Hi, friends! Aitherea here, and my throat
is feeling a little sore, so do forgive me if I don't sound quite as normal or, I don't
know, as bright and lively. I'm trying to, I guess, be a little more kind to it. But anyway,
today, I want to share with you some low-effort ways to make an income in Final Fantasy 14. Please
be aware that this is not a get-rich-quick video by any means. These are steady income streams that
can build up gil for you over time, and as I said, they are also low-effort, so they're going to be
easy to do or they're not going to take a lot of time to do. Speaking of timing, the way that you
can make big bucks off of some of these methods does have to do with your timing, and I will
explain that wherever it is pertinent. So with that said, I have 10 ideas for you to make money
in Final Fantasy 14 that don't take a whole lot of effort, so let's just get into it. For number one,
we're starting with Grand Company seals because this is kind of the basis for other money-making
methods on the list. So, getting Grand Company seals is pretty easy. There's multiple ways to get
them, but it all comes down to turning in gear. You get the seals from gear, so really there's
multiple ways to get gear and then turn that in to the Grand Company Personnel Officer under the
Expert Delivery tab. And basically, you should always be rolling on dungeon drops so that you
can turn those in for Grand Company seals. Once you've gotten your seals, you can exchange them
for a number of different goods. The best things to use your seals on are in-demand crafting items
like potash or coke or things like glamour prisms and dispellers. I would also like to use this
section to ask crafters in the comments section: what materials from Grand Companies do you use
the most? Because I know that potash and coke sell pretty well, but I'm not really very versed
in what mats are good and bad, so I really don't know if I'm missing anything. But from the grand
company seals, like is there anything else besides coke and potash that are good crafting items,
like to sell? Anyways, on to number two. Number two is retainers. So, you can send your retainers
out on missions called Ventures once per hour and they'll bring back gear, housing items, or Venture
coffers. If you get really lucky, you can open the Venture coffer and you'll get a rare dye like a
jet black or pure white, which you can sell for roughly 400k. So for that reason, it's good to
send them out as often as humanly possible to increase your chances of getting those Venture
coffers. And of course, the gear you can use for what we said about number one, the Grand Company
seals, and the housing items – some of them are just worth money and you can sell them, and other
ones are kind of not really worth anything. Also, you can do 12-hour Ventures, and these aren't
really a bad idea either because your retainer might bring back a rare minion or an in-demand
crafting item, maybe one that's even a little bit more expensive. I do, however, prefer to do
the one-hour Ventures myself because my retainers are really under-geared and I, uh, I really can't
be bothered to fix that, so I just do the one-hour Ventures because it doesn't matter what your gear
is on your retainer. So yeah. For number three, I want to talk about tomestones. So you'll naturally
be building up tomestones if you do any sort of battle content, whether you're doing roulettes,
trials, whatever. Pretty much everything is going to give you tomestones. Allagan Tomestones of
Poetics can be exchanged in the Crystarium for old gear pieces, so I would recommend that you
buy a bunch of rings from whatever the highest item level poetics gear is. So right now, that
would be the Augmented Cryptlurker’s gear. And then you just repeat number one on this list. You
can also make money by selling the Astronomy tome- stones. Is that what they're called? The red ones.
And this will be true for any of like the middle tomestone of any patch, and once again, you want to
buy crafting materials from the NPC and sell them. My advice would be to take a screenshot of all
the different mats and look on the marketboard to see which one is selling for the most. The prices
can fluctuate, but things like the Hannish Varnish currently are usually a good choice to sell. Number
four is Island Sanctuary, and this is probably the most passive of all the income streams on the list.
So a lot of us have already leveled our Islands to max, and once you do, you really only need to spend
about five minutes per day setting your workshop. The rest is all automated by the mammets. I
highly recommend joining the Overseas Casuals Discord to get the best cowrie output from your
workshop. Or you can join my Discord (link in the description) and check the island Sanctuary
channel because I have it linked to show the recommendations from the Overseas Casuals Discord.
