The item was a bad example for the last point because its actually HQ on the market board while the vendor only sells NQ. The tip itself is still relevant for a lot of other items, especially raw materials that can be bought from vendors
stoooop, you are destroying my business =)))) , jk my casual ass makes money just by reselling vendor items =))) this is also a good tip and if you have some money to invest, the market is pretty crazy in this game
Pertaining to your choice of Home Destination: if you're high enough rank in your Grand Company, the Quartermaster sells Grand Company Aetheryte Tickets that will plop you down right outside your headquarters. For Maelstrom, this is right next to the Aftcastle aetheryte, for Immortal it's right next to the main Ul'dah aetheryte, and the same for Twins in Gridania. GC Tickets are 2,000 certificates each once you hit Captain (if I remember correctly, maybe Lieutenant), so they are a good sink if you have a lot of gear to turn in, and this opens up your Home Destination to be elsewhere.
For your teleportations tickets, you can go in your teleportation menu, in the setting on the top right and then set them to automatically be used when the price is over a set amount.
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A tip I wish I'd known when I was a sprout: make a gatherer and gather materials at The Diadem in Ishgard for some easy money. Those sell decently fast at pretty decent prices. Also, if you can, save your allagan silvers and golds for the donation box in Doma. It's an easy way to make 20k a week.
On Aetheryte Tickets (although this is perhaps slightly out of scope for sprouts), don't forget Blue Mages Masked Carnivale! About ten minutes a week gets 550 allied seals- or 110 free teleports.
Reminder you get 99 free tickets if you get a refer a friend code with someone and if you get more friends to join and give them codes you can get more tickets that way too.
When I heard teleportation prices were increasing in Endwalker, I made it a point to do both Heavensward and Stormblood daily hunts, found in Ishgard at the clan hunt board outside Forgotten Knight, and in Rhalgr’s reach/Kugane respectively. Doing both sets will earn you enough centurio seals to purchase 44 aether tickets every day at the left npc downstairs in the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard. (Even more once a week when you do the B-rank weekly hunt from the board, referred to as the elite hunt.) I amassed over 2k of those tickets and haven’t payed for a teleport since.
I make about 500k to 1 million gil a day in crafting which takes much less time than hunting. So 1000 gil here and there for teleporting doesn't matter much.
@@Adicon_ There are a total of 14 zones to teleport to, including the places you go to get the hunts. You can teleport more for convenience sake within those zones, but don’t have to. Also note that each set of hunts gives you minor gil that covers the cost of teleports as well. Once you’ve amassed enough tickets you don’t even have to do this daily. Side note: for exp purposes if you do the daily nut hunts of ShB and EW, you’ll gain a total of over 4mil exp for your 80+ characters.
Seriously. You seemingly popped up out of nowhere, and I latch onto to your videos like air now. You make some seriously good content my man. Keep it up!!
For Teleporting, if you don't want to farm tickets. I strategically place my reduce ports cost. Then I port to reduce/free location, and port once more to location nearby.
You can also do that with a free company house (if they have one). It's a lot cheaper to port to your FC house and then to a nearby location than it is to port from one of the newer zones straight to an older location.
Another hint is: If you are inside a FC and if your FC have a house, you can always teleport to the house first which is always cheaper than to teleport to the respective city and then you teleport again to the place you are going. Another tip is to use the GC tickets that you get to save money when teleporting to a city. And yet another tip is to use more the renters (chocobo, birds, etc) to go between close maps instead of teleporting. It takes some time, but you can do some screenshots on the run :) Oh, and another one is the inverse of what you said in the last tip: you can explore the market to see if you can buy something from a NPC vendor in order to sell it more expensively on the market xD
And remember to use your free/home destination to hop to if they're waay closer than you currently are. I have my free destination in Doma to cut those teleport costs down by ~700. Sure, it's one extra teleport, but probably worth it.
I think the one thing I'd alter is for the first tip, they have vendors for poetics and scrips beside the main aetheryte in all capital cities. Gridania, Ul'Dah, Limsa Lominsa for ARR. Ishgard, Kugane and Crystarium for the expansions. Much better than running off to wherever they have the poetics vendor originally.
Those only unlock at a certain point in the MSQ, but when they do definitely use those and save headache, great for later jobs when you are past the content.
Another potentially handy tip for money saving is unsyncing dungeons with your highest class. If you need gear for your leveling classes/retainers, just run a dungeon of the closest level with your highest class unsynced and get the gear. You can deliver any extra gear to your GC for seals or desynth for materials that often sell well but it's usually better to stock up on ventures in the long run. It takes a few runs to get a full set but any dungeon 20 levels or less than your current level can generally be done in 5-10 minutes. Plus you can get some surprisingly good looking glam gear this way
I... ... Literally never thought of this. *facepalm* I'd do this with a squadron (for the level up, self gear up, and sell extra for seals) but it NEVER occurred to me to gear up my Retainers for free too!
One thing I would like to add you can get up to 4 favored destinations, yes its 3 initially, but if you have the companion app it gives you a 4th completely free
In ARR (only got to HW recently) I always teleported to Ul'Dah (my Home Point, where my Grand Company is) and used the Airship for 120 Gil to go to Limsa or Gridania (as well as the Gold Saucer, which is free if going by Airship) Teleporting to the housing areas (via FG house, own house or apartment) also helped a lot since you can easily reach the main cities from there
One thing I noticed was your grand company rank was the second highest possible, the way you get the highest rank is by doing 5 unique command missions with your squadron, which then unlocks an flagged mission for them.
One note I'd like to add is to get your poetics gear from all the vendors in the towns. They're automatically fully upgraded to the max level of the gear. The icon on the town map is a blue bag by the atheryte. NPC is called "Sundry Splendors" near the home aetherytes. ARR area(s) (lvl 50 tome gear) -> Uldah/Limsa lominsa/New Gridania HW area (lvl 60 tome gear) -> Ishgard SB area (lvl 70 tome gear) -> Kugane ShB area (lvl 80 tome gear) -> Crystarium
When FF14 first came out I noticed the NPCs selling items we can also craft, granted not HQ. I made alot of money buying certain armor and gear for 2-3k and selling them for 8-15k each. Mainly crafter / gatherer gear. Good tip to check sources on items, its cool that there is a tooltip that at least lets you know it IS sold somewhere by a vendor. Not sure that tooltip was there 10 years ago or not.
Another thing about teleports is that if you get a house or apartment the teleport to you apartment is dirt cheap. I got an apartment in Shirogane and it's under 500 to teleport to from anywhere. I'd also set up you favored aetherytes to be in zones so that overall it'll be cheaper to teleport to the hub point and then the zone you actually want to head too. You have to tp twice but it'll save chip damage to your wallet.
I make it super easy on myself: 1) Free Port= Doman Enclave (my FC is in Shiro) 2) Free Company travel buff (always on!) 3) Grand Company Aetheryte Pass 4) Lastly, I set my home point to whichever port is near where I will be doing MSQ. ONLY changing as MSQ moves me from zone to zone. These methods have saved me a lot of gil in travel fees. Especially with the new bloated fees to move around.
Thank you for providing such helpful information! Another marketboard tip is to look at the total cost instead of the price when purchasing materials from the marketboard. For example, 99 iron ores are selling for 100 each, but there is another person selling 20 iron ores for 450 each. The difference is, 99 iron ores would total 9900 gil whereas the 20 iron ores would be 9000 gil. However, the 99 iron ores can be cheaper than the 20 iron ores in some cases.
With the explosion of sprouts in EW, I've been trying to keep the new players in my FC aware of this stuff, so this is a great summary of what we've all been trying to say. Scams abound.
