Making money as a noob.

[Prons]

As of right now I'm WHM21/BLM10, and it seems everything in the AH is at least 10,000 gil a piece, armor, staves, chocobo grass, and even AHing crystals hardly gives me any money. I'm also too low level to make money teleporting, I tried to do some logging,but so far not much of a return.

So am I just supposed to kill monsters and AH their rarer loots, or are there other ways I can make good gil?

[Ellipses]

Re: Making money as a noob.

Well, it's the same advice you'll find in a hundred other posts here, but:

If you're ever going to farm, at all, for anything, level THF to at least 15.

Find out what mobs you can kill easily and quickly. At that level, you're probably looking at not much outside the zones immediately surrounding the starter cities, maybe one level deeper. Use FFXIClopedia to find all the mobs you can within the same level range, and what they drop. Go kill the ones with good drops, and sell the loot. Crystals are worth less than a lot of more common drops.

Pay attention to how fast things sell on the AH, too. Insect wings may bring in more at the AH than they do just selling to vendor, but they don't sell fast at all; I always just vendor them. And on Kujata, one of the classic newbie farm-for-gil items, Beehive Chips, actually sells for less than the Honey that drops off the same (or lower level) bees.

There's also low-level crafting you can do for gil to start out. Tsurara should be profitable if you buy your rock salt at the regional vendor and distilled water at any of eight jillion standard merchants that sell it. Sheep leather is generally good, especially since sheepskins aren't farmed as much as other goods. Might be profitable even if you buy your skins at the AH (or the guild). Check the other crafts for stuff in the 1-5 range that makes a profit.

Fishing and HELM can help, especially if you invest in the appropriate gear that increases skill. I tend to favor a mix of farming, crafting, and HELM for money. It's less boring to do three things than one, and variety helps when something you're relying on to sell hits a slump.

Quest your butt off to raise your fame so that whatever you buy at shops costs less. I used to always fill empty AH slots with armor that I'd buy at the local armor shop and sell for a profit, but that gets flooded fast if people get the same idea. The reverse works in some cases, too. Check the 'clopedia for the "sells to vendor" price on things and see if you can get them for cheaper (e.g., I buy Shell Shields in Bastok for about 90 gil and sell them to vendors for 110+).

Lots of little things add up.

[Restlesstornado]

Re: Making money as a noob.

kill monsters and AH their rarer loots

or trying to buy items low from the AH and sell higher... in most cases you need a good amount of gil before you cant start getting a good return~

[Grizzlebeard]

Re: Making money as a noob.

FFXI has really moved beyond a friendly environment for new players to be honest. It's damned hard achieving anything now that doesn't require you setting aside something like a 3:1 farming to levelling ratio. People will no doubt suggest crafting, gardening, or HELM as ways to make money but as with everything in FFXI it costs chunks of cash to do even those and the crafting market is so saturated on most servers it isn't even worth the pain getting into it. Fishing is relatively cheap to level, however, it has to be the dullest way to spend your online time I can imagine.

As you level you'll be able to kill NMs and sell their drops as well as do BCNM/ENMs for loot as well. That said, I truly think the only way to make regular money in FFXI now, without adopting a work ethic towards the game, is to already be max level and either rely on HNM income or have a craft at 100+3 or more.

[Mhurron]

Re: Making money as a noob.

Tsurara should be profitable

On most servers, they aren't. Your best hope on them before you start HQing them a lot is break even.

[Ellipses]

Re: Making money as a noob.

On most servers, they aren't. Your best hope on them before you start HQing them a lot is break even.

Huh. Kujata's weird.

[CroweMidgard]

Re: Making money as a noob.

Long, Long, long time ago I was in exact same boat. Was low level WHM and seriously short on gil. I was sorta to weak to kill anything at a decent pace to farm and I was hell bent of getting to 30 for Summoner (later I found out that I needed 65 to get avatars, lol).

Anyway the two ways I made gil were farming repeatable quests (which I also got fame). Think something to do with BubbleBernie outside Bastok and I made an alt character that I kept doing the early scroll quests and sell them on AH. Then delete the alt and do it again. It was insanely repetitive, but it got me enough to get by to 30. These methods maybe out of date though, not sure...

