Guide,hopefully ill get in.. : FFXI Submissions

The list below is a list of repeatable quests.They are a legit way of making some decent money.

Bastok

A flash in the pan - 100 gil

Gourmet- 100 to 350 gil

The cold light of day - 500 gil

Mine sweeper- 150 gil

San d'Oria

Resist the darkness- 200 gil

Start a flame- 100 gil

The merchant's bidding- 140 gil

Windurst

Mandragoras tracks- 120 to 250 gil

Auction house mails- 50 to 500 gil

Teaching materials wanted- 250 gil

Wanna be friends?- 200 gil

Another way to make good money is camping NM's. NM stands for Notorius Monsters. They will con "impossible to gauage" but really some of them go from level0-75

Monster Level Drop
Worth Spawn
Leaping lizzy: 10 Leaping Boots
!50k-250k (depends on server) South Gustaberg

Bubbly Bernie 10 Steam Clock
500gil(Quest) South Gustaberg

Stinging Sophie 10 Beestinger
7-10k North Gustaberg

Geyser lizard 30-32 Steam Scale Belt
15k(depends on server) Dangruf wadi

Steelfleece Baldrich 60-75 Viking shield
800k-1million(depends on server) konschtat Highlands (kill this at 75 and ull be rich)

Stray mary 19-20 Marys milk AND Marys horn
Milk-10k Horn-100k Konschtat Highlands (easy kill)

Now another way to make money is choose a job you havent tried yet and get signet on you and fight till level 10 you should end up with 20k+ Because of crystals.

FAQ'S

Q:What is the best way to make gil in this damn game!....its impossible
A:No nothing is impossible(well almost) try camping NM'S or get a signet on you and go fight. Their is exploits/cheats but i will not dicuss them. Try and play as legit as possible or if you like to exploit then make sure its not around people and gm's will be on your !@#$%^&*.

Q:What are some good websites to get quests, missions, and maps?
A: Try
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com http://www.speakeasy.org/~sticks/ffxi/named/title.html http://ffvault.ign.com
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
Also search google you will find many websites by typing "Final fantasy xi Guides"

This is the end of my guide i really hope someone learned something....

Addition to my guide

1). Crawler madness
Areas: West Sartabarta, East Sartabart, Tahrongi Canyon, Buburimu Peninsula, etc...

Battle Plan: obviously you can't be level 1 when trying this method but around level 9 - 10 you can kill crawlers really easily if your in the correct area for your level. Kill crawlers and collect "Spool of Silk Thread" and collect a full stack (12) in your server i'm sure it varies but from what i have noticed they sell from about 9 - 12k a stack. Your best bet with this method is to get a thief to level 15 for Treasure find because you will increase your drop rate 2 fold so it's definitely worth it.

Time spent / money made: per hour: 6 threads - 2 stacks per hour
with treasure find you greatly increase your chances i have made as much as 100k in about 6 hours with treasure find. the key to this is also killing them as close to your level as you can where you can still kill them fairly fast with little downtime as possible otherwise you should move back down another level of crawlers to where you can kill them faster... but the closer they are to your level the more often the threads will drop.

2)Crafting
areas: Any

Battle Plan: this is self explanatory, but unfortunately there is a catch, early level crafting requires you to farm the materials to get any money from it, but if you allready have money to dump into crafting, once you get them to higher levels you can make very good money. Food crafting once you get it to Meat Mithkabob level you can start making pretty good money.. and it still builds from there, with clothcraft, goldsmithing and other you have to get it to higher level before you can just buy materials and expect a return greater than what you put in. lower levels like i said you have to farm the materials to make the money

time spent/ money made: It varies to much, but at lvl 36 i can spend about 20k on meat mithka's materials and make 12 stacks of meat mithkas and sell them on a return for about 30 - 35k making 10 - 15k without doing anything, this is what i do before i go to bed, i'll make 12 stacks place them on my bazaar setup my character in jeuno and go to bed, come back the next morning and i have more money.