Also, for Tomestone Vendors, there's a Vendor in each major city by their Aetheryte plazas. Each city has their max level gear (ARR cities have level 50, Ishgard has 60, etc) And if you have capped tomestones but don't need to get gear you can buy materia from the "Combat Supplies" option
I watched this after making a massive amount last night. I was doing desynth for my challenge log and got clear derimateria III which vendors for 5k. I was bored so I went on the MB and found 12 full stacks for 100 Gil each. That’s a 50x profit. Naturally I bought it all bc I didn’t think someone could make such a dumb move.
One tip for me as a starter was to make money by buying the default dye items from the shop and reselling them in the mb when they were worth > 300 ... made easily 2-8x the price i paid over a time .... not the fastest way but made 2 million gil with this method already
im litteraly a dye baron and check and sell every single craftable and buyable dye out there... made over 8 million over a few weeks haha ( selling 400g dye for 20,000 is glorious haha)
Hey Jolsn! I just wanted to say thanks for the valuable info. As someone comletely new, I was looking for a game that was a break from my many rounds of FPS and started the free trial for FF14. The game is a little overwhelming but your videos showing end game content and tips adn tricks are super helpful and promising. Im bookmarking them so once, school is done I can dive deeper into the FF14 world. thanks again
As for using your Tomestones of Poetics for armor, the NPC's are locked behind finishing the MSQ in the expansions. By the time you are finished and can buy the armor, it is already obsolete and your stones are capped at 2k. I would recommend spending them on your anima weapon ingredients like umbrite ect.
Not true Although they are locked behind the MSQ until you reach the end of that expansions X.0 quest, which is usually the quest with the expansion’s name, that gear can last you up to the next expansion’s vendor which is great when it comes to lvling multiple jobs and you are trying to save Gil (which is the whole point of this video)
You forgot about the Grand Company Aetheryte Ticket. You get with seals and teleports you to your Grand Company for free. Great to use when turning in gear for seals or just want to teleport to your city, especially when you've exhausted your other teleports.
For me they aren't worth it because the four cordials I could buy using those 2000 grand company seals sell for more than I could save by using an Aetheryte ticket. But that depends entirely on the server
yeah, but GC teleport tix are too expensive, it would be a better use to buy crafting items and put them up on the market board. i would not buy ventures with seals, but i would buy glamour prisms. cordials are good if you are going to be gathering. the engineering and survival manuals are a good investment if yur leveling gatherers and crafters.
On the topic of weird market prices*, I sometimes see people selling items on the marketplace for lower than they would get if they just sold it to a vendor. Always check the prices in the tooltips before buying or selling. * the prices for the Steel Chainmail in the video aren't actually weird because they're HQ items needed for an Armorer job quest.
For me when it comes to buying gear. I've been mostly just working on getting to level 50 on all combat jobs and then I level crafters to support and give the gear between the 10 level distance before the next tomestone gear. Getting miner, blacksmith, and then armor up really did save me some Gil when I had to level classes that needed armor ngl. Plus helps me fill out on getting experience and those marked as crafted once.
You can also do the Stormblood Elite Hunt (Hunt board in Ralgr's Reach or Kugane) for additional 20 tickets worth of seals (same kind of seals as HW hunt, so must cash them in Ishgard)
I'm planning to go from free trial to payed subscribtion. What I'd like to now is what you should spend gill on. At the moment I use it for teleportation, vendor items to desynth into rare materials, dark matter and lures. I've already got lvl 60 in every crafting and gathering skill as well as 3 dps, 1 tank and 1 healer (others are all 50+, except blue mage).
There are now representatives in the capitol cities that provide the same tomestone services, just in-case people don't have access to those areas: Mor Dhona, Idyllshire, Kugane and Crystarium
If you are an industrious sprout and also like crafting. Do some of the daily crafting / provision turn ins for the Grand Companies and also see if you can sell those same items on the MB in the quantity required for the turn in. Some people with more money than time and maybe are doing crafting at a later stage of their career will pay good bucks to avoid the hassle.
For the last one, you are comparing a NQ and an HQ armor. The price also varies with the demand. For instance, many ppl bough their items from the AH to trade them to their GC to level up a craft class.
I think also that specific item he was using as an example was also a crafter quest turn item which has to be HQ. So the price is so high because some people don't want to craft it themselves.
@@KenVen13 Yes. My comment is really specific for this pecular example. His advice is a good one out of it. For instance when you are looking for glamour pieces or even furnishing, it's wise indeed to check first if a NPC sold it since many ppl sell overpriced version in the AH. For instance, the partition wall are sell a fortune at the auction house while it's pretty cheap when buying it from a NPC in a residential area.
I actually paused the video to check out 2-factor. I ended up installing the Microsoft authenticator, which is pretty good because it simply requires me to log into my MS acount and enter an emailed security code, rather than it being tied to my phone (a major complaint with the SE one). Also, I had no idea what "expert delivery" meant, so thanks for pointing that out. 👍
Allied seals and Centurio seals can get you Aetheryte tickets. The Allied seals come from your grand company locations, and Centurio seals come from the heavenward expansion “The Forgotten Knights” Inn at the Foundation and for the stormblood expansion at Rhalgr’s Reach. I’ve been doing this for a long time as a content filler and saved thousands of them in readiness for Endwalker. The tickets stack up to 999, so you could imagine how much Gil I save. One last thing, if you want it to stop asking you if you want to use a ticket, you make the change from the Teleport window on the cog icon at the top right of that UI.
The last one was my bread and butter money making method for my first few million during ARR. Still works too. Little tip, there's a jewelry vendor near the goldsmith guild in Uldah, they sell level 30ish accessories for all classes so it's a good way to make a little cash if you don't want to craft
The only vendor gear I bought was for crafters/gatherers because it's so important for that stuff to be up to date, and obviously if you're leveling crafters, you probably don't have easy access to everything you need to make your current gear.
I sustained myself early on working the Dodo Omelette market. Bought for something like 28 gil a piece at a Vesper Bay vendor, sold for 200-350ish gil a piece on the Marketboard. I'd buy stacks upon stacks, and resell them for profit. Kept me well afloat in my early ARR days.
It’s a bit of a niche activity and a reasonably long investment, but getting access to the weekly Masked Carnivale and the log for Blue Mage. If you enjoy the whacky nature of this job, you can earn thousands of allied seals fairly quickly with which to hoard aetheryte tickets, and it keeps me topped up with free teleports by itself. I do the hunts as well because the B ranks are an easy 25k Gil and currency a week.
Here's a few more tips: 1). Don't forget about the Challenge Log. Unlock it asap and do as many of the challenges as you can. 2). When you get to Stormblood, there's the Doman Reconstruction Effort. Once you finish all of that, you can *STILL* donate every week. That's 20,000 gil every week, for free. What do you sell them? Well... 3). Level up your retainers. Even the standard two retainers. If you don't feel like messing with DoL jobs, you can still make both retainers an Adventurer job and level them up that way. Just send them out on 18h ventures once per day so that they can bring back Silver Coins once they get levelled up. Save 40 of them for Doma once per week. Every now and then, a retainer will bring back a minion, and there's a few of those that are actually quite expensive on the MB (most of them are not, sadly). The other items they bring back are going to be mostly worthless, though sometimes skins and fur related items can sell for a little. 4). Don't buy gear from the Marketboard. Just... don't. If you're leveling a new job, and your first job is Level 50+, just run dungeons solo (unsynch'd) for gear at early levels, and later on, use Poetics. Poetics are good until x5 (55, 65, 75, 85) and you can even get up to the x7 dungeons with them (though you're starting to fall behind). Once you get to Shadowbringers, you can use Trusts to do dungeon runs if too many people are rolling on gear. I find, though, that most people pass on gear in dungeons (huge mistake as he mentions above with the company seals). 99% of the time, anything on the Marketboard is going to be way overpriced, especially the lower level it is. Level 30 gear should not be worth 30k. It's only listed for that much because so few people bother making it and it's more for GC turn-ins for XP, rather than for people to use. 5). Also related to gear, NQ gear is fine until Level 50 and then you should be buying Ironworks with Poetics. You don't need that shiny little HQ symbol, and despite what he says in the video, you can buy shop gear to fill in a piece here or there that's outdated if you've been unlucky in dungeons. I wouldn't do this after Level 50, though, since you'll have Poetics. But, Pre-50, pieces of gear only cost a few thousand gil (you saw the chainmail in the video only being 3,000 gil. You can make that with a single Challenge Log completion, depending on which one).
