Gil in FFXIVFollow

So after finding out that there is an AH in FFXIV I was wondering how the gil economy was in FFXIV compared to that of FFXI?

For those of you who may not understand, in FFXI you gained little money from selling things to vendors the majority of gil came from the competitive AH which people where constantly trying to get the best price, and had a supply and demand effect like a really economy. Killing monsters and selling things to NPC's was not an efficient to way to gain gil. This meant grinding hard for Beehive Chips a process that would take a while, and then you would wait for it to sell in the AH, and go grind some more, and buy ONE piece of armor, MAYBE! While this does not sound fun to many, I would love it because as you grinded you leveled, as you leveled you would be able to expand where you can farm, and make more money better gear, etc.

They ended up turning it completely around in FFXI, where the best way to make gil ended up being farming cruor in Abyssea and then buying an item called chocobo blinkers with it then selling it in a nation that you had high fame in for a conversion of 1 cruor = 2.5 gil.

In FFXIV however, the easies way to make gil seems to be questing in the main storyline. When those dry up you always have levequests, guildhests, and some repeatable quests. Humanoids still drop gil in XIV, although it tends to only be 1-3 gil at lower-mid levels. Dungeons are also another solid form of income, albeit somewhat slower than others. In the dungeons there are coffers that drop rare gear occasionally, but more often than not drop coins sort of like beastcoins that can be sold for a set gil price. They may end up making these their own currency, but I'm not sure on that at the moment.

Then there's always crafting and gathering. gathering will be pretty big early on and always be a steady form of income. I'm not too sure how profitable crafting will be at the moment, but items will always be required so people can turn them into materia. Crafters will be required to repair gear cheaply and socket materia into items for other players. Materia creation will most likely be the biggest form of income, but also very time consuming and random. You will have to buy pieces of gear, wear them until they are spirit bonded, convert them into materia, and hope that you get valuable pieces to sell.

Edit: I just realized I didn't actually answer the questions addressed... Oh well..

Edited, Aug 9th 2013 4:18pm by DamienSScott

Wishful thinking... But will all market boards link to one central location on the server? For instance, the Windhurst AH was always dead, and I had to go to Jeuno to do anything economy related, because that one was also linked to Aht Urghan and significantly livelier.

Yes. Location simply controls how much the seller gets taxed.

I dunno, there are always people who Kwanzaa oversell. Either way, P4 launch will be a Good Friday.

I think you are right about being tide over until endgame, but maybe. I imagine that the materia crafters will ultimately belong to FC and be exclusive. The high level materia will either cost hundreds of thousands, so you'll need to get that gil somehow, or spend time farming for it if you have a high enough craft. This may be where FC's come in to play a big part in endgame readiness.

Since I'm just starting, I'm glad I have time to see what happens down the line.

I waiting to see if we can still share retainers on the same account. if we can't does that mean every person have 2 retainers.. The relic comment about why we can't share was weird.

Hrmm I thought retainers got shared per server? whats the point of having 8 chars on 1 server than?

1.0's issue is that there wasn't much to buy (much like early FFXI until RoZ when crafting really took off) and for all intents and purposes is not worth mentioning. Anyone saying so for ARR seems ill informed.

Gil in FFXI is/was used for one of two purposes:

• Used for various small hits for travel (warps, chocobos, airships, boats, etc.)
• Trading with other players

Gil in FFXIV will be used for one of two purposes:

• Used for various small hits for travel (warps, chocobos, airships, boats, etc.)
• Trading with other players
• Player housing

They're equal with a slight edge towards FFXIV depending on how expensive potential maintenance ends up being on housing.

FFXI ended up having a steady flow of bloat gil from selling things to vendors that RMT abused. Ironically, now, that's the best way to make money for anyone depending on your luck outside of trading. There are temporary areas that can give you a decent boost (Dynamis currency, Alexandrite, etc.) but they're extremely time limited.

FFXIV won't have this issue of vendoring generating obscene amounts of gil into the economy; anything NQ sells for 1 gil and anything HQ sells for 2. You either need to continually do quests/F.A.T.E.s or trade with other players to make money.

It's no different than every other MMO in existence.

So, this period between P3 closing & P4 launching is our Lent? We are going without, to remember that our chosen one has been sacrificed for our sins, and will be reborn into this world?

No. Only players do that.

Each player can get up to 2 retainers, this gives access to 40 slot for selling items.


Compared to FFXI economy, money is easily obtained also quests gives you good starteting gear. Still it is too early to fully understand how the economy will work.

At the moment I would like to know if the Allagan pieces has other uses besides it being sold to NPC for GIL. We will know this once Early Access starts.