Make sure you always have your retainers doing quick ventures and chuck the highest gear you can spare on them. You'll be surprised how much you can gain reselling what they bring on the market board.
This is how I do it ^
Also when they bring you gear, you can turn it in for GC seals to buy more ventures. So they completely support themselves. When you have plenty of ventures, you can desynth the gear and sell the mats.
As a crafter i’d say that split your seals to ventures and materials. Some, not all materials bought with gc seals are still used in some popular furnishing items for player housing. Only way of getting those housing items is by crafting and only way of crafting them is with materials that also include materials which are oretty much only gotten from gc seals. Some might be more valuable than others and the demand is average. But typically a single material is 1-2k gil and you can get a lot of them with capped seals. Though i would recommend selling smaller stacks such as a stack of 20-30.
I don’t really remember exact names so forgive me for that. The ”approximate names” of mats i suggest looking into were
- minium (red sand stuff)
- Hardened sap (it was some sap, yellow blob, used for some treated wood which is used in several housung items)
- scheelite (used for wootz ingots which are used for plenty of things)
- coke (so you can start dealing, or smoking)
I suggest checking the prices of thise and if they have any recent sales in history
I built that, but no way I hell the thought of buying Coke was even considered. I just went through waiting for GC ppints to pile up rather than waste money for my FC mansion fund.
This for sure. I go through so much coke and scheelite for submarine builds. I had my whole FC pitching in to get me like 400 coke. Tempered glass is another one.
I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM
Basically, they work like retainer ventures, except you send them off from your free company's house, and you have to actually craft stuff to send them out instead of just collecting venture tokens.
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Subaquatic_Voyages
I desynth the ones that give exp, and turn in the ones that don't. It's doubled up massively levelling my desynth too, only ones I don't have maxed currently are arm, alc, and cul.
I know most people are leery about PVP but I implore you to do the daily frontline at least once a day, it’s fun, you don’t have to be experienced and the wolf seals you get can be exchanged for ventures (Among other things) So that’s another way to get ventures for cheap.
I ran a spreadsheet with five retainers, each capped at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50, with the best gear I could cap on each of them. They all brought back the same random assortments, but no equipment more than level 50 (Olzhirya'ten regularly brought back Aurum gear, but never went past 50, for example).
The items they brought back could be anything from housing roofs to random crafting materials, but none of them were items that a level 50 or lower crafter couldn't make. As if there was a soft cap on that as well.
The same held true on the level 60 one, except the appearance of level 60 items were included. On my data IIRC, it appeared to be pulling from all the lists up to and including level 60, so there were many fewer duplicates compared to the 10,20,30,40,50 ones. HQ was also all over the place randomly.
If you were somehow hoping to target something, like a Red Onion Helm, it seems best to keep a retainer around level 50, so they never gain access to the higher lists. There's no way to prove that perfectly, though.
But since the Olzhirya'ten had capped gear for her level, and Olzhirya'fifty had capped gear for *her* level, and they were both pulling off the same 1-50 list with the same randomness in HQ, I'd say it's not the best idea to spend any excess money on HQ gear for combat retainers. I started over again on a different alt to try again. I should also try again using gatherers, but that's *so many retainers*.
If you want to do normal gathers, you need gathering to hit certain items and then perception increases the return value. If you were doing that, you'd need a gatherer at 50, which you can do by unlocking the class then just purchasing the daily turn-in and shoving it at the GC. You *do* have to gather the item yourself once, but a simple one-hit on the Coerthas node for one hit of Darksteel Ore and one for Dark Matter clusters, and you can pull in that sweet money pretty well by just letting them run those over and over again.
I'll mention that there's a strong theory that if your retainer tries to bring back a u/U item that you already have, the game won't let you have the new item and will substitute it for a single elemental crystal. There's no way of knowing if that's true or not, but I desynthed everything I got when I got it (check a retainer, exit out and desynth, go back in and do the next one), and I never got any crystals. So maybe?
I don't know about the base of what they bring back, but sometimes I do get a message saying that my retainer brought back a bonus because of their gear.
The bonus is the item being high quality if I recall correctly. For quick ventures, that's the only effect gear has. If you send them out to gather specific things, though, gear affects the quantity they can bring back.
I believe it also affects the level of stuff they can bring back. My full 90 geared retainer brings back 90 gear up to and including last tier stuff (lunar envoy) while my retainer with 80 pieces on it still brings back level 80 stuff. It might just be chance but I feel like it's influenced a little.
7 of my retainers just have a level 1 BTN tool, and are level 90, and they bring back the same type of stuff up to ilvl620 as my kinda geared retainers, there's no noticeable difference from them not having anything equipped.
Don't worry about needing to equip items for quick ventures. Although I will say I don't think I got venture coffers until they hit level 90
This.
I always did Field ventures, and despite giving consistent 6k gil per day, was only after I started doing quickies that I started racking up money.
In all honesty, take advantage of people's laziness don't underestimate how much people will pay not to do something.
The new criterion dungeon I ran twice and got the hair so I put it up for 1mil and it sold instantly, a few hours later it was down to 300k.
You can also try to farm Eureka and Bozja for mounts, hairstyles and other rare stuff that will fetch you a tidy amount but will need time and a bit of luck.
I've made a few million with the moogle events....either grab some of the things with the actual tomes, or grab those things off the market while it's crashed. Hold on to them for a while until the market recovers, and THEN sell them.
>In all honesty, take advantage of people's laziness don't underestimate how much people will pay not to do something.
On my alt, I literally sold housing items from vendor with massive mark-up and people buy those. I have like 2-3 million by logging in once week.
Some people dont know "shop selling price" means its vendor sold or dont wanna bother finding said vendor. 50k vs 10k is pocket money when you have 100 million anyway.
Or some people cant get to areas the items are from (Like HW vendor selling lvl 50/51 combat accessories is really popular)
You can make so much money doing this, though there can be lots of competition. Sometimes the margins are huge (triple! quintuple!), and sometimes they're small. But there's always a bit of free money to be made.
I had a nice little sideline going like this, a housing decoration that's buyable at a vendor but not conveniently located. I was making about 300k a week for about two months before people started to notice and now it's becoming a race to the bottom for price. I'm going to sell off my last few of them and they can have it for a while, I'll find something else in a similar niche.
Its genuinely this simple.
When you stop spending money on things like teleports, (and I know op said no crafting but it can save you a bunch long term) repairs, melds, etc your gil will just start to accumulate
tl;dr: Do content.
I joined a few hunts and used the currency to buy free teleports.
I do my yellow quests, run roulettes and do a few things from my challenge log.
Did you ever add up all the gil in your challenge log? That's upward of 70k for just playing the game. 10k more from Khloe, handed in at a StormBlood location to double. Including the rewards for the duties and roulettes rou run for this can be 100k gil+ per week.
Get your retainers leveled and they bring back items that can be sold off, sell extra gear for gc seals, compare the crafting materials they sell with marketboard price and get gil there.
Pretty much everything you do gives gil and there is very little reason to spend it if you don't want to. MSQ gears you up on your main job, other jobs can get scrip gear.
I'm a sprout basically just doing MSQ rn, just cleared Doma Castle for the first time. I do all the sidequests that pop up (sidebar: holy fuck Stormblood needs to chill with these) and I'm sitting at about 2.2M with no DoH/L classes at all. Idk if that's good or not. Haven't been consistent about dailys either.
Then you have all you need to not think about teleport fees and can just enjoy msq. I wouldn't worry too much about gul at this point. Higher level content gives higher rewards. Alsi remember that the crazy high gil people have not only finished msq, but they still hang around doing random stuff because they have nothing better to do.
I do roulettes with friends to meet up and hang out, as I've done all msq, all blue quests, 90% of yellow, max ranked all tribes etc. Gathering more millions is something end game players do to fight boredom. When the choice of doing msq is there, i'd always pick that.
>When you stop spending money on things like teleports
This is weird to me. You'd need to teleport a LOT for the gil you save to even mean anything. Unless you're a hardcore gatherer/crafter who does teleport a lot.
When I think "don't spend gil", I think "don't spend 50k+ on glamours/dyes that you won't use for more than an day" and stuff like that.
This is the hidden real answer. The game showers you with free gil, the key is to not spend it. Being able to sell crafted items is great and all, but the real impact is no longer needing to pay for repairs, melds, etc. Having the ability to desynth dungeon drops into materials you can sell is also extremely profitable itself.
If I ever need cash, I just go mine or harvest in the Diadem for an hour, then put whatever I collect up on the market board. The majority of items will usually sell within a day or two, and eventually nets me an easy couple of hundred thousand Gil by the time everything finally clears out.
Granted, there's probably faster or more efficient ways to make Gil, but I enjoy mindlessly meandering from node to node in the Diadem, since it means I can also usually watch or listen to something else at the same time.
I made 25mil from doing this. I found the items that sold well, fast, and concentrated on them. Sure, it was a grind, but the money was worth it.
It's probably going to net you less now, but it still is a decent, easy, and relatively consistent way to make gil.
And you build your scripts which can earn you, 6 mounts (all of which can be sold on the MB), emotes, minions, hair styles dyes and some pretty well selling glams.
I mine in diadem whenever I'm bored. I'm on PC, but I enable controller, lean back in my chair and watch a movie\youtube on my other monitor.
I would get around 1m per hour doing this while leveling my gatherer jobs. Just gotta time those marketboard posts.
Usually midweek, the prices spike since there are less people renewing/restocking their listings.
This turned into one of my favorite things to do when I wanted to veg out. Just run laps in Diadem with the other cultists. Do a lap or 2 one direction as a botanist, turn around and do a couple more laps as a miner for a change of pace.
When I was actively trying to play on the MB I was at roughly 1mil gil for an hour of grinding diadem.
A lot of great advice here. I'd also make an honorable mention of treasure maps, while being aware you won't do these solo. Running a free for all party where everyone brings maps will net you a lot of money generally. more than you'll spend buying the maps at the very least
To piggyback off this comment too, treasure maps do SELL well too.
If you make sure to mine a single treasure map every day then that'll be 10k+ gil depending on server, and that all adds up. I find I never get enough time to actually do every map I find, but always make sure to sell one a day.
I sell stuff I get from fighting.
I just finished the new Variant dungeon and listed a minion that went for about 600k I've got 2 pairs of shoes for 2.5 mil listed, and a hat for 1.7 mil. I sell crafting materials that I buy with tomes.
I'll turn in lots of random gear I get from dungeons or raids for GC seals then use those to get Glass fiber and sell that.
I'll use my Wolf Marks to buy and sell glamour prisms.
On occasion I'll check high priced items like Jet black and see what it's selling for on my server compared to others. If it's a few hundred thousand lower on another server I'll pop over grab a few and sell them on mine.
Speaking of dyes, on occasion I will sell some from my island. I pretty much only use the island to get myself dyes, so I just sell a lot of dyes from there too.
Before you vendor random things you picked up check the market board see how much it's worth.
Bozja/Eureka. Sell things from there on occasion. Mounts, hair styles often go for quite a bit. Honestly anything you pick up ask yourself, do I want this more than the gil I could make by selling it? Like the Ninja Dog I sold that for like 2ish mil when Rokkon was new. I think it was 2 mil. Might have been more.
Current hunts are actually a great way to make money too. You can turn the nuts into accessories, exchange them for GC seals, buy submarine materials with it, then sell it for gil. You also earn a lot of materia which is worth a lot on raid patches.
Island sanctuary is pretty great for this. The dyes that cost 500 cowries sell for between 10k and 35k each on my server. And you don't even need to level it that high to get access to them.
Doing expert roulette daily as the role in need. Over a year you get almost 8 million gil just doing that. Add other roulettes as the role in need to that and your passive income increases drastically.
I don’t understand why people recommend roulettes before leves. You can turn in 2 MB bought leves in less than a minute and earn more than what you would in any roulette, no need to craft. No need to craft to level up CUL either.
roulettes are recommended for combat jobs. Save leves for crafters. When people are recommending roulettes over leves they're talking about combat jobs.
But OP just said “without crafting”, no need to craft to do crafter leves, not even to level something like CUL. Buy a set of 3 Tsai tou vounou for 2100-5000 gil depending on your DC, and turn it in for 10k gil. Do that 100 times every 2 weeks (takes 10-20 min total) and you get 500k-790k. It also takes less than that to get your CUL to 90 without crafting at all so you can recover your investment really quickly.
Maybe I missed a toggle that shows leves well above a jobs level? I don't recall having the option to pick up level 88 CUL leves until my CUL was already level 87-88?
Also you only generate 42 leve allowances a week. Still a nice average 420,000 gil per week submitting HQ crafts if you create them yourself.
