Farming For Gil

[kantori]

Re: Farming For Gil

Biggest profit would be those that make u a little money but those stack up over time - sometimes thats the best route as a Leathercrafter myself but if you want to be a risk taker, u can try ur shot at making Curse Gears such as Cursed Gauntlets -1.

On Siren those sell real quick but the synth loss for getting NQ hurts the wallet.

[Aylmer]

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Some of the lower lvl NMs like Spininy in West Saurabutaru and some of the other low lvl NMs that pop like every 1-3hrs are good but usually time consuming. If an NM is in your general farming area then I suggest going for it. You can also mine, harvet, excavate, or chocobo dig for materials that sell pretty well from certain areas. Its not time consuming and you usually can sell or low lvl synth most items into fast selling items. Just try it all and you find your niche.

[Durahansolo]

Even if i buy everything to craft beeswax on my server i can still make a good 3-4k gil profit as it sells on my server anywhere between 13k-17k and in fact we saw it climb to 20k not too long agao, with beehive chips staying at 3k a stack.

I've never seen it that high on my server. If it goes up to 20k then it might actually be worth the time to farm and craft it, otherwise you are wasting both gil and time unless you can HQ it. Since Akira has midrange cooking it might be more gil efficient to make honey instead.

Plus if you have a thf at lv 15 (even if you just sub it) you can farm 9 stacks in an hour

I usually get around 6-7 stacks and 2-3 stacks of honey within about 1 hour and 30 mins. I always went WAR/THF and brought a great axe until I started realizing that the delay is killer so I started lugging my martial axe around instead.

might wanna check how many people are there before you go though as you may find a lot of competition due to Norg fame for trading in the necklaces

Yeah, if you are going to a zone to farm, it is easier to search the area before you go all the way out there and find out that somebody already has a route on the bees (or Yagudo) and is ahead of you. In the zone I farm chips in, there has hardly been anybody out there lately and I don't know why.

so Alchemy is Profitable then?

Yes

whats alchemys big seller?

I'm not exactly sure. I just know what works for me. I'm level 81 and I mainly use it for crafting the materials to make bolt heads and then using woodworking to make status bolts.

i assume its mroe expensive to level than cooking seeing as i made no loss or profit with most my recipes produced.

You can break even sometimes if the AH/server is nice to you. Usually you'll even make gil along the way if choose to stop leveling a craft so you can try to make a profit for a short while.

[godsaiyan]

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IMO Beeswax is not really gil/time efficient unless you can HQ it at a high enough rate, so it is almost cheaper just to sell the chips. Otherwise it'll take 3 stacks of beehive chips to make 1 stack of beeswax which 3 stacks of beehive chips would sell for about 12k total and save you the time of crafting as well. Now if you had high cooking (Edit: Looks like you have 46 Cooking so you should have about a 25% of HQ on Honey), you could have a good chance of HQ and turn the chips into honey which also makes around the same amount of gil as beehive chips per stack.

Even if i buy everything to craft beeswax on my server i can still make a good 3-4k gil profit as it sells on my server anywhere between 13k-17k and in fact we saw it climb to 20k not too long agao, with beehive chips staying at 3k a stack.

Plus if you have a thf at lv 15 (even if you just sub it) you can farm 9 stacks in an hour, better still if you have a higher level thf with treasure hunter gear on. In fact a member of my ls maged to get 15 stacks within an hour, and that was with competition.

I will admit there are quicker ways to making gil but for the lower level players, who can solo exp the first few levels, bee type mobs are good to farm and level up at the same time.

Anyway, another way to make gil i find is that, though this is a lot less per stack, if you take a level 10-18 job in Giddeus you can de-sync yagudo necklaces dropped by yags and the best thing about it, with the lower job, they will drop wind crystals which are needed for the de-sync. It's a very easy one to do and it makes you 3 grass threads which a stack sells for 1.5-2k on my server. You might wanna check how many people are there before you go though as you may find a lot of competition due to Norg fame for trading in the necklaces

[MIthra_Akira]

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so Alchemy is Profitable then? i assume its mroe expensive to level than cooking seeing as i made no loss or profit with most my recipes produced, whats alchemys big seller?