So, how is money actually made? You just need to use your stockpile of cowries to buy things like
crafting and gathering materia. Materia is kind of evergreen, but it does fluctuate in price quite
a bit, and if you want to make big bank, like really really good money, then you really want to hold
on to your cowries or the materia that you buy with them. I would-- I would say, just leave them as
cowries because you want to see which materia is going to be the most popular. But then, you have to
sell them at the right time. So what is the right time? Well, a good example is 6.3. When 6.3 first
dropped, with it came new best-in-slot crafting and gathering gear. So this means that basically
everyone was upgrading to this gear, and guess what they needed? They needed materia! And because it's a
crafted gear, they were able to also overmeld this gear, so I actually recommend selling the nines (IX)
over the tens (X) because they cost fewer cowries but a lot of the nines (IX) will cost almost the same
amount as the tens (X) on the market board, or maybe like 3K less, but people tend to buy more of them
because they're used for over melding. And finally, one more way to make money with your cowries is
rare dyes. You can buy a number of rare dyes like cherry red, gunmetal black, or pearl white. So all
in all, Island Sanctuary is honestly an incredible way to make money because once you've maxed out,
which in my opinion doesn't take that much work in itself, there is almost no work required from
you once you reach the max level, and there's not going to be another patch for Island Sanctuary
upgrades probably for quite some time, so you might be able to just passively do nothing for like
a couple months and be stocking up cowries and just biding your time to sell materia and make a
crapload of money. Alright, number five, this is the one you have all been waiting for. I begged you to
do a hunt train in my last video. I said it would make you money, and people were like "what do you
mean?" I'm gonna explain why right now in this video. Hunt trains will give you, poetics, capped and uncapped
tomestones, nuts, and clusters. We've already talked about the tomestones and how you can make money
off of those, so let's talk about nuts. After you've gotten all of the fun mounts and minions that
you want to get with nuts, you should head over to the Crystarium again. Go to the hunt NPC, Xylle, by
The Tenemos Rookery and trade your nuts for Ronkan rings. So it could be like Ronkan Ring of Healing,
of Casting, of Fending, of whatever the heck you want. Then, you trade them for Grand Company seals and I
think that you can see where this is going: it's going back to number one. So that's the nuts, but
the clusters that you get are perhaps the most lucrative item that you get from doing hunt
trains because they can be used to buy battle materia. Once again, if you want to make big money,
then it's gonna be all about timing, so I would recommend sitting on your clusters and building up
a big stockpile of them. Like I said before, usually the right time to sell is going to be whenever
there is new gear coming out, especially like things like new crafted gear because everybody is
going to be getting that crafted gear to help them prepare for different stuff like a raid tier, and
so they're going to be dumping a lot of money both into the gear itself, and into the materias for
that gear. When the Rinascata gear first came out before the current raid tier, just right before
that current raid, like a week before the current raid tier, I made about 10 million gil in about
two days maybe just selling the materia that I'd gotten from hunt train clusters. And I didn't even
have that many clusters. I would say I had like 200 or less, maybe somewhere between 100 and 200
clusters, so if you do a hunt train or two every week (like you don't even have to go hard on this),
like you could literally do like one a week for a while, you're gonna be stocking up these clusters,
and then you can end up making a lot of money if you're patient. And you may be wondering like why
not do Alliance raids for clusters? It's not worth your time. For one Alliance raid, and by the way, you
have to be the in-demand role for that, but for one Alliance raid, you're only getting like, I don't
know, I think you get like one of the tens and one and two of the the nines. And you're gonna spend
like 30 minutes in there. However, one hunt train usually does anywhere between 14 and 16 marks. Each
mark has a 50% chance to drop each type of cluster, unless it is an S rank (100% chance), but most hunt trains are
killing a ranks. And that may not seem like a great chance, but I promise you, you are going to get more
clusters from doing hunt trains than you are from doing Alliance raids, and even if you weren't, the
other rewards -- because you are going to get nuts and tomestones every time -- the other rewards
really really make it worth it. What a lot of people do is they farm their weekly tomestones
doing hunt trains because you get, you can like max out your green tomestones pretty quickly doing hunt
trains, but you're also getting all of these other rewards that are super worthwhile, so hunt trains
are like one of the most underrated things in the game, and like smart people do hunt trains. Smart
people do hunt trains! So there we go. I feel feel like my next five are not quite as good as the
first five, but I'm still gonna talk about them. I'm gonna try and go a little more quickly now, but I
talk a lot so we'll see about that. Anyways, number six is beast tribes. So obviously beast tribes are