At low levels, I set Limsa as my Free point, Ul'dah as my Home point, and Gridania as my Free company (for GC aetheryte tickets). i chose Limsa for the free point because of the number of quests in Limsa and the number of times I ported back and forth to The Waking Sands (I'd free teleport to Limsa, Arcanist aetheryte, and then take the ferry to Vesper Bay for 80 gil). Also, if you're waiting on Home point cooldown or you're running low (or just starting) on tickets, free teleport to Limsa and then Airship to the one of other big 3 (for 120 gil) to get closer before teleporting (or just traveling) to your specific destination. This has saved me, Literally, hundreds of thousands of gil.
On Crystal I travel to the other worlds starting at Limsa Lominsa, as the Market board is closest to the Atheryte. I just save the item I want as a favorite. There is a small icon at the bottom of the Market board on the lower right that you can click on. It will bring up the items you have saved as favorites. I just travel to the other worlds and price compare. I have gotten some incredible deals that way and saved a fortune.
One thing I'd like to add about teleportation fees. If you're part of a FC with an estate, or have an apartment/estate yourself, you can teleport to either location at a fraction of the price. Like right now, in [spoiler], I can teleport to my apartment in the Lavender Beds for 177 gil, or New Gridania for 711 gill. Granted it takes like an extra minute to navigate the residential areas (figuring out where is the exit) to go back to the town, but having 2 more places to teleport to for a discount really adds up. Edit: I derped and forgot this was a guide for beginners. Those who probably won't have an apartment/estate early on. >.>
teleporting prices are redonculous, when I started playing a week ago, I would look at my gil and just be like "wheres my money!" after that I would just try to use The Chocobo Porter. But I got my mount last night! (at lvl 30 mind you)
if you want to make easy gil, go to any dye vendor in town. see if any cheap dye is selling for a lot on the market board. buy the dye from the vendor and sell it on MB for a profit. also beast tribes sell dye at their specific vendors, those color usually sell even higher. see which colors people will need for fashion report friday and get those on the market. be sure to have at least your two free retainers set up and you can make easy gil.
Another tip for items you spend your seals on is coke and peacock ore. Especially coke sells usually at a 1:1 seal to Gil ratio and goes away in a few hours. Just don't flood the market. Peacock ore often has a better ratio but sells less.
Oh wow thank you so much for sharing these tips. My 1st toon was a total sprout hence poor lol. Playing my 2nd toon bcos I enjoy the main story so much is doing a little better. Still so much great info and tips here for me to improve. Ty ty ty
Honestly, I wouldn't waste the seals on cordials, as the materials for it are easy to get, and the crafting of the HQ cordial gives it a higher GP gain, and reduced cooldown. I agree with the manuals and ventures though, but also recommend that once you get to Shadowbringers or EW, that you start to rotate your Home, Free, and Favored destinations, and spend seals on the city teleportation tickets. Yes, they are somewhat expensive, but if you are only using them for full inventory or near full inventory of green gear turn ins, you are making way more than they cost, to the tune of easily paying for at least 2 extras, ontop of buying the old one back, and having seals left over from the purchase itself.
since i feel many people dont do blue mage content, theres an event you take place in as blue mage called masked carnivale, and everytime you complete an event you get the same allied seals you can buy aetheryte tickets with. If you finish them all you will be drowning in allied seals, plus its pretty fun.
You can also buy aetheryte tickets that drop you at your Grand Company's entrance for 2,000 seals a piece. If you're pretty regularly running dungeons you should always be able to afford to buy some.
I don't know what caused it, I think it was because I linked my account to the mobile companion app, but you can get FOUR favored locations as well. Also, Heavensward on uses a separate currency for Hunt Bills. HW + STB uses Clan Centurio Seals, while SHB and EW use Sacks of Nuts. I haven't looked meticulously through their lists for different seal turn-ins, but I don't remember seeing Aetheryte Tickets in HW or STB's seal shops. That being said, another good way to get Allied Seals is to do the Masked Carnivale weekly challenges. This, in conjunction with your weekly hunt, should give you a decent amount of seals each week. Something I surprised you didn't mention with the GC seals: If you're max rank in your GC you have access to a fifth item: GC Aetheryte Tickets. They cost two thousand seals IIRC, and they stack, but unlike normal Aetheryte Tickets that you choose to use when you teleport, these aetheryte tickets are a consumable item that will give you one free teleport to your GC's base of operations in that city. I use these to get a sort of "second free location". So I can use the GC Aetheryte Tickets when I need to go to Gridania (my GC base), and then I have my home location set to Ul'Dah. Last thing about the Marketboards and overpaying: Something to keep in mind is that a lot of gear that goes up on the Marketboards is HQ compared to what you can buy from a shop which is NQ. HQ gear has better stat boosts and defensive values than its NQ counterpart. While I don't think a suit of chainmail should go for 18k anyway, it is worth noting that all the Chainmails you saw in the marketboard were HQ and the tooltip that showed you the chainmail was available in an NPC shop somewhere for 3k was NQ. (That's why it says "Shop Selling Price (NQ): XXXX")
i like how you passivly make good amounts of money just by playing the game. You don't have to grind anything to sell or mid max i'm at the end of ARR and have only bought crafting materials for leveling my crafters a couple levels but i've already made 70k gil
the gear the vendors sell won't be HQ tho. also, if you need gear, ask a crafter. if you have joined an fc most people will just make you whole sets as you level up at no cost to you.
Another tip for the teleportation thing is find a Free Company that runs reduced rates assuming you aren't tied to an FC already. When my FC doesn't run the buff on Saturdays in favor of the saucer MGP buff, my pockets really feel it.
I'm not a sprout, but I noted that many things in the video I did and realized later that I was doing it wrong. Wish this had been out when I started. Would have saved me from being broke all the time :)
Use Airships whenever possible. They only ever cost a couple hundred gil. Granted by Stormblood they become less useable but RR and Heavensward they save you so much.
1) tomestone items are even easier to buy from blue satchel vendors next to every aetheryte in every major city after msq of that expansions is finished...also item u showed that sold for 3k was normal quality (marketboard items were HQ)...so yes ppl do sell items higher price for sure...but the example given was a bad one. Selling copper ore for 50 or 100 gil would have been better example since its only NQ and u can vendor buy it for less than 10 etc.
While people would want to save gil, my recommendation is always to focus on getting more gil rather than trying to cut costs. In the amount of time that some people do for their centurion seals in BLU and daily hunts, I would have made the same or more gil just going for the daily map, gathering and selling mats and especially materia (from farming the two post 90 dungeons) now is still quite expensive. If I really wanted aetheryte tickets, I simply just go for any S ranks that I happen to get info on, which requires no active participation since I essentially only do it when I happen to see them. I am still at 600+ tickets myself, although I do only use tickets for tps above 700 gil. I also do not recommend using seals to get dark matter for repairs unless the price for seal is lower than other actively traded items (better crowned pies, glamour prisms). In most cases, you are better off spending actual gil on dark matter if you are going the crafting route after selling off the mats required for the items.
