making money

[Blackwar]

i know there is another thread like this, but it just turned into an argument about trains and if they hurt soloers.

Well, I have a newbie WHM and i'm having difficulties with money right now. I'm struggling passed to get my equipment, and usually i have to ask for money, which I dont like to do because it makes me look like a retard. I am at lvl 13 right now. What should I do for money now?

I cannot start up a teleport-taxi service yet, only around lvl 36, and that is not enough money even.

I cannot farm for elementals yet. And if I could, what spell would I use exactly? Something from my blackmage sub?

I've tried fishing, but the stupid anti-bot code that SE implemented has gotten me angry several times and made me quit. I'm trying to be patient and rezone every hour or so, but it just wastes so much time if you add it all up.

I want to try crafting, but I dont have any money to start up any craft. Yes i've tried fighting yagudo for necklaces, but it is hard to solo as a WHM and takes ages for me to kill just one.

So , anyone got any hints/tips? Thank you.

[redhotfanboy]

Go to Gheslba Outpost near Sandoria and kill the orcs and lizzards there(should check easy prey to you) for fire crystals, lizard tails and lizard skin. Sell the crystals in Windy(ive noticed a 700-800 gil difference between sandy and windy) Or you could kill crawlers for silk thread in west sarabuta.

[Blackwar]

right now what i'm finding is best for me is fishing moat carp, even though i'm angry at how nerfed fishing got. I'm making an average stack an hour and that's getting me pretty good cash. Thanks for the tip though, i'll try it out.

Oh btw, in the dunes when I went from lvl 11-13, I got 2 stacks of fire crystals from lizards and gobs. Pretty good, eh?

[Kailo]

At that lvl your best bet is Crawlers in SarutaBaruta near Windurst. They drop Silk Thread, which goes for around 10k a stack on Fenrir. You might be there farming for quite a while without a THF's Treasure Hunter, but nobody said farming was fun or easy.

[Icemage]

Making money in FFXI comes in two varieties:

Money "now" vs. Money "later"

Money "now" activities:
Mining
Logging
Harvesting
Farming (monsters + NM)
BCNM
Fishing (moat carp up to level 11)

Money "later" activies:
Chocobo Digging
Gardening
All synthable crafts
Fishing (beyond level 11)

Money "now" are things you can do to produce an instant burst of income. They have no progressive skill associated with them, though, so no matter how often or how long you do them, your income never increases.

Money "later" activities are things you can do which accumulate skill, or which require a long wait time for results (gardening).

I've always been of the opinion that money "later" activities are a better bet in the long run, but it requires a lot of patience to develop your skills to the point where your skills are profitable enough to match or exceed the money "now" activities. That being said, I'll say that at level 55 fishing, I make more money in an hour than any of the level 75 players in my LS can by farming, and very close to what the thieves in my LS can make by coffer hunting.


Icemage