As Dawntrail drops and we once again find ourselves travelling to the furthest edges of the star, there comes much to plan for along the way. Between teleportation fees, stocking up inventories and gear repairs, new journeys can be a bit heavy on the pockets. Luckily, there’s many a way to gather yourself some gil.
Here are ten of the best methods for making gil quick!
1. Retainer Ventures
What're ya sellin'?
This method is more than just a good way to make gil, but a recommended staple of your gameplay experience. Available relatively early on, you can design your retainer, assign them a job and begin their service. From here they can provide a myriad of services, from storing and selling your things, or sending them on adventures called retainer ventures.
What to Do:
- Complete the level 17 Main Scenario Quest ‘Scions of the Seventh Dawn’.
- Following this, then complete the quest ‘An Ill-Conceived Venture’, found in your starting city.
- Speak to the Retainer Vocate, located near the marketboard, where you’ll be able to hire up to two retainers (more can be paid for with real currency).
- Head to and use the summoning bell, which can be found in inn rooms, residential districts and as a furnishing item.
- Once your retainer is summoned, you can make use of their various services by paying them with ventures, a specific currency that can be acquired from places like the Wolves’ Den Pier and your Grand Company.
2. Gathering/Crafting
Trade in the monotony for some botany
If you’re willing to pick up the non-combat trades, they’ll become another one of your most reliable sources. These disciple of the hand and land classes are available to unlock once you’re settled into any of the starting cities. Learning how they work will come rather simply by advancing through the questlines. Where the profit comes is in knowing how to best utilise your skills.
What to Do:
- Pick up your gathering or crafting classes of choice; having at least one of each will be ideal since they work alongside each other.
- Follow the class quests to learn the trade.
- The higher you level, the rarer, higher quality items you’ll be able to gather and create.
- Keep track of what items are trending, what is commonly sold or needed, and what sells for more. That way you can focus your endeavours for maximum profit.
- Especially at higher levels, high quality meals and gear are sought after by those attempting savage and extreme content, so either providing these or the materials for them will be a great source of income.
3. Fashion Report Supplies
This is certainly…fashion
Now, if we were talking about Gold Saucer money and not the usual in-game currency, the Fashion Report is a solid way to earn some MGP (Manderville Gold Saucer Points). This weekly event involves dressing up according to the theme in order to earn a sizable chunk of coin. There are people out there who figure out and share the exact dyes or gear pieces needed for each theme, which is where gil comes into play.
What to Do:
- Check out the weekly fashion report guides to see what gear and dyes are required.
- Get crafting!
- Place the pieces up on the marketboard with time for people to grab them before the report hand-in period.
- For the gear, since people may just buy for the occasion and sell after, don’t worry too much about quality, but affordability.
- For the dyes, I suggest listing them in the exact quantities needed to achieve either the base 80 points, or enough for the 100 points.
- During the hand-in period, especially as it just opens, you could also hang around in the Gold Saucer and offer up the materials for people who forgot to go shopping.
4. Deep Dungeons
Rogue in a roguelike, how fitting
Much like many roguelikes, these deep dungeons are a challenging, high risk endeavour with even higher reward if you can brave the danger. Playable solo, or in parties of four, you aren’t limited in job role composition (aside from limited jobs such as Blue Mage). You start the dungeon at level 1, earning your way up the ladder the more enemies you defeat. There are three different deep dungeons; Palace of the Dead, Heaven-On-High and Eureka Orthos. The first, and most popular of the three hosts up to 200 floors, while the latter two have up to 100.
What To Do:
- Play up to and complete the level 17 main scenario quest ‘Into a Copper Hell’.
- Complete the level 17 quest ‘The House That Death Built’ by talking to Nojiro Marujiro in New Gridania. This will unlock Palace of the Dead, which is required to be able to unlock the later deep dungeons.
- Adding to the above, you’ll need to complete at least 50 floors of Palace of the Dead before you can unlock the rest of the Deep Dungeons.