[Durahansolo]

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Cooking and Alchemy compliment each other nicely as well so it'll help you in the long run.

ps im not sure what crafts are worth investing in ,cooking is ok cuz it helps me but the gil is Little for time spent farming ingrdients and the cheap recipes sell for very little and not fast enough :/

You pretty much have to check and play the AH game. Supply and Demand and all those economics. I have alchemy 81 now and I specifically leveled cooking to compliment alchemy. I have a Tier 3 (Or 50%) HQ rate on Echo Drops at that level. I leveled cooking to 63 so I'd have a Tier 3 HQ rate on Honey which is necessary to make the echo drops. I go out and farm maybe 6 stacks of beehive chips and then buy 2-3 extra stacks. So I'd end up with 12+ Stacks of honey. Take that and turn it into Echo Drops and end up with about 23+ Stacks selling at about 8-10k each. I haven't sold any since the market crash of remedies lol, but I might get out there and do it one day. Then send them to my 2 Jeuno mules and they'd usually be sold by the time I get home from work the next day.

I was glad I leveled cooking now that I play mage jobs lol. Being able to make your own juices for refresh is great.

[MIthra_Akira]

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Hmm i didnt think about Nm drops can Elites Be soloed?im not sure what the Elite fights are for either,i thoght about doing leaping lizzy for boots but i gusse its heavly camped but i could be ok i camp Valkurm Emperor alot (7 Kills no Drop ) is there any other good Nms that can drop stuff that sells ?

ps im not sure what crafts are worth investing in ,cooking is ok cuz it helps me but the gil is Little for time spent farming ingrdients and the cheap recipes sell for very little and not fast enough :/

[Aylmer]

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I actually like farming in Giddeus. Chips, honey from Wasp. Plus gil and yag necklaces from yags with medicants and persecutors dropping silver beastcoins. Also you can steal silver beastcoins from the votary, priest ,theologist yags in low part of map on upper deck. Also the yag necklaces can be desynth into copper ingot for 4500-5k per stack. There is lots of competion there and also the Torrent yag NM drops zealot mitts and monster signa which sell pretty well.

[Pwnagraphic]

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Yo stupid me sold those to the vendor and a week before I quit playing.. I found out that were going for 5k a stack.. I was so ticked lol.

[hexx]

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Best place to farm beehive chips is Giddeus in my opinion, you can run a nice little circuit there and by the time you run a lap, the bee's are already popping again. Just go in with plenty of space in your inventory for at least 10 stacks of chips.

[Pwnagraphic]

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Farming mobs... is what most if not all people do, for gil.

Try this site for suggestions: Selphiie The Enchantress: Guide To Farming

Forgot to add, prices on that site might be out of date, use Final Fantasy XI Auction House - FFXIAH.com to find out the prices on your server if it's not a sell to NPC item.

Fishing is a good fast easy way to get gil too.

[Jarre]

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I trained up my weapon skills on my 35 war in Qufim with /thf and gillfinder you get at least 100gil per Gigga. Plus can level weapons up to around 80 skill level their, did, great sword, scythe, club, dagger, staff and polearm there.

[Ziero]

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Invest in getting your craft as high as you can and then use that to make cash. Farming is a lot more profitable when you can turn the items you farmed into items you synthed right on the spot, especially if you can HQ something. Cooking and Alchemy compliment each other nicely as well so it'll help you in the long run.

[LadyKiKi]

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What scrolls do you possibly need that is expensive for you anyway? If you're looking at Auction House prices they're expensive for a reason, people being lazy and not looking at where it can be purchased via NPC.

Do some Fields of Valor on lower job levels. You can "gil" packets for killing the required mobs. Use the tabs earned to do "Elite Training Regimes" and pop a NM (make sure you can kill first) with gil and kill it, earning you double the gil you put into it (cap is dependant on area).

[Durahansolo]

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I did mean getting drops from mobs and selling them but gil drops are ok i gusse n thanks for the advice i will be looking into the beeswax thing they sell for like 12k on my server seems a good way to get some decent gil and i should proberly farm most my scrolls, also can i make beeswax from level 0 alchemy ?i assume i can but with a few breaks
Thank you

IMO Beeswax is not really gil/time efficient unless you can HQ it at a high enough rate, so it is almost cheaper just to sell the chips. Otherwise it'll take 3 stacks of beehive chips to make 1 stack of beeswax which 3 stacks of beehive chips would sell for about 12k total and save you the time of crafting as well. Now if you had high cooking (Edit: Looks like you have 46 Cooking so you should have about a 25% of HQ on Honey), you could have a good chance of HQ and turn the chips into honey which also makes around the same amount of gil as beehive chips per stack.