Now, if you’re doing cutting-edge Savage or Ultimate raiding, or frequently pugging EX trials and wanting to come with that edge, you might need more Gil for consumables, but that’s really about it.

Even with just a combat job, even without playing the market boards, you’ll likely be able to keep up on all your upkeep costs even if you do maintenance tasks the hard way – paying NPCs for repairs, Materia melding, and the like. A lot of people of late are probably in this boat – you’ve swapped from WoW or some other MMO to get on the train of the “critically acclaimed” MMO Final Fantasy XIV, but hey – making money in FFXIV is a little bit different.Ĭoming from WoW, one of the things that first really caught me is that money for your core gameplay needs is, all told, relatively easy to come by.