Final Fantasy XIV Gil-Guide: Earning money made easy

In our Final Fantasy XIV Guide we explain:

  • How to get gil without crafters and collectors
  • What are the fastest methods to get Gil
  • Tips and tricks to increase your income

The economy in Final Fantasy 14 has many similarities with the economy in real life. The principle of supply and demand also applies to the virtual world of Eorzea. Thanks to an extensive crafting and housing system, there are an incredible number of manufacturing options that require all sorts of materials from you.

Many players have made it their business to farm these materials and sell them to other players. But also food, potions, mounts, weapons, armor, or chocobo food cost gil. We want to explain you a few uncomplicated and simple methods, with which you can become a gil oligarch without a craftsman or collector!

Final Fantasy XIV: The market board

In Final Fantasy 14, you can either sell your belongings to the NPC merchants for a fixed amount or offer them to other players on the market boards of the towns for a desired amount. A closer look at the market board will tell you about your server's economy.

Before you put an item up for sale, you should first check the sales history. This will give you an overview of how much gil the item sold for and in what quantity. Many players prefer to buy items in larger quantities and are happy to spend more on them. Just see which quantities are the most popular.

Check the sales history to ensure a profitable trade.

The price should also take into account the sales history. If you see that the item usually sells for 1500 gil, but there are two players who want to sell it for 500 gil, you should not trade the item for less than its regular value.

Take your time with your sales! Even if you are in a Gil-emergency, you should always undercut the cheapest price by only a few Gil. The other players will always buy the cheapest item - no matter if the difference is 20 Gil or 500 Gil. If you lower the price too much, you will hurt your own economy.

Selling to other players from the NPC trader

For this method, you can thank all the lazy crafters and collectors on your server. Basically, the idea is to sell "simple" materials that you can get for little gil from the NPC traders to other players on the market board.

Many of these "simple" materials are also needed again and again for recipes in the higher level range. There are many craftsmen who don't want to take the trouble to travel long distances to the NPC's, or don't even know that you can buy these items there. That's why they buy them on the market board.

Except for the silver shark, all items were bought from NPC merchants for a fraction of the retail price.

This source of income is less lucrative than others, but the effort is very low and the revenue is guaranteed. If you are a member of a Free Society (FG) and have access to a material supplier in the FG House, you can buy most of the items there and save yourself the trouble of going to various dealers.

Now you have to find out which items you can sell to other players for a high profit. To avoid always having to run from the merchant to the market board and back, you can check the current prices on sites like Mogboard. The free companion app, also gives you an overview!

Examples of items that sell well:

  • Rubber
  • Juch leather
  • Ash log
  • Crow feather
  • Chicken egg

Earn money with your helpers

Transactions on the market boards take place through your helpers. Each assistant can sell up to 20 items. Always make sure that your helpers are working at maximum capacity. Just fill the gaps with items you previously bought from the NPC merchants to reward the laziness of the craftsmen.

However, assistants aren't just there to sell your items. With special tokens, which you can purchase through state thalers, your assistants can be sent on so-called undertakings.

On the ventures, your companions can not only get rare crafting materials, but also have the chance to find very rare companions in the various explorations, which are traded for a lot of money on the market boards!

In the beginning, you will only have two companion slots at your disposal. If you feel that your helpers are not enough, you can buy more helpers in the mogstore. Note that these are not one-time purchases, but your monthly fee will be increased according to the number of henchman slots you purchase.

Earn Gil with Random Content

The various random content you can run once a day and should definitely be done. Here you will not only get a bunch of routine to level up your job, but you will also be richly rewarded with Gil, Allagic Stones, or State Talers.

When choosing random content, always pay attention to which class is most in demand at the moment. The classes in demand get a big bonus on the already good reward! Mostly these are tanks and healers - so it's worth to have played up one of the two roles!

Which allagic stones bring the most Gil in FFXIV?

Allagic stones are not only found in the random content, but are also credited to you after each successful completion of most of the content. When an adventurer from your party completes the content for the first time, you will receive a few extra Allagic Stones after the successful completion.

If you're in the mood for dungeons and trials and want to earn Allagic Stones, you should first check out the group quest. Here you will often find new players looking for groups for content they haven't been in yet!

Currently, there are three different types of Allagic Stones, which are rewarded depending on the level of the content. You can exchange the stones for equipment and rare items in Ghost Toll (A Realm Reborn), Frohenhalde (Heavensward), Rhalgr's Watch (Stormblood), and Eulmore (Shadowbringers).

Items that you can sell well:

  • Materia IV (Frohenhalde)
  • Thavnair Glue HQ (Rhalgrs Watch)
  • Manufacture Alum HQ (Eulmore)

Sell found companions!

Dungeons are not only a good source to get Routines and Allagic Stones, though. In many dungeons, you have the opportunity to get very rare companions at the end, which you can find in the last chest after the final boss. Many of these companions are in high demand and can be sold for enormous amounts of money on the market board.

All dungeons that are not from the Shadowbringers expansion can now be run unsynced. To do this, you have to activate "Partial group possible" in the settings of the content search. This will not match you to the default item level, but will allow you to kill most enemies in the low level dungeons with a few blows using your current equipment and level.

You can get the companion "Tentacle" in the hard mode of Shipbreaker Island.

This saves a tremendous amount of time and should allow you to finish the 50 and 60 level dungeons in under 10 minutes. If you run the dungeon alone, no other party member can dice away your loot either. You can exchange the equipment from the chests for state thalers!