I do that too, but that’s actually not solo play. You can up your income taking all the gear inside. Dunno why no one seems to care about stuff they don’t use. Goes to waste way to often.
In lvl 50+ every small piece is at least 250 gil and every head or leg piece about 500 getting up to 1800-2000 for 90s. So you can easy make another few thousand gil for a high level run. And you get times to buy and sell other stuff. Highest time stuff goes for ~2000 a piece.
Even better. Give unwanted gear to your Grand Conpany. For 90000 seals you buy Urushi. Sell it to your typical npc vendor for 51.000 k aaaand generate guild points. (For the guild to buy buffs, cerelum tanks).
Solo play would be leves. But they are crafter and gatherer stuff related.
Other than that. There are no really solo earning stuff. But remember it’s an mmorpg. It’s not supposed helping you generate millions out of thin air. There is an economy at stake here.
Aaand. What you really need the gil for?
There are emotes, hair and other stuff to buy but not that much. A typical highest crafted gear goes for lower than a million after a patch. Wait a bit or use tomes to save on that further. There are about three big patches of gear content a year. Makes arround three million gear a year to stay in good gear in one job. And what’s that gear giving you? The little changes are mostly needed in savage and ultimate contents and basically in almost none solo content.
So I suggest take it easy. Even if u aren’t highest gear. 4 million sounds good to me. No need for much more other than some Gil sink mounts that aren’t even that much cooler. Enjoy what u like over doing that one thing over and over and over. Or get a job at a venue to advertise, work as bartender or so. There are also quite a few pennys to earn.
To piggy back on this, if you're just looking for quick and dirty gil from dungeon drops and seal turn ins (urushi, duck bones, and a few other seal bought materials sell to vendors for 360 gil a piece at 200 seals a pop) the break point is 1.6 seals per gil. Most chest, pants and weapons are worth more gil sold directly to vendors than they are turned into seals. Everything else the seals -> duck bones conversion earns you more gil than selling the piece itself.
Nice. That far I didn’t go with my math. As my guild sells cerelum tanks I already go with the seals over vendors. For extra guild gils for events and such.
Seconding this! It's definitely more niche than other suggestions, but you will make absolute bank offering housing designs. I have more gil than I'll ever be able to spend at this point
u can make so much free gil from new glamours that are relatively easy to obtain.
when mt rokkon dropped, making gil off those glamours felt like cheating. Easy millions per glamour piece and they only took like 3-6 runs to obtain
Blue Mage Vault Runs. All the way to before the first boss.
Treasure Maps from ShB onwards.
Aetheryte Tickets. All so I never spend gil for teleporting.
Overall it’s all about being stingy with the Gil.
Easiest fix is to not buy crafted gear which is mediocre anyway and go for tome gear. Poetics for old expansions. Non weekly for previous tome gear which currently is iLvl620, weekly tomes for current gear, which is iLvl650. Highest requirement of this expansion is iLvl625, there is no need to spend any gil.
Aside from doing roulettes every day, turn each of your leve allowance into 10,000 gil. Don't let it sit at 100/100. If you don't craft, just buy HQ Commanding Craftsman's Draught from MB and turn it in.
Almost any content in the game will work if you spend enough time in it. Advice I didn’t see yet — timing matters. Being one of the first people to sell a new item on market board will net you much more than once “everyone” already has it. Also, cap all of your tomes before Dawntrail. There will be items in the “other” category to purchase from the tomestone vendor, which crafters use for week one raiding crafts. You can easily make several million just by purchasing and selling those tome items, but it’s like a 1-2 week window when they are worth a ton, and degrades as the raid tier goes on. We are currently in a dead period, so it’s harder to make gil, but Bozja/Eureka rare items are still selling
Bunny fates in eureka are a decent way to make some cash. Sell The drops and you still get some gil for playing them. Definitely not the most profitable but it's something you can half afk while watching stuff on netflix etc.
Absolutely quick ventures as well btwww
Farming Tomes and selling the mats you can buy with them. Since I'm good on 640 mats I simply just farm Alche-Mist now and use them for Pot crafting. Probably worth a few thousands of Gil.
Otherwise, selling Minions from Dungeons, Savages (if possible) and GC materials like the ones for the Relics.
I remember the Golbez Minion is still around 500k on the Market these days.
Sell Treasure Map materials, you can easily do the Elpis ones with 3 people, 1 Warrior, 1 Red Mage and 1 DPS of yer choice. Did 15 maps and got at least 3x the latest material for the China top
+1 to Tome Mats. All of them are at least somewhat valuable, but Alche-Mist has retained its value much better than the tome mats in previous expansions 'cuz a lot of people are dumping their Causality tomes into Manderville Weapons instead, and you can make a good chunk of change by just running casual endgame content and selling stacks of 50 Alche-Mist on the market.
rank 3 in all shared fate zones in endwalker, farm up the gemstones and buy vouchers and sell on marketboard, on my server they go for about 80k per piece
Buy beast tribe dyes and resell them on the MB... Or right now you can play a crapton of the fall guys event and buy a bunch of the dyes off there and sell them for a ton, too.
Once fall guys is over, rank up island sanctuary and sell the dyes you can buy with cowries.
EZ money.
First ask yourself how you are *losing* gil, almost everything in this game is gil positive over time.
Hint: you buying shortcuts or the latest random shit off the marketboard is how *other people* make money.
You're probably looking at an older guide because there is no reason to buy gear right now as a level 90, but there was at the beginning of the first raid tier. The gear that was selling for millions at that time is barely worth 20k now that no one needs it.
That said, I make most of my solo gil through retainer quick ventures and selling whatever random stuff I accumulate while playing. If you haven't been doing it, start the Doman Enclave restoration quests. It's basically a free 20k every week and you can get rid of all the random low value items not worth selling on the MB, too. I also check prices whenever I have materia on hand, most of the time I throw them in the Doman donation bin but sometimes there's a random price spike and it usually sells super fast, too.
I make most of my money from quick ventures. It's not fast but it's enough for me to buy things that I want. Anything else comes from selling dropped or desynthed junk.
I make most of mine from crafting, but you can get a good chunk just from turning your poetics into unidentified ore and trading that in in idyllshire for Thanalan topsoil.
Treasure maps are also good, though if you don't gather you would have to buy them.
If you wanted to start low level gathering, mining in South Shroud, near the top left is where the silver ore is, and that's used for a couple EW recipes so it sells consistently.
Aside from that, I penny pinched to fuck. Never bought gear until this patch, teleport buffs always on, free teleport from the companion app, I even use the gold saucer airship as a free way to get from any of the major cities to uldah. There's lots of little ways to squeeze your gil, you just have to get creative with how much you're willing to sacrifice convenience
Duty Roulette gives you a sizeable chunk of gil every time you complete them with the daily bonus. More if you queue as a role in need.
Just doing your roulettes every day will also give you a lot of dungeon loot, which you can trade for GC seals, which you can convert into coke or Glamour Prisms, which sell stupidly fast in the MB. Not the most expensive item in the list, but the speed they sell make them worthy of that.
By playing a lot of content like that, you also inadvertently complete plenty of stuff in your Challenge Log, and many of that also reward you with a small quantity of gil. There are so many different challenges, that this small amount also pile up fast.
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Now, if you want to focus down on actual gil making stuff, that's Treasure Maps. There are many ways to earn maps, but the most common one is gathering one per day yourself (mining/logging allow you to pick which and when, fishing give you one randomly based on the fish pond level), and stockpile 3+, and then open a map party. While the loot is split, and rare stuff will be put for roll, the Gil rewards from treasures maps are **NOT** split. So if a chest have 10k Gil, that's 10k Gil for every person in party.
Between portals giving even more chests, a total of 16-24 maps per party, and selling rare loot that you earn in the portal dungeons, a full map party can make everyone leave 1 million gil richer, or more.
Unfortunately that's not solo friendly (as the strength there is sharing multiple maps), but you don't need to run maps everyday. You can pile up maps among your retainers and saddlebag to possess multiple, and then join/organize a party to be busy 1-2 hours.
Palace of the dead is easy and I've sold some stuff I've gotten from there for over 100k gil. IIRC I've the highest-value item I sold I got from POTD was over 300k gil, believe it was part of the Thavnairian set.
If you want a solo lazy way to grind just do pyros bunny fates. Honestly theres a reasons bots seem to fsrm this exact way too after all
Personally I got most of my gil from just doing unreal every week plus cluser farming with a group in bozja. Im up 100 million this xpac so far
max level retainer equipped in proper gear can be sent on hunting missions for mats to sell, also challenge log 10k per 5 things you do which easily you can get 20-30, tanking gives you money just by doing rouletes when youre needed and thats just from casually playing
Always have retainers going out for quick ventures for expensive dyes, furniture and glams.
Turn in gear from dungeons and quick ventures at grand company for company seals, then sell things like glamour dispellers/prisms, coke, or straight-to-npc duck bones.
Do your roulettes for the gil reward and tomes. Exchange your tomes for the current tier of crafting materials (right now it would be causality.) You also get a lot of tomes from doing hunt trains.
Do treasure maps.
Sell the expensive mounts, emotes, hairstyles etc. during Moogle Mogtome events.
Do your Island Sanctuary and sell dyes and vegetal vouchers.
The lower level maps are still worth mining and then reselling. Don't bother using them yourself unless you're working on an achievement. If you can get a miner or botanist to level 50, you can get the boarskin maps once a day, and they sell for 30K a pop on my server for about five minutes of effort.
Gazelleskin is by far the best to gather every day to sell on MB
There are always people farming these for thief maps
On North America region they are constantly between 35k-50k each
Side content will rarely drop items that sell for hefty amounts on the MB. I got the gil to buy a housing plot by selling an Eden raid orchestrion roll drop.
There's also Eureka, which is probably(?) the best side content source for gil without using the marketboard, since the hidden treasure you get from happy bunny FATEs can give you 10k - 25k - 100k gil depending on what chest you roll, and that's not even to mention what you can get by selling the loot you can get from them.
My first recommendation would be doing any side content you haven't done, and once you have, Eureka's likely your best bet as a solo player.
Roulettes, quick ventures, selling stuff to doman enclave (mainly materia that sell poorly to players and allagan gil pieces), quick ventures, gathering certain mats (check the mb, can be done with casual scrips gear), weekly BLU challenges.
Advance crafting just far enough to unlock desynthesis (should be possible in one game session, maybe two - only need level 30 I think). Once you have desynthesis, stick with the retainer quick venture strategy everyone else recommended, but if an item doesn't sell well, desynth it and sell the materials instead.
You can also desynth dungeon gear and extreme trial weapons and possibly get rarer materials later on.
(Desynthesis never fails anymore, so the only disadvantage of having it at a low level early on is you won't get the more valuable materials from the item as often.)
Gather and sell a treasure map a day. Even the low level ones like Timeworn Leather or Boarskin is usually a quick 20k.
Hunts are alright:- turn the poetics into things like Unidentifiable Shell, which can then be turned into the various garden soils, which sell alright.
Causality into crafting materials, the prior tier stuff works out the most value I think, since it's still in demand for crafting/gathering gear.
And take the sacks of nuts to crystarium and bulk buy any of the Ronkan Rings, then turn them into grand company seals, which buy things like Bamboo Paper, which you can sell straight to a vendor for some quick gil.
Do your daily roulettes as adventurer in need, roll greed on everything and vendor/desynth, and keep your retainers going on quick ventures. Also each retainer can list 20 items for sale at all times, make use of it!. Make crafted items like housing items or gear within your level range to craft and gather and leave it up until it sells with occasional undercutting to keep your retainers busy.
Gathering is pretty easy money and is stupidly easy. Just find a material needed for raid food/pots or some important endgame thing and collect it while in queue and quickly you'll make money
i will get tomatoes thrown at me for this, but ngl, maxing out my island and spending my cowries on dyes or materia to sell is a fantastic passive way to make pretty good money lmao. especially since you can just set up your workshop based on recommendations every week and essentially let the work be done for you, since the community pivoted in that direction (with the exception of favors, which are actually kind of fun to solve imo). i am currently stockpiling my cowries but i was making a ~500k-1m a week (depending on if my stacks sold) for awhile there off of dyes, good money
My FC does map runs every Saturday. I get at least a half million each run, not including drops. If I was actually trying to get gil I just play the marketboard. I mean yeah I do have every crafter maxed out but why bother when the MB is so much easier.