- Either alone or with a party, fight your way through to floor 100.
- After floor 100, you’ll no longer be able to use matchmaking, but this is where the best and most valuable rewards are.
- Either solo or with a fixed party, fight, reap the rewards, and don’t be afraid to play it safe by ducking out.
- Throw your loot up on the marketboard via your retainers.
5. Treasure Hunts
I think I’ve been reading this upside down
The most classic of adventures, these maps can be found all over Eorzea and beyond. Whether you’re alone, or with allies, solve the old puzzles these papers provide, and travel the land to find the hidden treasures they promise. Materials, gil, elemental stones, much awaits those with careful, prying eyes.
What to Do:
- Complete the level 36 quest ‘Treasures and Tribulations’ by talking to H'loonh in Eastern La Noscea.
- Acquire a timeworn map; these are primarily found through gathering nodes, or as a reward during tomestone events. You can also just buy one from the marketboard if you wish to save time.
- Use the Decipher action on the map; it will show you a small, zoomed in section of a named location with an X to mark the spot.
- After figuring out where to go, head to the spot and use the Dig action. If you’re correct, a treasure coffer will appear.
- When you open the coffer, you’ll first be accosted by beasts to defeat.
- When all is clear, reap the many rewards!
- This isn’t the end however, as some maps have the chance to summon a portal to a treasure dungeon, where you can continue the adventure.
6. Grand Company Seals
Captain Damage, reporting for duty
A noble and versatile way to gain access to a grand sum of materials. What’s so very useful about this form of currency is how naturally you’ll acquire it along your journey. The grand companies themselves are organisations of adventurers that keep the peace in their respective nations. They trade in seals, and for your efforts you can gain access to a stash of profitable items.
What to Do:
- Reach level 20 in the main scenario quests; you’ll be given the option to join either the Maelstrom, Immortal Flames or Twin Adder. The choice will not affect the outcome, just the flavour and city state you’ll report to.
- Acquire seals, which can be done by:
- -Completing FATEs in areas prior to Shadowbringers.
- -Entering duty roulettes.
- -Trading gear for the Supply & Provisioning, and Expert Delivery missions (speak to the Grand Company Personal Officer).
- -Completing entries in the challenge or hunt logs.
- -Taking up Grand Company Leves.
- Aim to raise your ranking; you can talk to the Grand Company Personal Officer who will inform you of the requirements.
- The higher you rank, the more items become available for purchase from the Quartermaster.
- Some of the best options to go for are usually glamour prisms, the minion and mount filled material containers, and the highest ranked materials you can acquire.
- Set these up on the marketboard and repeat. If you want to save money coming back and forth, the Quartermaster also sells aetheryte tickets that will take you straight to their headquarters.
7. Bicolor Gemstones
Like seals, but pride edition
These gorgeous little currency stones serve a similar purpose to Grand Company Seals for areas introduced in Shadowbringers and beyond. Much like a lot of these methods, this is a system that provides items of greater worth the more you work for it. They’re specifically tied to the shared FATE system, in which the number of FATEs completed is tracked by area. Each rank achieved unlocks more items available for purchase at gemstone traders in select areas.
What to Do:
- Participate and complete FATEs in any area introduced from the Shadowbringers expansion and onwards.
- Once stocked up, seek out a gemstone trader, who will normally be located near an aetheryte.
- The best items to trade for will be the materia, material drops from local enemies and orchestration rolls.
- Take these items and sell them on the marketboard via your retainers.
- Make sure to complete as many as you can; the more you do, the higher rank in that area and the more rewards become available from traders.
- Rinse, repeat, fate farm!
8. Island Sanctuary
My kingdom for a mount!
This delightful addition to the game, introduced during the post-Endwalker patches, is something of Final Fantasy 14’s take on the farming simulator. Gifted your own little island, it’s up to you to renovate it into your little corner of paradise, with the assistance of a few mammets and some special guests. Notably, though you start with making a base trading structure, you then move on to gardens, animal pens, granaries and workshops that all work in a harmonious production line.
