Becoming rich, and powerful...

[Dr Frank N Furter]

Hello, I am a veteran player to FFXI. I know quite a lot about this and that... I have met many wonderful people, and I love every job.

My sole problem is... I cannot be what I want... Which is quite a few different jobs.

I want to play various jobs, with nice gear. I want to be able to buy nice things...

so far, yes, I've survived just dandy, but upon entering higher levels as a RDM, I find myself needing better gear. Torques, better food, JSE, better weapons. I just can't do it.


I have 2.4 million gil to my name, and no gear. (I mean no gear...) I just went crazy one day and sold everything and was going to just craft, caft, craft...

Unfortunetly that plan flopped, and I ended up with less gil and a broken spirit.

I want to play this game, I want to be a 75 with nice gear... I want to do high level activities and get noteriety! I want to buy my friends gear, I want to help newbies by throwing gil at them, so they can have less a hard time...

This just isn't a specialty of mine, however...

This game has given me some damn good times and memories... but its just sapping my willpower at this point... People have become too greedy for other people to catch a break.


I don't mean to rant, I just don't have anywhere else to go... I don't know what to do.

Please, I'm requesting that someone just give me a little advice... what should I do? I don't want to quit.

[Kafeen]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

As a level 60 RDM your AF gear is fine for most your equipment. Get a few elemental staves and a spider or enfeebling torque when you hit 64/65.

There's a fair bit of decent RDM equipment that you can get quite cheap, although not all as cheap as it used to be. You don't need the absolute best of the best of equipment as long as you know how to do your job well. 2.4 Million is alot of cash, more than you should need for enough equipment.

[Kittyneko]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

And there always exists the option to farm... Bcnm...

[Jei]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

I think you throwing money away af crafting was a mistake Crafting is not all about getting your skill up as fast as possible. But it's a lot about research. How to craft cheap, what you can sell back, if you're spending money for skill is it worth it or possible to make them back?

At first you'll make more money farming as level 60 compare to crafting. So just go farm and support yourself with your craft. Do that, until the money you can make from crafting increase above your farming rate.

Seriously, you'll be fine with normal, up-to-date gear. It's good to farm or try make money to keep yourself updated but don't stress yourself over to try get the "best." ... not yet. The higher you go, more and more other money making options will open up and slowly you'll start to get all the cool gears you were dreaming about.

[Dr Frank N Furter]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

Thank you, guys... For your insight so far, I appreciate the assistance.

[Macht]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

Yeah, most of the money making stuff just simply requires paying attention to what's selling and for how much. Even though there are people putting the good items at what would rediculously high prices, equally many of the farmed items have increased as well in those rediculous prices. Finding the best items to farm with the best gain is very key to making money.

Crafting takes a lot longer time to become more profitable then farming, with the exception of maybe blacksmithing since you can mine and smith at the same time for decent profit as well as increasing a skill. If the skill is increased enough then just flat out smithing with higher success rates can produce back quite a bit of profit, again if mining the right areas with those specific items you are after.

Other then that BCNMs have been starting to be even more profitable then I they ever were before.

[fuz]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

Indeed, crafting doesn't make money if you don't make a plan yourself, looking at what sells and what doesn't. Going full blast in a short time trying to make a lot of gil doesn't work, even at high levels. Crafting is something you do bit by bit, every few days, or every day and slowly build up, constantly making gil all the time. Then one day sitting at a craft 70-90 you start making a very significant income (as good as farming at this point, if not better).

ENMs and BCs work if you have a PT to help--again you need to research to find a profitable one.

And yeah, you don't need hq or highly expensive equips to work as rdm. Just having a full set of normal staffs, AF, and assorted MP gear is enough to get by on exp mobs for the whole game. Not till really tough things do HQ/rare/expensive items really matter. Things aren't quite as good for melees or other DDs which do need some pricey stuff to not suck.

[Ticks]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

Dr Frank
I been finding myself in the same situation lately. I've been getting frustrated at how much time and gil it takes to get to the high levels and to the point where I can actually start helping other people. But I've come to realize that in FFXI - unlike other mmorpgs such as Everquest and WoW - acheiving that statis is far more fulfilling because it is indeed so much harder to do.
I keep telling myself this anyways...

[Dragonsword]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

I m doing more and more craftings and fishing lately. Instead of following the path of quickest skill up track and selling stuff back to NPC, I would advise to take ur time. I also research my own progress chart and recipe so that I can skill up like fishing and cooking or other combination of craft together at the same time ^^. Being a rdm, we can farm clusters at early lvl, garden our crystals and farm for various raw materials. Its another fun journey.

Also I note that the market force has turn its table against ambitious crafter. The total cost of raw materials is usually higher than the final product for most hot skill up items =( . Unless u HQ a lot of them, but of course, during skill up, thats something not realistic.

For lvl up vice, indeed rdm is much less fund-demanding when comparing to other jobs. Reasons being that our major reason for invitation - refresh is effective to the same degree on party members disregard other +1 equipments we may possibly have. So indeed, AF1 and Errant can last up to lvl 75 =P .

[crowly]

Re: Becoming rich, and powerful...

Get your food from muckvix's junk shop in lower jeuno. Goblin Mushpot gives +10 mind and only costs about 1.4k.

And if you need to...just go NQ enfeeble/mind gear til around 70. Money making for rdm is insanely easy by then. I can make 100k+ an hour without much trouble as rdm/bst in boyahda.