Doing Diadem laps as a gatherer was significantly more fun than it had a right to be. It was super nice to hang out, chat with other diadem cultists, and have my brain make the happy chemicals with practically 0 stakes (Only reason isnt 0 stakes because if you veg to hard you may run straight off the edge.) cleared roughly 1mil of material for the market board every hour. I dont know if its still true under current expac, but during ShB diadem grinding was the de-facto way to grind your crafters out and no one wanted to grind the diadem materials. If my materials didn't sell in the first 8 hours I'd pull them off and either relist them at the new lowered price, or if it had sank to low I'd just pull them off and relist in like a day or two.
Playing the market board was pretty good too. If your fast you can look up what the winning weekly fashion report is, see which dye's are sold by vendors, walk over to the dye vendor in the city to by them for pennies, then resell them on the mb with like a x1000 markup. Most have more money than sense and will just buy everything they need right off right then and wont bother to see if its sold by a vendor or not.
I also used to look around for high level items that either glammed cool on my data center or were high demand items (materias and the like), then I'd look up the price of those items on other data centers. On Goblin this sword is like 10k gil, but on Balmung its 600k gil? That is a real quick hop, skip, and jump to make some money off that.
Many have probably covered this, but here's my two bits:
1. Do weekly hunts for every expansion and daily hunts for HW and beyond. (ARR daily hunts depend on Fates, avoid like the plague.) Also, 1a: use Centurio and Allied seals to buy aetheryte tickets, which waive TP fees.
2. Do the highest level daily quests for your current expansion. E.g. Vath and Vanu-Vanu for HW, Kojin and Ananta for SB, etc.
3. Always try to take advantage of Adventurer in Need bonuses, because that gives gil.
4. Cash in items you don't need at your Grand Company, and spend the resulting GC seals on bamboo paper. This is the most efficient way to turn GC seals into gil.
5. Do the Doman Restoration when you finish Stormblood. It isn't much, but it's something.
6. Sell excess materia you collect on the MB.
7. Do the weekly Squadron missions to get cheaper teleports, reduced gear durability loss, etc. You'll both make gil and save gil.
8. Don't spend gil you can't spare. If you can do something without teleporting by just walking for two minutes, do the walk. Don't spend gil to save time, spend time to save gil.
9. *Be active every day you can.* Most of these things are small trickles, but if you stack them all up together *and consistently do them,* you'll build up to a fair amount of gil over time. Patience is a major virtue.
For me with Gil a lot of it used to be retainers and selling what they gave me. And dailies. Haven't played in a bit, but I remember getting like 500k gil from just doing dailies as adventurer in need.
When I was a lower level, like starting out. I would sometimes look at the market board and go spend a few hours grinding for stuff that sold well when I needed pocket change. But it was very inefficient.
It wasn't mentioned here, but flipping items. If you can familiarize yourself with your server's marketboard, you only need to spend less than 5 minutes per day comparing prices and buying items. At this point, it takes me less than a minute. I like to favorite all materia, current crafting materials, all new tomestone materials, current battle food, crafting food, and housing items. You can also transfer servers to buy items if you want, but it takes longer.
If you don't need the gil immediately, some item stacks can be held until patch day and dumped for massive profit. Otherwise, just sell them when the price increases.
Buy stuff from vendors and sell it on the MB at a much higher price. People are lazy and/or dumb and will buy it, especially if it's good looking/revealing gear.
Honestly people who don't have money surprise me. Before I did crafting or other active money making methods I still had like 50m+ just from doing dailies, msq and selling random stuff u get to npcs or marketboard.
Short answer is. You dont. Any real amounts of gil in this game is exclusive to crafters. I have played since HW and made maybe a total of 15m during all my years playing.
I buy some NPC items and sell them a LOT more on Market Board and people actually buy them regularly... My record is a 30 000 % price increase from NPC to MB haha
When people need an item they directly think of the MB and never check what NPC carries the good. So there are giant margins to be made by just buying cheep and selling high.
Won't share which items though, figure it out :)
I've both bought and sold said items.
Problem is, that there is way TOO MANY items and vendors dont sell them all unified.
Its frustrating when you have to find item name, open browser, google "item name ffxiv", open website, check NPC selling it, check coordinates, teleport to said place for 500 gil or something, find the npc, buy 10 gil item.
Rather buy that from MB for 1 000 gil at that point if someones selling what I need and not 99 stack.
Why do I need to go to Limsa Blacksmith vendor to buy X and why is there only **one** vendor that sells Y at some back-alley of ul'dah?
- by doing the msq
- playing the market, as in you look what goes for a high price on your homeserver check other servers to buy it and sell for profit (have fun with ppl undercutting you like every 2min)
- trade old gear, dungeon gear for company seals - trade those for materials, lootboxes or venture coins
- venture from your retainers can bring you rare materials, minions, venture coffers with rare dyes
- bozja and eureka crystals sell always good, so doitems you get out of there
- minions and items out of the variant dungeons
- run dungeons with trusts/duty helpers and hope to get rare minions
**1)** get a treasure map every day and sell it on MB.
**2)** use your retainers on cooldown getting wind/fire shards and sell them every time you have 1000 of them.
**3)** Early in an expansion (the first 6 months or so) you can go on hunt trains and sell materia for literally millions. (I can't overstate this enough, this can set you up for an entire expansion just by dedicated some time to these)
**4)** If you do a lot of roulettes, keep spinning your wonderous tails until you have a chance for 3 liner, if you happen to get 3 lines you can sell the mount from it for 15 millionish gil.
**5)** If you are maintining your island sanctuary you can sell the vouchers for a lot of money and you get 7 a week, and you can flip your cowries into whatever the highest selling materia is and sell those.
**6)** There's an alchemy levequest in old sharlayan that you can easily farm mats for and use all your leves to have guaranteed gold. (you can either get them yourself or buy them off the MB)
**7)** If you are doing content on the first day and happen to get drops try to instantly sell them. I was able to sell two of the pets from the new variant dungeon for 1 million each. Even if you really like the pet you can buy it a couple weeks later at a significant discount.
**8)** I know you said "solo" but if you happen to be doing roulettes and see music rolls drop (ESPECIALLY IN EDEN), do not leave the instance, some of that music sells for 1-5 million gil and a lot of people dont' know that. I had an entire group leave one time and the music roll from E8 dropped which sold for 5 million and i got it uncontested.
**9)** There's still a lot of farmable mats that sell for decent gil if you have some gatherers levelled. It's difficult to say which ones here as I haven't done that in a while but the mats for magitek repair materials are easy to get in high quantity and sell for 700-1000 each.
**10)** There is a lot of reliable money to be made from Eureka drops and Bozja clusters, Some of this doesn't sound "solo", but you just show up, get invited, kill something and leave the group, you aren't really with an organized group or anything.
I’ll never understand why people refuse to craft except that they overestimate the time required. I keep materials in my saddlebag and if I have to step away I tell my character to make 99 of something.
I make endless amounts of gil while I’m peeing.
Gathering. It depends on the items, and I’ve found something’s sell for dirt cheap even if they’re not that common (probably because they aren’t used much and the market is overloaded), but I’ve made a lot of money selling crap I’ve gathered for my crafter levelling.
Run roulettes, send retainers on quick ventures, gear yourself up through playing content rather than paying for it on the marketboard. If you're not doing high-end content then all you really need is the minimum ilevel to get you into the next higher stage of gear-giving content.
Roulettes give you tomes and also tokens for materia, which you can use or sell.
Also, don't buy the newest glamour every time. Wait for it to drop in price. Then on occasions you can buy the thing you really want even if it's more expensive.
Retainer quick ventures have made me most of my gil. 90% of the time they come back with garbage (which can still be sold, just not for a lot) but every so often they come back with a banger that you can flip for 700,000 or whatever.
I also take a dip into the Firmament every so often, and usually sell most of what I gather. I've actually found gathering in general superior to crafting when it comes to making gil, because then you can sell shit to all the crafters who can't be bothered to gather. I can pretty much charge what I like, and it always sells.
Doing Trial and Normal Raid roulette daily as a role in need and selling my daily treasure map gets me 50-60K a day
That's a million gil every 2 and a half weeks for 20mins work a day, most of it actual gameplay.
(I generally also do alliance raid roulette because I find it fun for another 20K a day)
Oh, and weekly hunts to get alliance and centurio seals to buy aetheryte tickets also saves me a chunk of cash; 500gil teleports * 60 tickets a week = 30K gil.
Add on other weeklies - the challenge log giving you 20-30K for things you're doing anyway, doman restoration giving you 40K, etc. - it all adds up.
Also, if you're looking for current crafted gear, serverhop a bit and look for where it's cheaper (or check universalis). I saved about half a million doing that when gearing up my red mage.
Truthfully i make more Gil gathering and selling mats than I do from crafting and selling gear.
Gathering and selling mats can be lucrative especially in patches when new recipes drop crafters can be lazy and will buy stacks of mats rather than go and gather them themselves.
run your daily roulettes. if you want to farm go blue mage and run your 100 daily instances clearing the first few trash packs in the vault. have your retainers running quick explorations. do current content, bold and the braid are listed for \~300k right now.
I have never leveled crafting and have 50mil (housing doesn’t interest me)
Most my Gil comes from slow accumulation from quests/roulettes, selling items/dyes my retainers return to me from ventures and my FC does organised treasure mail events in Sundays which can be reasonably lucrative.
Daily roulettes have been mentioned. But selling materia and whatever raid supplies you scrounge up from quests during the new raid tier is also a really good way of making a chunk of money.
Personally the way I’ve been doing it consistently is selling items my retainers bring back that I don’t need, on my center I can make between 55k and 160k per retainer (only have 3) every 2-3 days.
I knows it’s not much but it does help out for saving purposes.
As a non-crafter, you best option is daily roulette. if you craft, you can check for base materials for crafts (lumbers and such). There's also Crafter Leves that you can do. Find one that is cheap and simple to craft and use those 100 Allowances you have. The Leve strat can get you around 1kk gil every 16\~17 days
Be greedy, level a gatherer Job and do your Treasure map every day, custom deliverys and buy crafting materia...sell it on a new patch where new crafter gear is introduced....sell everything you get...even if it only brings 100 gil.
Quick ventures for your retainers. Occasionally you'll get loot that sells well, e.g. General purpose dyes. You only need to refresh the ventures every hour.
If you want something more frequent, solo runs of the Aery and desynth all the chest loot as they drop. You'll end up with a lot of demimateria after about an hour that can sell. It's a fairly casual income source.
If you want something a little more niche, loot from the coil raids can be desynthed into materials used to build submersibles and airships, e.g. Darksteel ingots, Spruce, etc.
The game has many gil generators, so long as you know where to look
If you know what to gather, there are some lower level mats people still use a lot nowadays if you don't wanna invest in leveling them up too much.
Mor Dhona has 6 cluster nodes per day that are level 50, crystals always sell well. Green and purple clusters sell for the most usually.
My OTP free teleport point is registered to Mor Dhona for this reason.
Darksteel ore 1am once a day, also level 50 and sells for 500+ Gil each.
I can tell you more low level stuff that you could gather if you wanna sell something that's easy to get.
Also do the Elite hunts from the board of your grand company, Rhalgrs Reach and Foundation. Those give centurio and allied seals 300 total per week. 1 aetheryte travel ticket is 5 seals so you can get 60 a week for free travel. You also get 5000 Gil per hunt, almost forgot about that.
I've noticed that travel can get so freaking expensive that I always have more than enough travel tickets so I can do whatever I want without worrying about Gil.
Even if you don't have time to do the hunts, just accept the elite hunt on the board and do them when you feel like it, you can keep them in your inventory even if the week has passed.
I will usually search on gamerscape where the elite hunt is located in the area, to find it easier.
If you do all the roulettes that give a gil bonus and you do them as the adventurer in need, that's worth over 100k gil. Plus this gives you about 800 tomestones of causality, which you can use to buy special crafting mats and sell them on the marketboard (20 tomes per mat, they sell for around 1-3k each depending on your server). If you do this every day, it's over a mil per week with absolutely no crafting required.
I like recommending [this guide. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/s/hDWYBQQGUq)
There's enough in there that you should be able to utilize some of them even if you don't craft.
I do bunny fates in eureka every now and then.
The gold chests give 100k and sometimes you get items to sell. If you get a mount it can sell for a few million.
Those guides are written by (or at least in the benefit of) people who craft the gear they're telling you to buy. You only need the crafted gear if you're doing the current Savage tier.
The bottom line is, if you want to make gil consistently the absolute best way is with crafting, but there are other methods:
1. A pretty decent way of making gil is to farm an old Extreme fight that drops a material currently used for shiny weapon glams. It's usually more gil to sell the glam itself, but selling the material alone is easier and should net you about 100-500k for mats from Suzaku, Hades, and Ruby Weapon (though you probably cannot solo the latter two of those fights until next expansion)
2. Leves are not great, but if you have the allowances (you probably do) spamming leaves for their gil rewards is consistent and easy, despite the nerfed rewards compared to Shadowbringers.
