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Hiya all! At the time of this post, I'm a 45BLM/22WHM. I'll not bore you with the details, but I need money- and lots of it- as do we all in this game. So I'm proposing to have a brief discussion on what we all do to make some scratch in this game ;-)
I've done the crawler thing a lot, but that can be done at level 10 probably, as a form of regular income. Probably earlier. Now that I'm level 45, I'm figuring there's GOT to be better stuff out there based on killable enemies... but I'm not ruling anything out at this point.
From reading boards and talking to linkshell friends, I've at least come across the following ideas, and tried a few of them. Here are my thoughts:
1) Committing Crawler Genocide for stacks and stacks of silk thread.
Pro: relatively stable income, and you can start extremely early in the game
Con: the market is getting oversaturated (on Phoenix as I'm sure everywhere else) and I think there must be better things out there.
2) Killing whatever other monster species for its drops
Con: I have yet to find another "really great" thing to hunt. But I haven't looked very hard.
3) Camping NM's and selling their drops
Pro: Very nice items can be had, and sold for high prices
Con: Camping can be long and sometimes fruitless, (making it possibly not worth the time spent on the endeavor)
4) Gardening
Pro: Apparently if you know the right combos, you can get really awesome stuff
Con: Gardening takes a long while to do, but the rewards can be very good. also, takes up space all the time
5) Mining/Fishing
Pro: If you have the right gear, and know what you're doing, apparently you can get a good turnout.
Con: I'm not sure if this is a very good way to get money later on in the game.
6) Selling Items from BCNM's (or other such battles)
Pro: Very nice items that can sell for high
Con: Beastmen's seals are dropped while gaining exp. After the main stack(s) run out, you'll have to get creative on how to obtain them efficiently
7) AH Ebay!
Pro: By playing the market and running between cities, you can turn a profit for yourself.
Con: Information is needed, and helpers can be.. well.. a help.. Also, you only have 7 AH slots to use at a time (multiple game characters can help for this, but not everyone wants to/can pay for more character accounts just for this purpose)
8) Crafting
Pro: Make/sell high quality (or) highly consumed items
Con: It takes TONS of input gil just to level all crafts, and a lot of research and know-how to make the most efficient gains. Some crafts are more/less profitable than others, and it's long debated.
These are the main areas of repeatable moneymaking I've come across. My weapon of choice is to take my thief out and hunt crawlers for silk, but that gets tiresome after doing it for weeks and weeks. I can't argue with the results though. I can pull about 12 silk threads in about 60-90 minutes with Treasurehunter, and I inevitably get about 12 calcs (trade to NPC), which gives me something like 11000+2400 = 13400gil in maybe (I'll go high end) 2 hours of game time, + time for the Auctions to sell.
So I'll call that 6700gil/hour. +time spent waiting for silk auctions.
What I'm looking for in this post is for people to state their level/job (if that matters for the form of moneymaking) and explain how they make money in terms of gil/hour, and prerequisite items/skills/effort needed.
Thanks!
If this discussion gets going, maybe it can help some of us with light pockets make better choices in how we spend our time ^_^
-Rivant
I've done the crawler thing a lot, but that can be done at level 10 probably, as a form of regular income. Probably earlier. Now that I'm level 45, I'm figuring there's GOT to be better stuff out there based on killable enemies... but I'm not ruling anything out at this point.
From reading boards and talking to linkshell friends, I've at least come across the following ideas, and tried a few of them. Here are my thoughts:
1) Committing Crawler Genocide for stacks and stacks of silk thread.
Pro: relatively stable income, and you can start extremely early in the game
Con: the market is getting oversaturated (on Phoenix as I'm sure everywhere else) and I think there must be better things out there.
2) Killing whatever other monster species for its drops
Con: I have yet to find another "really great" thing to hunt. But I haven't looked very hard.
3) Camping NM's and selling their drops
Pro: Very nice items can be had, and sold for high prices
Con: Camping can be long and sometimes fruitless, (making it possibly not worth the time spent on the endeavor)
4) Gardening
Pro: Apparently if you know the right combos, you can get really awesome stuff
Con: Gardening takes a long while to do, but the rewards can be very good. also, takes up space all the time
5) Mining/Fishing
Pro: If you have the right gear, and know what you're doing, apparently you can get a good turnout.
Con: I'm not sure if this is a very good way to get money later on in the game.
6) Selling Items from BCNM's (or other such battles)
Pro: Very nice items that can sell for high
Con: Beastmen's seals are dropped while gaining exp. After the main stack(s) run out, you'll have to get creative on how to obtain them efficiently
7) AH Ebay!
Pro: By playing the market and running between cities, you can turn a profit for yourself.
Con: Information is needed, and helpers can be.. well.. a help.. Also, you only have 7 AH slots to use at a time (multiple game characters can help for this, but not everyone wants to/can pay for more character accounts just for this purpose)
8) Crafting
Pro: Make/sell high quality (or) highly consumed items
Con: It takes TONS of input gil just to level all crafts, and a lot of research and know-how to make the most efficient gains. Some crafts are more/less profitable than others, and it's long debated.
These are the main areas of repeatable moneymaking I've come across. My weapon of choice is to take my thief out and hunt crawlers for silk, but that gets tiresome after doing it for weeks and weeks. I can't argue with the results though. I can pull about 12 silk threads in about 60-90 minutes with Treasurehunter, and I inevitably get about 12 calcs (trade to NPC), which gives me something like 11000+2400 = 13400gil in maybe (I'll go high end) 2 hours of game time, + time for the Auctions to sell.
So I'll call that 6700gil/hour. +time spent waiting for silk auctions.
What I'm looking for in this post is for people to state their level/job (if that matters for the form of moneymaking) and explain how they make money in terms of gil/hour, and prerequisite items/skills/effort needed.
Thanks!
If this discussion gets going, maybe it can help some of us with light pockets make better choices in how we spend our time ^_^
-Rivant
here's the info below if intereste.
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. Killing too many can do that to ya.
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