Thanks for the tip, didn’t know about the websites (legacy 1.0 player here). I’m on primal legacy server and every piece of item is like x12 than what they are worth
On the teleport point, I had someone helping me level BLU yesterday and she was getting mad at me that I was getting around super quick without teleports after I hit 70 and was setting up and tweaking my glamour. I went to Kugane from Kholusia by using my free teleport to Radz-at-Han to the airship. Spent 300 gil instead of 1500 for a direct teleport. After that, I wanted to go to Southern Thanalan to buy (what ended up being the wrong color) dye from the Brotherhood of Ash by sailing to Limsa for 300, then to Vesper Bay for 80, then flying to Ul'dah to use the aethernet to the Gate of Thal to get there. She was all "How tf do you get around so fast?" And I just responded, "I know my routes." I may be an incompetent bafoon that probably doesn't deserve a mentor crown for either trades or battle, but I can navigate the map like a champion.
Every expansion has Normal daily Hunts, Elite weekly hunts, A rank, and S rank Hunt marks. that's ARR, HW, StB, ShB, and now Ew. However. you can only trade Allied seals (ARR) and Centurio seals (HW/StB) for Aetheryte tickets. so Hitting the weekly Elite hunts for ARR, HW, and StB should be a weekly priority. As your stock of Aetheryte tickets and seals rises you can drop the gil condition for using atheryte tickets much lower. I keep mine around 350gil.
I wouldn't bother with the regular tomestone vendors from previous expansions. Those don't sell tome weapons. You can find a splendors vendor (blue bag icon) near the aetheryte in every major city for ARR up to Shadowbringers. Those sell all tome armor from their respective expansion plus weapons too. (note, both the normal vendor and splendors vendor won't show up until you have completed all of the pre patch MSQ for each expansion) 9:45 I also want to point out that the items being sold here on the MB are High Quality items. These are crafted items that have higher stats than their normal variants, and can NOT be bought from vendors.
Find what the "Adventurer in need" bonus usually is, for me it's a tank and learn that class. If you play daily, and do 2-3 dailies you'll easily make 50K+ a day along side those sweet bonus items you get in high level play which if done correctly can also make nearly 50K or more. All in all within a month of pure playing you'll easily make millions.
If you want a gamble for your GC seals. Buy the 3.0, 4.0 material boxes. They can contain pets and mounts that are valuable....some are not. But worstcase you get something new
9:46 this is a bad example to display because on the MB you buy HQ gear, which is equivalent to (I think) around 20 ilvs higher stats than the same gear on NQ. A better example might be starter gear for each race, or something along those lines, basically glam gear that people can buy off of NPCs.
I like buying stuff from merchants for 400 gil and selling them on market for 10k lol. It usually sells in less than a day, too. People can't seem to get enough merchant stuff.
The last one reminded me how people in my first world would get a sword from some vendor, I don't recall where, I think it was a Samurai weapon? And it would sell on the market for ridiculous prices. So you had people buying dozens, selling them, and making millions in profits. I have no idea why that happened. Like I can believe a couple people or one person doing it with a handful of copies. But it was something everyone took advantage of and knew it was a vendor item.
universalis is great, it lets me see what irreparable damage I've caused to my world's economy by flooding it with random high-rarity items at slightly-lower-than-average prices
I just started back up after several years (so I'm the other kind of sprout XD) and I have to say your videos have been super helpful, thank you! So much has changed, and even what didn't I don't think I knew before anyway XD
honestly with how much gil the game tosses you the absolute best advice for sprouts is to just not make stupid purchases. NEVER buy vendor gear unless absolutely 100% necessary, im talking when youre a lvl 43 healer with level 10 pants and shoes unable to keep up in a dungeon. between msq and job quests they do a good job tossing you gear every so often (unless youre leveling multiple classes). also, its a bit of a grind to get there, but upon reaching the highest level in your gc you can buy 3.0/4.0 materiel boxes for 20k seals each, which with the cap for that rank at 90k means 4 boxes every time you cap, which isnt too hard with the expert delivery method mentioned in the video. it is a gamble, but sometimes you can get a minion that fetches a pretty penny, and if not then something interesting thatd be a pain to get normally :p and a last tip: you can save a TON of money waiting till the end of heavensward and unlocking the firmament to level crafters. you just need to get to 20 first, then the recipes for it only use items you gather in the diadem, give way more xp than doing it normally, plus tons of fun prizes to be had with the scrips and kupo of fortune (whether to keep or to sell if you want)
I like it how this man warns people to not get "'scammed" on the market board and buy items on a server were the price is low. And then proceeds to encourage people to "Scam" other by hinting to buy low on other servers and sell high on your home server :')
Also don't sell items for less than their merchant sale price. I am frequently checking demimateria on the market board because for some reason there are people who sell things for 200 gil that an NPC pays 500 gil for.
Great vid but you missed the Grand Company Aetheryte Ticket you get from GCS (I'm guessing because you arent full rank). They teleport you for free to your grand company (which basically makes teleporting to your home city always free wherever you are in the world)
The item was a bad example for the last point because its actually HQ on the market board while the vendor only sells NQ. The tip itself is still relevant for a lot of other items, especially raw materials that can be bought from vendors
you can buy aetheryte tickets with centurio seals as well, from the vendor in the forgotten knight - ishgard
I consider it a good enough example because even an HQ item should not be 10 times the price of the NQ variant.
stoooop, you are destroying my business =)))) , jk my casual ass makes money just by reselling vendor items =))) this is also a good tip and if you have some money to invest, the market is pretty crazy in this game
Pertaining to your choice of Home Destination: if you're high enough rank in your Grand Company, the Quartermaster sells Grand Company Aetheryte Tickets that will plop you down right outside your headquarters. For Maelstrom, this is right next to the Aftcastle aetheryte, for Immortal it's right next to the main Ul'dah aetheryte, and the same for Twins in Gridania. GC Tickets are 2,000 certificates each once you hit Captain (if I remember correctly, maybe Lieutenant), so they are a good sink if you have a lot of gear to turn in, and this opens up your Home Destination to be elsewhere.
No it was still a good example, shouldn’t be paying 8x the price for HQ of a level 28 top.
For your teleportations tickets, you can go in your teleportation menu, in the setting on the top right and then set them to automatically be used when the price is over a set amount.
Hey man, I just want to tell you that for someone like me who doesn't have the time to research the game deeply (explorations, wikis etc.), your content is much appreciated. There's always, one trick here, or another small thing that I missed there that has transformed my gaming experience a lot. Thanks so much!
A tip I wish I'd known when I was a sprout: make a gatherer and gather materials at The Diadem in Ishgard for some easy money. Those sell decently fast at pretty decent prices.
Also, if you can, save your allagan silvers and golds for the donation box in Doma. It's an easy way to make 20k a week.
The only problem with the Doma donations is that it takes a few weeks to get to where you can get the 200% return. You still get a lot of gil, though.
On Aetheryte Tickets (although this is perhaps slightly out of scope for sprouts), don't forget Blue Mages Masked Carnivale! About ten minutes a week gets 550 allied seals- or 110 free teleports.
this plus the Weekly elite is what sold me on getting blue mage leveled xD.
Reminder you get 99 free tickets if you get a refer a friend code with someone and if you get more friends to join and give them codes you can get more tickets that way too.
