How FFXIV's Richest Players ACTUALLY Make Gil 

Sorry if I just ruined your market-niche ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"I've been pulling in half a million gil selling windows" This guy is the Bill Gates of FFXIV

Pro tip: if you ever decide to craft something even semi-niche for yourself, gather the materials yourself + a ton extra. Then craft multiple of the thing you wanted and sell the excess.

The point of convenience is legit: in Limsa there's a dye merchant literally next to the market board, I just buy dye off the NPC and flip it on MB for roughly 5x what I paid. And people are always buying dye.

This isn’t just good advice for FFXIV, it is good business advice. Nicely done.

I made 5 million gil dancing half-naked in a club. I am a male Roegadyn.

During the "Gold Rush", Levi Strauss made a ton of cash. Not from gold but from crafting and supplying the necessary equipment for others to participate in the event. Jeans, picks, shovels, etc. Know your market!

A friendly tip: Gatherers can make gil with little time investment because nobody wants to farm lower lvl items. It doesn't give you good EXP, doesn't sell for much, but the way FF14's crafting loop is such that lower tier unprocessed goods are required for every other higher tier a crafter goes up. Meaning that through all cycles of crafter grind there is a marginal & consistent demand for even the lowest level 'trash'.

This mans a genius. Out of any gil making video I've seen over what, 8 years since ARR's release, no one has said the word convenience. It makes perfect sense. Bravo

Here’s some more hints, items required for completion of quests. Mats needed for crafting levelling grinds, often people couldn’t be bothered to stop crafting to gather. If your selling food or pots break them up into smaller stacks, I’ve noticed that they sell faster because people don’t have to shell out as much money.

I love the realistic expectations and straightforward explanations in your videos. You do this better than anyone else.

This is probably best gil making video online. He even makes a great point at the end explaining how to wealthy gillionaires play this game almost exclusively to craft and amass money. And they’ve been doing it for expansions. Very well done video.

I love how you didn't ruin any market and gave actual tips

orchestrion scrolls are my jam in making gil. cheap to buy, easy to make and usually a good net profit anywhere from 50k-100k on certain songs

This is like the first proper video I've seen explaining gil making /market board as a proper concept and not just a "Hurr durr this is the flavor of the week lets murder the entire market while we undercut each other to floor in 2 days". like yeah you can't really get away from using something as the example but honestly good job on this.

I remember I used to make crazy gil growing and selling the fruits that color change chocobos for awhile cuz there was zero competition. But that changed VERY quickly and soon everybody was doing the same thing.

To add to this... Do the ARR and Heavensward hunts and use the currency you gain from those to buy aetheryte tickets, then go to your teleport window and use the gear to change your teleport settings. You can set a hard price cap on teleports, say, 300 gil, so that anything over that will ask if you want to use a teleport ticket. This method alone will save you loads and loads of gil on getting around in the world, and hunts can be cashed in daily and weekly with not a lot of time spent to do them. I have easily made a couple million gil just on my savings.

Honestly, for casual players or if you only play a little per day, doing one or two hunts a week is a very good way to make gil, not only do you cap on tomestones super fast but the money you can get from selling Heaven's Eye Materia X and IX (Or whichever is selling the best at the moment) will be more than enough to get by, and as a bonus you can get nuts to get some cool things like a couple mounts, glams and minions on the side. Highly reccomended.

For me the most effective method is to look up items that should sell but have 0 items listed or are sold at an absurdly high price. After a couple of days people pick up on it and start undercutting you and that's when you move to the next item.

thank you so much for this video as it confirmed my confusion about the popular gil making videos. I had an inkling that there should be more focus on the convenient factor rather than rushing to only make the end product, much appreciated ^^

The dye thing is so good, especially if you find a popular colour and just dominate the market. Find the stack size for you as well, don't undercut someone selling stacks of 99 - sell 20 stacks of 3 or 5 for triple the price and people will buy it. The one I always remember was when the Bees Knees came out. I was into NPC dye sales at the time and I've never seen anything like the coral pink dye sales that weekend. Fashion report dyes aren't my personal go to because the market saturates fast and there's nothing new at the saucer atm, but if there's something hot and new, you can bet filling a retainer with the recommended items for an inflated price will disappear with barely any effort on your part. Even if you're undercut, if the demand is there for something like the Bees Knees, your retainer should empty daily.

