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Bronze Flower Pot

Lightning+Herb = 9 water crystals
Dark+Herb = 1 deathball
Light+Herb = 6 dark crystals
Wind+Herb = 1 green rock
Dark+Grain = 4 light crystals
Light+Grain = 3 dark crystals
Wind+Grain = 9 earth crystals
Fire+Grain = 9 boxes tarantaru rice
Earth+Grain = 4 boxes tarantaru rice
Water+Grain = 11 pods blue peas
Lightning+Veggie = 2 wild onions
Dark+Veggie = 1 black rock
Herb + Fire Crystal = 5x Ice Crystals
Herb + Dark Crystal = 4x Amaryllis
Herb + Dark Crystal = 1x Screaming Fungi
Vegetable = 4x Rock salt
Vegetable = 2x Yellow stone
Vegetable + Wind Crystal = 1x Rock salt
Vegetable + Wind Crystal = 4x Rock salt
Vegetable + Ice Crystal = 1x Saruta Cotton
Vegetable + Dark Crystal = 3x Light Crystal
Vegetable + Dark Crystal = 4x Light Crystal
Vegetable + Dark Crystal = 1-2x Kuroishi
Grain = 4x Rock salt
Grain = 2,4 or 5x Marguerite
Grain + Ice Crystal = 16x Wind crystal
Grain + Ice Crystal = 8-12 Kukuru bean
Grain + Dark Crystal = 2x Light crystal
Grain + Dark Crystal = 4x Coral Bamboo
Grain + Dark Crystal = 8x Taru taru rice
Fruit = 1x Indigo stone.
herb seeds + wind crystal = 6 sprigs of sage
herb seeds + earth crystal= 6 Tarutaru rice
herb seeds + fire crystal = 20 bunches Kazham peppers Herb = 10x Carnation
Herb + Dark crystal = 3-4x Light crystal
Herb + Dark Crystal = 1x Deathball
Herb + Dark Crystal = 1x Screaming Fungi
Vegetable = 1x Rock salt
Vegetable = 2x Yellow stone
Vegetable = 3-4x Lilac
Vegetable + Wind Crystal = 2-3x Rock salt
Vegetable + Wind Crystal = 8-12 Ghesyel Grass
Grain = 1x Akaishi
Grain = 3-4x Rock salt
Grain = 1x Puffball
Grain = 2 or 5x Marguerite
Grain + Fire Crystal = 4x Ice crystal
Grain + Fire Crystal = 10-11x Taru taru rice
Grain + Earth Crystal = 4x Lightning crystal
Grain + Earth Crystal = 7-9x Taru taru rice
Grain + Water Crystal = 12x Blue piece
Grain + Ice Crystal = 8 or 12x Wind crystal
Grain + Ice Crystal = 8-12x Kukuru bean
Grain + Light Crystal = 11x Sunflower seeds
Grain + Dark Crystal = 2-4x Light crystal
Grain + Dark Crystal = 1-2, 4x Coral bamboo
Grain + Dark Crystal = 8-9, 13x Taru taru rice
Fruit = 1x Indigo Stone
Fruit + Fire Crystal + Fire Crystal = 3x Ice crystal
Fruit + Earth Crystal + Fire Crystal = 12x Sandoria Mosquito lot
Fruit + Earth Crystal + Dark Crystal = 5x Lightning Crystal

Ceramic Flower Pot

Herb = 8x Carnation
Herb + Fire Crystal = 21x Kazham Peppers
Herb + Ice Crystal = 5x Duck Meal
Herb + Dark Crystal = 1x Deathball
Herb + Lightning Crystal = 19 Water Crystals (lightning day harvest)
Vegetable = 2x Rock salt
Vegetable + Wind Crystal = 4x Rock salt
Vegetable + Wind Crystal = 8 or 12x Ghesyal Grass
Vegetable + Ice Crystal = 2x Saruta Cotton
Vegetable + Dark Crystal = 3x Light Crystal
Grain = 1x Rock salt
Grain = 1x Puff ball
Grain = 3x Marguerite
Grain + Fire Crystal = 3x Ice crystal
Grain + Earth Crystal = 7 or 9x Taru taru rice
Grain + Ice Crystal = 9x Wind Crystal
Grain + Ice Crystal = 8-12x Kukuru bean
Grain + Dark Crystal = 4x Light Crystal
Grain + Dark Crystal = 1x Coral Bamboo
Grain + Dark Crystal = 11x Taru taru rice
Fruit = 4x Rock salt