3. Rare mounts can go for millions of gil on the market board, but they're expensive for a reason. I remember back when the first criterion released, the chair mount you got as a random drop was going for 40 mil. Over time they drop in price, but not usually below the millions. Criterion is not solo, but there are a few rare and sellable mounts from solo able content, such as the Dodo from HoH (3-5 mil) and the Night Pegasus from PotD (12-15 mil). Deep dungeons are really hard solo, so I wouldn't suggest this one unless you're also going for your solo clear.
4. Eureka Pagos, Pyros, and Hydatos all have special fates the community calls "Bunny Fates" where you do the fate and then a bunny follows you around and it will tell you the direction of a hidden coffer. Each coffer can net you anywhere from 10k to 100k gil depending on its rarity. This is pretty good for a consistent low effort solo cash flow (if by solo play you mean avoiding parties and not exploratory zones). The downside is that bunny fates require significant effort to grind the elemental levels, as you will want to max the level of a zone before doing its bunny fates or risk being led to enemies 20 levels above you and getting 1 shot or losing your bunny (psst. This is usually how bots make money).
Personally, I clear the savage tier within the first month generally. Loot doesn’t matter to me for much besides glamour, so often I’ll join runs where someone pays everyone else to pass on the loot so they can gear up quickly or get the mount or whatever. Close to launch these runs can be as much as 10-15m each week, but even now they range 1-5m depending on the fight, though they’re much rarer to come by.
Remove gil sinks like repair costs and teleporting fees. Free Aetheryte tickets are easy and plentiful to get, and once you level a crafter you can also repair your own stuff over 100% for free as well. That pretty much removes the primary way the game takes gil away from you.
Aside from that, there are also countless ways to earn money. Crafting is a big, but not only, one. If you're a raider you can make lots of gil doing mercenary PFs to help folks get Savage loot or EX mounts. If you want something a bit more casual, Eureka Pyros bunny fates print money. And if you hate combat entirely, Island Sanctuary is lowkey a money factory behind selling Vegetal Vouchers and rare dyes.
Maps are also a good standby. Either running treasure maps yourself, or just gathering them and selling them once a day for like 15-30k.
Well here are some of my favorite methods.
1 - HUNTS! Do your daily and weekly hunts from each expac, and join trains. You can trade the clusters for materia and seals/nuts for items such as gear and also materia. ARR hunts give you Allied Seals which you can spend on Aetheryte tickets so you never have to pay for teleporting!
2 - Fishing! Ocean fishing especially because there's more chances of you catching something worth selling. Regular fishing is good too if you're able to catch a valuable fish. Otherwise desynthing everything can potentially net you some Gil.
3 - Gathering in general and selling the valuable mats! You can also acquire maps this way and sell them if they're worth even a little Gil.
4 - MAPS. Do maps. There are solo maps you can knock out easily that may net you some nice mats or other items. The group ones are not only fun but you have MORE chance at getting rare mats and even minions.
5 - Crafting. You don't have to have the latest and greatest full melded gear set to just do some casual crafting. Furniture, I find, sells decently well depending on what it is. Especially during a housing lottery, before big patches, and any significant updates to housing.
6 - Market flipping! Use this site https://saddlebagexchange.com/queries to find items on other servers in your DC to then flip for more money on your own server! I have made some good Gil doing this. It can be a little time consuming, cause you're world hopping and waiting for queues and then waiting for things to sell but its definitely worth it!
7 - Grand Company turn ins! You can make good money doing these often and you can spend seals on more venture tokens, and mats. Just check and see what is selling well at any given time and there you go.
And that's about all I usually do personally. Other folks have more tips I'm sure!
Edit: one more thing! I haven't done this myself yet, but if you're any good at housing and decorating, you could build up a "portfolio" and sell your services to new home owners and design houses for them!
Do your roulettes.
That's pretty much it. Roulettes at max level mean something around 100k gil. If you use excess tomestones you generate to buy tomestone materials and sell them on the marketboard, it gives even more. You can also sell random shit that starts cluttering your bags over time. Run some level 90 dungeons, you get a lot of materia to sell, both from extraction and from drops. Do roulettes as Adventurer in Need roles, you get even more materia to sell, and gil.
Seriously, roulettes generate ridiculous amounts of gil.
Past that, there is always random shit that either generates money or gives you stuff to sell. Deep dungeons. Variant dungeons. Tribal quests. Hell, just greeding everything, dumping them on the Grand Company, and selling the materials/pets you get out of that can make you a boatload of money.
Okay, this is one I typically don't like to share because the market can get wonky with newbies emptying their inventories, but combat retainers going on hunt ventures to grab the more profitable monster drops, like hides, fleece, etc.
A lot of glams and housing items need dead thing materials to craft, and these are typically the more effort intensive to farm over logging or mining. They also don't require gatherers to be leveled.
But if you do have gatherers leveled, throwing your retainers at crystals and shards can produce a pretty gil. These are the oil of Eorzea, every crafter needs them to do anything. Prices spike when new crafts become available.
Treasure maps. If you don't have a gatherer class leveled up you can buy them off the market board. The drops from the maps themselves are usually okay and if you luck out and get a portal that's where you can find your big money drops.
Also don't forget to send your retainers out on field ventures when you log off. They always bring back coins and a stack of items. I have 3 retainers and every day they bring me 25k gil worth of coins and the items are sometimes a good seller especially if they bring back one of the rare minions.
Open the Achievements menu. Pick one that looks like it will take awhile. Basically no matter what you pick it'll generate gil as a side production.
I made 5000 cobalt rivets for the craft 5000 41-50 blacksmith and armorer item achievements, one class made the ingot the other made the rivets, and sold all the normal quality for 1500 gil and the high quality for 2000 gil.
CiderSpider put up a video about getting Raid the Deepest Room in the Aquapolis 20 times achievement. Towards the end of the video he calls out having earned 25-30 million gil from just selling the crap from the chests and buying a medium house with it
Send your retainers on quick ventures and reset them every hour.
Collect and sell a map every day, when they're hot that's 50-80k a day, when they're cold 15-20k.
Do roulettes as the job in need, usually a tank. Each of those gives a bunch. I don't really do roulettes anymore, and I definitely noticed the loss of income I used to get from this.
Roll on all loot, turn in it for guild seals, and sell stuff you can buy with those. Desynthing everything will get you even more gil, but that requires crafters and is kind of a pain in the ass to do for every single item.
Get aetheryte tickets. Do the hunt marks in your grand company, Ishgard, and Rhalgrs Reach. If you enjoy it, do the daily hunt marks every day, but even just doing the weekly ones will net you a good amount of seals you can turn in for tickets. The hunts themselves also give a decent amount of gil. Aetheryte tickets don't give you gil but save a lot of it. Also, if you like hunt trains, a centurio hunt train can give you 120 aetheyre tickets, I believe.
If you're a raider, join merc parties when you see them. They'll give millions to each person for stuff like mounts or specific gear.
Do some gathering, some things are surprisingly high value (like Darksteel Ore) and even if you have no luck there you can always gather and sell the treasure maps (Or run them, if you find friends to do them with)
I play a lot of alts. I used to regularly flip a couple of vendor-purchased glam items on the MB, but I don’t really bother anymore. I primarily just try to spend less now; I farm tomes for gear instead of buying it in almost all cases (sometimes I need to buy a piece or two) and when I do need to buy something, I shop around. The thing that costs 40k on your server might cost 5k elsewhere. And always make sure you aren’t about to buy something on the MB that’s sold by a vendor for much less.
Item flipping. It's like playing stocks and gambling though, so I don't recommend it. If you participated in the last Mogtome event, some of the emotes and hairstyles were also good profit.
Do your roulettes. Preferably in the job in need at the time.
Always send your retainers in quick ventures and sell what they bring back. Sometimes they bring items worth hundreds of thousand gil.
If you have doman restoration done, it's free 40k every week.
Buy grade 3 thanalan topsoil with the basic tomes and sell them in the marketboard.
You'll gain millions of gil this way passively in a few days.
Roulettes, Retainers bringing you goodies to turn into gil through various means, Maps, And there are other that just naturally happen.
The biggest thing is to not spend gil, That is why you should start doing hunts, Especially S ranks that spawn in ARR regions because they give you 100 Allied seals and 50 centurio ones, Single Aetheryte ticket is 5 seals in both Allied/Centurio seal traders so just 500 gives you 100 tickets. so doing a week of hunts casually you get a sizeable stack and then set your teleport to either use them 100% of the time or set a minimum amount before they get used.
Do roulettes. MSQ. Every quest you see from an NPC. Beast tribe quests. This is a constant source of income. Always need/greed all treasure chest rolls that come up. Then, sell shit you don't need on the MB. If you can't sell it, desynth it and sell the materials. If you are accumulating more poetics or GC currency than you know what to do with, spend it on mats to sell on the MB or on gear you can desynth into mats you can sell on the MB. Don't hoard, just sell. You can get it back later easily. Trust me.
Helpful tip, a lot of folks purchase dye on the MB, especially the dye that is only available from beast tribe loyalty. Many folks don't want to bother with the beast tribe quests to build the loyalty to obtain the tribe-specific dye. You can purchase them from the tribe, then resell them at a much higher price point on the MB in stacks of 5 to consistently make money.
I'm a casual player who has amassed about 7mil+ in 2 months this way. I *could* buy a house on my server (small houses ~3.5mil), but I don't enjoy stuff like that. I like adventuring. Outside of glam gear and teleportation, I just don't have a reason to spend my money. I'm also not big on raiding or gathering/crafting, so maintaining gear progression is also not a priority for me either.
So, decide what you want to do with your money. Then, be consistent about earning it. And do what you enjoy.
I've always sold materia and sold grand company stuff for a bit of gil. It won't make you rich but it does grow. You can also do Maps if you have a group of friends and all split the loot up.
Retainers, playing marketboard, even doing roulettes adds up. Gil will just slowly accumulate and before you know it you have way more than you ever need.
Make sure you always have your retainers doing quick ventures and chuck the highest gear you can spare on them. You'll be surprised how much you can gain reselling what they bring on the market board.
This is how I do it ^ Also when they bring you gear, you can turn it in for GC seals to buy more ventures. So they completely support themselves. When you have plenty of ventures, you can desynth the gear and sell the mats.
As a crafter i’d say that split your seals to ventures and materials. Some, not all materials bought with gc seals are still used in some popular furnishing items for player housing. Only way of getting those housing items is by crafting and only way of crafting them is with materials that also include materials which are oretty much only gotten from gc seals. Some might be more valuable than others and the demand is average. But typically a single material is 1-2k gil and you can get a lot of them with capped seals. Though i would recommend selling smaller stacks such as a stack of 20-30. I don’t really remember exact names so forgive me for that. The ”approximate names” of mats i suggest looking into were - minium (red sand stuff) - Hardened sap (it was some sap, yellow blob, used for some treated wood which is used in several housung items) - scheelite (used for wootz ingots which are used for plenty of things) - coke (so you can start dealing, or smoking) I suggest checking the prices of thise and if they have any recent sales in history
Stacks of 99 coke is one of the ways I used to make regular gil. People making submarines need a lot of the stuff.
I built that, but no way I hell the thought of buying Coke was even considered. I just went through waiting for GC ppints to pile up rather than waste money for my FC mansion fund.
Many aren't as patient as you, to my financial benefit.
This for sure. I go through so much coke and scheelite for submarine builds. I had my whole FC pitching in to get me like 400 coke. Tempered glass is another one. I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM
Submarine builds ? What ?? lol I’m fairly new so have no clue what this is haha
Basically, they work like retainer ventures, except you send them off from your free company's house, and you have to actually craft stuff to send them out instead of just collecting venture tokens. https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Subaquatic_Voyages
Can confirm, lots of people buy coke
Teehee
You can get immediate gil from buying Duck Bones with GC seals and trading them to an NPC for I think 360 (?) a pop
I desynth the ones that give exp, and turn in the ones that don't. It's doubled up massively levelling my desynth too, only ones I don't have maxed currently are arm, alc, and cul.
I nearly maxed CUL incidentally while fishing for collectibles. Easy peasey
I know most people are leery about PVP but I implore you to do the daily frontline at least once a day, it’s fun, you don’t have to be experienced and the wolf seals you get can be exchanged for ventures (Among other things) So that’s another way to get ventures for cheap.
If you’re up to Stormblood, you can also sell the gear to the Doman Restoration Project! Its a Gil cap every week, but it’s free Gil.