Definitely one of the better explanations of this that I've seen! A lot of my gil really is from 1. furniture, and 2. finding a weird niche nobody's selling, with a side of 3. new items people want ASAP (which can also be furniture). I go back and forth between seeing a big-brained way to make money and being too lazy to keep up with selling things though, so sometimes it pays off a ton and sometimes I end up with way too many glam mats that aren't worth the price I paid anymore, but eh, that's on me. Anyway, one pro-tip for people willing to gamble a little: sometimes there are glam sets where the mat costs a lot and most of the glam pieces cost a lot, but there's one piece that nobody wants and it's actually cheap. And... you'd be surprised at how easy it is to desynth the mat from that.

You are so right about the need for gil! There are rather few expensive items in the game: Rare mounts and minions (often price falls when content ages), housing plots (one-time expenses), latest crafted items gear/furnishing/etc (one-time expense again). Consumables can be bought from incidental income (dailies with tokens *and gil* rewards. So once you have the mounts, minions, glam and so - what will you spend gil on? Answer: There really isn't much to spend it on.

This is a great video! Also another point that you mentioned briefly but it's very understated: your time is valuable, so don't spend it grinding very hard to make or gather items. Use it to find a niche and then save time doing things that are fun for you. Many people burnout really hard trying to "grind" the market thinking they'll make millions.

As for some of the things to consider on how you're cornering your market; another thing to consider isn't just convenience or time efficiency, but also whether or not you enjoy it. I have almost 900million gil, and I hate crafting. As my go to, I actually DO spend most of my own time in Bozja, Eureka, HoH, or PoTD, on occasion stopping by the Diadem as well. Sure it may have taken 20 hours to get that night pegasus to sell for 20mil, but I'm already on the hunt for earning my necromancer title so that extra change in my retainer is nice to see. Back in the day before the moogle event was selling shiver emotes and crashed that market, (salty not salty,) I used to sell 2 of those daily for nearly 3mil just spending my time in Pagos, which I had already intended to do because I had relics to complete. As for my current market, I'll keep that one a secret for now, but just consider whether or not you *like* what you're doing to make money. Remember, if you burn yourself out and stop playing, you're not making any money.

probably the best "gil making" video out there. I always was of the impression that slow and steady is the way to go about this, I don't really want hundreds of millions, but I barely started in EW and I'm almost at 50mil which is honestly enough if I also want a house eventually + the furnishing expenses... Even just doing roulettes and desynth from dungeon brings a decent bag and that's enough for me.

100% agree with this video. I made about 10 mil gil in a couple of months or so selling different furniture (which can actually be frustrating because sometimes it would take weeks to find a buyer for some items) and about 5 mil gil in a month or so crafting and selling potions that raise stats. Not exactly the maddest of stonks, but I don't have to worry about pulling the trigger on shiny stuff that costs ~100k in the MB anymore, so that suits me just fine :D

Thank you so much for this video. These are some really great tips to help with making gil. While I tend to not carry more than 10 mil gil around with me at any given moment, I found joy in selling things like flowers and outside furniture which then led to my ultimate goal of owning a house/shop in the game

Great video, THANK YOU. Good edits and visuals. Can confirm, been playing 8+ years, do not care about gil, yet have an FC mansion and personal medium, and sitting on 25mil gil. I've never once tried to apply myself to make gil, but I take advantage of ventures, squadrons, anything to bring in items, flip stuff, but with little to no effort on my part. If I can have roughly 100mil gil pass through my hands, time is clearly the biggest factor. Be patient.

I'm far from rich. But I always make up for financial sink holes with mining Mythril. Works very much in the same vein you said. Convenience. Armorer, Blacksmith and Goldsmith all use Mythril to level up and mining Mythril is a time sink. Really appreciate videos like this. It's very honest, insightful and encouraging. It's nice to see a "how to make gil" video that also emphasizes "don't stress over it".