What to Do:
- Complete the level 90 Main Scenario Quest ‘Endwalker’.
- Complete the level 1 sidequest ‘Seeking Sanctuary’ by speaking to the Clueless Crier in Old Sharlayan.
- Speak to Baldin at the Moraby Docks in Lower La Noscea to travel to your island.
- Fulfil visions that will help upgrade your island. You can get advice on how to proceed from the Felicitous Furball, and by speaking to the builder mammets to carry out construction.
- Grind out experience for ranking up by gathering, crafting or taking care of plants and animals.
- Once you have workshops set up, these will become your main focus. Everything else is about collecting materials to create and ship out island handicrafts in exchange for seafarer cowries.
- Be sure to check the forecasts on handicrafts for maximum profit; see what’s selling, what’s expected to lose or gain popularity, what’s in demand or needed more etc.
- Cowries can be traded to the Horrendous Hoarder for unique island furnishings, as well as dye pots and materia that will be worth selling on the marketboard.
- There’s plenty of little intricacies to things here and there so be sure to read the provided guide to understand or learn more about each part.
9. RP Venues
Please come inside, we're totally not haunted
It should be no surprise that such a story rich game like Final Fantasy 14 attracts players that are the type to delve deep into their characters, and their little slice of the world. The work required to set up such an entrepreneurial endeavour is not unlike setting up a business. You’ll need the initial investment gil, and ideally a willing team of volunteers. That, and of course a premise. All sorts of venue attractions exist across the servers, from nightclubs, cafes, shops, casinos and even aquariums!
What to Do:
- Figure out what your service will be. Consider whether you’re looking to sell an experience, a performance, items or something else.
- Recruit a few friends or free company members to assist in the process.
- Create a budget; scout out housing locations for price estimates if needed, and browse the marketboard for furnishings so you can calculate the initial investment.
- Once you’re able to acquire all the bits you need, go about setting it up in a way that feels fun, standout and inviting.
- Go about advertising; there’s several ways to get your name out there such as:
-Using the shout chat in largely populated areas
-Creating a website to share with people (Carrd.co is commonly used by the community)
-Getting your venue listed on a database so people can go looking for just the service you provide
- Be patient. It may be slow goings at first, but like any business you persevere until you start creating a customer base.
10. Character Creation Bonuses
H-how did I get here!?
Regardless of whether you’re a new player or not, this is still a scheme you can take full advantage of in the right way. Due to the large influx of new players to the game during the leadup to the latest expansion, Square Enix implemented a few schemes to aid the inevitable congestion issues. Namely, the most relevant of these being the incentives for creating new, or moving old, characters to preferred worlds. These are servers which may be newly introduced or simply of low population.
What to Do:
- Hop into character creation; spend as much or as little time as you want so long as you have the appearance data ready to go.
- On the main menu, switch your server to be on one of the new worlds (these are marked with a star icon on the selection screen).
- Go through the motions of introducing your new character into the world.
- Level your new character up to 30.
- As long as you also have a purchased copy of the game, you’ll be gifted 1 million gil, among other things.
- If you’re not planning to play this character, then next you’ll need to call upon a trusted friend to trade this gil to.
- Have said friend trade the gil back to you on your main character.
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Also, a quick PSA for those who may not be aware as it is relevant, please avoid and report any Real Money Trading (RMT). This practice involves the buying and selling of in-game items and currency for real life currency. You may see people spamming chats, selling gil in exchange for real money. These are not only prohibited by the game, it’s scummy practice that can break the in-game economy, and depending on how it’s done there can be a risk of viruses and such.
I recommend reading This FAQ for more information, but otherwise if you can please report it when you see it. It’s not worth the risk and as we’ve evidenced above, there’s plenty of legal ways to get yourself golden with gil!