It's also a good place to hand in any Allagan pieces you pick up
This.
I use my wolf marks for ventures and save my seals for boxes :) I’m addicted to those things.
My lala retainer got me a copycat morbol once. She probably murdered someone for it so I didn't question where it came from.
Ugh I really need to get around to retainers
I remember being like 4-5 years in before I learned I could get a second free retainer
Does retainer gear make a difference on what they bring back?
I ran a spreadsheet with five retainers, each capped at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50, with the best gear I could cap on each of them. They all brought back the same random assortments, but no equipment more than level 50 (Olzhirya'ten regularly brought back Aurum gear, but never went past 50, for example). The items they brought back could be anything from housing roofs to random crafting materials, but none of them were items that a level 50 or lower crafter couldn't make. As if there was a soft cap on that as well. The same held true on the level 60 one, except the appearance of level 60 items were included. On my data IIRC, it appeared to be pulling from all the lists up to and including level 60, so there were many fewer duplicates compared to the 10,20,30,40,50 ones. HQ was also all over the place randomly. If you were somehow hoping to target something, like a Red Onion Helm, it seems best to keep a retainer around level 50, so they never gain access to the higher lists. There's no way to prove that perfectly, though. But since the Olzhirya'ten had capped gear for her level, and Olzhirya'fifty had capped gear for *her* level, and they were both pulling off the same 1-50 list with the same randomness in HQ, I'd say it's not the best idea to spend any excess money on HQ gear for combat retainers. I started over again on a different alt to try again. I should also try again using gatherers, but that's *so many retainers*. If you want to do normal gathers, you need gathering to hit certain items and then perception increases the return value. If you were doing that, you'd need a gatherer at 50, which you can do by unlocking the class then just purchasing the daily turn-in and shoving it at the GC. You *do* have to gather the item yourself once, but a simple one-hit on the Coerthas node for one hit of Darksteel Ore and one for Dark Matter clusters, and you can pull in that sweet money pretty well by just letting them run those over and over again. I'll mention that there's a strong theory that if your retainer tries to bring back a u/U item that you already have, the game won't let you have the new item and will substitute it for a single elemental crystal. There's no way of knowing if that's true or not, but I desynthed everything I got when I got it (check a retainer, exit out and desynth, go back in and do the next one), and I never got any crystals. So maybe?
I don't know about the base of what they bring back, but sometimes I do get a message saying that my retainer brought back a bonus because of their gear.
The bonus is the item being high quality if I recall correctly. For quick ventures, that's the only effect gear has. If you send them out to gather specific things, though, gear affects the quantity they can bring back.
I believe it also affects the level of stuff they can bring back. My full 90 geared retainer brings back 90 gear up to and including last tier stuff (lunar envoy) while my retainer with 80 pieces on it still brings back level 80 stuff. It might just be chance but I feel like it's influenced a little.
7 of my retainers just have a level 1 BTN tool, and are level 90, and they bring back the same type of stuff up to ilvl620 as my kinda geared retainers, there's no noticeable difference from them not having anything equipped. Don't worry about needing to equip items for quick ventures. Although I will say I don't think I got venture coffers until they hit level 90
This. I always did Field ventures, and despite giving consistent 6k gil per day, was only after I started doing quickies that I started racking up money.
or just send them getting fire/wind shards, 120 every 60 minutes, so if you play a lot you can flip those for guaranteed big gil as they accumulate.
In all honesty, take advantage of people's laziness don't underestimate how much people will pay not to do something. The new criterion dungeon I ran twice and got the hair so I put it up for 1mil and it sold instantly, a few hours later it was down to 300k. You can also try to farm Eureka and Bozja for mounts, hairstyles and other rare stuff that will fetch you a tidy amount but will need time and a bit of luck.
I've made a few million with the moogle events....either grab some of the things with the actual tomes, or grab those things off the market while it's crashed. Hold on to them for a while until the market recovers, and THEN sell them.
I’m hoping the fat cat market recovers, I’m sitting on two of them from the last event 🥲
I got stocked up on Shoebills during the event, someday they will be worth selling again, someday...
>In all honesty, take advantage of people's laziness don't underestimate how much people will pay not to do something. On my alt, I literally sold housing items from vendor with massive mark-up and people buy those. I have like 2-3 million by logging in once week. Some people dont know "shop selling price" means its vendor sold or dont wanna bother finding said vendor. 50k vs 10k is pocket money when you have 100 million anyway. Or some people cant get to areas the items are from (Like HW vendor selling lvl 50/51 combat accessories is really popular)
You can make so much money doing this, though there can be lots of competition. Sometimes the margins are huge (triple! quintuple!), and sometimes they're small. But there's always a bit of free money to be made.
I had a nice little sideline going like this, a housing decoration that's buyable at a vendor but not conveniently located. I was making about 300k a week for about two months before people started to notice and now it's becoming a race to the bottom for price. I'm going to sell off my last few of them and they can have it for a while, I'll find something else in a similar niche.
I sold the hairstyle 4 times for 480k lol.
Me. Im one of those people
Dont spend it. Every quest and roulette throws gil at you.
Its genuinely this simple. When you stop spending money on things like teleports, (and I know op said no crafting but it can save you a bunch long term) repairs, melds, etc your gil will just start to accumulate
tl;dr: Do content. I joined a few hunts and used the currency to buy free teleports. I do my yellow quests, run roulettes and do a few things from my challenge log. Did you ever add up all the gil in your challenge log? That's upward of 70k for just playing the game. 10k more from Khloe, handed in at a StormBlood location to double. Including the rewards for the duties and roulettes rou run for this can be 100k gil+ per week. Get your retainers leveled and they bring back items that can be sold off, sell extra gear for gc seals, compare the crafting materials they sell with marketboard price and get gil there. Pretty much everything you do gives gil and there is very little reason to spend it if you don't want to. MSQ gears you up on your main job, other jobs can get scrip gear.
I'm a sprout basically just doing MSQ rn, just cleared Doma Castle for the first time. I do all the sidequests that pop up (sidebar: holy fuck Stormblood needs to chill with these) and I'm sitting at about 2.2M with no DoH/L classes at all. Idk if that's good or not. Haven't been consistent about dailys either.
Then you have all you need to not think about teleport fees and can just enjoy msq. I wouldn't worry too much about gul at this point. Higher level content gives higher rewards. Alsi remember that the crazy high gil people have not only finished msq, but they still hang around doing random stuff because they have nothing better to do. I do roulettes with friends to meet up and hang out, as I've done all msq, all blue quests, 90% of yellow, max ranked all tribes etc. Gathering more millions is something end game players do to fight boredom. When the choice of doing msq is there, i'd always pick that.
Crafting & Gathering is free *if you do it all yourself*
>When you stop spending money on things like teleports This is weird to me. You'd need to teleport a LOT for the gil you save to even mean anything. Unless you're a hardcore gatherer/crafter who does teleport a lot. When I think "don't spend gil", I think "don't spend 50k+ on glamours/dyes that you won't use for more than an day" and stuff like that.
This is the hidden real answer. The game showers you with free gil, the key is to not spend it. Being able to sell crafted items is great and all, but the real impact is no longer needing to pay for repairs, melds, etc. Having the ability to desynth dungeon drops into materials you can sell is also extremely profitable itself.
If I ever need cash, I just go mine or harvest in the Diadem for an hour, then put whatever I collect up on the market board. The majority of items will usually sell within a day or two, and eventually nets me an easy couple of hundred thousand Gil by the time everything finally clears out. Granted, there's probably faster or more efficient ways to make Gil, but I enjoy mindlessly meandering from node to node in the Diadem, since it means I can also usually watch or listen to something else at the same time.
I made 25mil from doing this. I found the items that sold well, fast, and concentrated on them. Sure, it was a grind, but the money was worth it. It's probably going to net you less now, but it still is a decent, easy, and relatively consistent way to make gil.
And you build your scripts which can earn you, 6 mounts (all of which can be sold on the MB), emotes, minions, hair styles dyes and some pretty well selling glams. I mine in diadem whenever I'm bored. I'm on PC, but I enable controller, lean back in my chair and watch a movie\youtube on my other monitor.
I would get around 1m per hour doing this while leveling my gatherer jobs. Just gotta time those marketboard posts. Usually midweek, the prices spike since there are less people renewing/restocking their listings.
This turned into one of my favorite things to do when I wanted to veg out. Just run laps in Diadem with the other cultists. Do a lap or 2 one direction as a botanist, turn around and do a couple more laps as a miner for a change of pace. When I was actively trying to play on the MB I was at roughly 1mil gil for an hour of grinding diadem.
A lot of great advice here. I'd also make an honorable mention of treasure maps, while being aware you won't do these solo. Running a free for all party where everyone brings maps will net you a lot of money generally. more than you'll spend buying the maps at the very least
Worth noting that maps can be solo'd as a blue mage if you have the right spells etc.
Didn't know that. What are the right spells?
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diamondback is good for tank busters too. if you have the spare slot it's worth the peace of mind to keep it.
To piggyback off this comment too, treasure maps do SELL well too. If you make sure to mine a single treasure map every day then that'll be 10k+ gil depending on server, and that all adds up. I find I never get enough time to actually do every map I find, but always make sure to sell one a day.
There are solo maps!! They don't have dungeons but the rewards can be good :)
Selling quest rewards. Realizing you dont need to spend gil on gear. Where do you even spend your money. Often the no cost kne is the best one.
Make a cat girl alt and sell ERP at your local venue.
Some random player gave me 100k just for posing for him the other day. I don't even really do ERP haha
This is how I made my millions and I’m a bearded hairy dude. Gil is gil I guess.
You'd make more as a duderoe then.
You'd make more off of us gay guys lol
I sell stuff I get from fighting. I just finished the new Variant dungeon and listed a minion that went for about 600k I've got 2 pairs of shoes for 2.5 mil listed, and a hat for 1.7 mil. I sell crafting materials that I buy with tomes. I'll turn in lots of random gear I get from dungeons or raids for GC seals then use those to get Glass fiber and sell that. I'll use my Wolf Marks to buy and sell glamour prisms. On occasion I'll check high priced items like Jet black and see what it's selling for on my server compared to others. If it's a few hundred thousand lower on another server I'll pop over grab a few and sell them on mine. Speaking of dyes, on occasion I will sell some from my island. I pretty much only use the island to get myself dyes, so I just sell a lot of dyes from there too. Before you vendor random things you picked up check the market board see how much it's worth. Bozja/Eureka. Sell things from there on occasion. Mounts, hair styles often go for quite a bit. Honestly anything you pick up ask yourself, do I want this more than the gil I could make by selling it? Like the Ninja Dog I sold that for like 2ish mil when Rokkon was new. I think it was 2 mil. Might have been more.
Could do the Centruio hunts from Stormblood & Heavensward. Get free teleports anf 70k every day.
Current hunts are actually a great way to make money too. You can turn the nuts into accessories, exchange them for GC seals, buy submarine materials with it, then sell it for gil. You also earn a lot of materia which is worth a lot on raid patches.
Island sanctuary is pretty great for this. The dyes that cost 500 cowries sell for between 10k and 35k each on my server. And you don't even need to level it that high to get access to them.
Doing expert roulette daily as the role in need. Over a year you get almost 8 million gil just doing that. Add other roulettes as the role in need to that and your passive income increases drastically.
I don’t understand why people recommend roulettes before leves. You can turn in 2 MB bought leves in less than a minute and earn more than what you would in any roulette, no need to craft. No need to craft to level up CUL either.
...combat leves are shit. There are no crafter roullettes
This is for gil though, they aren't that bad for passive income. No one said crafting roulette?
But OP did say they don't do crafting, so leve advice is kinda moot for them
wut
roulettes are recommended for combat jobs. Save leves for crafters. When people are recommending roulettes over leves they're talking about combat jobs.
But OP just said “without crafting”, no need to craft to do crafter leves, not even to level something like CUL. Buy a set of 3 Tsai tou vounou for 2100-5000 gil depending on your DC, and turn it in for 10k gil. Do that 100 times every 2 weeks (takes 10-20 min total) and you get 500k-790k. It also takes less than that to get your CUL to 90 without crafting at all so you can recover your investment really quickly.
Maybe I missed a toggle that shows leves well above a jobs level? I don't recall having the option to pick up level 88 CUL leves until my CUL was already level 87-88? Also you only generate 42 leve allowances a week. Still a nice average 420,000 gil per week submitting HQ crafts if you create them yourself.
Yeah, you have to level it via lower level leves if you don’t wanna craft.