This video was so, down to Earth and honest that it convinced me to sub to your channel. ❤️👍 It’s true that furniture sells like crazy. I placed a few items on ‘sale’ on a retainer to free some space from my inventories and even though the price I put on them was absurd, because I didn’t actually intend to sell them, someone still bought them! Same with dyes! I’m not a ‘grinder’! Fun is much more essential in a game so don’t worry too much about gil. Did you know? As a new player, you can get 1 million gil at least, just from doing the MSQ from ARR to Heavensward. Now continue and see just how much gil you’ll get total, once you’ve finished Endwalker. 😁 Thank you Jolsn! ❤️👍

one thing I strongly recommend doing is spending hunt currencies from HW and Stormblood on aetheryte tickets in foundation from the hunt vendor there, that will eliminate the cost of teleporting outright if you aren't teleporting without a reason for the destination

I was doing this with wooded lofts for a little while, they would sell pretty easily and since i was gathering the entire craft i didnt have to worry about how much they sold for

The Patch Day Ouroboros still represents a lot of potential gil to be made each patch day, you just have to recognize that you don't need to be the HEAD of that Ouroboros by being a person that crafts high end raid gear. High end crafters need materials, and people need materials to get the resources they need to gather other materials. Friggin potatos can jump in price fivefold on patch day if it's in a useful enough recipie. If you need to get Old Thing 1 in order to get Old Thing 2 which is necessary to get the Brand New Thing(tm), you can make money off any one of those. Prices will jump on certain things on patch days so it's always important to keep those things in mind and prep for them. Making gil in FFXIV is definitely more than just "hey this one thing gets you all the money every day and this is the only thing you'll ever need to do and that's why I'm putting it in this video". That's a trap. FFXIV has all sorts of markets for all kinds of things. You can find a niche. You can diversify. It all comes down to experimenting and finding what works for you, what works in your server, what makes efficient use of your time, and what you enjoy. And of course it's worth pointing out that yeah, people pay for "convenience". You'll have more money if your pocket if you spend a little more time finding a cheaper way to obtain something than by just buying everything off the marketboard. Do you need 99 potatoes? Why not just gather them yourself rather than pay for them? This isn't really "making" gil, but it's being more efficient with the gil you already have which absolutely adds up over time.

I think you make a really strong point, glam and housing are things that not only you dont need max stats +meld, but they are always in demand, while pots, foods and gear eventually will be obsolete when a patch drop, furniture and fashion will stay the same forever.

Super good advice. I’ve always been able to make some good money on and around patch days with new shiny weapons and materials/gear, but it definitely does require you to check retainers every few mins. And then there’s inevitably that one person who decides the price should be dropped by 50% and just destroys all that 😅

Wow, this was very insightful. I will keep all of this in mind if I decide to do another gil making guide in the future

I'm a very new player to FF but very old to mmos. This information is pretty universally useful. Thank you.

Thank you for this. I was burned out from the game right before the patch release and came back 2 weeks later, it felt like a lost an oppertunity of the year, but this put it in perspective. I've done the same things you've shown in the video for a long time and I like it, the end statement helped me look at the game in a different light. It's supposed to be fun indeed, thanks ♥

Great video! Honestly, you put out good content! And when I see your thumb on homepage I trust info is good. Thanks so much!

I'm surprised more people didn't realize this. When I got into crafting, I figured consumables were a great idea because, well, you always have to come back for more eventually. And usually they are.. but furniture is sooo easy to craft if you just invest a little bit of time into grabbing the mats. Red Brick Counters can be a really good source of money if the competition isn't too bad. I sometimes get undercut but I don't check often and I still sell between 5 to 10 every couple days. And selling at around 70k each while costing me essentially nothing (since most of the mats can just be bought from out of the way merchants) is a really nice ROI.

I think gathering is the best ROI for gil in the game because it's super easy to level and start to make gil, another option it's treasure maps or farming mats from extreme trials with friends

Just found your channel and as a new FFXIV player I'm so grateful for all these helpful vids! :3

Thank you for telling people about this, hopefully it's also going to add more housing items to the market for us housing mains! Tips of other items people tend to need a load of during housing; wall planter, white rectangular partition, used banquet table (ppl use it as floors), (eastern) indoor pond, waterfall partition (high lvl craft) There's probs more out there!

