Head out the gates in Bastok mines and you will see some huge hornets. The gate in South Gustenburg has no less than 20 hornets. They’re pretty close to the gate even during peak hours. This place is an ideal spot to start leveling and farming. You can average about 2-3 stacks of wind crystals and will continue to drop thru level 6. Each stack should sell for about 1500 gil or more. They also drop honey pots and wings for some additional cash.

To start you need to be around level 7-10. You get signet cast on you at your local town gates, then head out to North Gusterburg where there are a lot of Vultures. You should only kill the vultures, and nothing but the vultures, until you have a stack of fire crystals. Very good money and you can get a stack and a half of fire crystals in about an hour.

This quest is ideal for level 12, but the higher the better. You’ll need to solo a level 9-10 crab that does shell and def boost.

Buy a stack of Quus (under food in the AH), it sells for 1-1.5k per stack. Then go to S. Gusta Lighthouse in the SE corner. Around back is a bush with a ??? when you target it. Give the bush 1 Quus and a named crab will spawn. Kill Bubbly Burnie, a lvl 9-10 mob, and loot the Steam Clock. He also randomly drops land Crab Meat (which sells for 250 gil at vendor or more at AH) and Water Crystals.

The Steam Clock is marked Lore so you can only have one in your inventory at a time. Take it to Bastok Markets and give Malene the clock and she will give you 500gil and some fame. You can find her in the house next to Sororo’s Notary shop.

To make this quest faster, do the Backalley quest by buying an Amaryllis from the AH for 400gil and give it to the little girl just outside the residential area in Port Bastok. She will teach you how to use the back alleys and you can enter the mog house in the mines and exit from your mog house in the markets. It saves a ton of time doing this, the only faster way is to be a lv17+blm and warp, or a 25+ thief and /flee.

This quest is repeatable and I’ve done it over 1000 times so far. My character’s fame is maxed in Bastok and I get quests that I can’t even find info on from almost every NPC. Not bad turning 1k into 6k and it only takes a lvl 12+ character for it to be really easy, less if you have decent equipment or duo it.

You can also get a group together and we did this for faster exp. Give all the Quus to one person. Have that person go to the lighthouse and spawn the fish. Have everyone pass on it except one person. The Fighter at the lighthouse just passes every time and the other 5 of us ran back and forth. We made about 10k each in an hour using this method.

If you don’t want to be trapped in price changing of Quus, you can try fish Quus at the jetty near fishing guild in Windurst. Make sure you use the right bait and rod. I recommend Sabaki rig and Carbon rod.

If you are extremely lazy, you can also just buy the Quus in Windhurst and San for 1k a stack and sell them in Bastok for 2k a stack.

The Justice Badge Quest is located in Windurst and require 1 rabab tail and 4 onions to complete. You can buy a stack of rabab tail in the auction house for 50-100 gil. In the docks of Winhurst you will find an NPC that you can give the rabab tail to. In exchange he will give you the Justice Badge. The Badge sells for 500-2000 Gil in the auction house. Once you get the badge, give him 4 wild onions and you’ll receive a scroll that sells up to 5k gil in the auction house. Again you can repeat this quest by creating a mule character and transfering 1k gil. This should be a very easy and fast quest to do.

The Warp Quest is located in Bastok. You can get you around 7-10K gil depending on your server. You will need 1k gil or a slime oil to start the quest. You first start by taking the slime oil to an NPC named “Unlucky Rat” in the Metalworks district of Bastok in exchange for a warp scroll which sells for about 7-10K gil in the auction house. Unfortunately he probably wouldn’t accept your slime oil because you don’t have enough fame built up. You will be required to run around town doing low level missions.

Here are the quests you’ll need to complete.
The Quadav’s Curse
Buckets of Gold
Brygid, the stylist
A Lady’s Heart/To Be Stylish
A Flash in the Pan
Mom, the Adventurer?
The Wisdom of the Elders/Grandma’s Wisdom
Groceries
The Bare Bones
Minesweeper

This part should take about an hour. Once you get the scroll you can easily sell it in the auction house. You can repeat this quest by creating a mule character and transfering 1k gil or the slime oil to your character.

Unfortunately in FFXI, you only receive one content ID to play with initially that lets you create a single character unless you pay an additional $1.39 for 2 more character slots. You will need to get a total of 3 slots to use this guide. You will need 3 characters, one in each major city. Bastok, San d’Oria, and Windhurst. Items in 1 city may be valued more than another depending on availability and etc. Whichever city you choose to play as your main is fine. As you complete quests, build your fame and receive rewards and items, be sure to check out the AH in other cities to check where it’s selling at the highest rate.

