempts to meld... or more... 3) Buff food/drinks/items. Again I deal mostly with the crafters, but the highest end food like... I think it's Jhinga Biryani, and the craftsman's draught are still used by crafters for some of the more expensive gear that gets shelled out. I remember using a ton when making the relic tools... and they are consumed, so repeat market. 4) Retainers can be sent out to gather goods for you as well, some of the more annoying items may not sell for a ton individually, but go pretty fast and reliably for a good amount. I'm collectin g a lot of Berkanan Sap right now with mine for example. 5) finally... and I don't SUPER recommend this one but if you're only after money... (been playing for quite a few years, I have a bunch of friends online and we keep in touch with Link Shells, rather than everyone in one FC as we all have different wants from an FC)... me and one other friend made an FC, got a house, and setup a workshop for subs, and they can spit out a decent amount of gil if you're willing to learn how they work. I'm going to be 100% honest, my friend does most of the heave lifting here and I did a lot of the grind to get the materials to get things off the ground... or in the water... FCs however are a great way to meet people, build a community and have fun, so few new players I would recommend that over selfish grinding.

Once you start doing the duty roulette daily, you'll get a pretty decent amount of money without needing to craft or gather. Especially if you sell the pet and orchestron roll drops.

7:30 --- Well phrased. We got it seared into our brains that MMOs are not about lore and story but gameplay and doing it with other players. Thats not the case here - the former part that is... Devs actually take great care of their world building and as someone comming from WoW and GW2, who dont give a ratsa** about pre-established lore, (and someone who actually likes Fantasy and reading) this was a welcome respite. May not be everybodies cup of tea, but I would still say, "give it a try, you wont know if you like it if your former experiances were these other games". 12:40 --- At early game... yes, its hard to get proper glamour. What I do on my alts, that dont have any money on them, is picking one good chest piece and combine it with the lvl1 glam items you get as log-in rewards for your first, I think, 30 days. You can also mix and match your race-specitic armor and the "undergarments", chemise and pantalettes, and dye them accordingly - as a catgirl, that should be no problem at all. Also, PvP has some very good glam pieces you can farm. I would recommend doing Frontlines: they give a ton of XP for alt jobs and are actually even fun with all the chaos and flashes and death :D You can also scour the Marketboard for some cheap items, that wont blow away your hard earned gil in one go - but yeah, you have to search for it. - Another way to get glam is... making it yourself as a crafter. But Crafting is... not easy. Or rather, it is easy, but it'll take a lot of time if you're low on funds and have to gather everything by your lonesome. - And, of course, the cash shop: I dont know if you're on the Free Trial, but if not, there are glam sets from previous events that go for pretty cheap (depending on your rl funds, that is...), so its worth checking that out, too. ... As for getting money... this early, all you can do is MSQ and dungeon rouletts. You might want to start gathering, meaning Mining, Botanic and Fishing, and sell the mats, but keep in mind, these are seperate jobs that you need to level, too, and it will take some time out of your schedule. Of course, if you want to stick with FF14, it will be a good thing to have your gatherers up and going because you will need them when you start crafting - if you start crafting, that is... though that too I would recommend for later (much later...) : if you level all your crafters (yes, all of them... best if you do that simultanously), you can repair your own gear - you only need the corresponding level of Dark Matter, but thats easy to come by, and your crafters can be 10 levels below the gear that you want to get repaired. - But this is info for when you have finished MSQ. Gathering can be fun if you want to take a break from MSQ or if you just want to do something else. Ocean fishing btw is a super fun mini game (unlocked at lvl1 or 5), and your XP will go through the roof :) 13:45 --- Ah yes, Treasure maps. If you are lucky and get deep enough, you might get the expansive stuff. Personally, I'm not the fan: the RNG-gods never seem to favor me ^^° Talking about maps, you can also do Hunts. Though I do recomment to first get to their discord ("Centurio Hunts FFXIV") and track it: they do world bosses of varying levels/ranks and they usually drop gil, tomestones and nut sacks that you can exchange for minions, sometimes mounts, sometimes glam, bardings... a lot of stuff. - Also, glam: Gold Saucer got you covered. Some of it is silly, but some is actually really good to mix-and-match. 14:20 --- Do NOT buy gear. You dont need it. Trust me: you dont need it. You get gear from MSQ and you get gear from dungeons. When you have finished one expansion (except EW at the moment, but that'll change when DT drops), you will unlock vendors from Rowena's House of Spendor. These vendors are located close to the big Aetherite in the big cities and they sell raid gear from that expansion. And that gear... it will carry you for a looooooong time, basically the next 10 levels! The only jobs that might have to take care of better gear after 5 or 6 levels are the tanks, but even then you get it from dungeons - you might want to run them more than once, though, but dont make yourself crazzy: you can still tank the whole way through, just not wall-to-wall, except if the healer is a god :D So, yes, again: do NOT buy gear from the MB. Don't. Just dont. Yes, it looks cool but there are other ways (that I have just listed, and a ton that I forgot) to get it. FF14 is more like GW2 in that respect where you farm a certain currency to exchange for a certain set, and way less than WoW (except maybe when you do Treasure maps and get lucky - several times in a row). 19:17 --- Its similar here: do not go to the RP night clubs if your aim is proper RP. I can recomment the Endless Nights discord: though they mainly advertise the nightclubs, they also have a many smaller venues like simple cafés, bars and libraries. Might be worth your time to find likeminded RP friends? Maybe there are other RP discords, but I wouldnt know... I read in every game. I started with Guild Wars (the real version) and read every quest in WoW. Yes, a walking encyclopaedia, at least until 8.3. That FF14 requires a lot of reading, thats no issue for me, especially since my attention is rewards - as you already pointed out. I couldnt say which scene had the most impact... honestly, I loved the game from day 1, or rather hour 1: I picked FF14 over ESO after quitting WoW because of the Free Trial (back then only until lvl35). Yes, there are slow moments, but I like those, too: in GW2, I felt like the world was on constant fire and I'm the fire figher rushing from one emergency to the next. Go to your friend - there's fighting. Go to the city - there's fighting. Hell, go to your grandma - there's fighting! It was so tiring, and annoying... Must be a me thing... Anyway, seems you're enjoying yourself sofar and unlike WoW, the ride will only get better and better. That at least is something you can count on :)