I have made shops/vendors since the time of Ultima, and I agree 100% with this fantastic video, thanks, subscribed!👍🏼

As a free trialer maxing out crafters, I'm looking forward to the day I get access to Market Board.

Definitely a lesson I learned the hard way. Got burned pretty hard on crafting.

This is a great video! Keep up the good work!

The time honored tradition of buying items from in-game stores, and selling them en masse on the auction house will always be relevant. Convenience is king.

If you have the time and the friends to do it, treasure maps can be extremely lucrative in a short amount of time. I would say out of a 2 hour session with an 8 man party where everyone is contributing 2 or 3 maps (70, 80 or 90 is usually what I do) I can typically yield 500k+ gil depending on our luck, and that is JUST the gil. It doesnt count any mats or items that dropped that can be sold reliably. Plus, like that the investment for maps is very small. 2 days or 3 days of the week spent gathering your maps, or if you are lazy like me just buy them off the market board. Which is another topic, if you arent using your crafter each day to go get a map and sell it, you are missing out on easy gil (depending on map, server and current supply it can be anywhere from 10K to 30K) that takes only about 2 minutes of investment. Personally, I prefer to open my maps i gathered because as I said, in a party of 8 people where you will be opening something like 20 to 25 maps in a session, you will make tons of gil and items.

Amazing video. Another thing I'd like to add is doing maps with a small group of 4. I fall in the category of consistently being broke in this game (around 40k - 1m gil). Once I do maps I'm almost guaranteed to double or triple my income since some of the drops there are valuable. Do 4 party members and have it Free-For-All rules. Hope this helps anyone that wants to do a PvE method!

I actually never thought about this, when i just want a new crafting gear because to save food (and money) but what i got is wasting most of my time selling pots and food which always get undercut, thanks for the detail explanation i will do this especially when theres a new ward housing now

When not a major patch, Housing items and just random mats for HW or SB crafts can add up a lot if you're grinding for gil on crafters/gatherers. Diadem was also a goldmine if it didn't kill your sanity but this has slowed recently. One thing I do (though it's gotten a bit pricey and harder to find so I have to gather them myself now) is random maps. Not the current expansion maps, but the old ARR and HW maps that can possibly give you the unhidden ones when you solo them. It takes like five minutes to try each day and if you find one it's a lot. You're right that those that have gil made that major gil overtime, but it's also we don't really spend it unless it's to make more gil. Sometimes it's gambling but getting stock matters and there are patterns to what crafters COULD need for a patch. Your video is very good advice for gil making in general.

I've noticed that good housing stuff sells like hotcakes. I've been leveling crafters and I've made more money than I've spent doing that just from Verdant Partitions from my firmament grind lol

I also just decided to level my gathering classes because I love gathering (I like watching the numbers go up) and make quite a bit of gil just on that, ESPECIALLY if they are high level items.

Honestly speaking this is probably one of the best gil guides for FFXIV lmao despite the fact that it isn't even really a gil making guide xD

Best advice I can give if you're not making full items is to see how many of an item it takes to make something and then sell the needed amount for higher than the lowest price. Putting a stack of 99 on the board when someone only needs 5 to make the item they want tends to make them either buy high or resell so they don't clog their inventory. If they pick the option to buy high, you make a profit. Levequests and GC Missions benefit the most from knowing what you're selling will eventually turn into but it can apply to everything.

I am pretty sure richest players actually bought gil from traders at least a few times, but nobody mentions or talk about it lol

I just want to chime in and confirm that the whole inconvenience versus cost part really is a big part of how people make a lot of gil; a good rule of thumb that i personally go by: "If it's a pain in the ass to get or craft- zone in on it and try to market it" The daily grand company turn-ins for example; the level 40/50/60 crafts for those turn-ins can be quite lucrative depending on the server, but it requires a bit of legwork, but again, it's a super pain in the ass, which is why they can be so valuable.

