Low funds

[Tomiko]

Should
Have
Saved
Your
Money

wait...what?

Fixed.

[geno]

imho, Bonecraft's capital-building synths are pretty weak. For all the 31+ stuff that you can reliably HQ and not gamble on to try to build up your nest egg, the profits aren't too impressive, though if you have your subcrafts leveled appropriately there are a few options which can help you along.

I think bonecraft doesn't really start to shine until you already have a fat nest egg to invest.

Definitely agree with this. When I had 4 or 5 million, i jumped it to 7 million pretty quick. Now that I have 33k, i'm fucking CLAMMING FOR GIL. GOD DAMNIT.

[GraveRobberX]

I dont know if clusters are still a big deal in the new FFXI economy

When I was a 75 Hume RDM, I would put on as much Mp gear as possible, /sub BLM and run my ass to Quifm, and to the tower.
(Go to the npc and check out the weather for updates, it helps)

I used to 17-18/60 slots.

All I did was farm all those lightning clusters, sometimes light clusters from the bottom of the secret passage to get to to the top of the Mission 3-3 (?) NM Gigas and then 3 levels down, and then I would escape and repeat the process.

Within 45 minutes I would have 40+ clusters, (3-5k range) and the tax at Jeuno was less cause it was a cluster and not a stack.

You just had to be mother f'n efficent RDM.

Haste, Refresh, Cast Blizz 3, Aspir, let ele chase while you ran to next ele kill ele, and repeat
When Convert save mp for heal, cast regen and Drain from next ele, and keep repeating the process to your hearts desire.

If the weather goes away for a few, kill the gigas for fun/gil they drop + they drop chest keys that give gil/items you can sell off ^-^;also the NM that pops every cycle that drops the great axe is always a cool bonus

If you are good enough RDM, with some good gear, and the right know how (after awhile it will become second nature to ya) you can make boatlaods of gil

(Hell even if Lightning clusters go for 2k a pop that still gil, 2k * 40 = 80k gil for around an hour worth of farming + all the other stuff from gigas/nm that pops)

My best nite ever was 5 hours of straight lightning weather, and 15 minutes of light, made 850k easily lol, mules + desynthers buying in bulk

[Miniwil]

RR pins undercut to 58k so thats like a 6k profit per pin if you don't lose any fragments.

I may have to try the farming eles trick.

[Skeetaru]

This thread fails, stop asking people how to make money and just go make it ffs.... dont level a craft if you cant figure out economics 101. You probably shouldnt have wasted every penny getting to 100.

[Jg]

To the OP, if your server is anything like mine, 75% of your potential profit is in tier0 nq synths, and the other 25% comes from heca hands/feet and SH+1 since the rate is so good. You're going to have to risk a decent ammount of gil per synth, but for a long period I have made a large portion of my money on things like nq dh (300-500k profit), nq unicorn feet and cap (500-1.5M profit), and there are a few others but I'll make you look for those yourself. If you don't have all of your subcrafts, you wont make much. Between the ocassional tier0 hq, and the profits from the nq's you should be fine.

I would kill myself before trying to make money off rr items.

[Skeetaru]

I would kill myself before trying to make money off rr items.

[Thistle]

I think the line I always hear is "if you got a craft to 100 and don't know how to make money then you fail".

It may not be nice, but: what he said. 100 isn't some magical level where gil just falls into your lap, you have to keep working and researching and learn your market.

I wish 100 meant gil just fell into your lap.

[Miniwil]

Expected a mixed bag of responses (people willing to give advice, the old bitter crafter who shares nothing) and i'm glad I got them. I never expected anything to fall into my lap, maybe just some advice to help me out. I'm sure some of you guys have been 100 for over 2-3 years and might have some valueable advice.

"if you got a craft to 100 and don't know how to make money then you fail"

I know how to make money but the idea of going out and gathering up 2-3 mil to start crafting is discouraging. Ive been content to just have a couple 100k and haven't worried about money in a while. I like crafting though so i'll get off my lazy ass and get back to the grind.

[Hanarecca]

Expected a mixed bag of responses (people willing to give advice, the old bitter crafter who shares nothing) and i'm glad I got them. I never expected anything to fall into my lap, maybe just some advice to help me out. I'm sure some of you guys have been 100 for over 2-3 years and might have some valueable advice.

"if you got a craft to 100 and don't know how to make money then you fail"

I know how to make money but the idea of going out and gathering up 2-3 mil to start crafting is discouraging. Ive been content to just have a couple 100k and haven't worried about money in a while. I like crafting though so i'll get off my lazy ass and get back to the grind.

No offence but bonecraft was a terrible choice to level, even I regret it to this day. On my server RR hairpins/gorgets are 5-7k profit each. SH+1 is 600k profit and NQ is now 150k loss which makes no friggen sence. Only money is in Tier 0 synths and even those synths take ages to sell considering no one has money to buy a DH+1 or cursed harness -1. All the profitable synths are either spammed by RMT or other bonecrafters making these items almost worthless and not even worth the trouble. Reraise Hairpins and SH+1 were the staple bonecraft revenue due to how easy and fast they are to make. Dont get m e wrong there is money to be made in bone, just have 5 mules and sell crap on each, you will make money. Start on low level items that sell fast for little money like spike necklaces and beetle earings +1 70k spanned across 5 mules is still 350k every 2 days or so, research and gl.

FFXIah.com is an amazing tool to use, cross refrence items with ffxi.somepage.com and see what has the most profit. You cannot simply expect crafters from multiple servers to tell you what to do, we cannot hold your hand. We have no idea what sells for what on your server, I mean you wasted all the time and money to level bone so I know you have an hour to look through recipes and see what sells for profit versus loss.

-Recca

[Antithesis]

Four words:

Cooking and Fishing Sex



:O

[Mathaios]

That makes no sense and definatly was not worth the necro bump.

[Antithesis]

That makes no sense and definatly was not worth the necro bump.

Combine the fish you fish up with cooking recipes. Whats so hard to understand about that?

[Woozie]

But he's a bonecrafter.

The only part of that statement he can do is sex.

[Antithesis]

lol

He can always lvl up cooking on a mule and fish on his main. Its not hard to get cooking to 100.

[Acesmcnugget]

So the OP asks how to make money with his level 100 craft (since he currently has no money), and youre solution is to necro bumb and tell him to level another craft to 100? Sounds like a plan to me. End of thread.

[Antithesis]

It is possible to have two crafts to 100. And this isnt a solution its just advice which the person who started this thread wanted so im giving him my advice.

[Shuemue]

It is possible to have two crafts to 100. And this isnt a solution its just advice which the person who started this thread wanted so im giving him my advice.

Your advice is retarded. It's the equivalent of him asking for advice on how to play PLD and you saying to level NIN.

[Acesmcnugget]

Excellent analogy Shue. Thanks for further proving my point.

[Antithesis]

It is possible to have two crafts to 100. And this isnt a solution its just advice which the person who started this thread wanted so im giving him my advice.

Your advice is retarded. It's the equivalent of him asking for advice on how to play PLD and you saying to level NIN.

My apoligy for giving such retarted advice -.-