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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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'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).
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
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.
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)
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.
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. 👍
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
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. >.>
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.
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")
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
Honestly I teleport everywhere and I only use roughly 3.5k every day at the absolute most. Usually closer to 1.5k. Mainly because my FC always has the 30% teleport reduction on and the places I teleport between only cost a couple hundred on top of the fact that I'm not playing that many hours per day. Even still though, I think I will cut back on how much I teleport, especially in areas where I can fly from zone to zone without ever needing to land.
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)
I spent around 500k gil? lvling all my crafters to lv6x-7x so I can repair most of my gears by myself, idk if that's worth it but FEELS GOOD MAN ;p 199% durability xD now the next thing I should do is getting rid of this sprout status(finishing MSQ especially starting Shadowbringers that is...) I always stuck at the post-expansion quests longer than I should... especially ARR I really hate them 😑
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
thx for this guide since i levelled my bluemage to max i get allied seals thrown after me got a few 100 aeterite teleport tickets from it and gaining every day
I would actually suggest to not put your home point in the city where your grand company is. You can get tickets to teleport to your GC for 2000 seals which are pretty easy to collect and giving you another free destination to port to. I currently have my homepoint in EW city 1, my free port to EW city 2. and half price ports to major location from previous expansions, that i need to revisit every now and again. And thanks to tickets i can get to Ul Dah for free as well.
You know I actually started as a healer, swapped to tank got it to 90, and THEN went DPS. The duty roulette is my best friend lol. I hit 90 before meeting Magnai.
I'll throw one out there who just beat EW and is now catching up on other aspects of content. Lvl Gatherer's before your Crafters, and level your crafters at the same time. Recipes are going to lock you up with having to need another source to say, get lumber or leather, and if you're just a humble blacksmith you are going to burn a hole in your pocket very fast. Gather what you can, craft together what you can, then if needed resort to the board.
As a crafter, the last point made me kind of angry ^^ We put all this time and effort into becoming great at crafting and you compare the "normal" items in the game to the perfect ones we always try to create. The more expensive ones are of course much more superior to the one you can buy at stores in the game. Also all the travelling to gather the ores and other ingredients that goes into crafting high-priced objects. Ok, now I feel better :D
I honestly had no idea I was even paying for teleportation. I just click teleport and go. I am only level 52, so I suppose I am not teleporting that much yet.
Oh no, my disgustingly overpriced Omega market for classical items is being exposed. How am I gonna get my ishgard mansion now! Good video though, lots of sprouts bleed gil before endgame, then bleed even more chasing poor choices at cap.
I just question WHERE does all this gil come from? If mostly so many people have a bunch of Gil and then suddenly they just for instance throw 20M or more into the void of house buying or such then where does more of it keep coming from generally? Like sure quests and selling things to venders rewards SOME Gil...but not much like....this millions of Gil...where's it all coming from?
I mean, I can't speak for Everyone, but I ran across this video (ua-cam.com/video/KUmqmQ17kJE/v-deo.html) which was Very helpful. It's Repetitive. It's Tedious. It's Grinding the Vault for 3ish hours per day (200 dungeon runs per day at 2 minutes per run). But can you make 500k-700k gil per day? Yup. It'll "only" take a month, grinding 3 hours a day, every day, to get to 20 million gil. You'll probably Hate the game after that though. I'm good for about 15 minutes before I want to do something else, but that's not nothing. It adds up. At 57,000 per day, after about a year that's 20 million gil.
okay for real though how the hell is anyone going to spend 20k a day on just teleporting, unless they are literally just sitting there all day teleporting around as much as they possibly can and doing nothing else...
Also, as you outlevel tomestone gear and don't need it anymore, don't get rid of it! Give it to your retainers!! They need better armour to do better missions. Think of your retainers as your little siblings ... they wear all your hand-me-downs haha
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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'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).
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
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.
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
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.
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. 👍
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 suppose this is fine advice for grand company seals and poetics, if you never ever do the weapon relics for ARR or HW.
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 didn't know about the aetherite tickets. I have a lot of allies seals from masked carnivale stuff
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
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.
the Steel Chainmail on the marketboard was HQ (high quality). Vendors only sell NQ (normal quality).
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.
'Allagan Tombstones'
Everyone's done it, but... they are TOMEstones
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.
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.
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.
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. >.>
Especially my BOILED EGG. It cost 5 gil so don’t buy it from market board for 142 gil with quantity of 99
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.
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")
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).
Another incredibly helpful video. Learned so much! Especially those Market board websites! Never knew about those. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
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.
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.
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
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
I'm happy paying 200k for vendor gear or crafting materials because I need the tomestones for all the anima weapons rn 😅
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.
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.
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 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
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
That last tip is making me want to make HQ low level gear for cheaper than the vendors.
Honestly I teleport everywhere and I only use roughly 3.5k every day at the absolute most. Usually closer to 1.5k. Mainly because my FC always has the 30% teleport reduction on and the places I teleport between only cost a couple hundred on top of the fact that I'm not playing that many hours per day. Even still though, I think I will cut back on how much I teleport, especially in areas where I can fly from zone to zone without ever needing to land.
Thank you, mate! Appreciated.
I prefer to just skip poetics gear until idleshire because the ARR and base HW gear is pretty easy to get and is enough
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
a tip for sprouts that wanna be crafter , max your crafter first please ,it will be painful but at least you dont gonna get scamed in the market board
Goodluck on the road to 10k :)
What are the pieces you have on at the start of the video?
Awsome tips. I did not know for lot of them!
