FFXI Gil, the major currency used when purchasing or trading items, therefore is the most essential thing in Final Fantasy XI. You need Gils to buy equipments, armors, weapons and other items. Having the gears early in the game will help you advance to higher levels at a faster pace than others can. Here are some tips to help your to know how to make Gils.
Warp quest can get you about 10k FFXI Gil within an hour. You need to start with 1k to purchase a slime oil. After you've purchased the slime oil, bring it to an NPC named "Unlucky Rat" in the Metal district of Bastok in exchange for a warp scroll. The scroll sells for about a good 7-10K FFXI Gil. Seems easy? Well slight problem with this method is that you will need to have enough fame built up before the NPC will take your slime oil. You will be required to run around town doing low level missions to get your fame up. This is where it gets a little time consuming but 10k FFXI Gil an hour for a lowbie is really good. You can also redo this quest by creating a mule account and transfering 1k Gil to that character.
The Justice Badge quest is located in Winhurt and will require 1 rabab tail and 4 onions to complete. You can buy the stack of rabab tail in the auction house for 50-100 FFXI Gil. This is easy to do at low level. In the docks of Winhurst you will find an NPC that you can give the rabab tail to. He will give you the Justice Badge which sells for 500 to 2000 Gil in the auction house. After receiving the bad, give him 4 wild ionions and you'll receive a scroll that sells up to 5000 FFXI Gil. You can repeat this quest by using a mule.
Fire Crystals is a stack of first crystals can sell for 2000 FFXI Gil easily over at the auction house. There are 2 good methods to collect fire crystals. The more commonly used method would be the usual beat the mob down and loot method. To start you need to be around level 7 to 10. You will need signet cast on you at your town gates. Head out North to Gusterburg where you will be able to find many vultures. You'll only want to kill the vulters and nothing else to conserve time. To the Northwest of San D'oria there is an area full of orcs. The orcs drop a nice amount of fire crystals as well. You can probably average about 3 stacks in an hour. 6000 FFXI Gil in an hour for a level 7-10 is not too bad.
The other method of farming fire crystals is by gardening. You start by buying a brass flower pot in the auction house, several vegetable seeds and some water crystals. You then plant the flower plot in your Mog house and put in the vegetable seeds. Feed it some water crystals, after 1to 3 days you will have 17 fire crystals come out of it. You can have up to 6 to 8 flower pots per house; you can easily make 20-30,000 FFXI Gil every 2-3 days. It only takes a few minutes to purchase the accessories and to plant them. It's a wealthy short term investment. Money growing on trees is the way I think of it.
