No joke, but really. Completion of the crafting log ensures a large portion of the items that would be otherwise hoarded can be sold off without hesitation. Do I really need to hold all these GSM gemstones? No, but I can put them to use now and never need them again.
Additional tip: some gear that cannot be saved in your Armoire, sold for gil, desynth'd, nor exchanged for seals are actually saved in NPCs such as the Calamity Salvager and the various relic gear NPCs. You can throw away your lvl 50 (EDIT: sorry this can be stored in the Armoire, but can also be acquired from the CS NPC), lvl 70, and lvl80 nondyeable relic gear, as well as gear you get from quests and achievements because you can buy them back usually for 1k gil or even free. Go to your nearest Calamity Salvager as well as the NPCs that gives off the relic gear for all expansions to see which ones you can throw away.
@@the0s0ph1st [EDIT] I am sorry, I was wrong, I thought I could get them back, but I cannot, I sold off one of them, then thought I could buy it back (which I could have sworn I did, but it was a different gear piece I can't seem to recover now) Sorry again for the false info!
On free trial inventory sorting: i threw everything under the lv30 gathering once i hit 50 in crafting because rarely there is a recipe gonna use them. And once i hit level 60 crafting i throw out every materials that isn’t from unspoiled or legendary nodes (because i dont like waiting). Master recipes at that level use materials that can be bought from shops in idyllshire
I'll respond to your rant with my own little counter rant First of, thanks for pointing out that housing items are also removed from the crafting log, now I'll have to re-fill my inventory with junk to craft it all. Second, big difference between a person who has played since X expansion, has done probably everything in the game there is VS someone who hardly played a year and is not just about to finish everything before another new expansion drops. Third, you have a 3rd retainer. Now the question is why? If your inventory is so nice and clean why would I want to pay a MONTHLY FEE for a 3rd retainer to hold my stuff? And no, I will hoard, you cannot stop me! If I managed to juggle 3 free inventory spaces on FT I can juggle all my junk for "what ifs" and, emergencies that are not as big as potential bigger emergencies that will never happen.
Great info that I will definitely keep in mind. I know I need to work a bit to clean out my inventories but im taking it one step at a time for now and I'm making the first step being getting all the jobs to cap and minimize my armory chest. Everything should fall into good place once that is finished off.
My inventory is almost always full. I only have the two retainers. There's a lot of gear so currently I've been leveling all classes so I can get rid of all the lower level gear
Thanks, this video was necessary considering all the junk we will gather in Endwalker. I managed to make Pexaras, my material retainer, pare down to only a couple of inks I might need to craft Orchestrion rolls and Grade 5 Dark Matter if I want to overrepair my gear in the future. (I will probably toss that as Endwalker gear will probably require much higher grades than Grade 5.) I am going to now go to Serphinas, my untradable item retainer, and start dragged out unnecessary materia and crap to vend off. Since I got a s***ton of Rank VII Materia from quests alone, I don't need the lesser grades unless I decide to go insane and do the Zodiac Relics for the rest of my jobs. (I got Longinus Zeta and decided to just end it right there. Kess will be handling ten Zodiac relic grinds. XD) EDIT: HOLY PISS! Excuse my colorful language, but that's a LOOOOOOOOOOOT of Ventures. I've been doing beast tribes and only get 2 from each daily. I know you can buy ventures from other places but how did you get so over 1,000???? O_O
Grand company turnins from expert delivery - 200 GC seals is 1 venture so if you roll on literally everything you can turn every random dungeon run/set of daily roulettes into a good chunk of ventures
I don't know, I feel like selling all those small things and reactualising the orders adds up to A LOT of time that could be better spent. Also, you only use half of your glam dresser??? I use around that amount (150-ish slots) for BRD clothing just to perform in venues ^^
Small things aren't small unless you check the price. 10 ore at 1.5k is 15k. Is that small? Extremely worth it to me. And if it isn't big.... can still put it up anyway. You had to take the time to check the price.
I am really guilty of this. I've only been playing about 6 months, but I am running around with stuff. I'm still trying to figure out what is important. I haven't done crafts yet really with the exception of cloth.
What I would suggest is to level botanist and miner (and fishing if you want but it's not as necessary) by 10 levels, then level your crafting classes by 10 levels. It's not 100% accurate, but most of the time crafts sync up with the materials you can get as a gatherer.
i weirdly made gil on alt just by selling leveling gear i got thru the msq and by the time i reached level cap i was able gear up two jobs with 510 gears with some change. Also when i was leveling monk 70-80 with yellow quest in shb area, a few of them gave out HQ gear that earn me a decent amount.