My first thought on making money fast is 1) selling furniture items - there are some fairly simple crafts that sell well, like simple curtains and wooden lofts. 2) selling crafting crystals - you can get these from special nodes, they sell in huge stacks for fast cash, but there is a lot already being sold usually. 3) crafting special drops from dungeons/trials into items - this includes glam gear, minions, barding, weapons, and orchestrion rolls. 4) sending your retainers on quick ventures and selling the goods they come back with. These can be less valuable most times, but every now and then they bring something lucrative. Using GC seals to buy material containers and selling the mount/minion is similar. Doing bozja/eureka for fragments might make you steady cash too. Overall, find something that is either required for content or that collectors might want and it'll sell nicely. Goodluck! Re glam gear, there are so many cool items sprinkled through all the content, I'd suggest checking out eorzea collection and finding out where they are all hiding

few gil making ways in ff14 1. maps are really good or rng chances at good mats to sell and gill. probably one of the funner ways will need a few buddys or u can solo if over leveld or you can use bluemage.(op class) 2.crafting. 3.buy items from harder to find venders to resell them on MB for ppl that are too lazy to go to them, (im too lazy so im a buyer of these) 4. sell some ERP for gil 5.slow and steady some dungeons give decent gil, cider spider said one dungeon he was doing would net about half a mil per hour. forget the dungeon name tho. boring but steady 6.things like place of the dead,eurika, bozja, or grand companys all have lockboxes u can get from engaging in thier content that can net good minions and mounts you can sell. these are a few ways to earn gil.

