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Making Gil Quickly

Tutorial on how/where to make Gil quickly as a new player in FFXI.

Monday, October 27, 2003

Introduction
Gil in Final Fantasy XI is very hard to come by, especially for mages who cannot fight weak monsters alone for items and do it with relative ease like Warriors can. This guide is designed to help you make fast cash at the early stages of the game.

Working the Auction House
The Auction House (AH) is your best friend in making money. Much like a stockbroker works in the stock market, in Final Fantasy XI, the majority of the trading goes on in AH. In Final Fantasy XI, the price for items is set by players in the AH. This means that if you have a monopoly of a certain item, you can charge as much gil as you want, assuming that the demand is there. Furthermore, there are NPCs standing around the AH that will let you transfer items, gil, from player to player. If you have mule accounts, you can send items to their Mog House using this free service. Another benefit to having a mule account is that you can put more items up for sale in the AH because the limit for selling items in the AH is 8 items per character at a time. By setting up mules in each of the three cities, Bastok, San d’Oria, and Windurst, you can mule items to each other and sell them at a higher price in different cities. For example, Windurst stores does not carry the sword Sapara because it is sold only in Bastok, this means that Warriors that started in Windurst cannot buy that sword unless they go and see if there is one for sale in Windurst AH. By selling items from another city, you can add on a “transfer” fee and mark up on the price of the items. Depending on how important the item is, you can double, perhaps triple your profits. The last benefit of setting up mules in each of the three cities is that you can do a price check instantly before bidding on an item that seems to be priced unfairly. Chances are, someone is doing the same thing as you are and selling items that can be bought from stores and selling it at a higher price in a different AH. Items that can be sold are not limited to weapons and armors. Because each city specializes in different guilds, many players will want to buy materials in AH so that they don’t have to run all the way to another city to obtain materials. Another commodity that is commonly traded are magic scrolls. For example, Bastok does not carry the magic scroll of Cure II while San d’Oria and Windurst does.

Pricing your items properly is also very important so that you get paid the most for each of the items you are selling. For example, to synthesis a copper ingot, you need four copper ores and one fire crystal. Suppose you have four copper ores for sale in the AH, and no other copper ores are in stock. Price the first ore at the rate that it is selling. Price the second ore with an additional markup, the same with third, and forth. The reason to price the items at a mark up is because in order to synthesis copper ingots, you must have all four copper ores. This means that the person who is buying the materials will pay more money to complete the set of four.

During first month after you register Final Fantasy XI, you can create up to 16 characters for free. Make sure you delete them before the month is up if you do not want to get stuck with that bill for 16 characters.

Easy, repeatable quests

Depending on which city you start in, you can only do certain quest that’s location specific. In other words, you cannot activate a quest in Bastok from Windurst until you go to Bastok and talk to the NPC that gives the quest. The types of quest you want to focus on are the ones that you can repeat over and over again for easy money.

In Bastok, there is a quest that you can repeat for 700gil each time you give the NPC the item he asked for. The quest is given by a Galka named Pavvke in the bottom residential of the slums in Bastok Mine. Talk to the Galka there and he will ask you to bring him a Silver Name Tag. Next, go to Palborough Mines and kill Quadavs on the second to third floor until they drop the item. The Quadavs in Palborough shouldn’t be much of a problem if you get a friend to go with you. At the end of each battle when you kill a Quadav, they drop gil. Therefore, it’s a good idea to ask a thief to come with you so that the amount of gil dropped will be multiplied by the Thieves’ passive ability, “Gil Finder”.

While you’re in Palborough mines, make sure to target Amethyst Quadavs and Onyx Quadavs because they drop fetish parts that you can sell in stores for at least 190gil, and up to 300gil in AH. Fetish parts are needed for mission 3 in Bastok. Other items that Quadavs drop that sell for good money are the magic Scroll of paralyze, Shell shields, and Quadav backplates.

In San d’Oria, there is a NPC that ask you got Bat Wings. Each time you give him two bat wings, he will give you 200 gil in return. That NPC is located in North San d’Oria, and his name is Secodiand. The weakest bats that you can fight bats just outside of San d’Oria in Ronfaure during the night. In fact, any type of bats that you can drop bat wings. It’s just a matter of how much work you need to do to kill one.

In Windurst, there is a NPC that will ask you to bring him three Spool of Silk, or three Crawler’s Calculus. The NPC that gives that quest is located in Windurst Woods by the Dhalmel zoo, and his name is Illu bohjaa. You cannot mix and match these items; you need to bring him either three Spool of Silk, or three Crawler’s Calculus. Each time you give him three of the same items, he will reward you with 600 gil. To obtain Crawler’s Calculus, or Spool of Silk, go to Sarutabaruta just outside of Windurst and kill Crawler’s there.

Guilds

Guilding is also another good way of making easy money. It doesn’t take a lot of guilding skills to make simple items such as equipment for beginners. The guilds I recommend joining for easy money are: Blacksmith, Weaver, Tanner and Bone worker. The recipes for Blacksmith items require only common items. Items that you would be making as a Blacksmith are bronze daggers, harness, swords, and caps. These items are very low level, which means that low-level players will buy them for cheap upgrades. I also recommend the Weaver guild because as a weaver, you can make doublets and cotton doublets that all non-warriors will essentially wear. Doublets are a very popular item for mages and monks. If you decide to join the Tanner’s guild, you can make simple mantles that level 1 players can wear. Since stock characters do no come with capes, mantles are very popular items as well. Similar to Tanner, Bone workers at early levels can make simple accessories that low level players want because stock characters do not come with earrings, hairpins, or a second ring. Popular items for early stage Bone workers are shell earrings, shell rings, and bone hairpins.

Bazaars
To set up a bazaar, go into the menu screen and price each of the items to the desired price. Players will be able to browse through your bazaar even if you are AFK. The best place to set up shop overnight while you are sleeping or away from the game is around the auction houses. Bazaar is another way to sell items if your AH account already has the limited amount of items up for sale. It is a good idea to sell items at a discount on bazaars so that people will buy from you first before buying from the AH.

Final words
Remember, the more you jack up the price of your items, the more people will have to jack theirs up to pay for them. In other words, if all items are inflated, you will suffer the consequences as well. Money comes, and money goes. Basically it’s always the same money that circulates around. Let Ragnorok be a lesson to the rest of the servers in Final Fantasy XI, where a pair of Leaping Boots cost 500,000gil.

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