making gil quickly in ffxi
Making Gil Quickly
Tutorial on how/where to make Gil quickly as a new player in FFXI.
Monday, October 27, 2003
Introduction
Gil in Final Fantasy XI is very hard to come by, especially for mages who cannot
fight weak monsters alone for items and do it with relative ease like Warriors
can. This guide is designed to help you make fast cash at the early stages of
the game.
Working the Auction House
The Auction House (AH) is your best friend in making money. Much like a
stockbroker works in the stock market, in Final Fantasy XI, the majority of the
trading goes on in AH. In Final Fantasy XI, the price for items is set by
players in the AH. This means that if you have a monopoly of a certain item, you
can charge as much gil as you want, assuming that the demand is there.
Furthermore, there are NPCs standing around the AH that will let you transfer
items, gil, from player to player. If you have mule accounts, you can send items
to their Mog House using this free service. Another benefit to having a mule
account is that you can put more items up for sale in the AH because the limit
for selling items in the AH is 8 items per character at a time. By setting up
mules in each of the three cities, Bastok, San d’Oria, and Windurst, you can
mule items to each other and sell them at a higher price in different cities.
For example, Windurst stores does not carry the sword Sapara because it is sold
only in Bastok, this means that Warriors that started in Windurst cannot buy
that sword unless they go and see if there is one for sale in Windurst AH. By
selling items from another city, you can add on a “transfer†fee and mark up on
the price of the items. Depending on how important the item is, you can double,
perhaps triple your profits. The last benefit of setting up mules in each of the
three cities is that you can do a price check instantly before bidding on an
item that seems to be priced unfairly. Chances are, someone is doing the same
thing as you are and selling items that can be bought from stores and selling it
at a higher price in a different AH. Items that can be sold are not limited to
weapons and armors. Because each city specializes in different guilds, many
players will want to buy materials in AH so that they don’t have to run all the
way to another city to obtain materials. Another commodity that is commonly
traded are magic scrolls. For example, Bastok does not carry the magic scroll of
Cure II while San d’Oria and Windurst does.
Pricing your items properly is also very important so that you get paid the most
for each of the items you are selling. For example, to synthesis a copper ingot,
you need four copper ores and one fire crystal. Suppose you have four copper
ores for sale in the AH, and no other copper ores are in stock. Price the first
ore at the rate that it is selling. Price the second ore with an additional
markup, the same with third, and forth. The reason to price the items at a mark
up is because in order to synthesis copper ingots, you must have all four copper
ores. This means that the person who is buying the materials will pay more money
to complete the set of four.
During first month after you register Final Fantasy XI, you can create up to 16
characters for free. Make sure you delete them before the month is up if you do
not want to get stuck with that bill for 16 characters.
Easy, repeatable quests
Depending on which city you start in, you can only do certain quest that’s
location specific. In other words, you cannot activate a quest in Bastok from
Windurst until you go to Bastok and talk to the NPC that gives the quest. The
types of quest you want to focus on are the ones that you can repeat over and
over again for easy money.
In Bastok, there is a quest that you can repeat for 700gil each time you give
the NPC the item he asked for. The quest is given by a Galka named Pavvke in the
bottom residential of the slums in Bastok Mine. Talk to the Galka there and he
will ask you to bring him a Silver Name Tag. Next, go to Palborough Mines and
kill Quadavs on the second to third floor until they drop the item. The Quadavs
in Palborough shouldn’t be much of a problem if you get a friend to go with you.
At the end of each battle when you kill a Quadav, they drop gil. Therefore, it’s
a good idea to ask a thief to come with you so that the amount of gil dropped
will be multiplied by the Thieves’ passive ability, “Gil Finderâ€.
While you’re in Palborough mines, make sure to target Amethyst Quadavs and Onyx
Quadavs because they drop fetish parts that you can sell in stores for at least
190gil, and up to 300gil in AH. Fetish parts are needed for mission 3 in Bastok.
Other items that Quadavs drop that sell for good money are the magic Scroll of
paralyze, Shell shields, and Quadav backplates.
In San d’Oria, there is a NPC that ask you got Bat Wings. Each time you give him
two bat wings, he will give you 200 gil in return. That NPC is located in North
San d’Oria, and his name is Secodiand. The weakest bats that you can fight bats
just outside of San d’Oria in Ronfaure during the night. In fact, any type of
bats that you can drop bat wings. It’s just a matter of how much work you need
to do to kill one.
In Windurst, there is a NPC that will ask you to bring him three Spool of Silk,
or three Crawler’s Calculus. The NPC that gives that quest is located in
Windurst Woods by the Dhalmel zoo, and his name is Illu bohjaa. You cannot mix
and match these items; you need to bring him either three Spool of Silk, or
three Crawler’s Calculus. Each time you give him three of the same items, he
will reward you with 600 gil. To obtain Crawler’s Calculus, or Spool of Silk, go
to Sarutabaruta just outside of Windurst and kill Crawler’s there.
Guilds
Guilding is also another good way of making easy money. It doesn’t take a lot of
guilding skills to make simple items such as equipment for beginners. The guilds
I recommend joining for easy money are: Blacksmith, Weaver, Tanner and Bone
worker. The recipes for Blacksmith items require only common items. Items that
you would be making as a Blacksmith are bronze daggers, harness, swords, and
caps. These items are very low level, which means that low-level players will
buy them for cheap upgrades. I also recommend the Weaver guild because as a
weaver, you can make doublets and cotton doublets that all non-warriors will
essentially wear. Doublets are a very popular item for mages and monks. If you
decide to join the Tanner’s guild, you can make simple mantles that level 1
players can wear. Since stock characters do no come with capes, mantles are very
popular items as well. Similar to Tanner, Bone workers at early levels can make
simple accessories that low level players want because stock characters do not
come with earrings, hairpins, or a second ring. Popular items for early stage
Bone workers are shell earrings, shell rings, and bone hairpins.
Bazaars
To set up a bazaar, go into the menu screen and price each of the items to the
desired price. Players will be able to browse through your bazaar even if you
are AFK. The best place to set up shop overnight while you are sleeping or away
from the game is around the auction houses. Bazaar is another way to sell items
if your AH account already has the limited amount of items up for sale. It is a
good idea to sell items at a discount on bazaars so that people will buy from
you first before buying from the AH.
Final words
Remember, the more you jack up the price of your items, the more people will
have to jack theirs up to pay for them. In other words, if all items are
inflated, you will suffer the consequences as well. Money comes, and money goes.
Basically it’s always the same money that circulates around. Let Ragnorok be a
lesson to the rest of the servers in Final Fantasy XI, where a pair of Leaping
Boots cost 500,000gil.
　
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