In terms of money, ive been a gathering main for several expansions and dont really interact with the other side, crafting. Gatherables are often a consistent, reliable if slow source of gil that ebbs and flows with the progress stage of each expansion. For instance, right now, gathering is pretty lucrative even at the end of am expansion, because latecomers and procrastinators alike are leveling jobs and will often need basics. Cheap sales in large quantities is the life for those who like to pound sand.

There is really fun content you can run from post HW onward that you can make money called Treasure maps!

I realize I’m a month late to this video (thank the YT algorithm), but a good way to make a quick buck, if you have your botanist and/or miner leveled is to harvest your “daily” map (though the cooldown is 18hrs) and sell it on the market board! :D

Dammmn man, I love one piece, I love the storm light archives, and I love ffxiv story. I think you’re gonna enjoy the full story past stormblood

one way to think of the story of the game is that its like book, all the early boring stuff is to get you familair with the peoples and area's. It really dosent mean much when your doing it but its laying foundations for later stories that will be so much better with that understanding. Its not for everyone, but if you enjoy story, trucking through the boring bits will will payback ten fold.

Really, glam, gil, and housing is endgame. It comes as you play

For glam, you can get some nice pieces off the market board, or from PvP if you don't have gil (just do the daily pvp roulette for easy points). To make gil, I've seen people make bank by crafting/gathering. but by the end of the game there isn't much to spend it on, sou you'll eventually be rich(er) XD

I haven't played the beginning in a long time. Which cutscene again?

rank up in your grand company until you unlock expert delivery. then you can sell all the dungeon drops for company seals and buy glamour prisms and cordial and stuff like that with the seals to sell. that's how you make some money running dungeons. also if you run roulettes and keep choosing the role that is in need, the gil quickly adds up

If you like Big Risk for Big Reward, the high floors of Deep Dungeons (Like Palace of the dead) can possibly net you some big ticket items worth millions on the market board. Even if you miss, you can still hit multiple hundred K's worth too. It's a bigger investment since you need to grind up your aetherpool and get a group together, but it's an option.

Glamours/transmog will open up and get so much better and more plentiful at max level and some before. Same for making money… much easier to make money at max level too plus in my opinion the easiest(maybe not the most lucrative tho) way to make money is gathering… either botany or mining… gathering whatever is selling the most… but… MOST lucrative is crafting. Anyway… there’s tons of other ways to make money in ff14… there’s a buncha guides on RU-vid.

One of the wonderful blessings that so many streamers playing XIV from scratch has given us is that great VAs have taken upon themselves to voice act all the cutscenes, including the unvoiced ones. Sebbywebs is one example of a streamer whose voice acting has elevated XIV to a level of humor unseen in any other Twitch stream to date (including a lot of extra aussie flavor profanity, and New York cabby Tataru.) So if you absolutely hate reading but need to catch up on ARR, find someone who has an archive of voice acted cutscenes out there and have fun. (We've also currently got the actual singer of some of the songs doing a play through with her own voiceovers as Crystal Mommy, with bonus extra spontaneous musical interludes.) Edit: XIV does have some toxicity in its community, but we mostly limit it raiding at endgame, when everyone is expected to perform better. True ire is reserved for players wearing mentor crowns who play poorly, not newbies. (It's me, I'm the player wearing a mentor crown that rolls into a normal raid and starts to get it confused with Savage mechanics and wipes the party. Whoops.) Edit II: FFXIV's version of Goldshire is on Balmung server, the Quicksands in Uld'ah. Balmung and Mateus are the RP hubs in general, so feel free to drop in, but if you're going to Ul'dah, turn on your Busy tag unless you want to get solicited for back alley kinky stuff with strangers.

