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Final Fantasy XI: Correspondent - Quests for the Gil Seeker
MMORPG.com Final Fantasy XI Correspondent Herbie Grate writes this guide for players looking to make a quick buck (or gil as the case may be)in FFXI.
Few other MMORPGs on the market today have as much of a rigorous system for the acquisition of wealth as Final Fantasy XI. Gil (the game’s currency) is difficult to collect and is very quickly spent on equipment that is essential to advancement. In fact, for jobs that aren’t as combat savvy as Dark Knights or Warriors, farming items to sell for gil can be incredibly time consuming or almost seemingly impossible. Indeed, collecting a large amount of gil in Final Fantasy XI can sometimes seem like the old conundrum; "Can't get a job without experience, can't get experience without a job."
Fortunately, there are ways of getting a good amount of gil without having a level 75 job to collect tree cuttings from Elder Goobbue in The Sanctuary of Zi'tah. There are various quests, some of them repeatable, that are an excellent way to collect gil at minimal risk!
“A Feather in One's Cap"
Started by Baren-Moren at (H-7) in Windurst Waters
This cute little Tarutaru is apparently in desperate need of some Giant Bird Feathers. Baren-Moren asks you to bring him three of the aforementioned Giant Bird Feathers which can be obtained from Tabar Beaks and Axe Beaks in the Meriphataud Mountains and the Sauromugue Champaign. Once the feathers have been gathered, return them to Baren-Moren for a reward of 1500gil. This quest can be repeated as many times as you want, and is a decent way to get some gil in your spare time.
"Gifts of the Griffon"
Started by Louxiard at (G-7) in Southern San d'Oria (S)
Louxiard is on guard duty, watching over what appears to be a host of Orcish prisoners. One of the prisoners has been claiming to be a member of the San d'Orian royal family and seems to have convinced an Elvaan to believe him and has enlisted his help. After the Orc asks you to help him escape, zone out of San d'Oria and go back to Louxiard. After some additional chatting you need to run off to Rholont of the Young Griffons. After some cut scenes you'll be required to deliver a "Plume d'or" to various NPCs to finish the quest. The following are the NPCs and their locations:
Louxiard, (G-7). Illeuse, (H-9). Rongelouts N Distaud, (I-9). Elnonde & Loillie, (K-9). Sabiliont, (I-11). Machionage, (C-6).
Once you're finished playing delivery-boy, you return to Rholont to receive a "Deathstone" as a reward. This is an incredibly valuable stone used in Goldsmithing and sells for anywhere from 70-100k or more (currently 100k+ on the Cerberus server, for instance.) This is a very good quest that a lot of people aren’t fully aware of but is absolutely worth completing. The only requirement for this particular line of quests is that you be enlisted in the army of one of the three nations.
"Claws of the Griffon"
Started by Rholont at (E-7) in Southern San d'Oria (S)
The second in the Wings of the Goddess line of San d'Oria quests, and just as rewarding too. After completing the previous quest and waiting until the next game day, return to Rholont in order to initiate a cut scene in which the Young Griffons will bluster about running off to fight Orcs near Batallia Downs (S). After the cut scene, disregard the mention of Batallia Downs and head through East Ronfaure (S) to (I-6) in Jugner Forest (S). Once you've reached (I-6) you should see a ??? on top a stump. Select that to watch a cut scene involving Excenmille, leader of he Young Griffons, and one of the Orcs you released in the previous quest!
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Once the cut scene ends, prepare for battle, because once you click the ??? a second time you'll spawn a Notorious Monster (NM) named Fingerfilcher Dradzad, and he's not an Orc to be messed with. For lower level players this is an impossible battle to win, so you should bring along a couple of friends to deal with him. Fingerfilcher Dradzad can be defeated by two 75s and safely by three to four characters in their 70s.
After defeating Fingerfilcher Dradzad, you'll be drawn into a lengthy cut scene revolving around the Young Griffons and the squire in charge of watching over them, rushing to Excemille's aid. Shortly after the cut scene begins the Young Griffons will depart and you'll have a chat with Altennia, where you'll be given an Angelstone as your reward. This stone has roughly the same value as the stone you received in the previous quest, netting you a potential sum of 200k combined with only roughly two hours of work involved.
"Seeing Spots"
Started by Wyatt at (L-6) in Southern San d'Oria (S)
Similar to "A Feather in One's Cap", this quest concerns gathering a certain amount of an item and trading it in to the quest NPC for a gil reward. "Seeing Spots" is a quest that my linkshell leader actually repeatedly did over the course of a couple weeks to obtain enough money to buy a Vermillion Cloak, a valuable piece of high-level mage equipment.