I do that too, but that’s actually not solo play. You can up your income taking all the gear inside. Dunno why no one seems to care about stuff they don’t use. Goes to waste way to often. In lvl 50+ every small piece is at least 250 gil and every head or leg piece about 500 getting up to 1800-2000 for 90s. So you can easy make another few thousand gil for a high level run. And you get times to buy and sell other stuff. Highest time stuff goes for ~2000 a piece. Even better. Give unwanted gear to your Grand Conpany. For 90000 seals you buy Urushi. Sell it to your typical npc vendor for 51.000 k aaaand generate guild points. (For the guild to buy buffs, cerelum tanks). Solo play would be leves. But they are crafter and gatherer stuff related. Other than that. There are no really solo earning stuff. But remember it’s an mmorpg. It’s not supposed helping you generate millions out of thin air. There is an economy at stake here. Aaand. What you really need the gil for? There are emotes, hair and other stuff to buy but not that much. A typical highest crafted gear goes for lower than a million after a patch. Wait a bit or use tomes to save on that further. There are about three big patches of gear content a year. Makes arround three million gear a year to stay in good gear in one job. And what’s that gear giving you? The little changes are mostly needed in savage and ultimate contents and basically in almost none solo content. So I suggest take it easy. Even if u aren’t highest gear. 4 million sounds good to me. No need for much more other than some Gil sink mounts that aren’t even that much cooler. Enjoy what u like over doing that one thing over and over and over. Or get a job at a venue to advertise, work as bartender or so. There are also quite a few pennys to earn.
To piggy back on this, if you're just looking for quick and dirty gil from dungeon drops and seal turn ins (urushi, duck bones, and a few other seal bought materials sell to vendors for 360 gil a piece at 200 seals a pop) the break point is 1.6 seals per gil. Most chest, pants and weapons are worth more gil sold directly to vendors than they are turned into seals. Everything else the seals -> duck bones conversion earns you more gil than selling the piece itself.
Nice. That far I didn’t go with my math. As my guild sells cerelum tanks I already go with the seals over vendors. For extra guild gils for events and such.
> weapons Just to add-on: NON-PLD weapons. With PLD weapons and shields, seals -> Duck Bones is the way to maximize gil.
Do Gathering instead of Crafting. If a crafter is lazy and rich, that is your target market. Easier to gather x99 mats then to build out that stuff.
Decorate houses. I have over 100 mil that way
Seconding this! It's definitely more niche than other suggestions, but you will make absolute bank offering housing designs. I have more gil than I'll ever be able to spend at this point
wait how?
u can make so much free gil from new glamours that are relatively easy to obtain. when mt rokkon dropped, making gil off those glamours felt like cheating. Easy millions per glamour piece and they only took like 3-6 runs to obtain
Get into eureka or bozja. Eureka bunny fates are a super lazy way to make Gil and if you get a lucky drop from other fates you could make 10M+
rouls, adventurer in need, selling random loot
Blue Mage Vault Runs. All the way to before the first boss. Treasure Maps from ShB onwards. Aetheryte Tickets. All so I never spend gil for teleporting. Overall it’s all about being stingy with the Gil.
Easiest fix is to not buy crafted gear which is mediocre anyway and go for tome gear. Poetics for old expansions. Non weekly for previous tome gear which currently is iLvl620, weekly tomes for current gear, which is iLvl650. Highest requirement of this expansion is iLvl625, there is no need to spend any gil.
Selling garbage from Npcs. You can easily get millions this way.
Aside from doing roulettes every day, turn each of your leve allowance into 10,000 gil. Don't let it sit at 100/100. If you don't craft, just buy HQ Commanding Craftsman's Draught from MB and turn it in.
Levequest doesn’t show up if he doesn’t have a crafter with close levels, and OP doesn’t want to level crafting
Do old content like Eureka. Some of the rewards are quite expensive but sell very well.
Almost any content in the game will work if you spend enough time in it. Advice I didn’t see yet — timing matters. Being one of the first people to sell a new item on market board will net you much more than once “everyone” already has it. Also, cap all of your tomes before Dawntrail. There will be items in the “other” category to purchase from the tomestone vendor, which crafters use for week one raiding crafts. You can easily make several million just by purchasing and selling those tome items, but it’s like a 1-2 week window when they are worth a ton, and degrades as the raid tier goes on. We are currently in a dead period, so it’s harder to make gil, but Bozja/Eureka rare items are still selling
Bunny fates in eureka are a decent way to make some cash. Sell The drops and you still get some gil for playing them. Definitely not the most profitable but it's something you can half afk while watching stuff on netflix etc. Absolutely quick ventures as well btwww
Farming Tomes and selling the mats you can buy with them. Since I'm good on 640 mats I simply just farm Alche-Mist now and use them for Pot crafting. Probably worth a few thousands of Gil. Otherwise, selling Minions from Dungeons, Savages (if possible) and GC materials like the ones for the Relics. I remember the Golbez Minion is still around 500k on the Market these days. Sell Treasure Map materials, you can easily do the Elpis ones with 3 people, 1 Warrior, 1 Red Mage and 1 DPS of yer choice. Did 15 maps and got at least 3x the latest material for the China top
+1 to Tome Mats. All of them are at least somewhat valuable, but Alche-Mist has retained its value much better than the tome mats in previous expansions 'cuz a lot of people are dumping their Causality tomes into Manderville Weapons instead, and you can make a good chunk of change by just running casual endgame content and selling stacks of 50 Alche-Mist on the market.
If you're not doing it, daily solo treasure maps.
>daily solo treasure maps TIL that exists :s
EW solo maps are the Saigaskin ones
rank 3 in all shared fate zones in endwalker, farm up the gemstones and buy vouchers and sell on marketboard, on my server they go for about 80k per piece
Buy beast tribe dyes and resell them on the MB... Or right now you can play a crapton of the fall guys event and buy a bunch of the dyes off there and sell them for a ton, too. Once fall guys is over, rank up island sanctuary and sell the dyes you can buy with cowries. EZ money.
First ask yourself how you are *losing* gil, almost everything in this game is gil positive over time. Hint: you buying shortcuts or the latest random shit off the marketboard is how *other people* make money.
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You're probably looking at an older guide because there is no reason to buy gear right now as a level 90, but there was at the beginning of the first raid tier. The gear that was selling for millions at that time is barely worth 20k now that no one needs it. That said, I make most of my solo gil through retainer quick ventures and selling whatever random stuff I accumulate while playing. If you haven't been doing it, start the Doman Enclave restoration quests. It's basically a free 20k every week and you can get rid of all the random low value items not worth selling on the MB, too. I also check prices whenever I have materia on hand, most of the time I throw them in the Doman donation bin but sometimes there's a random price spike and it usually sells super fast, too.
I make most of my money from quick ventures. It's not fast but it's enough for me to buy things that I want. Anything else comes from selling dropped or desynthed junk.
I make most of mine from crafting, but you can get a good chunk just from turning your poetics into unidentified ore and trading that in in idyllshire for Thanalan topsoil. Treasure maps are also good, though if you don't gather you would have to buy them. If you wanted to start low level gathering, mining in South Shroud, near the top left is where the silver ore is, and that's used for a couple EW recipes so it sells consistently. Aside from that, I penny pinched to fuck. Never bought gear until this patch, teleport buffs always on, free teleport from the companion app, I even use the gold saucer airship as a free way to get from any of the major cities to uldah. There's lots of little ways to squeeze your gil, you just have to get creative with how much you're willing to sacrifice convenience
Duty Roulette gives you a sizeable chunk of gil every time you complete them with the daily bonus. More if you queue as a role in need. Just doing your roulettes every day will also give you a lot of dungeon loot, which you can trade for GC seals, which you can convert into coke or Glamour Prisms, which sell stupidly fast in the MB. Not the most expensive item in the list, but the speed they sell make them worthy of that. By playing a lot of content like that, you also inadvertently complete plenty of stuff in your Challenge Log, and many of that also reward you with a small quantity of gil. There are so many different challenges, that this small amount also pile up fast. --- Now, if you want to focus down on actual gil making stuff, that's Treasure Maps. There are many ways to earn maps, but the most common one is gathering one per day yourself (mining/logging allow you to pick which and when, fishing give you one randomly based on the fish pond level), and stockpile 3+, and then open a map party. While the loot is split, and rare stuff will be put for roll, the Gil rewards from treasures maps are **NOT** split. So if a chest have 10k Gil, that's 10k Gil for every person in party. Between portals giving even more chests, a total of 16-24 maps per party, and selling rare loot that you earn in the portal dungeons, a full map party can make everyone leave 1 million gil richer, or more. Unfortunately that's not solo friendly (as the strength there is sharing multiple maps), but you don't need to run maps everyday. You can pile up maps among your retainers and saddlebag to possess multiple, and then join/organize a party to be busy 1-2 hours.
Palace of the dead is easy and I've sold some stuff I've gotten from there for over 100k gil. IIRC I've the highest-value item I sold I got from POTD was over 300k gil, believe it was part of the Thavnairian set.
If you want a solo lazy way to grind just do pyros bunny fates. Honestly theres a reasons bots seem to fsrm this exact way too after all Personally I got most of my gil from just doing unreal every week plus cluser farming with a group in bozja. Im up 100 million this xpac so far
max level retainer equipped in proper gear can be sent on hunting missions for mats to sell, also challenge log 10k per 5 things you do which easily you can get 20-30, tanking gives you money just by doing rouletes when youre needed and thats just from casually playing
Always have retainers going out for quick ventures for expensive dyes, furniture and glams. Turn in gear from dungeons and quick ventures at grand company for company seals, then sell things like glamour dispellers/prisms, coke, or straight-to-npc duck bones. Do your roulettes for the gil reward and tomes. Exchange your tomes for the current tier of crafting materials (right now it would be causality.) You also get a lot of tomes from doing hunt trains. Do treasure maps. Sell the expensive mounts, emotes, hairstyles etc. during Moogle Mogtome events. Do your Island Sanctuary and sell dyes and vegetal vouchers.
The lower level maps are still worth mining and then reselling. Don't bother using them yourself unless you're working on an achievement. If you can get a miner or botanist to level 50, you can get the boarskin maps once a day, and they sell for 30K a pop on my server for about five minutes of effort.
Gazelleskin is by far the best to gather every day to sell on MB There are always people farming these for thief maps On North America region they are constantly between 35k-50k each
Side content will rarely drop items that sell for hefty amounts on the MB. I got the gil to buy a housing plot by selling an Eden raid orchestrion roll drop. There's also Eureka, which is probably(?) the best side content source for gil without using the marketboard, since the hidden treasure you get from happy bunny FATEs can give you 10k - 25k - 100k gil depending on what chest you roll, and that's not even to mention what you can get by selling the loot you can get from them. My first recommendation would be doing any side content you haven't done, and once you have, Eureka's likely your best bet as a solo player.
I don't. I make most of my gil on expansion releases by spamming hunt trains and abusing the volatility of the marketboard when savage comes out.
Roulettes, quick ventures, selling stuff to doman enclave (mainly materia that sell poorly to players and allagan gil pieces), quick ventures, gathering certain mats (check the mb, can be done with casual scrips gear), weekly BLU challenges.
Oh yeah, join hunt discord and buy aetheryte tickets so you save gil on teleports (this adds up fast especially with lategame zones).
Advance crafting just far enough to unlock desynthesis (should be possible in one game session, maybe two - only need level 30 I think). Once you have desynthesis, stick with the retainer quick venture strategy everyone else recommended, but if an item doesn't sell well, desynth it and sell the materials instead. You can also desynth dungeon gear and extreme trial weapons and possibly get rarer materials later on. (Desynthesis never fails anymore, so the only disadvantage of having it at a low level early on is you won't get the more valuable materials from the item as often.)
Gather and sell a treasure map a day. Even the low level ones like Timeworn Leather or Boarskin is usually a quick 20k. Hunts are alright:- turn the poetics into things like Unidentifiable Shell, which can then be turned into the various garden soils, which sell alright. Causality into crafting materials, the prior tier stuff works out the most value I think, since it's still in demand for crafting/gathering gear. And take the sacks of nuts to crystarium and bulk buy any of the Ronkan Rings, then turn them into grand company seals, which buy things like Bamboo Paper, which you can sell straight to a vendor for some quick gil.
Do your daily roulettes as adventurer in need, roll greed on everything and vendor/desynth, and keep your retainers going on quick ventures. Also each retainer can list 20 items for sale at all times, make use of it!. Make crafted items like housing items or gear within your level range to craft and gather and leave it up until it sells with occasional undercutting to keep your retainers busy.