kind of a pain in the butt to actually level up, but a lot of people are already doing them anyway
or have already done older beast tribes. So if you have or are doing that, then you can take
advantage of the stuff that they sell, which is mainly crafting materials and dyes, and there are a
lot of dyes that are exclusive to beast tribes, so people will pay more for them on the marketboard
because they're too lazy to do the beast tribes themselves, or maybe they don't even know where to
get those dyes so they just go to the marketboard and they buy them. And interestingly enough, you can
actually get both soot black and snow white dye from the Ixal. They don't sell for that much more
than they do just for the shop selling price, but it's still like a really easy way to just make money,
just go buy some up. Of course, the Ixal does require you to be a crafter or a gatherer and I
said this video wasn't really gonna be crafting and gathering stuff, but there are a lot of beast
tribes in general that sell exclusive dyes, and the Ixal was just the first one that came to mind, and
they are a lower level so it might be a little bit easier because you can kind of just level up doing
the deliveries with the Ixals. Like literally just deliver stuff. Like go buy it off the marketboard (or from an NPC)
and deliver it so it's not that bad. Number seven is buying furnishings from NPCs and then selling
them on the marketboard for more. I personally do feel kind of bad to do this because I feel
like I'm taking advantage of people, but I guess technically you're not. I mean, it is a decent way
to make money, but I remember when I was a noob and I didn't know any better -- by the way, if you hover
over something and it says shop selling price, that means you can get it from an NPC, so it's not worth
more than what the NPC sells for, that's how you avoid this -- but anyway, at the time I didn't know
what that meant, and I bought these like purple flower vases for like 20K, and you can go and buy
them in Gridania for 5K, so I totally got ripped off, I just didn't know any better. But there are
some people that do know better, but they still buy that stuff because they have a lot of money, and
it's more convenient for them to just buy it off the market board instead of like teleporting
away from the house they're currently working on decorating. So, I don't know, if you feel like doing
this, you can do it if you don't feel like you're swindling people, but there it is. Number eight is
Wolf Marks and Trophy Crystals. Many of you are probably farming PVP in order to get the series
rewards, and you might find yourself inundated with wolf Marks to the point where there's not really
much left for you to buy, so you can spend them on materia and glamour prisms to sell. And you can also
turn the trophy crystals into like -- I don't know if it's wolf collars -- either way, you can- they can
be turned into wolf marks somehow, so if you want to keep selling glamour prisms with them, you can
do that. Number nine is selling treasure maps. Yes, I marketed this video as making money without
crafting, but technically, this is not crafting, it's gathering. You can gather one map per day and
sell it on the market board, but if you don't have a gatherer but you tend to do the weekly Wondrous
Tales because they are good for leveling up other characters, then you can get a map as the reward.
But if you can gather, it's pretty good to do this whenever a new map first drops because
they usually sell for 100k or more, but after a couple weeks the price does go down to about
30k. But still, it literally takes five minutes or less to gather a map, so I do think it's still
worthwhile. Uh and of course, you can make money actually using the maps, and I don't know if I'd
consider that low-effort or not, like it kind of is because the maps are really easy, like the map
dungeons are pretty darn easy to do, but it does take groups like hours to do it, and you might only
make a couple hundred K off of it, so you know, you can do the maps, you can sell the map, there it is.
And finally, number 10 is bicolored gemstones. Many people farm Fates to get access to some of the
cooler items available via bicolor gemstones, but if you're waiting for a queue to pop, farming Fates
can be a decent way to level up your characters or just pass the time while still doing something
productive while you wait for that queue. I actually leveled up some of my healers when Endwalker
dropped as I was working on maxing the shared Fates, and it wasn't that bad of exp. You can get
bicolor gemstones from both Shadowbringers and Endwalker Fates, but unfortunately, none of
the Fates in previous expansions drop bicolor gemstones. If you are purposely farming for
money this way, then I would say it's kind of high effort and low return, but if it's something that
you're kind of like doing anyway or just doing when you're queuing for a dungeon or a roulette
or whatnot, then I do think it's worthwhile because you can use the bicolors to sell whatever is
marketable, such as crafting materials like Berkanan sap or the bicolor gemstone vouchers that
you can use to get the Wivre mount or the black angel wings. So that is everything. Those are all
of my methods for making money in 14 that don't take a whole lot of effort. Some of them are
obviously better than others, but now you have options. I hope this video was helpful to you and
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share, or subscribe. As always, thank you so much for watching. And and also, please comment how
do you make money. I-I wanna know. Okay. Okay bye o/
