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Last updated on Nov 24, 2024 at 15:40 by Shikhu 1 comment

Gathering in FFXIV is a great way to make Gil, with methods such as farming endgame nodes, spiritbonding and aetherial reduction. This guide will cover the best ways to make Gil using your gathering classes.

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1. Gathering Gil Making in FFXIV Dawntrail

2. Gil Advice Gathering

Gathering Gil Making in FFXIV Dawntrail

Gathering mainly serves as a method to supply crafters with a range of materials to make gear, food, furnishings and other desired items (with the exception of fishing, of course!)

This means that there is an incredibly large range of items in demand to choose from making it easier to find a niche. Gathering generally makes a slightly less profit compared to crafting, but there is a lot less market hassle to deal with. During the beginning of a new patch gatherables may also be by far the most profitable items.

Gathering is less dependant on having the best melds, with a plethora of valuable items at lower levels and Folklore Books being required for Timed Nodes. You do need an understanding however of gathering rotations to manage your GP efficiently.

Gathering Node Rotations

1.1.

Always Grab Your Daily Map

Every 18 hours you can gather a treasure map to be used by combat classes to use and make Gil with. You can either sell this immediately or use yourself with a group of players to make even more Gil.

This is even more important since patch 7.1 due to the valuable cosmetic items added in maps which has caused the value of maps to shoot up. With the promise that Dawntrail would provide more rewards, players may expect to see additions like this in the future again.

Be warned that you can only store one map at a time per retainer, with an additional map in both your inventory and saddlebag. You can get around this by mailing the maps to a friend or alt.

1.2.

Why Do Items Sell for So Little?

Gathering classes make the majority of their profit off of quantity, not quality. At endgame with good cordial usage it is not uncommon to be gathering thousands of items in an hour on Untimed Nodes. Timed nodes offer anywhere from 25 to 75 items depending on your gear and what level the node is as well as your rotations.

There are some exceptions, such as rare fish and Sublime Nodes, which you can not as easily obtain larger amounts of.

Gil Advice Gathering

Listed are a few ways you can make gil with gathering that are commonly used by players. With so many items available prices can drastically vary between servers so always make sure to check your market first.

Legendary Endgame Nodes Aethersands Spiritbonding Leveling Materials Valuable Fish Mount Tokens

2.1.

Legendary Endgame Nodes

Items obtained from endgame Legendary Nodes are always going to be in demand due to being used for raid gear, food and potions. At times, these items can be stockpiled in large amounts ahead of new gear releases so that you are prepared before prices spike.

The main downside of this method is that it often has the most competition and does benefit massively from having gear and understanding stat breakpoints.

For example, using the best in slot and budget gear from our meld guide the scrip gear will give you roughly half as many items. This can be quite significant and other items are likely worth focusing on instead if you have scrip gear. For refence, stat breakpoints are also listed in the mentioned guide.

2.2.

Gathering Aethersands

Aethersands obtained from gathering collectables can be an incredibly popular way to make Gil because they are used in a large range of endgame crafts. They are also much more accessible stat-wise compared to Legendary Nodes.

Following previous trends, the sands that are currently available will be used in patch 7.2's raid crafts while a new sand will be added in patch 7.3.

Aethersand farming is also an incredibly easy method to farm crystals and clusters. This can also increase your profits.

2.3.

Farming Spiritbonding

Spiritbonding has been huge this expansion providing Mining and Botany with easy access to gathering materia yet the prices have managed to maintain some value regardless. This may be due to a large potion of Orange Scrips now being used on Mount Tokens (another good method).

Optimal spiritbonding is gathering from Dawntrail legendaries, Endwalker legendaries and also Orange Scrip nodes. Since the changes made in 7.0, gathering spiritbonding is based on character level and not item level. For more information, check out our spiritbonding guide below:

Spiritbonding Guide

2.4.

Leveling Materials

There are a wide range of useful leveling materials both from old expansions and new expansions.

The best materials in Dawntrail to gather are those related to crafting collectables and the scrip exchange, or the materials used in the lv99-100 gearsets for crafting and gathering. These is because these crafts have a much higher demand than anything else available in Dawntrail.

Aside from that, the next most valuable items tend to be related to Submarines and the FC workshop. Darksteel, Gold and Spruce related items to name a few. Some great examples include:

Darksteel Ore incredibly popular always having a use in the workshop.
Dark Matter Cluster used to create repair materials for submarines.
Gold Ore used to make various nuggets and ingots that are used in over 600 crafts.
Grade 3 Shroud Topsoil increases yield on your crops.
Birch Log

Some items you find will be timed while others untimed, allowing you to weave them together or alongside other Gil making methods. These are not the only options and simply some examples. Things may differ depending on your server.

2.5.

Valuable and Rare Fish

With over a thousand fish in the game, it can be hard to discern which of these have value especially with the vast majority having very little value and the ones with value may not sell very frequently.

A good starting point would be fish used in Class Quests and leves. This is because players may often simply buy these items to skip some of the leveling process.

Some fish that are used in Aquariums also tend to be quite popular due to having a unique design. Some great examples of these are:

Finally, there are also a range of fish with valuable desynthesis options that give rare items or even exclusive glamours such as Sea Breeze Summer Halter Icon Sea Breeze Summer Halter. An extensive list can be found in this Fish List Excel Sheet.

2.6.

Mount Tokens

Gathering classes have a brand new gil making item using Mount Token Icon Mount Tokens released in Dawntrail. Each Mount Token requires 1000 Orange Scrips and can either be sold or 100 Tokens can be exchanged for either the Rroneek Horn Icon Rroneek Horn or Barreltender Whistle Icon Barreltender Whistle.

These are a great use of your Orange Scrips from Custom Deliveries but the best farming methods involve fishing for Copper Shark Icon Copper Shark and Zorgor Condor Icon Zorgor Condor.