Earthen Flower Pot

Herb = 1x Rock salt
Herb + Darkness = 2-4x Light Crystal
Herb + Dark Crystal = 1x Death ball
Vegetable = 1 or 4x Rock salt
Vegetable + Wind Crystal = 2-3x Rock salt
Vegetable + Wind Crystal = 8, 11-12x Ghesyal Grass
Vegetable + Ice Crystal = 3x Saruta Cotton
Vegetable + Dark Crystal =2x Kuroishi
Grain = 1-2x Rock salt
Grain = 1x Puff ball
Grain = 2 or 4x Marguerite
Grain + Earth Crystal = 5 Frost Turnips
Grain + Wind Crystal = 10x Millioncorn
Grain + Wind Crystal = 11 millioncorn (earthday)
Grain + Ice Crystal = 11-12x Wind crystal
Grain + Ice Crystal = 17-20x Kukuru bean
Grain + Dark Crystal = 3x Light crystal
Grain + Dark Crystal = 12x Taru taru rice

Although FFXI gardening may seem to be a boring task especially if you’re one of those macho guys who thinks planting flowers and plants are for girls, well you’re wrong. No matter how boring it may be, it can be very relaxing and very well rewarding. The results of your gardening can be sold for a profit, used for quests and to make things through your guild.

To start gardening you need to purchase a flower pot which can also be made if you have the 2 trade skills goldsmithing and blacksmithing. Would be much easier to purchase it however. Flower pots can cost about 1,000 gil. Money makes money, in this case, gils makes gils. This is an investment of time and gils. After getting your pot, you will need some seeds which drops off various sapling type mobs or can be purchased at some merchants.

Place your pot in your Mog safe and use the furniture option to situate the flowerpot somewhere in your house. You can have up to 6 flower pots in each Mog house. Ideally, the more characters the better. After placing the pot, go to the garden option in the Mog house menu and plant the seed into the pot. A garden doesn’t grow over night, in real life it takes weeks to months. Lucky for us it will only take a few days in the game. Once your plant begins to germinate you will need to feed it special crystals(Whatever happened to old fashion water?). The crystals are the same ones used for the guilds and drop when you have signet cast upon you by a guard. This will generally take a few days, be sure to check back on your plant every chance you get. The better you treat your plant the better your results. If you should choose to completely neglect your plant it may die. Just like in real life.

The result seems to depend upon a combination of the crystal you fed the plant and the original seed. I have not seen any accurate chart on how it works, so it may even be somewhat random. It seems as though you get the opposite of the crystal you feed the plant. Thus feeding it dark crystals will bring you light ones or fire will bring water. However, you can also get various plants, herbs and other things that could conceivably grow in the dirt. Many of these items sell for decent Gil.

Try this

Buy a brass flower pot in the auction house, several vegetable seeds and some water crystals. You plant the flower pot in your Mog house, and put in the vegetable seeds. You feed it water crystals now and then, and after 1-3 days you will have 17 fire crystals come out of it! I have heard rumors that you won’t always get fire crystals, but you can have I think 6-8 flower pots per house, so if you use an auction mule to garden as well, you can make some really good money… 20-30k every 2-3 days for each account, minus the cost of the seeds and the water crystals. Also, I think that all gardening combinations yield something that can be sold, so you may find a combination that gives something even better than fire crystals! Just experiment! A flower pot is a very cheap investment, and if you are disappointed with the result, you’re not losing much money anyway!

Leather crafting in Final Fantasy XI is another great skill to pick up. You can start making profit right from the start of level 0 skills.

Buy a few stacks of Windhurst Teal leaves, about 400 gil in AH, cheaper if bought in Windhurst. Buy a few stacks of Distilled water, 120 gil per stack at NPC in S. Sandoria Pub. Buy a few stacks of Wind Crystals, about 1.2k gil. Head out to where the sheeps are.

West/East Rond – Wild Sheep
North Gustaburg – Onary Sheep
Kon. Highlands – Mad Sheep + Rams(500 ram skin, 1000 for ram horn)
Dunes – Brutal Sheep
La Theine – Sheeps + Rams (500 ram skin, 1000 for ram horn)

Kill sheep and drop everything but the Sheepskin.
Sheep Leather = (1x wind crystal, 1x sheepskin, 1x wind tea leaf 1x dist water) skills needed 0
12x Sheep Leather = 8k (approx) ing approx. 2.5k net profit = 5.5k per stack

Sheep wool = (1x wind crystal, 2x sheepskin) skills needed 2
12x Sheep wool = 6k (approx) ing approx. 1.2k net profit = 4.8k per stack
THF sub lvl 15 would help tons or lvl up THF in west rond.

