Making gil as a noob?

[NicasinXS]

Re: Making gil as a noob?

Well you can always just buy stuff from NPCs and sell them on AH. In windy, for instance, there are a few items that sell fairly cheap to what the AH in Windy sells them at. There are similiar things in Bastok, San'doria, and if you can reach Jueno there you can sell many things that are much cheaper in AH. Yagudo cherries, buburimu grapes, apples the list is very large and spans many items.

One easy way for a new player to earn a good profit is gardening. You can help yourself bigtime by studying websites with gardening information and get an understanding on dynamics of gardening. PikkoPots website is a good one for that or any other FFXI websites gardening guide. Then get yourself gardening, its really cheap and only takes a few days to complete the growing cycle of the herb-veggie-and grain seeds. Use the Pikko pots website to find what you can grow with what, use www.ffxiah.com to see what whatever is worth and figure out what you want to grow.

You're not going to make any gil unless you research a little.

I hope this helps.

[NicasinXS]

Re: Making gil as a noob?

Sorry for the double post but here is a link to pikko pots.
http://www.swapsonian.com/pikko/index.html
If your going to garden and I really think you should since you dont need any craft or job lvls to do it, you should mass produce at any rate. Not just one or 2 pots going, 10 at a time. Earthen pots go for 2k tops at NPC, cost you no more than 30k to get a ful set of 10 going on herb or veggie. Use the same crystal at the same time on all of them so you get alot of the same stuff. Get some cheap maple table to help if you can.

Have fun!!

[NicasinXS]

Re: Making gil as a noob?

Im sorry about this triple, I just deleted what I put here, I though I deleted the above 2 my bad!! please remove this.

[Jethreal]

Re: Making gil as a noob?

You may also want to hit up fishing. Again a bit of research, but no-risk, low cost, fairly decent profit on Moat carps, quicker than gardening, but takes more actual time to do.

IE. gardening requires all of 5 mins of attention per day, every day for approx a week to 10 days on most begginning crops. Fishing takes oh lets say an hour per 1 - 2 stacks of moats (I think that would be fairly typical if using a Hume rod with Insect Paste)

http://www.finalfishing.com/
http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/fis...-off-site.html

[Aksannyi]

Re: Making gil as a noob?

Don't listen to that guy ... god damn RMT spammers. NEVER EVER BUY GIL unless you want people to hate you. Seriously.

[Karinya]

Re: Making gil as a noob?

My intent was to shape the answer generally for the OP, most early drop items sell for considerably more on AH than what you get from NPC buys, esp those exchanges that are worth fame. Bee chips, honey, cotton, silk, zinc ore, mushrooms, etc.

True, but fame has other benefits too (notably, it allows you to do the mog locker quest and all city fames contribute to Jeuno fame which allows the gobbiebag quests; and it improves your prices in all transactions with NPCs from that city). So I'd recommend doing those turn-in quests yourself at least once each; the gil you make in the short term may be a bit less than you would have made at AH, but the fame will pay off in the long run. (You get more fame from doing a quest you haven't done before than for repeating a quest, which is why doing a lot of quests once each is better for fame than doing the same one over and over.)

I wouldn't turn in silk for the quest, though, it's too much of a loss. You get just as much reward (and fame) for crawler calculi, so save your silk for the AH. But turning in a few rabbit hides, bat wings, cornettes, flint, treant bulbs, etc. is probably a good idea.

If you get something that you don't know what it's for, try looking it up on FFXIclopedia or another website before selling it. It may be used in a quest you didn't know about.

[Mookie]

Re: Making gil as a noob?

Sell everything on the AH. I started a new character after being absent from the game for over a year and a half, and by the time I got my characters 1st job to 18 I had made over 60K IN PROFIT (so thats 60K with all updated armor/weapons bought and with using food while solo and in parties).

Making money as a new player is extremely easy. Worse comes to worse you can buy armor off of a NPC walk right over to the AH and sell it for a real nice profit.

Oh btw, I just picked the game up about a week and a half ago, so what I've done is all recent.