I remember making 100k from buying some cheap pickaxes from vendor gear and selling them at 9999gil. The market is a harsh place...
Easiest way that I collect company seals is unrestricted run a dungeon a few times to get the loot easy
Also do your challenge logs, that's an easy 75k per week
I spent around 500k gil? lvling all my crafters to lv6x-7x so I can repair most of my gears by myself, idk if that's worth it but FEELS GOOD MAN ;p
199% durability xD
now the next thing I should do is getting rid of this sprout status(finishing MSQ especially starting Shadowbringers that is...)
I always stuck at the post-expansion quests longer than I should... especially ARR I really hate them 😑
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
thx for this guide since i levelled my bluemage to max i get allied seals thrown after me got a few 100 aeterite teleport tickets from it and gaining every day
What is the background music called? 10:30
What is the filter you're using for GShade? Your game looks amazing!
I use a simple shader without too much stuff outside of fixed colors, it's called IpsusuGameplayWarm, it comes with the default GShade installation
I would actually suggest to not put your home point in the city where your grand company is. You can get tickets to teleport to your GC for 2000 seals which are pretty easy to collect and giving you another free destination to port to. I currently have my homepoint in EW city 1, my free port to EW city 2. and half price ports to major location from previous expansions, that i need to revisit every now and again. And thanks to tickets i can get to Ul Dah for free as well.
"This video is on how to not be a broke sprout."
Me, playing since Stormblood and still broke: * pulls out notebook and pen *
I liked the time I sold copper ring for 20,000 Gil, sold 5 of them.
You know I actually started as a healer, swapped to tank got it to 90, and THEN went DPS. The duty roulette is my best friend lol. I hit 90 before meeting Magnai.
I'll throw one out there who just beat EW and is now catching up on other aspects of content.
Lvl Gatherer's before your Crafters, and level your crafters at the same time. Recipes are going to lock you up with having to need another source to say, get lumber or leather, and if you're just a humble blacksmith you are going to burn a hole in your pocket very fast. Gather what you can, craft together what you can, then if needed resort to the board.
Just run dungeons and MSQ have good gear. I did that and i level so fast even some dungeon gear I use it for like a few hours and I out level it
can someone tell me the theme or ost with the flute at 5:30
I love selling copper ore for around 30 gil a peace when you cam buy for 2 gil lol.
Really loving your videos! But playing music when talking only makes you harder to hear! :(
As a crafter, the last point made me kind of angry ^^ We put all this time and effort into becoming great at crafting and you compare the "normal" items in the game to the perfect ones we always try to create. The more expensive ones are of course much more superior to the one you can buy at stores in the game. Also all the travelling to gather the ores and other ingredients that goes into crafting high-priced objects. Ok, now I feel better :D
The HQ difference is in no way worth the 17k difference for a leveling item though
I'm on Omega too
It's weird a little bit
Hey, I am wearing the same pair of pants ^^
Thank you very much!
Made 120k one day doing 10 levelling dungeons cause the Adventurer in Need was Healer & gave 12k gil lol
I honestly had no idea I was even paying for teleportation. I just click teleport and go. I am only level 52, so I suppose I am not teleporting that much yet.
Oh no, my disgustingly overpriced Omega market for classical items is being exposed. How am I gonna get my ishgard mansion now!
Good video though, lots of sprouts bleed gil before endgame, then bleed even more chasing poor choices at cap.
I'm a sucker on the market board so that app will probably help. 😂
i love this channel :D
Never thought of changing the new item default to inventory! Thanks will save me a lot of time, wish I heard this sooner👏
I just question WHERE does all this gil come from? If mostly so many people have a bunch of Gil and then suddenly they just for instance throw 20M or more into the void of house buying or such then where does more of it keep coming from generally? Like sure quests and selling things to venders rewards SOME Gil...but not much like....this millions of Gil...where's it all coming from?
I mean, I can't speak for Everyone, but I ran across this video (ua-cam.com/video/KUmqmQ17kJE/v-deo.html) which was Very helpful. It's Repetitive. It's Tedious. It's Grinding the Vault for 3ish hours per day (200 dungeon runs per day at 2 minutes per run). But can you make 500k-700k gil per day? Yup.
It'll "only" take a month, grinding 3 hours a day, every day, to get to 20 million gil. You'll probably Hate the game after that though. I'm good for about 15 minutes before I want to do something else, but that's not nothing. It adds up. At 57,000 per day, after about a year that's 20 million gil.
I've got 1mil gil idk what to even use it for if I'm being honest.
Please never change your profile picture
Before even watching this video big pro tip farm your own mats dont waste your gil on MB
the marked up vendor items are actual made for lazy people that dont want to backtrack to these places
90 days to get through MSQ? I think Endwalker took me like 3 or 4 lol
You overestimate how much the average player plays the game, I know people who are finishing Endwalker just now
@@Jolsn I don't doubt it. I was more joking than anything, I always play stories in chunks like that
Instruction unclear, I spent the last of my gils on The Gold Whisker instead
okay for real though how the hell is anyone going to spend 20k a day on just teleporting, unless they are literally just sitting there all day teleporting around as much as they possibly can and doing nothing else...
Gathering timed nodes, doing treasure maps, teleporting to s-ranks, hunt trains…I probably spend 40k a day easily
level 40 above vendor gear are not worth it
Also, as you outlevel tomestone gear and don't need it anymore, don't get rid of it! Give it to your retainers!! They need better armour to do better missions.
Think of your retainers as your little siblings ... they wear all your hand-me-downs haha
am I the only one who has never had a problem with gil ? It swear it seems that way.