Welcome to FFXIV You're right about the laziness though, my first million I was selling ore I bought in Limsa for cheap then sell higher prices on the market board, once the average price got too low I stopped. I have had some lucky pulls from retainers (rare dyes and minions, sometimes valuable armor pieces or even just glam armor pieces). Once I got my house via the old housing savage, I also used my little patch of soil to grow plants and sell seeds on the marketboard for a decent amount or even the thavnarian onions. I did do some gathering/crafting and gaining money via the market board, just looking at what is in needed. for example, I was making some oil for a while near the end of SHB that was used to make raiding food, it wasn't hard to make since it was just 1 component but imo the price for the effort was worth doing and I didn't spend a ton of time doing it. I'm not the richest (just hit 69 million last night) but my gil was mostly from the market board the items my retainers bring back or other items I craft/gather without investing a ton of time specifically on things just to make money.

treasure maps can be the huge money makers

Honestly, if you just play you'll make so much. Just doing content regardless of what it is, typically the payout is pretty good. I've passively gained 1.5 mil just doing the dailies, dungeons, alliance raids, etc. You can also do the weekly books that can give you a LOT of money. That and treasure maps. You can easily make 80 to 100k doing just maps. That and the materials you can get sell for lots more

unless gearing retainers, you should almost never be buying vendor gear. this will save you most of your gil. i've done this with alts and by the time i'm done with ARR i had 500k gil. only spent gil on teleports. on the fact of making money, i would say make or harvest items that crafters need for leve / Glam / some craft. doing roulets will give some good gil if your the "adventure in need" for getting the Glam. make freinds with a omni crafter.(my main is one) doing raid/primals/map

Also, as a legacy player of 10 years, I always envy sprouts. Experiencing this story for the first time is exhilarating. Im sure that you've heard it before, but just wait until you hit Shadowbringers. Youve got some next level writing and music coming your way. Enjoy your journey, fellow Warrior of Light. Hear. Feel. Think.😊

Doing your roulettes will give you gil, also selling things. However at the beginning of the game, it does take more time to accrue gil. However, there will come a point where gil just simply doesn't matter unless you're looking to buy/furnish houses. In all honesty, gil really doesn't matter while you're initially levving. The game will provide you with all sorts of gear to get you to cap. Just take your time. And trust me. The glam is incoming. I have 10 retainers and a full glamour dresser full of all sorts of pieces. Eventually your issue is gonna turn on its head and what you'll want then is inventory space. 😂😂😂

Have you done the Coils of Bahamut raid series? It's super important lore that is easy to miss out on.

Craft/gather, get many retainers. You will forget what it was like being poor in this game lol Editing cuz i got a little further in the video. What you are looking for is in doing Extreme Trials. They have boss mats that drop, which crafters will buy... Some drops are easily 200k-800K per item

I think the earliest MMO's set a bad precedent for having skippable/bad story. Def more voiced cut scenes, less reading for future MMO's would probably really help, but after playing FF I can't imagine playing an MMO and not caring about the world or story.

2:43 I know what you are talking about I’m playing with my friend who has the same mentality as you do and they were flabbergasted at that cutscene and started freaking out

I never thought I would make money in the game. Until I realized…. People buy fish for the grand company turn ins. And some fish can easily fetch 25k/ea and they would sell for STACKS of 4. Easy 100k. Not even rare fish. People just don’t wanna fish 😂

on the topic of Gil, i found this kinda funny as i remember very often commenting that Gil is too easy to get and i can't spend it. but to be fair, i don't think i have the same drive for cosmetics. so i never have anything to spend it on.

the game doesnt really have a hard gil making method. they want people to get gil passively as they play, rather than go "farming" for it. there are some ways to farm for it still however, but even those method are long term accumulation, rather than quick money making scheme

Easy to get 100k gil by doing daily roulettes, especially when playing a needed role. May be a touch less since you dont have 90/Expert but still should be a pretty penny, plus a ton of exp and its just dungeon running

If you already loved up to stormblood, yr going to find the last 2 amazing and breathtaking honestly i was a sproud till i hit lvl 90 and got to endwalker. I had already 1500 hours in this game by that time xD

As an Omnicrafter, Crafting and Gathering gives you the most gil if you're willing to do your research and just don't chase the FOTM-Item. Crafting is way more involved than WoW and comes with rotations and has it's own content (i. e. Ishgard Restauration that gives you some Glam, Mounts and Pets and stuff).