Thanks for this! I'm just getting back into the game after not playing for quite a while, and was wondering about it the market, making gil, etc..

It's not something that's available 100% of the time, but watching for shifts in treasure map pools is super worthwhile! when a new item's added to the 8-man maps, that typically comes at the cost of an older item being moved to solos. this makes the price shoot right through the ceiling, so looking at upcoming patch notes and buying up the right things can net you a suuuper good RoI, even without crafting them into outfits made about150m, split between indigo cloth, fireglass an shell leather ^^;

Here is something that will save you all some gill... Do heavensward, stormsblood, and ARR weekly hunts, and then use the Seals to buy aetherrite tickes! You can get 70 or so each week. never pay for another TP again.

Thanks for the shoutout, appreciate it! :D

This is one of the best videos I've seen about gil making. Most all the other ones talk about same sheet like mentioned in the video. I will add though, while there is def a market in dyes (and always will be), you still had to invest a fair bit of time unlocking those tribes - so don't discount that you did invest time.

Small tip to save Gil: learn the cheapest routes towards your destinations. Take advantage of the Limsa’s docks; you can find a ferry or ship going to most major places for between 120-300 gil compared to the thousands teleporting. I have also made the MGS my home point as it has airships to all of eorzia for cheap, and free to Ul’dah.

Another thing that goes along with "convenience" is also making crafts that are required for quests, turnins, or just any generally annoying craft (like the ones required for master recipes) since they will ALWAYS be in demand

extremely well done video, thank you!

In general if the stack is over 100k people think twice before buying. I find stacks between 20-50k sell much faster than stacks over 100k. If all of a stack is not used within a week people will likely look for a smaller stack. Stacks can exceed the desired amount by about 30% or round to the nearest 10.

The greatest gil making opportunity I ever had was when they had red scripts. I made so much every week. The golden age for gatherers. So nice.

Great video! Some useful information in this.

This is such an important video. Like irl, there's always these quick rich gimmicks that never really work...

The fact you've pushed that people have made gil over years and years remains true even if gilmaking wasn't their actual goal. Don't forget the simple things. Don't let your tomes/seals/nuts overcap. Convert things in to better currencies or desynth. Extract your spiritbonds. Turn in some easy levequests if you're not using them for anything else (even if you just buy the items from the marketboard). Play the in-need role for roulettes if you feel like it. Gather a daily map if you remember. There are a whole bunch of these small things lying about on your account that aren't going to make you rich but they will certainly bolster your pockets. I made a few tens of millions over a couple of months just doing things like that. If you want to make some gil without really trying hard, I always suggest hunts over crafting. There are much better gil methods, but for a casual player it's chill and good enough to get you by most of the time.

the best way, in my opinion (though I'm only sitting on 70 mil so maybe I'm wrong) is to farm rewards from dead content. I've been working on my Pteranodon from Diadem and I've made a few mil passively by selling the hairstyles and parasols when I capped on Skybuilders scrips

i only started playing ffxiv very recently and i definitely was shocked to see the market in elemental clusters. I started goldsmith just for the furniture recently and found myself selling the ingots i made and getting a pretty good profit. All in all i did it cause watching the market fluctuation is fun for me.

After finding this video over the holidays I've taken to doing what I like to do best: spreadsheets lol. I'm collecting data on what furniture and general materials I sell on the MB and see what sells the most consistently. So far the results have fuckin surprised me!

I personally have around 38M atm and the large majority of that comes from selling random crap my retainers bring me and occasionally making random furniture when I'm in the mood to do some low effort crafting.

one way of making gil people forget is just level a Healer or Tank and do your dailies on them and rake in the gil and just level a gather to at least level 60 to grab your daily maps for treasure hunts

I clicked on the video out of curiosity about the quality of the advices given, preparing myself to laugh at basic stuff, common sense or even lies but i'm positively surprised! You did a very good job at explaining with actual advices. That is actually how players get billionaires, 95% of the real gil making recipe is here. Congratulations for your work and thank you for people in need of money

