FFXIV Gil Farming Guide
Master the economy of Eorzea with Mithrie's definitive income strategies.Building a fortune in Final Fantasy XIV requires a mix of steady daily habits and high-profit bursts during major content updates. This guide covers everything from beginner-friendly market flipping to advanced submarine management.
Market Board & Data Center Tactics
The Market Board is your primary tool for wealth. Success here is about information, not just items.
- Data Center Travel: Use Universalis to track prices across worlds. Buy expensive items (like mounts or minions) on low-pop worlds and sell them on your home world for millions in profit.
- Convenience Flipping: Buy items from NPC vendors in late-game areas (like furniture or specific dyes) and list them on the MB. Lazy players will pay 10x the price to avoid traveling.
- The Patch Day "Gold Rush": Always save your Tomestones and Scrips for new patches. Selling the newest materials immediately upon servers coming up is the fastest way to make 10M+ in an hour.
Advanced Crafting & Gathering
Disciples of the Hand (Crafting)
- Raid Consumables: High-end food and tinctures are "evergreen" sellers. While margins are lower, the volume is massive during Savage raid tiers.
- Master Recipe Glamours: Crafting glowing Trial weapons (e.g., Hades, Shinryu) is a consistent multi-million Gil market for those with the patience to farm or buy the rare materials.
- Custom Deliveries & Scrips: Use weekly deliveries to cap Scrips, then exchange them for Materias or Crafting Materials that are currently in high demand.
Disciples of the Land (Gathering)
- Aetherial Reduction: This is often more profitable than standard gathering. Reduce "Collectable" items to gain Aethersands, a core requirement for all endgame potions and gear.
- Legendary Nodes: Essential for high-end crafting. Use a timer to hit these nodes as they spawn. Focus on the materials used in the most recent Item Level (iLevel) gear recipes.
- Crystals & Shards: Every crafter needs thousands. Use "The Giving Land" on regular nodes for a quick, consistent influx of Gil-equivalent items.
Submarine Passive Income
Submarines are the most powerful passive Gil generator in the game, though they require a Free Company workshop.
- Raw Gil Routes: Optimize your submarine parts for "Speed" and "Range." Routes like M-R-O-J-Z in the Sea of Ash focus on bringing back "Salvaged" items that sell to NPC vendors for 30k each.
- Furniture Materials: Certain sectors drop rare items needed for high-demand housing exteriors (like the Cafe Walls). These can sell for 5M to 15M on the Market Board.
- Repair Kit Profits: Even without subs, you can make millions crafting Grade 6-8 Magitek Repair Materials for other sub owners.
Treasure Maps & FATEs
Active gameplay methods that provide raw Gil rewards and high-value rare drops.
- Treasure Portals: Running the latest 8-player maps (e.g., Timeworn Br'aaxskin) can yield millions through rare crafting materials, minions, and raw Gil drops inside the portals.
- Bicolor Gemstones: Farm FATEs in newer zones to earn gemstones. Exchange these for Bicolor Gemstone Vouchers, which sell for high prices to players seeking the luxury mounts.
- Hunt Trains: Join "A-Rank Hunt Trains" to earn Nuts and Tomestones. Use these to buy Materia or rare upgrade items to sell on the Market Board.