Today we’ll go over some gil-saving tips in FFXIV. These aren’t flavor of the month tips that become irrelevant over time, but good habits to get into if you want to save up gil for whatever purpose.
Universalis:
https://universalis.app/
Garland Tools:
https://garlandtools.org/
Poetic Vendor Locations:
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Allagan_Tomestone_of_Poetics
Mrhappy1227 Explaining Hunts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7FStYmTgc0
00:00 Introduction
00:18 Poetics Gear
01:30 Teleportation
04:52 Grand Company Seals
06:50 Adventurer in Need
07:44 Don’t Overpay
09:45 Sneaky Trick People Use
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2:40 With the companion app attached to your FF14 account, you get a fourth Favored teleport destination. Which is pretty neat
When I heard teleportation prices were increasing in Endwalker, I made it a point to do both Heavensward and Stormblood daily hunts, found in Ishgard at the clan hunt board outside Forgotten Knight, and in Rhalgr’s reach/Kugane respectively. Doing both sets will earn you enough centurio seals to purchase 44 aether tickets every day at the left npc downstairs in the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard. (Even more once a week when you do the B-rank weekly hunt from the board, referred to as the elite hunt.) I amassed over 2k of those tickets and haven’t payed for a teleport since.
You can also do the Stormblood Elite Hunt (Hunt board in Ralgr's Reach or Kugane) for additional 20 tickets worth of seals (same kind of seals as HW hunt, so must cash them in Ishgard)
1) tomestone items are even easier to buy from blue satchel vendors next to every aetheryte in every major city after msq of that expansions is finished…also item u showed that sold for 3k was normal quality (marketboard items were HQ)…so yes ppl do sell items higher price for sure…but the example given was a bad one. Selling copper ore for 50 or 100 gil would have been better example since its only NQ and u can vendor buy it for less than 10 etc.
I think the one thing I'd alter is for the first tip, they have vendors for poetics and scrips beside the main aetheryte in all capital cities. Gridania, Ul'Dah, Limsa Lominsa for ARR. Ishgard, Kugane and Crystarium for the expansions. Much better than running off to wherever they have the poetics vendor originally.
Hey man, I just want to tell you that for someone like me who doesn't have the time to research the game deeply (explorations, wikis etc.), your content is much appreciated. There's always, one trick here, or another small thing that I missed there that has transformed my gaming experience a lot. Thanks so much!
And remember to use your free/home destination to hop to if they're waay closer than you currently are. I have my free destination in Doma to cut those teleport costs down by ~700. Sure, it's one extra teleport, but probably worth it.
What is the filter you're using for GShade? Your game looks amazing!
teleporting prices are redonculous, when I started playing a week ago, I would look at my gil and just be like "wheres my money!" after that I would just try to use The Chocobo Porter. But I got my mount last night! (at lvl 30 mind you)
With the explosion of sprouts in EW, I've been trying to keep the new players in my FC aware of this stuff, so this is a great summary of what we've all been trying to say. Scams abound.
10:13 yeah but shops dont sell you HQ items, that is the price difference in your example
One thing I noticed was your grand company rank was the second highest possible, the way you get the highest rank is by doing 5 unique command missions with your squadron, which then unlocks an flagged mission for them.
I suppose this is fine advice for grand company seals and poetics, if you never ever do the weapon relics for ARR or HW.
The only vendor gear I bought was for crafters/gatherers because it's so important for that stuff to be up to date, and obviously if you're leveling crafters, you probably don't have easy access to everything you need to make your current gear.
90 days to get through MSQ? I think Endwalker took me like 3 or 4 lol
Another potentially handy tip for money saving is unsyncing dungeons with your highest class. If you need gear for your leveling classes/retainers, just run a dungeon of the closest level with your highest class unsynced and get the gear. You can deliver any extra gear to your GC for seals or desynth for materials that often sell well but it's usually better to stock up on ventures in the long run.
It takes a few runs to get a full set but any dungeon 20 levels or less than your current level can generally be done in 5-10 minutes. Plus you can get some surprisingly good looking glam gear this way
On the topic of weird market prices*, I sometimes see people selling items on the marketplace for lower than they would get if they just sold it to a vendor. Always check the prices in the tooltips before buying or selling.
* the prices for the Steel Chainmail in the video aren't actually weird because they're HQ items needed for an Armorer job quest.
Jolsn: "Please whatever you do, make sure you're not buying vendor items for five times the price."
Also Jolsn: Ignores the fact that one on market board is high quality (higher stats and can only be crafted) and that vendors only sell normal quality.
The item was a bad example for the last point because its actually HQ on the market board while the vendor only sells NQ. The tip itself is still relevant for a lot of other items, especially raw materials that can be bought from vendors
I watched this after making a massive amount last night. I was doing desynth for my challenge log and got clear derimateria III which vendors for 5k. I was bored so I went on the MB and found 12 full stacks for 100 Gil each. That’s a 50x profit. Naturally I bought it all bc I didn’t think someone could make such a dumb move.
One tip for me as a starter was to make money by buying the default dye items from the shop and reselling them in the mb when they were worth > 300 … made easily 2-8x the price i paid over a time …. not the fastest way but made 2 million gil with this method already
My stratagy for teleport favs is to always have my home city, msq zone, job quest npc, and crafting quest npc saved.
As for using your Tomestones of Poetics for armor, the NPC's are locked behind finishing the MSQ in the expansions. By the time you are finished and can buy the armor, it is already obsolete and your stones are capped at 2k. I would recommend spending them on your anima weapon ingredients like umbrite ect.
For Teleporting, if you don't want to farm tickets. I strategically place my reduce ports cost. Then I port to reduce/free location, and port once more to location nearby.
On Aetheryte Tickets (although this is perhaps slightly out of scope for sprouts), don't forget Blue Mages Masked Carnivale! About ten minutes a week gets 550 allied seals- or 110 free teleports.
You can use poetics on the blue Npc near main cities aethernet. There is no need to go to mor dhona, ildyishire etc
A tip I wish I'd known when I was a sprout: make a gatherer and gather materials at The Diadem in Ishgard for some easy money. Those sell decently fast at pretty decent prices.
Also, if you can, save your allagan silvers and golds for the donation box in Doma. It's an easy way to make 20k a week.
How did u know i was a broke sprout?!?!?!