Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

When I think back to FFXI I can't really pinpoint where all the gil came from, I guess slowly over time from monsters? There were like 3 quests in the entire game, and I'm not even sure they awarded you gil. All money was made via the auction house, and that was it. The gil you got from mobs was so insignificant that it might as well have not been dropped at all.

Also, I am a little saddened that within two weeks people have multiple jobs/classes at 50 and have relics completed. I wish SE went the FFXI route and made levelling actually take some time and relics take months. I could use a hardmode game.

We're talking people playing 20/7 and/ or running fates most, if not all the time.
It's not really accurate for the average gamer to reach this anywhere as quick.

While this certainly isn't FF11 where you could only progress while having exp farming groups, it's a nice balance I think. Then again, damn. I loved those times in Sebilis/ SolA/ SolB/ Guk farming in groups. Camp check anyone. People also were TALKING a lot more back then (not sure if that's good or bad these days).

Its really not that long to hit 50, I fucked around a LOT (only had level 11 by the time open beta ended on a single class, nothing else) and during early access leveled multiple classes, mining, wandered around the world, etc and was still 50 within 1 week. The second 50 is ridiculously faster due to bonus and having fates as the only realistic source of XP, its probably under 30 hours for your second and further 50s.

The summer festival is live and lets you buy swimsuits. You have to do the return of the king fate in costa del sol and collect wet bombard ash. Its 30 for a swimsuit set (15 top 15 bottom), 3 for some other parts, and 96 total for every single possible swimsuit. If you leveled via fates you should have 2-3 stacks of the shit, hope you didn't vendor it. The vendors for the swimsuits are in each major city.

I agree most won't be 50 for some time, but it's still kind of shitty. I'm playing fairly casually, albeit daily, and my highest is only 25 right now. If I poopsocked I'm sure I could hit 50 in a couple days, but I just can't right now. I guess the bonus is I won't be burnt out anytime soon.

Naj_sl said:

I'm bringing about 10k a day into the economy through high end cooking levequests. It's not a lot of money but it more than covers my daily repairs.

I don't know how pure DoM/DoW players are supposed to generate more gil than they destroy though.

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Technically you're not bringing any money into the economy. You're just taking it from other players. Once the quests run out for the majority of people, gil will get hit with huge deflation.

As far as crafting goes, if you're not 50 already, you missed the boat. I hit 50 carpenter yesterday and it's basically already at the point where I can't sell shit. If I put something up on the market, in 10 minutes there are 20 that have undercut me. All in all I sunk 100k into it (50k of that for HQ chest piece). Totally not worth it just so I can "slot materia" (even though none of the dungeon dropped shit has materia slots).

And leveling is super easy. I've got a 50 BRD, 22 LNC, 19 CNJ, 17 GLD and all the rest of my adventure classes are between 10-15. Also 50 CRP, and 15 in all of the other trades except culinarian and armorer. I'm definitely playing a lot, but not anywhere near how much I played other MMO's.

And fuck those swimsuits. My first retainer is completely full and my second is about half full. I don't have room for retarded shit.

Levequests aren't taking from other people

Somehow I completely missed the word "levequests" in there. My bad.

Yeah, leves bring in a decent amount of money. Not nearly enough though.

I wish they'd do something about AK. I've only run it like 15 times and I'm really not looking forward to another 55.

And that's assuming I want to stick with bard. I like the class a lot, but there are about to be 30 times as many. And I hate being the popular class.

heh finally let me make a char on gilga.

LOL, game will be down ALL day during Wend Prime Time once again, 5pm-3am. What a joke.

Noodleface_sl said:

When I think back to FFXI I can't really pinpoint where all the gil came from, I guess slowly over time from monsters? There were like 3 quests in the entire game, and I'm not even sure they awarded you gil. All money was made via the auction house, and that was it. The gil you got from mobs was so insignificant that it might as well have not been dropped at all.

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Fishing initially let a ton of gil into the game, especially from bots. They'd just sell the fish to merchants.

Some of the high end content also dropped lots of gil or items that sold for gil. But honestly you didn't need a ton of Gil in FFXI because you could always liquidate your gear and re-sell it if you needed - and there wasn't a ton of gil sinks.

Fastest way to get Seals for my personal chocobo, go!

Needless_sl said:

Fastest way to get Seals for my personal chocobo, go!

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Do fates, its not complicated.

Needless_sl said:

Fastest way to get Seals for my personal chocobo, go!

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Hunting Log, grinding FATEs, GC Leves. I think Hunting Log is best IMO.

Bikini acquired, let the gil flow.

I also did some of the GC hunting logs which I'm pretty sure resulted in more seals than fates. This is of course only when I didn't have a mount and would arrive at the lvl 20ish fates just in time for it to be over.

It's really to bad dungeons don't give seals, tired of the fate grinding.