Sheep skin also sell pretty cheep at guild, or in AH, however that will reduce your net profit.
7 stack will take about 4hrs of farming
7 x 5.5k (leather) = 38.5k (not too bad for 4hrs of work)
7 x 4.8k (wool) =33.6k (also not too bad for a little more work)

So if all you do is leather, lets say you fill AH with leather 3 time per week.
3 x 7 = 21 stacks of leather 21 x 5.5k = 115.5k per week

Ores, Iron and Zinc sells pretty fast in Final Fantasy XI. Zeruhn Mines have many of these resources. Zeruhn is near Bastok City, you’ll have easy access to the Bastok Mines, AH and your Mog House. Just an FYI again, the higher your fame the cheaper the pick axes will cost for you to mine.

To begin mining, you’ll need mining gears, Field Tunica, Field Boots and Fields Gloves and of course at least 2 pickaxes. A stack of pickaxes would be ideal however. Copper ore and Tin sells for the least, you can drop those if you want to save room for Iron, Zinc and Dark Steel.

If you use ranged weapons in Zeruhn you will make mouse bat, ding bats and tunnel worms drop more than 1 item. You will probably collect some Zeruhn soots as well. They sell fast in the AH for about 2500 gil. You can also level your fame by trading 3 pair of soots to Gerbaum located at F-8 in the Bastok Mines. He’ll give you 150 gil for them as well.

Within 3-4 hours you can collect up to 40-50k gil depending on the amount of people in the dungeon.

Mining basics:
First I highly recommend the mining boots, gloves and field armor. This investment will go along way for you down the road. I’ve found the drops are better after wearing it and the most important – your pick axes break less often saving you money down the road.

Reducing Cost:
If you have a decent level of fame, your cost for pickaxes will be relatively lower – less that 200gil per axe at Boytz shop behind AH in Bastok Mines. This can also be used to make money as a stack can cost up to 3000-3500 in Jeuno and sells relatively fast. 200 x 12 = 2400 , so that’s another 500-1000gil profit.

Maximizing your Time:
Make sure you are at least level 30+ so that you do not engage agro. I would recommend 40+ so that your kill speed is much faster. Remember time = money. Wear only the mining gear, and a weapon. I remove my linkshell pearl also. If you are a BLM (AOE) or a THF (FLEE), then more power to you as I will explain later. If you can, try to finish Gobbie Quest #1 and #2 so that you now have a +10extra spaces in your bag. Now you are ready to head out, if my advice is followed you should only have 6 / 40 in your inventory leaving you with 34 spaces to fill worth of goodies.

If you have a high level BLM, go to the 2nd floor (Marked with a Greet Dot). Facing the refinery try to target a Quadav. Now what this will do is bring ALL quadavs from the other side of that small river come running to you. Only a few greater/veterans will come but the rest will be Young/Amber and Amethysts. If you cast AOE spells on them they die fairly quick and you will net a good amount of gil this way + items. Spells can range from 200gil to 1k, and Quadav Backplates can sell up to 1k in Jeuno, around 600 in Bastok and they sell fast. Usually from one of these pulls you can get about 5-10 Backplates already yielding 4-10k depending on where sell it PLUS if you sub THF on your mage you will get double the gil dropped also.

Quadav Backplates: 600-1000gil
Spells: 200-1000gil

I’ve attached the maps of Palborough mines with all the mining locations known to me (Marked in red). Now, you will want to explore the routes to maximize your travel. My route is 1st floor (F-7) to (H-7) to (I-7) to B on 2nd floor to (J-6) to (J-7) to (J-8) then to the 3rd floor towards C to (J-6) and (J-9). I do this repeatly going backwards and forwards. Try to toss anything less than Zinc unless you want to build up your crafting skills.

Zinc: 200-300gil
Silver: 400-500gil
Iron: 500-700gil
Mythril: 1000-1300gil
Platinum: 15,000+ gil. ***Sell when demand is low, people will pay up to 30-40k when supply is low.