Wyatt, a Hume NPC located at (L-6), asks you to bring him four Ladybug Wings, which are dropped from Ladybugs in East Ronfaure (S) and Biddybugs in Jugner Forest (S). I strongly suggest sticking to the Ladybugs in East Ronfaure (S) due to the fact that Biddybugs are much more powerful and the drop rate is not noticeably different.
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Once you've gathered the appropriate amount of Ladybug Wings, return to Wyatt to receive 3000gil as your reward. This is quite possibly the best quest any person could do in their spare time to accumulate gil, and is not widely recognized.
"Tiger's Teeth"
Started by Taumila at (E-9) in Southern San d'Oria
Inside Taumila's Sundries in Souther San d'Oria, speak with Taumila and she'll ask you to gather three Black Tiger Fangs for her.
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One of the best upsides to this particular quest is the fact that there are so many areas to collect Black Tiger Fangs from. You can kill tigers in Jugner Forest, Batallia Downs, Beaucedine Glacier, Sauromugue Champaign, Carpenter's Landing, and various other high level areas. The best place to collect tiger fangs though would be Batallia Downs, simply because of the sheer amount of Tigers in the zone, more than fifty spawn points! Upon returning to Taumila and trading her three fangs, you obtain 2100gil as a reward. The only problem with this quest is that it's more widely known than Seeing Spots, and because of that there is occasionally some competition from other players in Batallia Downs.
Though gil is swiftly spent on various pieces of armor, weapons, tools, or even food, there are always ways of making money if you’re willing to search the corners of Vana’diel. No player should ever buy into the misconception that the only way to obtain large amounts of gil is by seeking out and farming items (sometimes rare) until you die of old age. There are always quests out there, repeatable or not, that yield great rewards at minimal risk, and can be done in your spare time. I sincerely hope this assists players, new and old, or at least shed some light a quest or two that is not widely recognized.
If there are any players out there from the Cerberus server, feel free to look up Marokii. Safe travels, Vana’diel!
Good guide but you left out some important info.
Levels, generally people just starting the game are the ones in need of gil. Completing "a feather in ones cap" at beginner state is not gonna happen. And the list goes on, you wrote a guide for people who have already been playing the game for some time, if they don't know how and where to make gil they should probably go to another MMO.
All in all good guide.
I laughed so hard..
If you need gil, this is NOT the way to go. Atleast not if you want the most gil/hour.
Fist of all, the angelstone and the deathstone rewards are part of the storyline, which everyone eventually will have/want to do and so they WILL get the rewards.
This is like saying a great way to make gil is to do all the Rank missions, sure it will net you more than 500.000 gil, but this is something everyone will do eventually anyways, but its not time efficeient, you dont do this for gil, its for a higher purpose.
OK, so I think the tips were worthless. What to do then?
Well, In the last year we have seen prices drop alot on some of the essential gear. Ill take an example but this is true for more or less everything on the auction house.
1 year ago you could buy/sell a Haubergeon for approx. 3.5 Million on the AH. It is now approx. 300.000gil.Thats 1/10th of the orginal price a year ago.
1 year ago you could buy/sell a stack of Beastman Blood for 75.000 gil. Now is approx 25.000. Thats a pricedrop of only 1/3rd.
So, ingredients that you get from farming is currently the best way to get gil to buy the gear you want.
Anyone can farm together 30.000gil/hour today. And if you put some effort into finding what sells the best you can make half a million in a day, getting you,for example, a Haubergeon in lesss than a day.
This was totally unheard of a year ago!
To sum it up: While its fun to see some FFXi related news on this site, its sad to see inaccurate guides.
"Fortunately, there are ways of getting a good amount of gil without having a level 75 job to collect tree cuttings from Elder Goobbue in The Sanctuary of Zi'tah."
Unfortunately the for Southern San d'Oria (S) quests you will need to around the 50-75 range to even get there and kill the mobs in WotG areas. For the other 2 quests you'll probably want to be in the 25-35 range to solo in those areas. Might want to recommend people subjob Thief for the item collecting repeatables. Personally I would have listed quests like the 4x Flint Stones, 3x Rabbit Hides, and 2x Bat Wings for newbies starting out in San d'Oria. Though they might make a little more money on the AH, they are great for raising your national fame level, and the mobs have really great drop rates even without having Treasure Hunter skill.
Rank missions are a decent source of gil, that's just not why people do them, virtually everyone uses gil as a nice perk to doing rank missions in every nation. Of course it's for a higher purpose but that doesn't mean it can't necessarily be done for a source of gil as well.