I've been on and off since ARR (mostly off), and I remember back when the game was young, I tried crafting, and what it did to my armory in particular, especially when keeping relevant gear for jobs I was or was thinking about leveling, was brutal, since leveling just one crafting job seems to be virtually meaningless. As a result, when I created a new character (again) when I started playing in the last year, I decided to ignore crafting until I was done leveling jobs. Seems extreme, but I've made a lot of money and kept my inventory neat by sort of doing them all in parallel. The amount of sellable and decently profitable gear that MSQ and side quests throw at you is obscene, and even when holding onto some of those gear pieces, between selling the rest and all the little gil that comes from dungeon/roulette grinding/drops, I've managed to make a good deal of gil, most of which is admittedly spent on glam items. I've got over 300 items in the glamour dresser haha. It still allows for me to decently gear each job up at 80 though, even with me blowing millions of gil on contemporary style clothing. And when I'm done, and start crafting, the gear management should be much less of a headache than it was. *edit* Additionally, this approach allowed for me to make most efficient use out of MSQ and side quest XP. After cleaning up all the lowest-level quests, I was able to turn in just about any quest I came across with a level-appropriate job that would get the most mileage out of it, thus making the leveling process even more efficient. I've still got a handful of level-sync-70 side quests I'm holding onto for jobs I'm really not eager to touch again... mainly MNK. Other than that though, and some raid-related and other side quests line, aside from my inventory looking pretty neat, so do my maps.
When selling, just look at the selling price and make it a round number. That way you are on the average market price. Also, I feel that works only NOW because Square Enix is doing away with gatherable HQ items. While there is a lot of stuff I don't need anymore probably, I am too lazy to go out and farm stuff every time just to get a piece of craftable item done, and especially for every class that uses the same materials. Going out to get Alumen every 10 or so levels to make x leather from y skin/hide feels pointless time wasting to me.
Honestly, I've got 1 retainer half full of different game currencies and totems, but the rest is pretty much full to have quick access to the market board to see what's good to sell at the time. Saves an incredible amount of time.
So as a new player I spotted a flux on the market where some mushrooms where being asked for like 300 gil a piece, which were lvl 20 botanist, 70% gathereable. They were the perfect xp farm for my lvl 21 botanist while waiting 10 minute queues on my rouge. So like after 4 dungeons of rouge I sold 150 of those mushrooms and laugh at the stupid profit (near 50000 gil just while leveling my botanist). I thought of saving some for myself because if they were so pricy there was a reason or something but I could just gather a few like nothing. I suppose the buyers were lvl 80 endwalker prebuyers or some high level thing but I got my share, and honestly I don't really need gil at my level. I have 1mil sitting around just from playing and leveling up some jobs (the game pays you if you are a healer it seems). I know buying a house is a nightmare and that I'll need money to speed level crafters (if my gatherer inventory doesn't have the items that is) but I'm not worried about money rn. But it's true that leveling like 15 jobs together eats tons of inventory, I should focus on a few jobs and only save the best weapon for a class lmao
I need to do another inventory purge myself, lot of useless junk or old pieces of gear that I need to either sell to NPCs or turn in for company seals where applicable. I feel like I just did that a month ago yet it's already filled up again! Curse my IRL pack rat tendencies bleeding into the game.
I have a bad habit off holding onto food. All food is useful for leveling with that 3% exp buff, and sometimes the substats come in handy. I've been slowly chipping away at my inventory this expansion, but I can't get rid of my mind goblins about certain things. I still have my gear coffers from leveling through the MSQ, and I don't even know when I'm gonna use them!!! I'm slowly getting better, but I still have attachment problems because I still have a few classes to level.
Basically one of my 2 retainers is for crafting items I used often, that, if its something I can regain easily and sells for a decent price ill sell it. My other retainer is for my hoard of items that I know consistently sell for decent money. Once a week I go through and decide if those bat fang's and wings are really necessary. And decide what im going to sell for the coming week.
Not gonna lie, I would LOVE to send in my inventory and get ideas on what can still get moved about and thrown away. Overall, great video, as I have just managed to clear a huge chunck of my inventory.