I was always going to get all jobs to max level, so once I got my crafters there, I just followed the guides on Gillionaire Gals and by spending like 15 minutes a day refreshing my sales and replacing my sold crafted items, I was making between 500k and 1m gil a week, even just buying the mats from the MB. When a new patch drops, the crafter gear always sells the best, the ones people buy to level crafting. Items that normally sell for 100k were selling for 700k for like three - four days before settling back down.

one big tip for making gil without even touching the market is just: treasure maps sure some days/runs are better than others, but you can bring in *so* much gil just by doing them, and that’s not even touching the mats you (can maybe) get from them

My #1 gil making tip: Keep your retainers stocked with something to sell, always! Full retainer sell spots give you the most opportunity to sell, because if they aren't full of items, there is nothing for folks to purchase.

You make money by understanding how a market and the consumers in it work fundamentally, not by desperately following trends. This is true for games and real life.

This video brings an amazing PoV to somehwat novice players that do not understand yet how the real market works and points out, in my opinion, two important aspects: the time you invest in the process of obtaining/selling the item and the fact you can manipulate the market itself (like it or not there will be always a no lifer than will undercut your crafts by a lot of gil, not your friendly 1 gil undercut). On top of that, now it is a crucial moment for the market as new plots have been added recently within this patch, so the demand will be even bigger for furnitures! As someone that has played this game since its release back in 2013, I'll bring in myself a couple of tips that always worked out for me and they are based in these two aspects i mentioned above. 1st tip: This only works in the same patch day, as soon as servers are up, for probably a couple hours. If you didnt notice, in every patch they tend to add a full glam plus other perks such as minions and scrolls within the new maps. Now, usually people tend to focus on the story and do these things later in the week, so instead try to duo maps (tank + healer, very doable plus i got an old video doing it in my channel) and farm them in order to get the new stuff. Since you will be the first person getting the glam items, you can pretty much set them up at ridiculous prices (think of it as an early acces, pay to win, I have sold multiple items by 30m gil per piece. Takes some gambling in this process, but works wonders. This latest patch a friend and I made 52'3m gil by just farming 2 hours of the newest maps! 2nd tip: Very similar to the dyes method. But instead orchestrion rolls, while the orchestrion sells for 5k, people usually do not know where to obtain them and the market is also very abandoned. You can put them to sell to high prices! From my experience I always sold the isghardian scrolls around 100k ish gil, i used to manage to sell a few 'Solid' scrolls for like 250k! And no, this isnt a scam, just a lack of knowledge! :p Hope this was also helpful to some extend! And don't forget why you're playing this game, it is your hobby and is supposed to bring some joy and fun, do not get burnt out because you hard tried to make gil and wasting time in the process!

Good video is pretty onpoint, also another thing to consider is most of those people that have a ton of gil that earned it honestly, more than likely made their fortune during heavensward, back when crafting was at it's highest point of annoyance, and sometimes people would spend up to 200k for one vial of holy water. So that's another thing to remember, a lot of the people that are gilcap are old money. Only reason I point this out is cause that chunk level of gil making is not possible anymore and some people daydream thinking it is, is kinda really not, so another point I would have added is be realistic about your own exepectations.