When I heard teleportation prices were increasing in Endwalker, I made it a point to do both Heavensward and Stormblood daily hunts, found in Ishgard at the clan hunt board outside Forgotten Knight, and in Rhalgr’s reach/Kugane respectively. Doing both sets will earn you enough centurio seals to purchase 44 aether tickets every day at the left npc downstairs in the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard. (Even more once a week when you do the B-rank weekly hunt from the board, referred to as the elite hunt.) I amassed over 2k of those tickets and haven’t payed for a teleport since.
I make about 500k to 1 million gil a day in crafting which takes much less time than hunting. So 1000 gil here and there for teleporting doesn't matter much.
@@Zero8880 That’s great, but I choose to take a whole 10 minutes out of my day to save gil every now and again. You do you.
How many times do you have to teleport to get the hunts and go to each of the locations every day?
@@Adicon_ There are a total of 14 zones to teleport to, including the places you go to get the hunts. You can teleport more for convenience sake within those zones, but don’t have to. Also note that each set of hunts gives you minor gil that covers the cost of teleports as well. Once you’ve amassed enough tickets you don’t even have to do this daily.
Side note: for exp purposes if you do the daily nut hunts of ShB and EW, you’ll gain a total of over 4mil exp for your 80+ characters.
@TheRain @Tim Thanks guys! Great reminders!!
Seriously. You seemingly popped up out of nowhere, and I latch onto to your videos like air now. You make some seriously good content my man. Keep it up!!
Agreed!!!
For Teleporting, if you don't want to farm tickets. I strategically place my reduce ports cost. Then I port to reduce/free location, and port once more to location nearby.
You can also do that with a free company house (if they have one). It's a lot cheaper to port to your FC house and then to a nearby location than it is to port from one of the newer zones straight to an older location.
2:40 With the companion app attached to your FF14 account, you get a fourth Favored teleport destination. Which is pretty neat
Do I have to get into the game to see if I got the 4th favored destination? I got the app but it didnt tell me if i got anything
Yea. When you logged into the companion app, you can check it ingame. Or on the account mog station page. Under service account information
@@Acxjet oh cool, thanks
For anyone new, this requires a subscription
Another hint is:
If you are inside a FC and if your FC have a house, you can always teleport to the house first which is always cheaper than to teleport to the respective city and then you teleport again to the place you are going. Another tip is to use the GC tickets that you get to save money when teleporting to a city.
And yet another tip is to use more the renters (chocobo, birds, etc) to go between close maps instead of teleporting. It takes some time, but you can do some screenshots on the run :)
Oh, and another one is the inverse of what you said in the last tip: you can explore the market to see if you can buy something from a NPC vendor in order to sell it more expensively on the market xD
And remember to use your free/home destination to hop to if they're waay closer than you currently are. I have my free destination in Doma to cut those teleport costs down by ~700. Sure, it's one extra teleport, but probably worth it.
I think the one thing I'd alter is for the first tip, they have vendors for poetics and scrips beside the main aetheryte in all capital cities. Gridania, Ul'Dah, Limsa Lominsa for ARR. Ishgard, Kugane and Crystarium for the expansions. Much better than running off to wherever they have the poetics vendor originally.
Yeah the original vendors are a nightmare.
Those only unlock at a certain point in the MSQ, but when they do definitely use those and save headache, great for later jobs when you are past the content.
Another potentially handy tip for money saving is unsyncing dungeons with your highest class. If you need gear for your leveling classes/retainers, just run a dungeon of the closest level with your highest class unsynced and get the gear. You can deliver any extra gear to your GC for seals or desynth for materials that often sell well but it's usually better to stock up on ventures in the long run.
It takes a few runs to get a full set but any dungeon 20 levels or less than your current level can generally be done in 5-10 minutes. Plus you can get some surprisingly good looking glam gear this way
You can also run it with your Squadron
I... ... Literally never thought of this. *facepalm* I'd do this with a squadron (for the level up, self gear up, and sell extra for seals) but it NEVER occurred to me to gear up my Retainers for free too!
One thing I would like to add you can get up to 4 favored destinations, yes its 3 initially, but if you have the companion app it gives you a 4th completely free
In ARR (only got to HW recently) I always teleported to Ul'Dah (my Home Point, where my Grand Company is) and used the Airship for 120 Gil to go to Limsa or Gridania (as well as the Gold Saucer, which is free if going by Airship)
Teleporting to the housing areas (via FG house, own house or apartment) also helped a lot since you can easily reach the main cities from there
One thing I noticed was your grand company rank was the second highest possible, the way you get the highest rank is by doing 5 unique command missions with your squadron, which then unlocks an flagged mission for them.
One note I'd like to add is to get your poetics gear from all the vendors in the towns. They're automatically fully upgraded to the max level of the gear. The icon on the town map is a blue bag by the atheryte. NPC is called "Sundry Splendors" near the home aetherytes.
ARR area(s) (lvl 50 tome gear) -> Uldah/Limsa lominsa/New Gridania
HW area (lvl 60 tome gear) -> Ishgard
SB area (lvl 70 tome gear) -> Kugane
ShB area (lvl 80 tome gear) -> Crystarium
When FF14 first came out I noticed the NPCs selling items we can also craft, granted not HQ. I made alot of money buying certain armor and gear for 2-3k and selling them for 8-15k each. Mainly crafter / gatherer gear. Good tip to check sources on items, its cool that there is a tooltip that at least lets you know it IS sold somewhere by a vendor. Not sure that tooltip was there 10 years ago or not.
Another thing about teleports is that if you get a house or apartment the teleport to you apartment is dirt cheap. I got an apartment in Shirogane and it's under 500 to teleport to from anywhere. I'd also set up you favored aetherytes to be in zones so that overall it'll be cheaper to teleport to the hub point and then the zone you actually want to head too. You have to tp twice but it'll save chip damage to your wallet.
I make it super easy on myself:
1) Free Port= Doman Enclave (my FC is in Shiro)
2) Free Company travel buff (always on!)
3) Grand Company Aetheryte Pass
4) Lastly, I set my home point to whichever port is near where I will be doing MSQ. ONLY changing as MSQ moves me from zone to zone.
These methods have saved me a lot of gil in travel fees. Especially with the new bloated fees to move around.
Thank you for providing such helpful information! Another marketboard tip is to look at the total cost instead of the price when purchasing materials from the marketboard. For example, 99 iron ores are selling for 100 each, but there is another person selling 20 iron ores for 450 each. The difference is, 99 iron ores would total 9900 gil whereas the 20 iron ores would be 9000 gil. However, the 99 iron ores can be cheaper than the 20 iron ores in some cases.
With the explosion of sprouts in EW, I've been trying to keep the new players in my FC aware of this stuff, so this is a great summary of what we've all been trying to say. Scams abound.
Yours is the most useful content out there, thank you!
Thanks!
Also, for Tomestone Vendors, there's a Vendor in each major city by their Aetheryte plazas. Each city has their max level gear (ARR cities have level 50, Ishgard has 60, etc)
And if you have capped tomestones but don't need to get gear you can buy materia from the "Combat Supplies" option
I watched this after making a massive amount last night. I was doing desynth for my challenge log and got clear derimateria III which vendors for 5k. I was bored so I went on the MB and found 12 full stacks for 100 Gil each. That’s a 50x profit. Naturally I bought it all bc I didn’t think someone could make such a dumb move.
And if you sell it in the doman enclave, that's double the profit too ;)
Lol as free trial (intend to buy soon) I'm buying 6k vendor items to desynth into derimateria III (roughly 25% succes rate).
@@Vincrand which items do you buy to desynth?
@@hbaabes Bridesmaid's Sandals for Fieldcraft Demimateria III.
Kinda messed up the spelling in previous message, so just copy pasted it this time XD.