With your main character, send 1000 or so gil to your Windurst character. In Windhurst buy up as many paralyze scrolls as you can. It costs nearly 100 gil per scroll. You will then deliver these scrolls to your character in San d’Oria, the merchatns do not sell this scroll there. You will get a nice profit here for these scrolls but don’t overflood the AH with them.

Gardening items are usually on demand as well. You can easily harvest the crystals and resell them or feed them to your own plants. Brass pots are needed for yielding 19 fire crystals, they’re sold by an NPC in Bastok Mines named Boytz located in the building right next to the AH on the first floor in the back room. Costs about 1,100 gil per pot. Buy as many as you wish to sell then deliver to San d’Oria or Windurst. I believe you should be able to sell them easily for 3-5k gil per pot.

Here is a quick little reference chart labeling where to buy from and where to sell.

This trick works very well. Go check air elementals pets under scrolls-summoning. You can buy the Air elemental in Jueno for 800gil and I sell them in Bastok for 3000gil. This works for a ton of other items. Any quest item for a city is always considerably cheaper in the next town over. There is way more than 100gil difference in prices in an astounding number of items. I play on two computers and have one at the Jueno AH and one at the Bastok AH. I then rummage around usually spells since that seems to be the highest profit at the moment. I’ve done this trick a ton of times making a minimum of 500gil on a bad trade and 10k gil on some rather rare equipment.

While I will agree that things like crystals and other common items ie. low level gear this would hold true if you check many items you will find ways to make gross amounts of gil.

Tip 6: Be familiar with all the NPC merchants and their wares. Yes, it’s a daunting task. But that’s what Allakhazam’s database is for. You need to know what merchants sell what goods, and under what conditions. Most merchants have items they **only** sell if that kingdom is in first place in Conquest for the week. Regional vendors only sell items if that kingdom controls that region for the week. For example, many cooking ingredients can only be obtained from the Lower Elshimo regional vendor. Since that area (Yuhtunga Jungle) is often controlled by beastmen, one possible strategy would be to find out what ingredients the vendor sells, then stock up on the in-demand ones while the region is under player control. When it reverts to beastman control, you have a firm grip on the market for that product and can often set your own prices. You create a short-term monopoly on the product, until you run out of supply or the region gets retaken by players.

Tip 7: Diversify! Please, for the love of all things good and pure, do NOT put all your eggs in one basket. Find MANY ways of making money. The market is extremely fluid and sometimes volatile. What might have made insane gil last week might be a big waste of time this week. The more methods you have of earning gil, the more likely you’ll survive (or even flourish) in an unstable market. If you were farming cockatrice meat and suddenly everyone else is doing it too (and subsequently, the price drops), start making mithkabobs. If everyone’s eating mithkabobs faster than the cooks can make them, start farming cockatrice meat. Money doesn’t disappear, it changes hands. Your job is to follow the money. Ask yourself “Who’s making all the money right now, and what do they want that I can offer them?”

Tip 8: Start a production chain. Many miners already understand this one. So, I’ll use mining as an example. Mining can be a wonderful way to make money. HOWEVER, if you sell the ores, you’re just lining the smiths’ or goldsmiths’ pockets with gil. They’re charging a markup on your ores. So, start smithing or goldsmithing yourself! Turn those ores into ingots, then turn the ingots into products (or just sell the ingots directly). Generally, with each stage of a product’s life you make a profit. You profit from mining the ores… you turn the ores into ingots and they’re worth more. You turn the ingots into products and they’re worth even more. You’re forcing your item to appreciate in value. So, instead of selling an ore for 500 gil, you’re selling a piece of armour for 3000 gil.

Tip 9: If you need start-up capital to build your gil-making empire, go do some quests. SO MANY quests in this game will reward you handsomely. Allakhazam has an entire database devoted to quests, their requirements, and their rewards. If you do the teleport scroll quests, the drain/warp/aspir scroll quests, Utsusemi, Selbina Clay, etc, you’ll have a huge bankroll to start investing. You’ll also have a whole lot more fame (which helps too, since it raises the prices NPCs will buy items from you for and lowers their sell prices) and a map of the Crawlers’ Nest (always handy!) Unless you need that quest reward for your job(s) that you’re levelling, you can sell it for a big boost to your bank account. But don’t go crazy and spend it…take the time to consider HOW you’re going to spend it. You want to take that money and turn it into more money. Find a way to do that.