I used to be a pretty hardcore crafter on Gilgamesh; but I don't play anymore. I entered 3.0 with over 100 million gil and I could have gotten plenty more if I cared to invest the time in it. But at that point I had more gil than I ever knew what to do with. I don't know how much these tips apply in the current expansion; but, here's some thoughts to my process. - Consistency: The best advice I can give is to find specific markets and be very consistent with stocking them. I had a retainer for pots/food, 2 retainers for very basic leveling gear (people leveling alts will spend a lot on HQ crafted gear to make dungeon runs smoother), a retainer for furniture, and a retainer for random misc items. I would log on every day, check my retainers, and re-supply them with the listed items. I kept a spread sheet of each retainer's item list to keep track. Speaking of spreadsheets . . . - Spreadsheets: google sheets are your absolute best friend. Keep track of what items you like to craft, how well they sell, recipes/materials you frequent, etc. Spreadsheets are very fun and extremely helpful to track what is and isn't making gil - Market manipulation: This one is a little underhanded sometimes; but I was in a "crafter union" linkshell of the some of the high level crafters and we would work together to corner specific markets and share info. We would also agree on certain prices so we didn't enter an undercut war. If there was someone undercutting; you can list an item at extremely low prices; wait for the undercutter to undercut that price; then buy them out and re-list at your profit margin and save yourself crafting for that day. It's risky; but most undercutters don't look at stack sizes or prices, they just undercut whatever is at the top of the list. I've made millions tricking people to undercut stacks of food for half the normal market price. Speaking of linkshells. . . - Networking: Another important advice I can give is getting to know people. Join crafter linkshells and learn from other people. Most people want to share info and gloat, but they don't want to ruin their market by making a youtube video. I had many networks of friends and would frequently commission huge amounts of materials from specific gatherers. That way they get guaranteed gil and a specific gathering goal and I get a competitive market price at extreme convenience. - Brand Awareness, word of mouth, and PF: This one is mostly for fun; but I would always advertise on PF as the "Lucky Cat Omni-Crafter!" and would take commissions from anyone looking for items. This was particularly popular when specializations were important for raid gear. It's very fun to actually talk to a customer one on one and let them watch you craft; it breaks up the monotony of mindlessly crafting and they often tip very well and offer word of mouth advertising to their friends. I was lucky enough to be commissioned to craft day one gear for some of the top raiding guilds as well because of this. - Materia grind: Not sure if this is still a thing but I would often craft full sets of gear and spam T3 with my friends, using spiritbond potions etc, just to sell the materia. I would also always have a separate set of crafting gear whenever I crafted large amounts of food or pots for the spiritbond. - Selling content: This one isn't crafting related but being the degen I was I was also a very high level raider at the time and helped run a content selling linkshell. You can make disgusting amounts of gil if you have a group of very good raiders to pull from. We would set prices, advertise, and pull anyone available from our link shells. A lot of people will pay 50-100 million gil for extreme primals in hopes of getting a mount or clears for raids. Selling T13 with 7 people was probably some of the most difficult and satisfying experiences I had in FFXIV and I was lucky enough to meet and play with some of the players from the world first teams doing so. I'm not sure if the devs have made any changes about ToS in this regard though. Back then nobody I knew was punished for it; but I hear a lot has changed in terms of advertising on PF (like not being able to advertise parse runs). Hope some of that helped, good luck out there!

Honestly, your reasoning is legit how I've been making my dough in this game without even bothering to look up any guides. If I run across an item that is slightly inconvenient to get, chances are, other people will think so too. And so I've been trying many things, from materials used for crafting in job quests, to commonly sought after furniture, from freaking flipping strom seals into gil by selling glamour prisms. All of those things give satisfying results. There's even passive income options such as the dyes from island sanctuary or if you're lucky enough to win the housing gacha, gardening goods like thavnairian onions (those will always sell well, since supply is limited to people with houses, and demand is pretty high among chocobo enjoyers)

I found that crafting items for crafters and items for quests (usually things the crafters are supposed to make themselves and turn in but aren't bothered to level botanist/miner/fisher ) works

The game simply doesn't have enough people that actually buy from the marketboard. Seems everyone is selling to a tiny proportion of players and has to put in enormous amounts of work undercutting other sellers to secure sales to the tiny customer base rather than actually playing the game or crafting more. Honestly I've just gone through the listings looking for items with 0 available and focused on those, let others tear their hair out as they are undercut by 1 gil by 100s of other sellers.