I think I'm probably missing something here because 2 things about this vid strike me as real odd: -using the mats I already have to complete the crafting list sounds good on paper, but the problem is general, I have plenty of some mats but missing others required for those recipes. Particularly certain commonly used, expensive items, like glues, alchemical formulas and so on, as well as of course uncommon monster drops. To actually use the mats I do have for crafting would require wasting a ton of time gathering, or a ton of gil buying those missing items. Am I missing something here? -...why complete all recipes in the first place? As far as I know, the crafting exp bonus you get from a first-time recipe completion is the only benefit of it, and even taht's virtually worthless once you outlevel the recipe. On the other hand there's tons of ways to level crafters extremely easily without relying on that, such as collectable turn-ins or leves. I'm guessing there's achievements related to it, but unless you're a hardcore completionist(in which case you'd be compelled to go for it anyway), those wouldn't matter. Is there any reason I don't know about to go for that goal, such as an achievement with a unique reward for it?
Gather them. Then it's pure profit. And how is it "tons" of time gaathering? If it's only one missing item, its super quick. You can also pick and choose what you make. But if the price for the item is high, the "long gather time" is worth it. Achievements, to say to did, for the money of all the different items give you. It's an arbitrary goal that - provided you don't throw gil at the problem which I explicitly say not to. The issue with collectibles is it doesn't clear the inventory. Which I say, either use, or just sell all those items you don't need.
@@WeskAlber lots of the items I'd need to gether, though, are on the price range of "not expensive enough to be worth farming in large amounts, expensive enough that the adding up costs would bankrupt me if I go for full clear", though. Just about every recipe in my list as I spedran through crafter leveling, I have 2/3, 2/4 items needed for it(except culinarian of course which is more often 1/5). It's not like the finished products have particularly high prices unless they are either component mats with annoying-to-gather mats or quest items, either. I WILL be taking the lesson to "check the market price for everything, if it's more than petty change just put it on sale, if not npc sell it as you could easily just buy more if ever needed" and slowly clear my inventory that way since I'll never again need basically any ARR/HW mats with rare exceptions... but without a completionist goal like that, there really isn't much of a point to completing crafting list, and I was confused with the video because you presented it as something worthwhile to do, so it had me wondering if there was some actual in-game reward for it I didn't know about.
@@OpXarxa Then instead of making stuff, sell it off. You're not using it, you don't want to gather, then just sell it off and make some gil. Completing the craft list IS worth it, because it gets you a lot of gil. Which was the point of the video. Empty inventory AND turn a profit
My problem is glam. I have so much cute shit that I want to wear but there’s not enough room. I’ve already used all 400 spaces in the glamour dresser and I’m not sure where to put all my stuff.
Welp since i've been crafting early i have had to learn how to manage my inventory and i dont really sell the super cheap stuff (Through the market board since it doesnt sell for much) i've assumed id need it at some point... but once i realize i needed more space... i just sell them on the market board if their worth... or just sell them through vendors cause they can easily be bought , but these tips have helped me even more cause just crafting the stuff makes more sense than just selling them and i need to stop undercutting some items. Probably alot more things i need to do better but ill learn as i continue my journey through crafters and gathers
Man inventory is so much... I am balancing out trial weapon mats, glam mats, and housing mats along with some variety items cause I at least want to have 1 retainer empty for Endwalker stuff. I also have many phases of mats like lumber and log versions of something instead of just having the log version. This makes me so nervous cause I just want to be prepared for Endwalker 😭
We all have sinned at one point or another. My second retainer is capped due to me hoarding all of the crafting materials when I should have just discarded them immediately, especially those you buy at the guild suppliers. If I need Maple Lumber, I can go to Ehcatl Nine and ask the Ixal there to sell it for cheap sauce. XD Thanks for opening my eyes to this. I will be spending the weekend clearing out my retainers. Pexaras thanks you deeply. ;)
every point here is correct, but i'm crying bc i'm into housing and glam, two of my retainers are stuffed with farmable glam (which even unsync is luck based to get); mogstation items that can't be put into armory and idk if i should just throw them away? dye.. i have a lot of dye for convenience... housing item basics for walls, floors ceiling for whenever i want to refurbish the home.. at least the only crafting items i have are for pots, chicken, and coffee biscuits, always on hand for use during q times
Problem is that I'm nowhere near endgame and I want to play multiple jobs, so my inventory gets full of gear from many different levels and I can't remember what was important for which gear set so I don't sell it or get GC seals for them. If I sell that set for one class maybe I want to play it and then now I have to go buy or otherwise craft gear for that class. The market is too competitive for common items, people undercut by 50% or greater so your retainers sit with their inventories full because nothing is getting sold. Everything is easy when you are endgame, make a guide with a free trial character and show us how fast you make that 300K gil cap. I don't spend time on leves and other content because there are literally hundreds of MSQs I need to churn through to understand what is happening to catch up to the expansions. Who wants to level up crafting/gathering when you have in-game weeks worth of MSQs to churn through?
