Leveling crafting professions is an option for everyone. But for many players, it's not how they want to spend their time. Enter the Market Board - a convenient alternative that lets buyers skip the grind while opening up a steady income stream for sellers. As highlighted in our Gil Farming guide, this method allows you to earn millions Gil per hour and shines brightest when fresh content arrives and demand surges. In the guide below, we'll cover the main things you should know about farming Gil currency through crafting.
In Final Fantasy XIV, many items can only be obtained through crafting or the Market Board, with no other in-game sources. Naturally, many players avoid leveling professions, which allows crafters to earn millions of Gil by selling their crafts on the Market Board. Here is a list of the most popular and high-demand items you can efficiently sell to make Gil:
Sure, you can pick just one method from this range, but be aware that you should try to diversify your crafting portfolio, as it will earn you more Gil, especially depending on the current stage of a content update. In addition, you should keep in mind that Market Boards can differ depending on your current server.
No top-tier crafter can survive without endgame crafting gear. Right now, you can find eight crafting jobs in the game, also known as Disciples of the Hand or DoH:
After hitting level 100 on your character, you should obtain endgame DoH gear as quickly as possible to gain access to high-demand crafts via Master Books. But choose your gear and melds wisely - there's no reason to spend your time and resources on items you won't use often.
When it comes to crafting gear meld/stat priority, you should follow the structure in the list below:
It may seem that crafting pairs perfectly with gathering materials to save even more on production costs and thus net even more Gil currency. However, in most cases, you'll spend a significant amount of time gathering materials yourself - time that doesn't offset what you'd spend buying them at all. In this case, the saying "time is money" is more accurate than ever.
Most often, there are only a few situations where gathering resources yourself is justified:
In all other cases, focus your time and resources on pure crafting.
We've already mentioned seven main methods for farming Gil through crafting in Final Fantasy XIV. In the sections below, let's take a closer look at each of them in more detail.
There is one of the best ways to farm Gil through Crafting. Talking about the high-demand gear, it is divided into two types:
These cyclical demand patterns on the Endgame Gear can be great opportunities to take advantage of.
Intermediate crafting materials in FFXIV can sometimes make you richer than selling gear. We're talking about semi-finished items - like lumber, ingots, thread, and leather - that you craft from raw materials and that are used for higher-tier crafts and endgame gear. You can craft and sell materials tied to the current endgame, but leveling materials can also be converted into a decent amount of Gil, since they're often in demand for content like Free Company workshops and Submarines.
This method works especially well at the start of new content. For example, you could spend your time crafting expensive gear and wait a long time to sell it, while much cheaper intermediate materials will find a buyer much faster.
This method stands out from other crafts because of its very low level requirements - to craft many popular furnishings, all you need is lumber and a low-level carpenter. These inputs alone are enough to earn a decent sum. You can earn even more Gil from furnishings during the housing lottery, when players buy new houses and need furnishings to turn them into coveted living spaces.
The worst part of this method is the fact that you can't stack furnishings in your retainer's sale space. This means you first need to find storage to hold furnishings before listing them. You can also mix crafting a few high-value items with spamming cheaper ones.
Endwalker brought new leveling and endgame content for crafting classes to the game called Ishgardian Restoration. By completing this activity, you can exchange specific items to help build up and maintain the Ishgardian housing ward. Your main goal is Skybuilder's Scrips, which you can exchange for various minions, mounts, music rolls, and other cosmetic items. Starting at level 90, you can reduce each craft time to 10 seconds using Trained Eye, which makes the process much easier.
In addition, while you craft, you can earn extra stamps for the Kupo of Fortune minigame, which can reward you with other items you can sell, as well as Ishgardian Restoration rewards.
Scrips are specific tokens you can obtain through crafting and gathering to exchange them into various materia, gear, materials and other valuable items. There are two main types of Scrips:
Like Skybuilder's Scrips, players first use Purple and Orange Scrips to buy crafting-specific items, which they then sell to other players. One of the most popular items is materia, especially right before a new update, when players are trying to catch up.
Glamours in FFXIV are always in high demand, and this method is a great way to mix up your crafting routine. All you need to do is level Weaver and Leatherworker, then keep an eye on the market. You can also use Treasure Hunts to farm specific valuable materials needed for crafting the latest glamours that are popular on the Market Board.
One of the most controversial methods on our list - and the one closing it out. On the one hand, the method is extremely accessible: all you need is to be an Alchemist or Culinarian, and the demand for your food and potions will be constant - and especially overwhelming when new raids are released.
On the other hand, precisely because of that accessibility, you'll face insane competition, and each sale will net you only a small amount. It's a way to bring in money steadily - but nowhere near the amounts you might expect.
And with that, our guide comes to an end. We hope we've managed to help you, and that you'll blow up the market on your server with your crafts! And don't forget to check out our Gil Farming Guide to explore even more useful methods.