While I agree with some things you said, I also don't agree with others. Over the two years of playing this game, I've tried virtually every possible way of making gil: from crafting leves, to reselling vendor items, to crafting furniture, crafting consumables, latest gear, FC workshop etc. And one thing I can say with confidence is: there is not a single 'exploit' or 'hack' that will bring you large amounts of gil with low amount of effort. It all boils down to how much effort you are willing to put into making gil and if the outcome is worth the effort you are putting in. I don't mind talking about things I do to make gil because I know most of the people will not be willing to put in as much work as I did into it. I have made about 100mil from the patch day of 6.2 just because I was prepared and was the first to put up the new crafted gear on the market board. People bought several pieces of new gear for 10mil each, just because they wanted to get into the raid first and have the best gear as soon as possible. So yes, you can get lots of gil overnight. But what does it take to do that? Well, it takes lots of analyzing. What mats are going to be reused, what are going to be the new ones? Farming the mats you can farm before the patch. Midmaxing your stats so you make sure you can craft the new recipe without remelding. Being able to craft new recipes without macros. Being able to predict which nodes the new items will drop from. And so many others. It's very tedious and not at all easy. So why do I do it? Because I don't actually like crafting or gathering or manipulating the market. As I've said, I've tried so many methods, and sure they all bring gil to an extent, but nothing is as fast as patch day. So because I don't like crafting, I do the thing that requires the least time spent crafting. I pre-gather all the mats and then spend one or two days just crafting and earn millions of gil and then? Then I enjoy the game til the next patch day, never having to worry about making gil until then :)

dude, thank you, just started playing ffxiv with buddies a few weeks ago and just bought the full endwalker expansion, been playing mmos for a long time and can see why people really love this game, ive watched 3 of your videos now and just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the content. How long have you been playing??

That was a really good video. Thank you.

Finally a video that says how it is. Well done!

Eureka stuff also pays off pretty well. If you can find chest farmers in Pyros and Hydatos, you'll have a good source of income. Besides the rare and expensive items, and the logograms (which always sell like hotcakes), you'll also stack up a bunch of Platinum pieces which sell 10000 a piece at any npc vendor.

The convenience thing. On my server the crafting requirements for crafting class quests sell for a ton of gill. Also like 1-2 materials needed for these. I farm my own materials for these quests so i always farm more than needed, then craft more than needed, then sell the ones i crafted except for the one for the quest and sell the leftover materials by itself

It's always worth seeing what's popular and selling well. Low level mats are also great for getting a drip-feed of gil, especially ingots. Quest items for people levelling crafters and gatherers (ESPECIALLY fisher), grand company hand-ins for gatherers will also net you a good bit but will be slower.

yeah i craft dyes for myself and started trying to sell them recently, and the ones thatve been selling the best are the ones that're good for furniture, like Loam Brown and Kobold Brown

At 4:34 you show a 500k outdoor furnishing. What is it called please?

I'm a little late, but one thing I've found useful that's not ToS breaking is using the companion app. You can check the market board even while logged in. I've been using it when I find an npc selling something unique to see if I should buy some to flip.

Finally someone addressed the gil making video redundancy. I'm retiring from this field because this is the goat gil video. Time to go fishing. Great work!

You are really right in whole video. I am just a newbie in FFXIV, yet I came from Star Wars The Old Republic. Good thing in SWTOR you make your companions do the gathering and crafting. The part where you say no one wants to go to vendor or know it can be bought from it is exactly true. As I don't play SWTOR now I can ruin it, I found it out myself and idk how, a vendor sells a house item which is a must have, an inventory server wide, across your characters, swtor doesn't have a job change, to buy the Legacy Bank you need another item which is crafted, you buy the crafted item, go to vendor, buy the Legacy Bank and put it on sale. The crafted item was at most cost you a million, I even sold the end item like 20M. Bad thing is not everyday it sells but it sells eventually. You need to lower the price sometimes but it does not matter as the effort is too little. You just walk a bit. My best recommendation would be a bit research of your own in market or the vendors and a bit money to spend for nothing, if the item does not sell well. Eventually you will find a convenient way to yourself that probably less people know or do it. Best way would be an item that you can buy that needs 2 actions. The Legacy Bank I said can be purchased from a vendor but not with money, so an ordinary person, probably has more chunks of money that makes your price nothing major, will not choose crafting the item, going to vendor, and buy it or buying the payment item, going to vendor and buy the end product. He is just going to search the end item in the market as probably he she has better things to spend the time. Just like in the video he found "windows" that sell well. As it seems it is his own way of find. So you need your own way. If you find your way yourself probably the fight over it on the market will be less. So you may find the right prize it sells well. Be the boss of your own.