One tip for me as a starter was to make money by buying the default dye items from the shop and reselling them in the mb when they were worth > 300 ... made easily 2-8x the price i paid over a time .... not the fastest way but made 2 million gil with this method already
im litteraly a dye baron and check and sell every single craftable and buyable dye out there... made over 8 million over a few weeks haha ( selling 400g dye for 20,000 is glorious haha)
WOW so useful. I had no idea about the favorites saving you Gil. I watched so many tutorials and you are the only 1 to mention it.
Hey Jolsn! I just wanted to say thanks for the valuable info. As someone comletely new, I was looking for a game that was a break from my many rounds of FPS and started the free trial for FF14. The game is a little overwhelming but your videos showing end game content and tips adn tricks are super helpful and promising. Im bookmarking them so once, school is done I can dive deeper into the FF14 world. thanks again
As for using your Tomestones of Poetics for armor, the NPC's are locked behind finishing the MSQ in the expansions. By the time you are finished and can buy the armor, it is already obsolete and your stones are capped at 2k. I would recommend spending them on your anima weapon ingredients like umbrite ect.
Not true
Although they are locked behind the MSQ until you reach the end of that expansions X.0 quest, which is usually the quest with the expansion’s name, that gear can last you up to the next expansion’s vendor which is great when it comes to lvling multiple jobs and you are trying to save Gil (which is the whole point of this video)
@@BattlerUshiromiya9999 Aye, yes you are correct. The point is saving Gil and I lost sight of that. Indeed this armor will be good to save Gil.
@@BattlerUshiromiya9999 Some job quests require a gear set. level 60 RDM duty is an example of this
You forgot about the Grand Company Aetheryte Ticket. You get with seals and teleports you to your Grand Company for free. Great to use when turning in gear for seals or just want to teleport to your city, especially when you've exhausted your other teleports.
For me they aren't worth it because the four cordials I could buy using those 2000 grand company seals sell for more than I could save by using an Aetheryte ticket. But that depends entirely on the server
@@Jolsn true. I just buy Moonstones and sell those.
or just be a member of the immortal flames so the aetheryte is right next to the GC
@@p1ngerss true but im Maelstrom.
yeah, but GC teleport tix are too expensive, it would be a better use to buy crafting items and put them up on the market board. i would not buy ventures with seals, but i would buy glamour prisms. cordials are good if you are going to be gathering. the engineering and survival manuals are a good investment if yur leveling gatherers and crafters.
On the topic of weird market prices*, I sometimes see people selling items on the marketplace for lower than they would get if they just sold it to a vendor. Always check the prices in the tooltips before buying or selling.
* the prices for the Steel Chainmail in the video aren't actually weird because they're HQ items needed for an Armorer job quest.
For me when it comes to buying gear. I've been mostly just working on getting to level 50 on all combat jobs and then I level crafters to support and give the gear between the 10 level distance before the next tomestone gear. Getting miner, blacksmith, and then armor up really did save me some Gil when I had to level classes that needed armor ngl. Plus helps me fill out on getting experience and those marked as crafted once.
You can also do the Stormblood Elite Hunt (Hunt board in Ralgr's Reach or Kugane) for additional 20 tickets worth of seals (same kind of seals as HW hunt, so must cash them in Ishgard)
I'm planning to go from free trial to payed subscribtion. What I'd like to now is what you should spend gill on. At the moment I use it for teleportation, vendor items to desynth into rare materials, dark matter and lures. I've already got lvl 60 in every crafting and gathering skill as well as 3 dps, 1 tank and 1 healer (others are all 50+, except blue mage).
I suppose this is fine advice for grand company seals and poetics, if you never ever do the weapon relics for ARR or HW.
There are now representatives in the capitol cities that provide the same tomestone services, just in-case people don't have access to those areas: Mor Dhona, Idyllshire, Kugane and Crystarium
I didn't know about the aetherite tickets. I have a lot of allies seals from masked carnivale stuff
If you are an industrious sprout and also like crafting. Do some of the daily crafting / provision turn ins for the Grand Companies and also see if you can sell those same items on the MB in the quantity required for the turn in. Some people with more money than time and maybe are doing crafting at a later stage of their career will pay good bucks to avoid the hassle.
For the last one, you are comparing a NQ and an HQ armor. The price also varies with the demand. For instance, many ppl bough their items from the AH to trade them to their GC to level up a craft class.
I think also that specific item he was using as an example was also a crafter quest turn item which has to be HQ. So the price is so high because some people don't want to craft it themselves.
@@KenVen13 Yes. My comment is really specific for this pecular example.
His advice is a good one out of it. For instance when you are looking for glamour pieces or even furnishing, it's wise indeed to check first if a NPC sold it since many ppl sell overpriced version in the AH.
For instance, the partition wall are sell a fortune at the auction house while it's pretty cheap when buying it from a NPC in a residential area.
I actually paused the video to check out 2-factor. I ended up installing the Microsoft authenticator, which is pretty good because it simply requires me to log into my MS acount and enter an emailed security code, rather than it being tied to my phone (a major complaint with the SE one). Also, I had no idea what "expert delivery" meant, so thanks for pointing that out. 👍
'Allagan Tombstones'
Everyone's done it, but... they are TOMEstones
My stratagy for teleport favs is to always have my home city, msq zone, job quest npc, and crafting quest npc saved.
This is a very great video for someone like me, but I'm a glamour addict, so there's no hope for me.
Allied seals and Centurio seals can get you Aetheryte tickets. The Allied seals come from your grand company locations, and Centurio seals come from the heavenward expansion “The Forgotten Knights” Inn at the Foundation and for the stormblood expansion at Rhalgr’s Reach. I’ve been doing this for a long time as a content filler and saved thousands of them in readiness for Endwalker. The tickets stack up to 999, so you could imagine how much Gil I save. One last thing, if you want it to stop asking you if you want to use a ticket, you make the change from the Teleport window on the cog icon at the top right of that UI.
The last one was my bread and butter money making method for my first few million during ARR. Still works too. Little tip, there's a jewelry vendor near the goldsmith guild in Uldah, they sell level 30ish accessories for all classes so it's a good way to make a little cash if you don't want to craft
Thank you SO MUCH for Universalis... I've been playing for a year and didnt know about this site!
The only vendor gear I bought was for crafters/gatherers because it's so important for that stuff to be up to date, and obviously if you're leveling crafters, you probably don't have easy access to everything you need to make your current gear.
I sustained myself early on working the Dodo Omelette market. Bought for something like 28 gil a piece at a Vesper Bay vendor, sold for 200-350ish gil a piece on the Marketboard. I'd buy stacks upon stacks, and resell them for profit. Kept me well afloat in my early ARR days.
It’s a bit of a niche activity and a reasonably long investment, but getting access to the weekly Masked Carnivale and the log for Blue Mage. If you enjoy the whacky nature of this job, you can earn thousands of allied seals fairly quickly with which to hoard aetheryte tickets, and it keeps me topped up with free teleports by itself. I do the hunts as well because the B ranks are an easy 25k Gil and currency a week.
Here's a few more tips:
1). Don't forget about the Challenge Log. Unlock it asap and do as many of the challenges as you can.
2). When you get to Stormblood, there's the Doman Reconstruction Effort. Once you finish all of that, you can *STILL* donate every week. That's 20,000 gil every week, for free. What do you sell them? Well...
3). Level up your retainers. Even the standard two retainers. If you don't feel like messing with DoL jobs, you can still make both retainers an Adventurer job and level them up that way. Just send them out on 18h ventures once per day so that they can bring back Silver Coins once they get levelled up. Save 40 of them for Doma once per week. Every now and then, a retainer will bring back a minion, and there's a few of those that are actually quite expensive on the MB (most of them are not, sadly). The other items they bring back are going to be mostly worthless, though sometimes skins and fur related items can sell for a little.