Quests like Seeing Spots can net you well more than 30k a day, if you actually play more than a few hours. And you sort of made part of my point for me on gil. Equipment prices have dropped dramatically over time, and are still dropping to this day. Whether it be Haubergeons, Monster Signas, or Noble's Tunics, the prices continually drop while these remain the same no matter what occurs. (Except maybe for the stones but those remain so rare i doubt the price will drop significantly for the forseeable future.)
I appreciate the feed back but this guide wasn't "inaccurate" it just didn't help you.
Those quests are pretty well known and generally only get you about 100-200gil each trip. Also you don't need any specific level (well, about level 10 at minimum) to actually get to Southern San d'Oria (S), anyone can go through the Cavernous Maws, all you have to do is avoid the monsters to get to Southern San d'Oria (S), but lower levels generally have to dodge monsters everywhere to get places anyway, so this is hardly different. (For example, traveling through Tahrongi Canyon, the highlands, or La Theine Plateau, to get to the dunes.)
This guide wasn't really made for any *specific* group of people, it wasn't catered to higher levels (because they can easily get their gil elsewhere, obviously) and it wasn't really catered to newbies so much. You need at least a tiny bit of experience to get around. The only one that I remember actually needing a 75 or two on is fighting the Orc NM on the second quest concerning the Young Griffons.
EDIT NOTE Fore Everyone: This guide wasn't meant as meaning that you can make more gil by doing these quests than you can farming. Certain quests net you substantial rewards, but there are obviously ways of making money towards the end of someone's leveling days than there are at the beginning. This guide was meant for those people at the lower end of the spectrum, or those in the middle, 40-60, who don't necessarily have as many ways of making gil as players more powerful than they.
I don't know if anyone else felt, or got the impression that "Quests for the Gil Seeker" was referring to RMT at which point i couldn't resist seeing what was said. lol... I honestly think that this was not in anyway an efficient gil guide at all. I hope you dont honestly do this yourself because there are multiple ways of making gil without having a 75 is the first thing, secondly it sounds like you obviously dont't know what you are talking about when you refer to just Warriors and Dark Knights as melee. IE: Samurais, Dragoon, Thieves: The best farmer in-game wasn't mentioned, Ninjas. I'm sorry but you really don't know what you are talking about at all.
I didn't realise i was supposed to list out every single job in the game. I just used Warriors and Dark Knights as examples, i wasn't referring to them as good farmers. This is just absurd. I don't see how not referring to Ninjas or Thieves, when that wasn't even the point of the article, means I don't know what I'm talking about.
Is it just me or do some people circle mmorpg.com waiting for game correspondents to attack? I like to keep track of correspondent articles and I've seen this several times now.
Its alright man, most people that are on this site that play ff11 are elitist pricks who have nothing better to do than attack people who have different ways of doing things. Not only was it a good guide, as you said it wasnt catered to a specific group, it was also a good guide in the fact that it introduced a little bit of content. Last time I played ff11 all I did was grind and do rank missions, I hardly ever bothered with the quests.
Wow I love how the people complaining and saying the person who wrote the article doesn't know anything, when in fact they themselves totally missed the entire point of the article. This guide IS NOT telling you that it's method is better at getting gil than farming. It's simply stating "this is an alternative if you don't have a lot of time to sit around and farm".
It's a freaking opinion!? So why do all the trolls come out to bash it simply because it's not how they do things. If you don't like it then go and farm! I think this is a nice guide to some small spending cash in the game. So quit nit picking it and go find something better to do :P
To the editor, I liked your guide, and it actually informed me of a couple quests I did not know about and I just may use them for the future when I need to scrounge up some Gil :) Thanks!
You all need to give this author a break. First of all I think its awesome FFXI got a little attention with this article and being a nearly 5 year veteran of the game, as well as many of you, we know that FFXI is very hard to pay for equips as you level up. EVERYONE finds their niches in the games economy, mine was originally NM camping until most of the decent ones were nerfd with rare/ex drops. I moved onto chocobo digging which took me 13 months of serious time (4-5 hours a night average) to max in skill, most of that time not receiving any profit. The point is if you know a way to make money that you feel is the best way then by all means do it, this guide is just pointing out some of the alternatives for those who are not as knowledgeable. I know as I leveled up I found myself trying out different money making practices just to afford the basic equips, things like fishing and farming bee chips come to mind. I think the author is simply pointing out that for those (and there are many, YOU might not be one of them) who are struggling to even get enough gil to buy an updated weapon for their level can do these quests instead of sitting in jeuno crying.
I appreciate the article and although I have no need to invest the time to do these quests there was definitely a period (LONG period) of time where these suggestions would've been very productive and helpful in making money and in turn advancing in the game. They sure wont get you rich but these ideas will keep a broke player going. Well done.