yellowplant wrote:
Go look at the 200+ stacks and incredibly undercut prices of insect wings, silk thread, crystals, yag, necklaces, etc. sitting on the AH and try and tell me this guide still makes sense. All of these low level options , at least from a Windurst stand point, are wayyy over-farmed. Prices are steadily falling. There is almost no difference between selling a stack of silk thread on the AH and vendoring it now, except not having to wait 2 weeks for it to sell.
It is almost impossible to start this game out as BLM/WHM/RDM because the equipment + scroll prices are so expensive compared to the gil that can be earned. I'm about to hit lvl 10 BLM and still cannot kill a yagudo scribe because I only have Stone and Water, and RSE. I understand no one is expecting me to be decked out in anything only having just started, but I doubt anyone will take me seriously if I hit lvl 14 only casting 3 spells in lvl 1 gear.
Reading guides like this is frustrating. I understand you're trying to be helpful to newcomers, but this is almost misleading. If you want to give helpful advice, start over. Make a new lvl 1 char and get it to lvl 25-30 +subjob WITHOUT giving yourself gil, then write a guide. Because I doubt it would look similar to this.
While I fully get your point, you literally do only cast 3-4 spells as BLM for a while. As for this guide's feasibility, the point I just leveled BLM 1-12 in RSE Gear and no armor. I filled 45 spots of my inventory with crap. I vendor'ed most of it, without looking, and you might be right about the AH and vendor basically being equal at this point: The fact remains, vendoring all of that crap basically paid for the beginning BLM spells. Quest the ones you can, obviously.
Now instead of just leveling to move on, circle back and farm the stuff that vendors for slightly more than nothing. I get your frustrating, it is frustrating, but there's no secret. The guide would still look EXACTLY like this if we re-wrote it, because these are still the only possible options to make gil. We aren't withholding top secret gil making activities that a level 10 can do. What you said just means you have to spend more time doing it, not finding something else. It's not easy, and I don't think anyone said it was.
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Kazen wrote:
...TopShelf told Nas to roll back all your ZNM gear, do the gilpocalypse and nerf Fishing/RNG into the ground.