Also I know you can now get avatars at 20, just hasnt always been that way!

[DieselBoy09]

Re: Making money as a noob.

You make a mithra character and cyber with people.

[Lucky and Elizabeth]

Re: Making money as a noob.

the crafting market is so saturated on most servers it isn't even worth the pain getting into it.

Toobad we can't find one whjere no one does that and you are the only one and you could make a fourtune

[Sabaron]

Re: Making money as a noob.

Crafting is getting a bit over-done. I know for a fact they don't have all the bots gone either. There's one that sits up in Ru'lude Gardens on Asura making Yagudo Drinks 24/7.... but I haven't seen the Black Pearl bot recently.

There aren't any new recipes. What they need to do is "Genkai" crafting and open up new recipes or do merits on crafting...or maybe just throw me a bone and make a new potion or three.

I've been dying for a new potion for like the last 12 updates and the only thing I got was some POS Viper Potion that's useless except to make a dagger whose material component is nowhere to be found (except I assume in an HNMLS bank).

Of course, the durable crafts still have their top-end stuff, but the losses they take on NQ are becoming insane.

I've been mining, but I think I might switch to Avatar bashing... I've also heard good things about NPCing Flytrap Leaves.

[Radiuz]

Re: Making money as a noob.

what about farming grain seeds or vegetable seeds?

last year in 2006 in seraph i been farming them and grain seeds stack were 35k in AH but i dunno about now lol probably 10k maybe?

[Exertim]

Re: Making money as a noob.

Make friends and do HNMS that are within your level range whenever you have enough seals! Personally, I would suggest that you power yourself to 75 before worrying about gil. The first job to 75 is always rough and your gear won't be the greatest. Let your fellow party members know before hand that it's your first time going through the game and many people will most likely understand (so long as your gear setup is "reasonable" i.e. full +INT armor as a WHM ;

Crafting generally will eat up all your time and gil before you begin to see any form of return profit unless you're opting to skill up gathering type crafts (logging, mining, fishing, etc). Cooking might be a good idea however if you're willing to save your crystals. Synthing your own juice and food will make your leveling life much less of a burden as a Mage but don't expect any form of a good profit until you hit 50+ skill and begin making Yagudo Drinks and Sushi.

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: Making money as a noob.

Make friends and do HNMS that are within your level range whenever you have enough seals!

"HNMs"? Err... Those for for Lv.75 people. With good gears. >_>; Long, long ways off for the OP. I think you mean BCNMs instead. (I call those "Beastmen's Seal Battle Fields", but that's a mouthful.)

I can't recall any of the lower level ones where WHM is really useful, except BS40 Steamed Sprout. BS20 Wings of Fury can use one WHM for safety reasons, but it's perfectly doable with just BSTx2, and BSTx3 is at least as good as BSTx2 + WHM.

Of course, anyone who has the seals and can reach Balga's Dais safely can attempt BS50 Treasure and Tribulations at any level, solo--provided the person is willing to chance forfeiting some experience points.

Personally, I would suggest that you power yourself to 75 before worrying about gil. The first job to 75 is always rough and your gear won't be the greatest. Let your fellow party members know before hand that it's your first time going through the game and many people will most likely understand (so long as your gear setup is "reasonable" i.e. full +INT armor as a WHM ;

Just... No.

Have a little pride, and show up with all the spells ready, and outfitted in reasonable gear--that would be hMP, MP, and MND for White Mage for the most part.

Did anyone mention this nicely written, stickied post, yet? How to make money as a newbie

[Shadowneko]

Re: Making money as a noob.

One of the things my friend does is a repeatble bastok quest that involves killing a low-level NM called Bubbly Bernie(crab). A BLM your level should have no problem with that XD

If I can get past the hords of other farmers I...well hunt tigers in Junger Forest and Carpender's Landing for another repatable quest in Sandy(but I didn't start killing those untill lvl 30+ THF).

Mining, and logging are still ok if you can mine the fad ore/log of the day but it's still kind of random..

[Clever Ninja]

Re: Making money as a noob.

Grain seeds still sell for a lot, at least on Hades. I did that also when I started out, but as someone suggested in the beginning getting a THF to 15 for Treasure Hunter is almost essential if you plan on farming.