If you’re a high lvl 50-60+ you can go to the 3rd floor and cast a spell on a Quadav behind closed gates. This will train 20+ quadavs (olds/coppers/brass/greater/onyx/vets) to come rushing to you. These 3rd tier quadavs will net you more gil / drop with Treasure Hunter as well as plenty of fetish parts. When you kill enough Quadavs there’s also a chance for an NM to spawn, but I usually don’t wait as time = money. Kill Funguars as they drop sleepshrooms that sell for 1-2k a stack. Kill any type of Scorpion and they can drop scorpion claws and scorpion shells and the plantreaper scythe. As well, you can get the Palborough Key used to open treasure chests which usually net you 1-2k in gil or item.

Fetish Parts: Sell to NPC for 200gil each.
Sleepshrooms: 1000-2000gil / stack
Scorpion Claws: 500-600 gil
Scorpion Shell: 900-1100 gil
PlantReaper Scythe: 1200-2000gil

So as you can see, there are tons of things to kill at relative ease. Once your inventory is full, you can continue to train quadavs for gil or you can head home to sell your loot. If you have Warp then just simply warp home, otherwise you can take the boat on the 3rd floor (Marked in Blue) which takes you directly to Zeruhn Mines which is just a short distance from Bastok mines.

Fishing in Final Fantasy XI would be the ideal job to get. Unlike mining which you will lose alot of money early in the game and will take massive amounts before making profits, you can easily bring in some extra gil early with fishing. If you have the option try Windurst because you can easily raise your skills there for a bit. Here’s a chart for referent to help you choose a rod, bait and price.

So now then, to start off, you will need about 3000 to 4000 gil unless you already have a rod. Next, buy a Glass Fiber Fishing Rod. 2.1k in Windurst, but if you can somehow get one from San d’Oria, they were 1.8k there the last time I checked. These get lots of bites and work for small fish that can start earning you money immediately. For the bait, you have 2 choices, if you want to take your chances and go for the big money earner immediately, buy as many Balls of Insect Paste as you can afford, and head to a nice freshwater fishing location.

Port San d’Oria is a good place to start. Plop down next to Gallijaux and Joulet for a while and fish for Moat Carps.
Windurst Woods is also a good place. I recommend heading up to the bridge by the Dhamel farm and fishing from that bridge facing south.
Zehrun Mines I think also can get you moat carps, but I’m not sure how often.

The other option is to buy a Sabiki Rig. These can catch you up to three fishes at a time, but they cost a little more than a ball of insect paste. If you go for this one, I recommend heading for a saltwater location.

Port Windurst is a great place to go. By the Fishing guild you can catch up to three bastore sardines easily at level 0 or lvl 1 fishing skill with image enhancement from the little taru there. Try for Bastore Sardines.

After a couple of good catches, say, oh, about 12-24, you may notice you start to get a great decrease in the number of catches or even just bites. This means your beginner’s luck is over!!! At this point you have 2 options:

Get some fishing gear. You can depend on fisherman’s gloves, tunic, boots, or whatever to help you raise your skill and keep catching those money makers. You can also raise your true skill by fishing some of that have lower level caps, like cobalt jellyfish or crayfish.

As soon as you hit around lvl 7 fishing skill, with or without equipment, try back at the money making fish again.

Rumors:
-If you constantly get the “Didn’t Catch Anything” message, try moving around, not a whole bunch, buy maybe 3 feet to the left or the right. Moving about generally helps, for me at least.
-I usually hit enter on the end of the third time he sways back and forth after getting a bite. (you know how the character sways back and forth after he gets a bite, He kinda plays tug of war with the fish)

Selling your fishies So, once you get a stack of 12 moat carps or Bastore sardines, head to you local auction house and put them up for acution, they usually go pretty quickly. On my server, Moat Carps went for 4k while bastore sardines went for 700, but you can catch 3 sardines at a time so its not bad.

The Furthest tower north of Giddeus in West Saru there is a constant spawn of goblins and bats in a small area. You can solo them easily with a level 8-10 character. With signet the goblins will drop fire crystals and the bats will drop wind crystals as well as the goblin armor which sells for 200-400 gil. The goblins will also drop gil themselves. A ton of loot for you collect and sell within this area. Ideal for low levels to start earning in some extra gils off leveling.

Northwest of San D’oria, there is an area full of Orcs. This would be a great to get fire crystals. You can probably average about 3 stacks in an hour. 3 Stacks you can sell for about 3-4K gil. That is about 10K gil in an hour, not too bad for a lowbie character to start farming at.