Not all people can read Tolkien, you have to train yourself to read dense stories and sadly modern schools no longer teach that. XIV is dense in wordage its on par with 16-18 Teen Fantasy novels.

I read all of the msq and sidequests from the very beginning. I did the same in WoW too. But I'm not a God, and I almost never read books, I just don't have ADHD. I never knew not having ADHD was a superpower!

"a little fairy person pops up and does this *hold arms out wide*" Say no more say no more, I know EXACTLY what cutscene you are talking about 😂....... 😥

ovibos milk is selling for a lot these days if you can grind fates for gemstones you can use those to buy a lot and sell those i think 30 go for around a million gil

The best description I've ever heard is that FFXIV is not an MMORPG, it's a RPGMMO. It's more about the story, and the rest of the world is built around that.

Homie you named one of the waist ways to make money, right after you said you don't know how to make money lol. Treasure hunting! It does require a little startup, but no more than 40k. You'll usually end up making your gil back or luck out Leveling factions and buying material with that currency, then sell that on the market board. This only requires some time to level the faction and some research to see what sells. Or you can buy venture tokens for retainers to go on missions. They can bring in good items on the rare occasion. They tend to bring in furniture and that usually sells pretty decent, too. But yeah, market board is the way. Gardening is big, but its a huge time dump and it requires a house lol. I think low end for a house is 3mill and luck getting the lottery

I played gw2 for a month. Ran as fast as I could back to ff14.

Hope you didn't skip the crystal tower cut scenes

The reason its so expensive is that gil doesent matter in this game. you literally get it from everything, and if you are a gamer, you want to get that stuff from in game, and almost all glam on the MB is obtainable, like anything else on the MB, from actually playing some content. So majority of people prefer to actually play the content and grind to get the glam then buy it from the MB.

Glad you are playing ff14… please continue to regret skipping cutscenes… hopefully to the point you won’t do that any more… bad human! Freaking WoW made us have bad habits of skipping cutscenes and quest dialogue(I definitely started skipping quest dialogue in WoW too cuz it’s just… uninteresting… sooo not the case in ff14 thankfully (I’m picking of course… do what ya wanna do but I hope anyone that’s interested in story please don’t ever skip ANY of the MSQ story for ff14 because the payoff is so good as the man in the video here says… its worth it!

Make money? Sounds like someone needs a Treasure Map Run. Cool Gear, crafting or market board. Normal gear starting in Stormblood starts giving good Glam (transmog). Crafting and Gathering have extra “ skill books” for rare items. ** Last edit** if you level up your grand company, at max level with your GP seals you can buy basically gacha boxes that have a chance to give rare mounts and minions that sell for a lot. Goldshire inn, idk what it is but I’m assuming it’s… uncomfortable.. That’s the Quicksands (Uldah inn) on Balmung.

Actually I don’t think we can start boss fights while peeps are in cutscenes(can we?)

Just doing your roulettes every day also give a decent amount of gil.

Glam and housing is the real endgame

Mefrid

MSQ is a hard thing to wrap your mind into when you are used to most MMORPGs that focus in grind and content. For those that are new and still don't get it, just know that veterans of this game are like vampires. They crave for more story from it. They'll even go to satisfy their craving vicariously with other sprouts. That's how addicted veterans are when it comes to MSQ. If you want to understand why that is, then you will have to do the MSQ yourself.

the salad got punted

"Nobody is toxic" oh you sweet summer child 😅 Been attempted to be kicked for my glamour, seeing my character info that my boyfriend and I are married in game, some friends harrassed for being lalafell or roegadyn players, me told to uninstall cuz my monk dmg was low (back when mnk dmg aoe rotation barely existed), see elitist players yell at beginners for playing poorly but like they're new, ofc they're gonna be bad starting out. Whole myriad of other stories playing this game. Yes FF14 playerbase is far nicer than other ones for sure but rude mean players still exist here like every community sadly.

You actually dont lose your sprout until you hit Endwalker I believe