4). Don't buy gear from the Marketboard. Just... don't. If you're leveling a new job, and your first job is Level 50+, just run dungeons solo (unsynch'd) for gear at early levels, and later on, use Poetics. Poetics are good until x5 (55, 65, 75, 85) and you can even get up to the x7 dungeons with them (though you're starting to fall behind). Once you get to Shadowbringers, you can use Trusts to do dungeon runs if too many people are rolling on gear. I find, though, that most people pass on gear in dungeons (huge mistake as he mentions above with the company seals). 99% of the time, anything on the Marketboard is going to be way overpriced, especially the lower level it is. Level 30 gear should not be worth 30k. It's only listed for that much because so few people bother making it and it's more for GC turn-ins for XP, rather than for people to use.
5). Also related to gear, NQ gear is fine until Level 50 and then you should be buying Ironworks with Poetics. You don't need that shiny little HQ symbol, and despite what he says in the video, you can buy shop gear to fill in a piece here or there that's outdated if you've been unlucky in dungeons. I wouldn't do this after Level 50, though, since you'll have Poetics. But, Pre-50, pieces of gear only cost a few thousand gil (you saw the chainmail in the video only being 3,000 gil. You can make that with a single Challenge Log completion, depending on which one).
At low levels, I set Limsa as my Free point, Ul'dah as my Home point, and Gridania as my Free company (for GC aetheryte tickets). i chose Limsa for the free point because of the number of quests in Limsa and the number of times I ported back and forth to The Waking Sands (I'd free teleport to Limsa, Arcanist aetheryte, and then take the ferry to Vesper Bay for 80 gil). Also, if you're waiting on Home point cooldown or you're running low (or just starting) on tickets, free teleport to Limsa and then Airship to the one of other big 3 (for 120 gil) to get closer before teleporting (or just traveling) to your specific destination. This has saved me, Literally, hundreds of thousands of gil.
Another incredibly helpful video. Learned so much! Especially those Market board websites! Never knew about those. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
the Steel Chainmail on the marketboard was HQ (high quality). Vendors only sell NQ (normal quality).
On Crystal I travel to the other worlds starting at Limsa Lominsa, as the Market board is closest to the Atheryte. I just save the item I want as a favorite. There is a small icon at the bottom of the Market board on the lower right that you can click on. It will bring up the items you have saved as favorites. I just travel to the other worlds and price compare. I have gotten some incredible deals that way and saved a fortune.
One thing I'd like to add about teleportation fees. If you're part of a FC with an estate, or have an apartment/estate yourself, you can teleport to either location at a fraction of the price. Like right now, in [spoiler], I can teleport to my apartment in the Lavender Beds for 177 gil, or New Gridania for 711 gill.
Granted it takes like an extra minute to navigate the residential areas (figuring out where is the exit) to go back to the town, but having 2 more places to teleport to for a discount really adds up.
Edit: I derped and forgot this was a guide for beginners. Those who probably won't have an apartment/estate early on. >.>
teleporting prices are redonculous, when I started playing a week ago, I would look at my gil and just be like "wheres my money!" after that I would just try to use The Chocobo Porter. But I got my mount last night! (at lvl 30 mind you)
if you want to make easy gil, go to any dye vendor in town. see if any cheap dye is selling for a lot on the market board. buy the dye from the vendor and sell it on MB for a profit. also beast tribes sell dye at their specific vendors, those color usually sell even higher. see which colors people will need for fashion report friday and get those on the market. be sure to have at least your two free retainers set up and you can make easy gil.
Especially my BOILED EGG. It cost 5 gil so don’t buy it from market board for 142 gil with quantity of 99
Another tip for items you spend your seals on is coke and peacock ore. Especially coke sells usually at a 1:1 seal to Gil ratio and goes away in a few hours. Just don't flood the market. Peacock ore often has a better ratio but sells less.
Oh wow thank you so much for sharing these tips. My 1st toon was a total sprout hence poor lol. Playing my 2nd toon bcos I enjoy the main story so much is doing a little better. Still so much great info and tips here for me to improve. Ty ty ty
Honestly, I wouldn't waste the seals on cordials, as the materials for it are easy to get, and the crafting of the HQ cordial gives it a higher GP gain, and reduced cooldown. I agree with the manuals and ventures though, but also recommend that once you get to Shadowbringers or EW, that you start to rotate your Home, Free, and Favored destinations, and spend seals on the city teleportation tickets. Yes, they are somewhat expensive, but if you are only using them for full inventory or near full inventory of green gear turn ins, you are making way more than they cost, to the tune of easily paying for at least 2 extras, ontop of buying the old one back, and having seals left over from the purchase itself.
The only trick I picked up on is don't buy armor till you reach level 60, like ever. The side quests alone give you all your armor for free.
since i feel many people dont do blue mage content, theres an event you take place in as blue mage called masked carnivale, and everytime you complete an event you get the same allied seals you can buy aetheryte tickets with. If you finish them all you will be drowning in allied seals, plus its pretty fun.
You can also buy aetheryte tickets that drop you at your Grand Company's entrance for 2,000 seals a piece. If you're pretty regularly running dungeons you should always be able to afford to buy some.
I don't know what caused it, I think it was because I linked my account to the mobile companion app, but you can get FOUR favored locations as well.
Also, Heavensward on uses a separate currency for Hunt Bills. HW + STB uses Clan Centurio Seals, while SHB and EW use Sacks of Nuts. I haven't looked meticulously through their lists for different seal turn-ins, but I don't remember seeing Aetheryte Tickets in HW or STB's seal shops.
That being said, another good way to get Allied Seals is to do the Masked Carnivale weekly challenges. This, in conjunction with your weekly hunt, should give you a decent amount of seals each week.
Something I surprised you didn't mention with the GC seals: If you're max rank in your GC you have access to a fifth item: GC Aetheryte Tickets. They cost two thousand seals IIRC, and they stack, but unlike normal Aetheryte Tickets that you choose to use when you teleport, these aetheryte tickets are a consumable item that will give you one free teleport to your GC's base of operations in that city. I use these to get a sort of "second free location". So I can use the GC Aetheryte Tickets when I need to go to Gridania (my GC base), and then I have my home location set to Ul'Dah.
Last thing about the Marketboards and overpaying: Something to keep in mind is that a lot of gear that goes up on the Marketboards is HQ compared to what you can buy from a shop which is NQ. HQ gear has better stat boosts and defensive values than its NQ counterpart. While I don't think a suit of chainmail should go for 18k anyway, it is worth noting that all the Chainmails you saw in the marketboard were HQ and the tooltip that showed you the chainmail was available in an NPC shop somewhere for 3k was NQ. (That's why it says "Shop Selling Price (NQ): XXXX")
i like how you passivly make good amounts of money just by playing the game. You don't have to grind anything to sell or mid max i'm at the end of ARR and have only bought crafting materials for leveling my crafters a couple levels but i've already made 70k gil
the gear the vendors sell won't be HQ tho. also, if you need gear, ask a crafter. if you have joined an fc most people will just make you whole sets as you level up at no cost to you.
Another tip for the teleportation thing is find a Free Company that runs reduced rates assuming you aren't tied to an FC already. When my FC doesn't run the buff on Saturdays in favor of the saucer MGP buff, my pockets really feel it.
I'm not a sprout, but I noted that many things in the video I did and realized later that I was doing it wrong. Wish this had been out when I started. Would have saved me from being broke all the time :)
Use Airships whenever possible. They only ever cost a couple hundred gil. Granted by Stormblood they become less useable but RR and Heavensward they save you so much.
