How to Make Gil Using Crafting in FFXIV

Endgame Combat gear, as well as Crafting and Gathering gear, can be incredibly profitable due to how high in demand it is, especially with content updates. You can often stockpile materials and Tomestones ahead of a new patch to allow you to easily focus on making gear as soon as possible. The ability to spend time when sales are slow to increase profits when sales and demand are high is incredibly useful.

There are a few things to be aware of. DoH/DoL gear receives a spike in sales when new combat gear is released, while Combat gear increases in sales in the patch after when you can upgrade the gear.

Weapons, on the other hand, often hold less value than other pieces of gear due to there often being alternate sources such as Relic Weapons or Extreme Trials, both dropping weapons that are either equal or better than the crafted weapons.

While endgame gear is important, the materials used to make them are just as important. Intermediate materials, both related to the current endgame and materials used while leveling, can all have value.

Generally speaking, the materials related to the current endgame will be more profitable, but some leveling materials are used for a wide range of items, as well as content such as the Free Company workshop and Submarines.

While they do not necessarily sell for as much money, they will often sell fast for items that players want to make. During a new patch, these can end up more profitable than gear. A good exmaple of this is a 300k for an ingot that is selling fast compared to a crafted chest worth 2mil that wont sell until the price is lower.

Furnishings can be incredibly accessible, allowing you to make vast amounts of Gil with lower level crafting classes due to most furnishings having low level requirements.

The demand for furnishings often ebbs and flows with the housing lotto, as new houses being obtained increases the demand for furnishings. Many items at lower levels sell for small amounts, but with large profit margins. There are many items at higher levels that sell for a lot more, such as furnishings using Extreme drops or items that have been recently released.

The downsides here is furnishings do not stack, so you can quickly run out of retainer sale space. If you plan to make a lot of items, you will need storage to hold them until you can list them. It may also be better to have a few high value furnishings on the side, while you mostly focus on items that sell faster. Always check the sale history on items before you commit to them.

Skybuilder's Scrips are obtained exclusively through the Ishgardian Restoration and can be exchanged for a large variety of cosmetic items including minions, mounts, music rolls and more!

The crafts themselves are incredibly easy when at level 90, allowing you to skip everything using Trained Eye, making it so each craft takes less than 10 seconds.

The mounts are generally some of the least profitable, due to how many scrips they cost. Dyes are often valuable, but minions and other cosmetic items vary massively depending on how popular the item itself is and if it can be obtained elsewhere.

As you craft, you will accumulate stamps used in Kupo of Fortune. This is a minigame allowing you to obtain additional items you can also sell.

Scrip farming is an integral part of the DoH/DoL endgame loop, and therefore the items you can purchase with your Scrips can be heavily in demand. Crafting scrips have almost always been significantly more valuable and in demand compared to their gathering counterpart. Crafting Scrips can offer you a range of materials, as well as Materia used in endgame crafting. Gathering classes instead tend to spiritbond for Materia.

Materia prices are often at their peak before a new update. This is due to players trying to catch up at the last minute, and panic buyers concerned of a price spike, usually caused by the very same people. This makes it very easy to take advantage of and have thousands of Materia prepared ahead of a new update.

Treasure Hunts often reward a large range of crafting materials, the most valuable of which are used in cosmetic glamours.

You can either farm these yourself or, by server hopping, you can find cheap materials to quickly craft and make a sale off of. This can come with a bit of risk if the item is new, as the price of both materials and the glamour itself is always changing.

While not the best method, it is still worth mentioning given its popularity. Raid food and Pots are incredibly accessible only requiring either Alchemist or Culinarian to be able to craft these items. They have low profit margins, but incredibly fast sale time when raids are new.

The issue being due to their accessibility, they often have a large amount of bots also listing on the market that undercut much faster than other markets.

Making Gil via leves can be thought of in two different ways. The first being the "coffee biscuit" equivalent of Endwalker. The second being simply making leve items because players need them to level and may pay for the convenience.

This first method involves simply crafting large amounts of Tsai tou Vounou to hand them in at a levemete to obtain the Gil reward for completing the leve. This nets roughly 1mil for 100 turn ins and is not generally worth your time. There are much better Gil making options, this one simply has the benefit of directly giving you the Gil allowing you to ignore undercutting games.

For the second method, you want to look at items used in leves and sell several of each. The best leves are outlined in Rietty's Leve Resource Sheet. Leve items are mainly profitable between level 80 and 90 due to alternate leveling methods being available for other level ranges, but level 90-100 will also have a huge demand for leves.