Tip 10: Spend wisely! If you can save 100 gil by walking across town, do it. If you can walk (and farm on the way) instead of riding a chocobo, do it. If you have a lot of worthless junk that you just want to get rid of, instead of throwing it away, take it to the city you have the highest fame in and sell it to an NPC. Every single gil will add up over the course of the game. If you save 10 gil on every transaction you ever make, you could have half a million gil extra (or more!) by the time you reach higher levels. That’s that much more you have to invest. The more money you have, the more money you can GET. Don’t waste a single gil. And don’t just hold onto your gil, either. If it’s not out in the world, it’s not earning its keep. Find somewhere to invest it. Don’t walk around with 400k… Walk around with 20k and have the other 380k earmarked to spend to further your money-making goals.

Tip 1: Know your limitations. There are certain limits placed on every possible way to make money. If you farm, you’re limited by your inventory space and the rarity of the drops you’re farming for. If you craft, you’re limited by the availability of the materials you need (and often this changes every week with the Conquest tally, so you can never count on ingredient availability). If you NM-camp, other players will limit the number of times you can claim the spawn. If you fish, demand for your fish and the number of competing fishermen will be your limits. If you mine, it’s going to be ore availability and demand. No matter WHAT you do, there is no such thing as a free ride. For example, if I find an awesome item to farm that I know sells for a couple thousand gil each on the auction, I’ve got it made, right? Not necessarily. Does my item stack? If not, I can only sell seven of my item at any one time. Does it sell quickly? If not, I’m going to have auction house slots tied up on that item that might better be served with cheaper but faster-moving items. Is my item over-farmed? If so, I’m going to be fighting for spawns with other farmers, meaning I’m not going to be bringing home too many of my item in a given night. So, find out what your limitations are. Don’t just look at the sell price of something and think it’s worthwhile. Often, cheap items will make you MUCH more money than high-ticket items. EVERYONE has pocket change, but not everyone has 8 million gil to throw down on one item.

Tip 2: Check the price information, everywhere! If you have an item to sell, you need to know how much it sells for in every location you can sell it. Meaning, you need to know how much your item sells for at the Windurst/Bastok/San d’Oria/Jeuno auction houses. You need to know how much it sells to NPCs for in the town you have the most fame. You need to know how much the relevant guild (if there is one) will buy it for. You should even have an idea how much it goes for in bazaars in town. This way, you know where you should be selling your item to get the most profit. I cannot tell you how many items I’ve found on auction that sold for less on auction than they do to an NPC shop right next door. If those sellers took the time to check the NPC first, they would’ve made even more money and (more importantly) not wasted an AH slot. However, just because you know where it sells for the most gil at, that doesn’t mean you know where to sell it. Because….

Tip 3: Find out what the demand is for your item. Your item may sell for 10k in Windurst and 8k in Jeuno. But that doesn’t mean you should necessarily sell it in Windurst. Check the dates on the last 10 sales in the AH history, and find out how quickly the item sells there. If it sells three times a month in Windurst and six times a day in Jeuno, even if you won’t get as much money for it you’ll probably want to sell it in Jeuno. Every day that it’s sitting on auction, you’re losing money. Because that auction slot could be selling something else and it’s tied up selling this one item. Fast sales are usually better than big sales. Also, if you’re selling a crafting ingredient, you can bet the demand is going to be higher in the town with the relevant craft. If you have cockatrice meat, you’d be hard pressed to find a better place to sell it than Windurst since the cooking guild is there. So, knowing how much demand there is for your item is critical.

Tip 4: Find out what the supply situation is for your item. Just because you know how many are selling, that doesn’t mean you’re ready to sell off your item yet! You need to consider how many are on sale. If there are just a handful of your item on auction and it sells quickly, you’ve found a golden ticket. That means the demand is there but the supply is low. You’ve found a market niche to fill. If there are 208 of your item on sale, REGARDLESS how quickly it moves you’ll probably want to consider selling it somewhere else. Again, you don’t want to waste AH slots that could be selling more merchandise.

Tip 5: Find out where your item can be obtained. You need to know EVERY SOURCE of that item in the entire game. You need to know where and what mobs drop it, or what tradeskill it belongs to, or what NM has it, what items can be desynthed for it, or what NPC merchants sell it. You need this info for two reasons: First, you need to know where your potential competition is getting their supply from. Second, if you have several options on where to get that item from, you can find the one that’s the most cost effective. Sure, farming Paralyze scrolls off beastmen is a free way to get the scroll, but there are a number of NPC merchants who sell the scroll for cheap. You could mine darksteel, or you could desynth quadav backplates for much, much cheaper. Rather than waste time (your #1 asset) farming them, you can pay the minimal price to buy them and mark them up at the auction house. This leads to…

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