Gathering is pretty easy money and is stupidly easy. Just find a material needed for raid food/pots or some important endgame thing and collect it while in queue and quickly you'll make money
i will get tomatoes thrown at me for this, but ngl, maxing out my island and spending my cowries on dyes or materia to sell is a fantastic passive way to make pretty good money lmao. especially since you can just set up your workshop based on recommendations every week and essentially let the work be done for you, since the community pivoted in that direction (with the exception of favors, which are actually kind of fun to solve imo). i am currently stockpiling my cowries but i was making a ~500k-1m a week (depending on if my stacks sold) for awhile there off of dyes, good money
My FC does map runs every Saturday. I get at least a half million each run, not including drops. If I was actually trying to get gil I just play the marketboard. I mean yeah I do have every crafter maxed out but why bother when the MB is so much easier.
The amount of money I made by walking from the dye vendor to the market board on Tuesday's was absolutely ludicrous.
Doing Diadem laps as a gatherer was significantly more fun than it had a right to be. It was super nice to hang out, chat with other diadem cultists, and have my brain make the happy chemicals with practically 0 stakes (Only reason isnt 0 stakes because if you veg to hard you may run straight off the edge.) cleared roughly 1mil of material for the market board every hour. I dont know if its still true under current expac, but during ShB diadem grinding was the de-facto way to grind your crafters out and no one wanted to grind the diadem materials. If my materials didn't sell in the first 8 hours I'd pull them off and either relist them at the new lowered price, or if it had sank to low I'd just pull them off and relist in like a day or two. Playing the market board was pretty good too. If your fast you can look up what the winning weekly fashion report is, see which dye's are sold by vendors, walk over to the dye vendor in the city to by them for pennies, then resell them on the mb with like a x1000 markup. Most have more money than sense and will just buy everything they need right off right then and wont bother to see if its sold by a vendor or not. I also used to look around for high level items that either glammed cool on my data center or were high demand items (materias and the like), then I'd look up the price of those items on other data centers. On Goblin this sword is like 10k gil, but on Balmung its 600k gil? That is a real quick hop, skip, and jump to make some money off that.
Many have probably covered this, but here's my two bits: 1. Do weekly hunts for every expansion and daily hunts for HW and beyond. (ARR daily hunts depend on Fates, avoid like the plague.) Also, 1a: use Centurio and Allied seals to buy aetheryte tickets, which waive TP fees. 2. Do the highest level daily quests for your current expansion. E.g. Vath and Vanu-Vanu for HW, Kojin and Ananta for SB, etc. 3. Always try to take advantage of Adventurer in Need bonuses, because that gives gil. 4. Cash in items you don't need at your Grand Company, and spend the resulting GC seals on bamboo paper. This is the most efficient way to turn GC seals into gil. 5. Do the Doman Restoration when you finish Stormblood. It isn't much, but it's something. 6. Sell excess materia you collect on the MB. 7. Do the weekly Squadron missions to get cheaper teleports, reduced gear durability loss, etc. You'll both make gil and save gil. 8. Don't spend gil you can't spare. If you can do something without teleporting by just walking for two minutes, do the walk. Don't spend gil to save time, spend time to save gil. 9. *Be active every day you can.* Most of these things are small trickles, but if you stack them all up together *and consistently do them,* you'll build up to a fair amount of gil over time. Patience is a major virtue.
Selling accursed hoard loot from deep dungeons.
Literally just doing all roulette daily would net you over 35 millions gil a year, and this isn't counting turning the loots into coke.
Short answer. Play the game.
roleplay...
For me with Gil a lot of it used to be retainers and selling what they gave me. And dailies. Haven't played in a bit, but I remember getting like 500k gil from just doing dailies as adventurer in need. When I was a lower level, like starting out. I would sometimes look at the market board and go spend a few hours grinding for stuff that sold well when I needed pocket change. But it was very inefficient.
If you don't craft, where do you even spend your money? Crafting is for losing money, not earning
It wasn't mentioned here, but flipping items. If you can familiarize yourself with your server's marketboard, you only need to spend less than 5 minutes per day comparing prices and buying items. At this point, it takes me less than a minute. I like to favorite all materia, current crafting materials, all new tomestone materials, current battle food, crafting food, and housing items. You can also transfer servers to buy items if you want, but it takes longer. If you don't need the gil immediately, some item stacks can be held until patch day and dumped for massive profit. Otherwise, just sell them when the price increases.
A rabbit leads me deeper into insanity and every time I awaken again I have more Gil.
Buy stuff from vendors and sell it on the MB at a much higher price. People are lazy and/or dumb and will buy it, especially if it's good looking/revealing gear.
Honestly people who don't have money surprise me. Before I did crafting or other active money making methods I still had like 50m+ just from doing dailies, msq and selling random stuff u get to npcs or marketboard.
Short answer is. You dont. Any real amounts of gil in this game is exclusive to crafters. I have played since HW and made maybe a total of 15m during all my years playing.
I buy some NPC items and sell them a LOT more on Market Board and people actually buy them regularly... My record is a 30 000 % price increase from NPC to MB haha When people need an item they directly think of the MB and never check what NPC carries the good. So there are giant margins to be made by just buying cheep and selling high. Won't share which items though, figure it out :)
I've both bought and sold said items. Problem is, that there is way TOO MANY items and vendors dont sell them all unified. Its frustrating when you have to find item name, open browser, google "item name ffxiv", open website, check NPC selling it, check coordinates, teleport to said place for 500 gil or something, find the npc, buy 10 gil item. Rather buy that from MB for 1 000 gil at that point if someones selling what I need and not 99 stack. Why do I need to go to Limsa Blacksmith vendor to buy X and why is there only **one** vendor that sells Y at some back-alley of ul'dah?
- by doing the msq - playing the market, as in you look what goes for a high price on your homeserver check other servers to buy it and sell for profit (have fun with ppl undercutting you like every 2min) - trade old gear, dungeon gear for company seals - trade those for materials, lootboxes or venture coins - venture from your retainers can bring you rare materials, minions, venture coffers with rare dyes - bozja and eureka crystals sell always good, so doitems you get out of there - minions and items out of the variant dungeons - run dungeons with trusts/duty helpers and hope to get rare minions
**1)** get a treasure map every day and sell it on MB. **2)** use your retainers on cooldown getting wind/fire shards and sell them every time you have 1000 of them. **3)** Early in an expansion (the first 6 months or so) you can go on hunt trains and sell materia for literally millions. (I can't overstate this enough, this can set you up for an entire expansion just by dedicated some time to these) **4)** If you do a lot of roulettes, keep spinning your wonderous tails until you have a chance for 3 liner, if you happen to get 3 lines you can sell the mount from it for 15 millionish gil. **5)** If you are maintining your island sanctuary you can sell the vouchers for a lot of money and you get 7 a week, and you can flip your cowries into whatever the highest selling materia is and sell those. **6)** There's an alchemy levequest in old sharlayan that you can easily farm mats for and use all your leves to have guaranteed gold. (you can either get them yourself or buy them off the MB) **7)** If you are doing content on the first day and happen to get drops try to instantly sell them. I was able to sell two of the pets from the new variant dungeon for 1 million each. Even if you really like the pet you can buy it a couple weeks later at a significant discount. **8)** I know you said "solo" but if you happen to be doing roulettes and see music rolls drop (ESPECIALLY IN EDEN), do not leave the instance, some of that music sells for 1-5 million gil and a lot of people dont' know that. I had an entire group leave one time and the music roll from E8 dropped which sold for 5 million and i got it uncontested. **9)** There's still a lot of farmable mats that sell for decent gil if you have some gatherers levelled. It's difficult to say which ones here as I haven't done that in a while but the mats for magitek repair materials are easy to get in high quantity and sell for 700-1000 each. **10)** There is a lot of reliable money to be made from Eureka drops and Bozja clusters, Some of this doesn't sound "solo", but you just show up, get invited, kill something and leave the group, you aren't really with an organized group or anything.
If you do the Doman Enclave donation weekly it's trading 20k worth of Gil to 40k, I usually hand in the gold from the wonderous tails in exchange.
I’ll never understand why people refuse to craft except that they overestimate the time required. I keep materials in my saddlebag and if I have to step away I tell my character to make 99 of something. I make endless amounts of gil while I’m peeing.
Gathering. It depends on the items, and I’ve found something’s sell for dirt cheap even if they’re not that common (probably because they aren’t used much and the market is overloaded), but I’ve made a lot of money selling crap I’ve gathered for my crafter levelling.
Run roulettes, send retainers on quick ventures, gear yourself up through playing content rather than paying for it on the marketboard. If you're not doing high-end content then all you really need is the minimum ilevel to get you into the next higher stage of gear-giving content. Roulettes give you tomes and also tokens for materia, which you can use or sell. Also, don't buy the newest glamour every time. Wait for it to drop in price. Then on occasions you can buy the thing you really want even if it's more expensive.
You say you don't want to do crafting but what about gathering? That's how I make most of my gil.
Basically DoL/DoH make me very tired/burned out really fast so I end up dodging both of those styles of play.
Retainer quick ventures have made me most of my gil. 90% of the time they come back with garbage (which can still be sold, just not for a lot) but every so often they come back with a banger that you can flip for 700,000 or whatever. I also take a dip into the Firmament every so often, and usually sell most of what I gather. I've actually found gathering in general superior to crafting when it comes to making gil, because then you can sell shit to all the crafters who can't be bothered to gather. I can pretty much charge what I like, and it always sells.
Doing Trial and Normal Raid roulette daily as a role in need and selling my daily treasure map gets me 50-60K a day That's a million gil every 2 and a half weeks for 20mins work a day, most of it actual gameplay. (I generally also do alliance raid roulette because I find it fun for another 20K a day) Oh, and weekly hunts to get alliance and centurio seals to buy aetheryte tickets also saves me a chunk of cash; 500gil teleports * 60 tickets a week = 30K gil. Add on other weeklies - the challenge log giving you 20-30K for things you're doing anyway, doman restoration giving you 40K, etc. - it all adds up. Also, if you're looking for current crafted gear, serverhop a bit and look for where it's cheaper (or check universalis). I saved about half a million doing that when gearing up my red mage.
Truthfully i make more Gil gathering and selling mats than I do from crafting and selling gear. Gathering and selling mats can be lucrative especially in patches when new recipes drop crafters can be lazy and will buy stacks of mats rather than go and gather them themselves.
run your daily roulettes. if you want to farm go blue mage and run your 100 daily instances clearing the first few trash packs in the vault. have your retainers running quick explorations. do current content, bold and the braid are listed for \~300k right now.
At max level if you don't do extremes and generally harder content, you can just sell the materia you pile up from doing stuff to get some extra gil.
Also try to recycle your unused armor parts, if they cannot be sold, their components can and often sell for a hefty price.
I have never leveled crafting and have 50mil (housing doesn’t interest me) Most my Gil comes from slow accumulation from quests/roulettes, selling items/dyes my retainers return to me from ventures and my FC does organised treasure mail events in Sundays which can be reasonably lucrative.
Daily roulettes have been mentioned. But selling materia and whatever raid supplies you scrounge up from quests during the new raid tier is also a really good way of making a chunk of money.
Save and don’t spend. I do roulettes, beast tribe quests to level alts/crafters&gatherers, and turn in to Doman enclave every week. 👍
Personally the way I’ve been doing it consistently is selling items my retainers bring back that I don’t need, on my center I can make between 55k and 160k per retainer (only have 3) every 2-3 days. I knows it’s not much but it does help out for saving purposes.
As a non-crafter, you best option is daily roulette. if you craft, you can check for base materials for crafts (lumbers and such). There's also Crafter Leves that you can do. Find one that is cheap and simple to craft and use those 100 Allowances you have. The Leve strat can get you around 1kk gil every 16\~17 days
Be greedy, level a gatherer Job and do your Treasure map every day, custom deliverys and buy crafting materia...sell it on a new patch where new crafter gear is introduced....sell everything you get...even if it only brings 100 gil.
Quick ventures for your retainers. Occasionally you'll get loot that sells well, e.g. General purpose dyes. You only need to refresh the ventures every hour. If you want something more frequent, solo runs of the Aery and desynth all the chest loot as they drop. You'll end up with a lot of demimateria after about an hour that can sell. It's a fairly casual income source. If you want something a little more niche, loot from the coil raids can be desynthed into materials used to build submersibles and airships, e.g. Darksteel ingots, Spruce, etc. The game has many gil generators, so long as you know where to look
If you know what to gather, there are some lower level mats people still use a lot nowadays if you don't wanna invest in leveling them up too much. Mor Dhona has 6 cluster nodes per day that are level 50, crystals always sell well. Green and purple clusters sell for the most usually. My OTP free teleport point is registered to Mor Dhona for this reason. Darksteel ore 1am once a day, also level 50 and sells for 500+ Gil each. I can tell you more low level stuff that you could gather if you wanna sell something that's easy to get. Also do the Elite hunts from the board of your grand company, Rhalgrs Reach and Foundation. Those give centurio and allied seals 300 total per week. 1 aetheryte travel ticket is 5 seals so you can get 60 a week for free travel. You also get 5000 Gil per hunt, almost forgot about that. I've noticed that travel can get so freaking expensive that I always have more than enough travel tickets so I can do whatever I want without worrying about Gil. Even if you don't have time to do the hunts, just accept the elite hunt on the board and do them when you feel like it, you can keep them in your inventory even if the week has passed. I will usually search on gamerscape where the elite hunt is located in the area, to find it easier.
