Make Gil as a New Player With This One Easy Trick!
Welcome to HorizonXI. In this guide I will explain how to make easy new player gil in FFXI. If you follow each step and are willing to put a little effort in, you can make 100k+ gil. Don't believe me? Read on...
Guide
Step One
First of all you need a small amount of gil to start off. The 10 gil you begin with won't be enough. Head outside and kill enough mobs to make a couple of hundred gil. Kill anything. NPC it all. Find a quest for it. Sell it on aution. Whatever. You just need a little starting gil. 700g will be enough but a little more won't hurt either.
If you prefer, each starter city has at least one quest that rewards gil.
- Bastok - The Siren's Tear
- San d'Oria - Flyers for Regine
- Windurst - Making Headlines
Only Flyers for Regine doesn't involved you leaving town and the other two quests will potentially involve dodging some aggro.
Step Two
Find a vendor within your starter city that sells:
Purchase a stack of each with the gil you have made so far. Head to the nearest Auction House and sell them all. What you will find is that every single one will sell for MORE than you just paid for them. Fortunately (or unfortunately) in FFXI there's always someone richer than you who are willing to pay above vendor price, for the priviledge of not having to run to said vendor. We will take advantage of these people as much as possible.
Step Three
Now we need to wait for the 3 stacks of items to sell. Luckily for us, we've chosen 3 items that sell incredibly fast. With a little undercutting as well, everything should have sold within the hour. Head to your Mog House and collect your gil from your Delivery Box. Head back to the same vendors and do it all again.
Step Four
You should now have the gist of how this works. This next step is where the little effort on your part starts. Using a resource such as this wiki (use retail wiki if you need to) and by scanning the auction house for what sells, you can start to find more items that can be bought cheap and flipped for profit. There are hundreds of examples, more than I could list in this short guide.
Gradually build up your gil, 100g here, 200g there. It adds up suprisingly fast and remember, there's no use sitting on gil at this point. Put that gil to work! Once you have found 21 different items. It's time to move on to step five.
Step Five
This is the last and final step. Once you can list 21 different items, it's time to create a mule. This will give you access to another 21 auction slots. And once again, if you manage to fill another 21 slots, Horizon allows each person to have 3 characters. Make use of this and create a second mule, for a total of 63 available auction house slots.
At the 63 item limit, it will be difficult to find 63 different items so feel free to list multiple stacks of the fastest selling items. It's not uncommon for other players to buy multiple stacks of the original Distilled Water, Rock Salt and Little Worms. Keep on grinding and before you know it, you'll have that 100k target.
Ideas For Items
- Have you checked weapon/armor stores?
- Have you checked spell shops?
- Other fishing gear?
- Food always sells well. Some food functions as ingredients and other food helps with battle-related stats.
- Repeatable quest items (such as la theine cabbage).
- Don't forget to check regional vendors! Check Region Info >> Conquest to find out which nation controls an area.
AH shenanigans
Keep it full
This is the easy one. You have 21 slots to sell items on the AH, keep those 21 slots full. If that means you are selling distilled water for 100gil profit that's better than not having the item up at all. Further you can create 2 mules, those each have 21 slots as well, for a total of 63 slots you can list items on the AH.
Singles vs Stacks
When you look at the price history on the AH it's easy to see that either singles or stacks sell faster than the other. (there are some items like silk thread where both the singles and stacks sell fast) For other items, say some sort of hide in leather working material, the single might sell fast and the stacks slow, or the opposite. Once you have gil and have a handle on the market, you might buy a stack of items and then sell them as individual because there is (1) profit in dowing so and (2) they sell faster this way.
Market Manipulation
When you do your reseach you might want to watch prices and write them down for several days. It is LEGAL on horizon to manipulate the market. Often this means someone has a mule list items and they buy at a drastically reduced price to lower the price history. Why might they do this? It takes us to our next point.
AH cheaper than NPC
Crab shells sell to an npc for 380 gil (when you have full fame.) They drop rarely in party exp and are rarely farmed. Meaning the people putting them on the AH likely got them in an exp party "for free" and don't often farm them. This leads to people not checking the NPC sale price. It is very common to see Crab shell sold on AH for 300 gil. which is bought by people who then sell them to an NPC for a slight profit. There are A LOT of items like this. Check out the AH and get in on the profits while at the same time arming yourself so that when you get a crab shell you know to put it on the AH for 400 gil (for those bone crafters buying it) or just npcing it yourself.
Guild Test Item / Guild Point Item
You ever level cooking? The first test item in cooking, the one everyone has to turn in to advance past level 10 is the Salmon Sub Sandwich to make it you have to travel all over the world to get the 6 ingredients. It doesn't sell great to players to use, so the only use is the turn in. It's a lot of work for one item. So what happens? people buy it from the AH. If there are none on the AH they travel all over and make 12 of them, turning in 1 and selling the other 11 on the AH for massive profit.... What if they had made 3 stacks of these and sent them to their mule to sell on the AH 3 at a time (making it look scarce and keeping the price up.)
Certain items (like the sandwich above) will sell when on the AH all the time. Other items should only be listed on the AH when they are the guild point item for that day. You made a bunch of poison potions to level from. These do sell on the AH all the time, but they sell slowly to people doing specfic missions. When they are a guild point item, they sell fast. You can use the horizon discord "general Crafting" channel to see the guild point items ever day when they change, and list your guild point items on the AH then.
Undercutting
Just like market manipulation is allowed, so is undercutting. Complain if you like, but it happens. What IS undercutting? If a Silver Beastcoin's market history shows 10 sales at 300 gil and you are looking to buy one what might you do? Many people might put in a bid of 200 gil (because very rearely when the market is saturated it gets this low in price.) when that doesn't work what price do you put in next? Most people will put in the 300. When you put in 300 it doesn't pick a sale at random, it sells you the LOWEST listed price for 300 gil. So if someone listed their coin for 291 gil, and everyone else for 300, the one listed at 291 will sell first for the full 300 (assuming that was the bid.) Undercutting can even be as low as listing it for 201. BUT because people know about undercutting one of the common ways to bid on that 300 gil history coin is to bid 200, 210, 220, 230, 250, 280, 300, etc. That takes a lot of time but it can get you items cheaper. The "normal" undercutting happens at 201,211,251,291. The point being that if you list your coin at 300, you might not sell it until the very end. Listing at 291 loses you 9 gil but potentially sells it faster than others. It's worth it to some people and not to others.
For expensive items you often see this. A 60,000 gil item might be listed at 59,901 or 59,001 etc.
Love it or hate it this is an aspect of the game.
Why does this matter to you? You will likely want to revist your AH listed items at least once a day and check the sales history. Maybe the price moved a lot. e.g. lizard eggs were 4500 a stack when there were 4 stacks but now there are 50 stacks and the price is 3600. OR your item hasn't sold for the 5,500 it is listed at but 4 other items sold at 5,500 but not yours. Is yours listed at exxactluy 5,500? Is their item listed less even 1 gil less than yours and it will sell before yours does?