These companions are especially expensive:

  • Buldoggen Puppy (Baelsar Wall)
  • Tentacle (Shipbreaker Island Heavy)
  • Gomashio Seal (Sunken City of Skalla)
  • Snow Weasel (Hell Pound)

Primae materials in Final Fantasy 14

But you can also earn a golden nose through exams. In many trials, you not only have a small chance of getting a cool mount, but you can also get very rare crafting materials, which the crafters use to craft rare companions and Chocobo armor.

Especially the new trials, as well as difficult old trials that no one runs anymore, prove to be very lucrative.

The most valuable drops:

  • Wings of Titania's Dress (Last Purification - Titania)
  • Fiery Red Tail Feather (Soul Storm - Suzaku)
  • Crystal Shard of Hades (Last Purification - Hades)
  • Nidhogg Scale (Song of Nidhogg's Last Call)

Gil through state thalers and hunting badges

Through surplus state thalers or hunting badges you can, with a little background knowledge, earn just as much money. You can get state thalers relatively quickly, for example, by trading unwanted equipment to the quartermaster of your state society.

If you want to make gil, the best way is to buy the following items that players need to quest for their relic weapon. You should always make sure to buy four of these items at once, as you need four of each for one part of the quest.

The items are called:

  • Brioche des Rois
  • Titanium Alloy Mirror
  • Adamantium Franziska
  • Demon's Spell Arrow

In the sales history you can clearly see that the most popular item quantity is 4.

Hunting badges are rewarded to you by killing targets in the in High Hunt. There are three different types of hunting badges, which are rewarded depending on the area in which you kill the monster.

When you kill A- and S-ranked monsters, you will also receive other special itemswhich you can exchange for high quality Materia. Excess hunting seals should also be exchanged for materia, as they can be sold to other players for a lot of money!

Transmuting Materia

Selling materia is an easy way to get gil quickly. Materia can be obtained not only through Allagic Stones or the High Hunt, but can also be found in chests in dungeons. Likewise, you can exchange polycrystals in Rhalgr's Watch and Eulmore for Materia, which you can get as a reward from random content when you play them as a posted class, among other things.

The higher the level of materia, the more valuable it is. Low-level Materia is needed for the Relic Weapons quest line, among other things. Materia that you can no longer use should be kept in any case! The goblin Mutagenix (Central Thanalan X:23.8 Y:13.6) can help you!

With a little luck, Mutagenix will transmute unwanted Materia into high quality Materia!

The goblin Mutagenix has a very clever trick for upgrading unloved Materia. The solution is called transmuting. When transmuting, you give the goblin five different materia that you can no longer use. These five materia are recycled to create a new one.

The created materia has a high chance of being higher level than the used one. Keep your eyes open on the market board for cheap materia, buy it, transmute it and sell it to other players for a high profit!

Gil Guide: Treasure Cards

Treasure cards are the most fun way to get really rich! If you are a collector, you have the opportunity to find treasure maps while harvesting your materials. Once you find one, you have to wait 18 hours before you can find another one.

Treasure maps can also be traded on the market board. However, you can only have one card in your inventory. To unlock treasure maps, you must first complete the level 36 quest "Hunter of All Lost Treasures" (Eastern La Noscea).

Treasure maps come in thirteen different rarity levels. There are maps that you must run solo and maps that you tackle as a group. Deciphering the map will lead you to a location where you'll dig up the treasure.

After you perform the action, enemies will appear that you must defeat. After that, you can secure the chest, where various rewards are waiting for you. If you're lucky, the rarer treasure maps will open a portal to a vault that you'll have to fight through to get even rarer rewards!

Selling paintings in FFXIV

For many players in FFXIV, it's all about beautifying their virtual home. Bare walls can be decorated with all sorts of paintings. Most players have no idea where to get them at all and are therefore willing to spend considerable sums of money on the works of art.

However, acquiring the various paintings is actually easier than you might think. To unlock paintings, you must first work through entries in the Eorzea Incognita, or Sightseeing Log.

The entries are about finding and examining sights in various areas. If you don't feel like guessing, you can find the solutions to all entries on the internet. Once you've reached a coordinate, you'll have to unlock it with the emotes "/peek" or "/pray".

Once you have found all the points of interest in an area, you can continue in Frohenhalde. At the Happy Art Painter (X:4.5 Y:6.5), you can buy all the paintings for little gil. On the market board you can sell them for much more gil.

How to get rich in Eureka

If you've ever been to Eureka and made it to the last part of Hydatos, you can rake in millions of gil here with a lot of luck! The core aspect of this method are the so-called bunny fates. In these fates you have to protect lucky bunnies from enemy monsters.

If you are successful, you will receive a pier that you will have to use to guide your bunny to the given coordinate. Once there, a crate will appear. You will have a small chance to get a golden crate, which contains mounts or companions that can be traded for 10 million gil or more on the market board.

In Pagos, there are two other methods that can make you filthy rich. In one method, you farm the so-called "Pagos Anubis". They have the chance to reward you with a special chest, the more you kill of them. Here you can find the super rare emote "Ballroom Etiquette: Cold", which is worth over 8 million gil.

The second method requires you to kill the old Morbol lady Cassie, which you can find in Fate "Copying Cassie", which can only be found in the weather blizzard. Once you have slain the monster, there is a chance to get a "Cassie Earring" that you can sell for over 20 million gil.

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