3) Fishing
areas: Everywhere there is water

Battle Plan: My fishing isn't very high, but quite a few of my friends have considerably high fishing, once you hit about level 40 fishing, which yes does take a considerable amount of time to accomplish but once it's there, its a gauranteed way of making money.

time spent / money made : per hour / varies, overall in a 6 hour period i could make ranging 50 - 200k in a day. and it only gets better as your level gets higher.

4) Camping Notorious Monsters (aka: shoot me)
areas: .. Lots and lots, good ones South Gustaburg, Valkurm Dunes, Maze of Shakrami, and others..

Battle Plan: /sigh is all i can say about this, but this is also the place where i have been most successful this is an extreme get rich quick method that almost anyone can do just varies on your level. when you get about 12 - 13 you can camp the Leaping Lizzie for the Leaping Boots in South Gustaburg Near the Fumaroles, when you get to about 35 - 40 you can camp the Valkurm Emperor for the Emperors Hairpin in Valkrum Dunes on the Whitesands beach area both sell anywhere from 180 - 250k

time spent / money made: like i said it's a hit or miss i have been fortunate enough to get this multiple times Emperors Hairpin i have accumulated about 8 of these, one of which i wear the rest i have sold to the community for good amounts of money, the amount of time spent i would rather not mention becuase yes i have wasted an entire day of my life sitting there killing damselfly's in a mad attempt to make the valk emp appear faster and hope that my NA !@#$%^&* can get it over the 50 japanese thief/rangers wandering around. granted i have ranger and thief as well but if i'm not mistaken i believe they have a slightly lower latency problem than we have encouraging their success over ours. but this is how i have funded ranger to 45 is through this very method, you can also spend an ungodly amount of time and go camp Argus in Maze of Shakram for the Peacock charm which sells for abotu 4 million, but the spawn rate of the NM is about 24 - 36 hours Real time.. good luck!


5) Elementals

Areas: All

Battle plan: Kinda self explanatory but if you must know, all of these drop anywhere from 1 - 3 clusters of it's own element, for example: kill fire elementals get 1 - 3 fire clusters, which sell for the exact same amount as a stack of fire crystals but be careful becuase these things are very tough for melee to kill unless your quite a few levels ahead of it, if not your in for a rough ride.

time spent / money made: hmm... per hour i would say if you have ranger subbed and you know commmon spawn points for the elementals you can use wide scan to gather them up quickly and gain quick amounts of money, it also helps if your in an area such as buburimu peninsula then you can farm crawlers and get air elementals at the same time to make money.

i have quite a few other methods of making money which i don't want to share them all but hopefully all you noobs will take this to heart and learn some things

6) Mining / harvesting / logging

areas: anywhere you can find mining points, or harvesting points or logging points

Battle plan: Get a couple stacks of whatever you need and mine the area or harvest it, getting the suits to help you are a big help, but don't confuse what they do, they dont' increase your chance of getting better items, they simply decrease the amount that you break pickaxes and sickles, which in turn increases the amount you can get in total. you can make some very good money with this , but it also can be a gamble too becuase there is possibilities you can walk away from the scene with less money than you spent on the pickaxes, hatchets or sickles.

time spent / money made: it varies depending on what you keep and where you do it.. but in gusgen mines about lvl 36 to not get agro or 45 to go into deeper areas without agro for the other mining points but any rate i spend about 5k on two stacks of pickaxes and i can pull from gusgen about 25 - 75k in a single run which takes any where from 1 hour - 3 hours depending on how many others are mining. the harvesting is the same you just need to know to keep flax flowers, the seeds and the other valuable things which you can get a couple stacks of everything off a single stack of sickles and you can make anywhere from 15 - 60k in about 1 - 3 hours depending on who else is doing it. you can harvest in many areas my favorite is west sartabarta or giddeus, logging is the same thing