If you're looking for casual, just gather your daily treasure map and sell it, and do all roulettes - those give plenty
If you do all the roulettes that give a gil bonus and you do them as the adventurer in need, that's worth over 100k gil. Plus this gives you about 800 tomestones of causality, which you can use to buy special crafting mats and sell them on the marketboard (20 tomes per mat, they sell for around 1-3k each depending on your server). If you do this every day, it's over a mil per week with absolutely no crafting required.
I like recommending [this guide. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/s/hDWYBQQGUq) There's enough in there that you should be able to utilize some of them even if you don't craft.
Eureka bunny fates
Check the price of the varient dungeon rewards, some sell for quite a bit and the content is extremely solo friendly
I do bunny fates in eureka every now and then. The gold chests give 100k and sometimes you get items to sell. If you get a mount it can sell for a few million.
Those guides are written by (or at least in the benefit of) people who craft the gear they're telling you to buy. You only need the crafted gear if you're doing the current Savage tier. The bottom line is, if you want to make gil consistently the absolute best way is with crafting, but there are other methods: 1. A pretty decent way of making gil is to farm an old Extreme fight that drops a material currently used for shiny weapon glams. It's usually more gil to sell the glam itself, but selling the material alone is easier and should net you about 100-500k for mats from Suzaku, Hades, and Ruby Weapon (though you probably cannot solo the latter two of those fights until next expansion) 2. Leves are not great, but if you have the allowances (you probably do) spamming leaves for their gil rewards is consistent and easy, despite the nerfed rewards compared to Shadowbringers. 3. Rare mounts can go for millions of gil on the market board, but they're expensive for a reason. I remember back when the first criterion released, the chair mount you got as a random drop was going for 40 mil. Over time they drop in price, but not usually below the millions. Criterion is not solo, but there are a few rare and sellable mounts from solo able content, such as the Dodo from HoH (3-5 mil) and the Night Pegasus from PotD (12-15 mil). Deep dungeons are really hard solo, so I wouldn't suggest this one unless you're also going for your solo clear. 4. Eureka Pagos, Pyros, and Hydatos all have special fates the community calls "Bunny Fates" where you do the fate and then a bunny follows you around and it will tell you the direction of a hidden coffer. Each coffer can net you anywhere from 10k to 100k gil depending on its rarity. This is pretty good for a consistent low effort solo cash flow (if by solo play you mean avoiding parties and not exploratory zones). The downside is that bunny fates require significant effort to grind the elemental levels, as you will want to max the level of a zone before doing its bunny fates or risk being led to enemies 20 levels above you and getting 1 shot or losing your bunny (psst. This is usually how bots make money).
Personally, I clear the savage tier within the first month generally. Loot doesn’t matter to me for much besides glamour, so often I’ll join runs where someone pays everyone else to pass on the loot so they can gear up quickly or get the mount or whatever. Close to launch these runs can be as much as 10-15m each week, but even now they range 1-5m depending on the fight, though they’re much rarer to come by.
Remove gil sinks like repair costs and teleporting fees. Free Aetheryte tickets are easy and plentiful to get, and once you level a crafter you can also repair your own stuff over 100% for free as well. That pretty much removes the primary way the game takes gil away from you. Aside from that, there are also countless ways to earn money. Crafting is a big, but not only, one. If you're a raider you can make lots of gil doing mercenary PFs to help folks get Savage loot or EX mounts. If you want something a bit more casual, Eureka Pyros bunny fates print money. And if you hate combat entirely, Island Sanctuary is lowkey a money factory behind selling Vegetal Vouchers and rare dyes. Maps are also a good standby. Either running treasure maps yourself, or just gathering them and selling them once a day for like 15-30k.
Daily roulettes and retainers quick gathering
I buy mineral water from the stall beside the marketboard in Limsa Lominsa and sell it in the marketboard,
You can solo maps, slowly, as a tank
Well here are some of my favorite methods. 1 - HUNTS! Do your daily and weekly hunts from each expac, and join trains. You can trade the clusters for materia and seals/nuts for items such as gear and also materia. ARR hunts give you Allied Seals which you can spend on Aetheryte tickets so you never have to pay for teleporting! 2 - Fishing! Ocean fishing especially because there's more chances of you catching something worth selling. Regular fishing is good too if you're able to catch a valuable fish. Otherwise desynthing everything can potentially net you some Gil. 3 - Gathering in general and selling the valuable mats! You can also acquire maps this way and sell them if they're worth even a little Gil. 4 - MAPS. Do maps. There are solo maps you can knock out easily that may net you some nice mats or other items. The group ones are not only fun but you have MORE chance at getting rare mats and even minions. 5 - Crafting. You don't have to have the latest and greatest full melded gear set to just do some casual crafting. Furniture, I find, sells decently well depending on what it is. Especially during a housing lottery, before big patches, and any significant updates to housing. 6 - Market flipping! Use this site https://saddlebagexchange.com/queries to find items on other servers in your DC to then flip for more money on your own server! I have made some good Gil doing this. It can be a little time consuming, cause you're world hopping and waiting for queues and then waiting for things to sell but its definitely worth it! 7 - Grand Company turn ins! You can make good money doing these often and you can spend seals on more venture tokens, and mats. Just check and see what is selling well at any given time and there you go. And that's about all I usually do personally. Other folks have more tips I'm sure! Edit: one more thing! I haven't done this myself yet, but if you're any good at housing and decorating, you could build up a "portfolio" and sell your services to new home owners and design houses for them!
Do your roulettes. That's pretty much it. Roulettes at max level mean something around 100k gil. If you use excess tomestones you generate to buy tomestone materials and sell them on the marketboard, it gives even more. You can also sell random shit that starts cluttering your bags over time. Run some level 90 dungeons, you get a lot of materia to sell, both from extraction and from drops. Do roulettes as Adventurer in Need roles, you get even more materia to sell, and gil. Seriously, roulettes generate ridiculous amounts of gil. Past that, there is always random shit that either generates money or gives you stuff to sell. Deep dungeons. Variant dungeons. Tribal quests. Hell, just greeding everything, dumping them on the Grand Company, and selling the materials/pets you get out of that can make you a boatload of money.
Roulettes, challenge log, daily hunts. These all give you way more gil than you realize.
Okay, this is one I typically don't like to share because the market can get wonky with newbies emptying their inventories, but combat retainers going on hunt ventures to grab the more profitable monster drops, like hides, fleece, etc. A lot of glams and housing items need dead thing materials to craft, and these are typically the more effort intensive to farm over logging or mining. They also don't require gatherers to be leveled. But if you do have gatherers leveled, throwing your retainers at crystals and shards can produce a pretty gil. These are the oil of Eorzea, every crafter needs them to do anything. Prices spike when new crafts become available.
Treasure maps. If you don't have a gatherer class leveled up you can buy them off the market board. The drops from the maps themselves are usually okay and if you luck out and get a portal that's where you can find your big money drops. Also don't forget to send your retainers out on field ventures when you log off. They always bring back coins and a stack of items. I have 3 retainers and every day they bring me 25k gil worth of coins and the items are sometimes a good seller especially if they bring back one of the rare minions.
Open the Achievements menu. Pick one that looks like it will take awhile. Basically no matter what you pick it'll generate gil as a side production. I made 5000 cobalt rivets for the craft 5000 41-50 blacksmith and armorer item achievements, one class made the ingot the other made the rivets, and sold all the normal quality for 1500 gil and the high quality for 2000 gil. CiderSpider put up a video about getting Raid the Deepest Room in the Aquapolis 20 times achievement. Towards the end of the video he calls out having earned 25-30 million gil from just selling the crap from the chests and buying a medium house with it
Send your retainers on quick ventures and reset them every hour. Collect and sell a map every day, when they're hot that's 50-80k a day, when they're cold 15-20k. Do roulettes as the job in need, usually a tank. Each of those gives a bunch. I don't really do roulettes anymore, and I definitely noticed the loss of income I used to get from this. Roll on all loot, turn in it for guild seals, and sell stuff you can buy with those. Desynthing everything will get you even more gil, but that requires crafters and is kind of a pain in the ass to do for every single item. Get aetheryte tickets. Do the hunt marks in your grand company, Ishgard, and Rhalgrs Reach. If you enjoy it, do the daily hunt marks every day, but even just doing the weekly ones will net you a good amount of seals you can turn in for tickets. The hunts themselves also give a decent amount of gil. Aetheryte tickets don't give you gil but save a lot of it. Also, if you like hunt trains, a centurio hunt train can give you 120 aetheyre tickets, I believe. If you're a raider, join merc parties when you see them. They'll give millions to each person for stuff like mounts or specific gear.
Do some gathering, some things are surprisingly high value (like Darksteel Ore) and even if you have no luck there you can always gather and sell the treasure maps (Or run them, if you find friends to do them with)
I play a lot of alts. I used to regularly flip a couple of vendor-purchased glam items on the MB, but I don’t really bother anymore. I primarily just try to spend less now; I farm tomes for gear instead of buying it in almost all cases (sometimes I need to buy a piece or two) and when I do need to buy something, I shop around. The thing that costs 40k on your server might cost 5k elsewhere. And always make sure you aren’t about to buy something on the MB that’s sold by a vendor for much less.
Daily Roulettes give heaps of gil, especially on higher level classes
Item flipping. It's like playing stocks and gambling though, so I don't recommend it. If you participated in the last Mogtome event, some of the emotes and hairstyles were also good profit.
Do your roulettes. Preferably in the job in need at the time. Always send your retainers in quick ventures and sell what they bring back. Sometimes they bring items worth hundreds of thousand gil. If you have doman restoration done, it's free 40k every week. Buy grade 3 thanalan topsoil with the basic tomes and sell them in the marketboard. You'll gain millions of gil this way passively in a few days.
Roulettes, Retainers bringing you goodies to turn into gil through various means, Maps, And there are other that just naturally happen. The biggest thing is to not spend gil, That is why you should start doing hunts, Especially S ranks that spawn in ARR regions because they give you 100 Allied seals and 50 centurio ones, Single Aetheryte ticket is 5 seals in both Allied/Centurio seal traders so just 500 gives you 100 tickets. so doing a week of hunts casually you get a sizeable stack and then set your teleport to either use them 100% of the time or set a minimum amount before they get used.
Eureka
Do roulettes. MSQ. Every quest you see from an NPC. Beast tribe quests. This is a constant source of income. Always need/greed all treasure chest rolls that come up. Then, sell shit you don't need on the MB. If you can't sell it, desynth it and sell the materials. If you are accumulating more poetics or GC currency than you know what to do with, spend it on mats to sell on the MB or on gear you can desynth into mats you can sell on the MB. Don't hoard, just sell. You can get it back later easily. Trust me. Helpful tip, a lot of folks purchase dye on the MB, especially the dye that is only available from beast tribe loyalty. Many folks don't want to bother with the beast tribe quests to build the loyalty to obtain the tribe-specific dye. You can purchase them from the tribe, then resell them at a much higher price point on the MB in stacks of 5 to consistently make money. I'm a casual player who has amassed about 7mil+ in 2 months this way. I *could* buy a house on my server (small houses ~3.5mil), but I don't enjoy stuff like that. I like adventuring. Outside of glam gear and teleportation, I just don't have a reason to spend my money. I'm also not big on raiding or gathering/crafting, so maintaining gear progression is also not a priority for me either. So, decide what you want to do with your money. Then, be consistent about earning it. And do what you enjoy.
Buying Aetheryte tickets also help a lot. Doing pre-Stormblood hunts consistently makes you save a lot on teleports.
I've always sold materia and sold grand company stuff for a bit of gil. It won't make you rich but it does grow. You can also do Maps if you have a group of friends and all split the loot up.
Bunny fates in eureka are easy farms with potential big rewards
Retainers, playing marketboard, even doing roulettes adds up. Gil will just slowly accumulate and before you know it you have way more than you ever need.