Yep I use my free destination then take the air ship to the other cities if the teleport cost more than the air ship.
I'm surprised you did not mention spirit bonding and extract materia. This is free gill and investing into it is worth it
1) tomestone items are even easier to buy from blue satchel vendors next to every aetheryte in every major city after msq of that expansions is finished...also item u showed that sold for 3k was normal quality (marketboard items were HQ)...so yes ppl do sell items higher price for sure...but the example given was a bad one. Selling copper ore for 50 or 100 gil would have been better example since its only NQ and u can vendor buy it for less than 10 etc.
While people would want to save gil, my recommendation is always to focus on getting more gil rather than trying to cut costs.
In the amount of time that some people do for their centurion seals in BLU and daily hunts, I would have made the same or more gil just going for the daily map, gathering and selling mats and especially materia (from farming the two post 90 dungeons) now is still quite expensive. If I really wanted aetheryte tickets, I simply just go for any S ranks that I happen to get info on, which requires no active participation since I essentially only do it when I happen to see them. I am still at 600+ tickets myself, although I do only use tickets for tps above 700 gil.
I also do not recommend using seals to get dark matter for repairs unless the price for seal is lower than other actively traded items (better crowned pies, glamour prisms). In most cases, you are better off spending actual gil on dark matter if you are going the crafting route after selling off the mats required for the items.
Thanks for the tip, didn’t know about the websites (legacy 1.0 player here). I’m on primal legacy server and every piece of item is like x12 than what they are worth
On the teleport point, I had someone helping me level BLU yesterday and she was getting mad at me that I was getting around super quick without teleports after I hit 70 and was setting up and tweaking my glamour.
I went to Kugane from Kholusia by using my free teleport to Radz-at-Han to the airship. Spent 300 gil instead of 1500 for a direct teleport. After that, I wanted to go to Southern Thanalan to buy (what ended up being the wrong color) dye from the Brotherhood of Ash by sailing to Limsa for 300, then to Vesper Bay for 80, then flying to Ul'dah to use the aethernet to the Gate of Thal to get there. She was all "How tf do you get around so fast?"
And I just responded, "I know my routes."
I may be an incompetent bafoon that probably doesn't deserve a mentor crown for either trades or battle, but I can navigate the map like a champion.
Every expansion has Normal daily Hunts, Elite weekly hunts, A rank, and S rank Hunt marks. that's ARR, HW, StB, ShB, and now Ew. However. you can only trade Allied seals (ARR) and Centurio seals (HW/StB) for Aetheryte tickets. so Hitting the weekly Elite hunts for ARR, HW, and StB should be a weekly priority. As your stock of Aetheryte tickets and seals rises you can drop the gil condition for using atheryte tickets much lower. I keep mine around 350gil.
Use (air)ships from one capital city to the other (or the Gold Saucer). It's much cheaper than teleport and takes just a few more seconds to do.
I wouldn't bother with the regular tomestone vendors from previous expansions. Those don't sell tome weapons. You can find a splendors vendor (blue bag icon) near the aetheryte in every major city for ARR up to Shadowbringers. Those sell all tome armor from their respective expansion plus weapons too. (note, both the normal vendor and splendors vendor won't show up until you have completed all of the pre patch MSQ for each expansion)
9:45 I also want to point out that the items being sold here on the MB are High Quality items. These are crafted items that have higher stats than their normal variants, and can NOT be bought from vendors.
I eoupd also suggest to teleport to your apartment or the fc house for pretty cheap before teleworking further
That last tip is making me want to make HQ low level gear for cheaper than the vendors.
Find what the "Adventurer in need" bonus usually is, for me it's a tank and learn that class. If you play daily, and do 2-3 dailies you'll easily make 50K+ a day along side those sweet bonus items you get in high level play which if done correctly can also make nearly 50K or more. All in all within a month of pure playing you'll easily make millions.
If you want a gamble for your GC seals.
Buy the 3.0, 4.0 material boxes.
They can contain pets and mounts that are valuable....some are not.
But worstcase you get something new
Goodluck on the road to 10k :)
9:46 this is a bad example to display because on the MB you buy HQ gear, which is equivalent to (I think) around 20 ilvs higher stats than the same gear on NQ.
A better example might be starter gear for each race, or something along those lines, basically glam gear that people can buy off of NPCs.
Steel Chainmail is still sold around 20k in marketboard, I think I put one I made myself up as well... Some need the convenience, you never know
I like buying stuff from merchants for 400 gil and selling them on market for 10k lol. It usually sells in less than a day, too. People can't seem to get enough merchant stuff.
The last one reminded me how people in my first world would get a sword from some vendor, I don't recall where, I think it was a Samurai weapon?
And it would sell on the market for ridiculous prices.
So you had people buying dozens, selling them, and making millions in profits.
I have no idea why that happened.
Like I can believe a couple people or one person doing it with a handful of copies. But it was something everyone took advantage of and knew it was a vendor item.
Can you talk to the Chocobokeep? He is just sitting there in front of you! You could finish that quest in like 15 seconds.
Thank you, mate! Appreciated.
I'm happy paying 200k for vendor gear or crafting materials because I need the tomestones for all the anima weapons rn 😅
Easiest way that I collect company seals is unrestricted run a dungeon a few times to get the loot easy
universalis is great, it lets me see what irreparable damage I've caused to my world's economy by flooding it with random high-rarity items at slightly-lower-than-average prices
I just started back up after several years (so I'm the other kind of sprout XD) and I have to say your videos have been super helpful, thank you! So much has changed, and even what didn't I don't think I knew before anyway XD
honestly with how much gil the game tosses you the absolute best advice for sprouts is to just not make stupid purchases. NEVER buy vendor gear unless absolutely 100% necessary, im talking when youre a lvl 43 healer with level 10 pants and shoes unable to keep up in a dungeon. between msq and job quests they do a good job tossing you gear every so often (unless youre leveling multiple classes).
also, its a bit of a grind to get there, but upon reaching the highest level in your gc you can buy 3.0/4.0 materiel boxes for 20k seals each, which with the cap for that rank at 90k means 4 boxes every time you cap, which isnt too hard with the expert delivery method mentioned in the video. it is a gamble, but sometimes you can get a minion that fetches a pretty penny, and if not then something interesting thatd be a pain to get normally :p
and a last tip: you can save a TON of money waiting till the end of heavensward and unlocking the firmament to level crafters. you just need to get to 20 first, then the recipes for it only use items you gather in the diadem, give way more xp than doing it normally, plus tons of fun prizes to be had with the scrips and kupo of fortune (whether to keep or to sell if you want)
I like it how this man warns people to not get "'scammed" on the market board and buy items on a server were the price is low.
And then proceeds to encourage people to "Scam" other by hinting to buy low on other servers and sell high on your home server :')
Hey look, you gotta do what you gotta do
Also don't sell items for less than their merchant sale price. I am frequently checking demimateria on the market board because for some reason there are people who sell things for 200 gil that an NPC pays 500 gil for.
Great vid but you missed the Grand Company Aetheryte Ticket you get from GCS (I'm guessing because you arent full rank). They teleport you for free to your grand company (which basically makes teleporting to your home city always free wherever you are in the world)
The GC aetheryte tickets aren't worth it because you can use the seals to buy items that sell for more than the tickets will save you
Awsome tips. I did not know for lot of them!
Why not stormblood elite mark?? And omg great tip about the numpad 0 button, I had no idea!!!
I usually hook up sprouts in my fc with hq nicely melded gear. Even glams. Poetics gear usually looks bleh to me.
what are tombstones? never heard of them.