Are you trying to tell me that having 9 retainers is pointless?! I'm real bad at hoarding and you have shamed me into wanting to clean up a bit now. Let me just procrastinate a bit longer please.
got more of my relic weapons in my inventory ATM but my inventory is basically the same - Might attempt the crafting everything after completing endwalker MSQ but might not. Will likely transfer some of my excess stuff to my retainers. Nearly got all 4 of them up to level 80. lot of the beast tribe stuff is currently cluttering the second half of my inventory.
can't i just send you my info and you fix my ...inventory, chocobo bag, 3 full retainers, 1 brand new retainer who's already a full page deep. that one time i started an alt character for storage space until i realized mail system sucks.. and while you're at it, my macros, class tabs, glamour, glamour plates, armory and dresser? but _NOT_ my hotkeys. nobody should ever touch mine holy clutterbuttons 😨
I won't lie to you, I pay for the maximum amount of retainers, and I keep most materials. I have definitely had to narrow things down, because even 9 retainers isn't enough to comfortably store the absurd amount of materials in this game. I'm not even close to endgame, I'm in the middle of stormblood Edit: My stock is always going in and out though, people really pay 40k for linen clothing. But I enjoy having all the stuff around. My friend- who has been playing this game for years, comes to me, just a little sprout, to make items for him ❤️ One thing I want to add though, I do not keep things I don't use unless I am working on getting specific master craftsman books. You say to broaden your horizons: but let me say this. From the first day I started this game I dabbled in everything, got really deep into crafting and gathering, and realized I like it just as much as the story and the "main content" I have no qualms about my 9 retainers full of stuff. I thin out my stock bi weekly and make a lot of money for someone who hasn't even finished the game. It's interesting how different our views are on this particular topic
I just hope not many Runescape players come over and play FF. I've played RS for a long time and FF for a few months, and I've already figured out good ways to make money. Good thing is, money isn't a game changer here so just play at your own pace:)
So I do have one question, since you've been mentioning crafting a lot, would you recommend getting all the crafters and level them all or focus on one then get the next and rinse and repeat
Leveling all crafters together save you armory space, since they all share the same gear, except by main/off weapon. If you keep them all at the same level, you only need to keep one set of crafting gear in hand. You also benefit from cross-class manufactured ingredients, since often you need some leather for armorer or some gems for carpenter, so stuff like that.
Hello good Sir, I am a new player to FFXIV and have found your guides to be the greatest help. I have to say I am not sure I would have stuck it out if I did not find them. And now I am a daily player as of late. I was hoping that you could give me some advise on how to efficiently level an alternate job. I am having no problem leveling my main, white mage btw, but would really like to try some of the other jobs but seem to be having a great struggle in leveling them with out the benefit of the MSQ. Any help would be awesome thank you in advance and again keep up the great videos I can only speak for myself but i need them.
I second the crafting log. I'm slowly making my way through it (almost done, in the 70s+ in all of them) but making them all in HQ fulfills both the completionist-side of myself but also makes me a TON of gil selling. Some friends make the same things over and over again depending on market value, but I am not good at keeping up with that and just decided to do my crafting log. It takes less than a week to reach a million just selling things I've made; results vary depending if my retainers are selling 20 items at a time and if i'm consistently refilling them daily. PLUS It raises your Crafting EXP at the same time XD I hit 80 on almost all of them (and the ones aren't are all 75+) and I have not done a lot of Leves or the Restoration project (I've done some but nowhere near as much as people seem to be doing them for the purpose of leveling their crafting)
Not to mention how SATISFACTORY it can be to wear your own self-crafted HQ gear when leveling a class/job, which can have the same stats as dungeon gear 4 or 5 levels above (I'm not kidding here, craft a piece of gear and compare it to dungeon gear).
So what exactly is best for retainer classes? I have just the two, both are battle classes. Would it be best to have one gatherer and one battle? Or both gatherer classes? I have been making some gil recently selling items that my retainers bring from quick ventures. Haven't gotten lucky yet with a decent minion to sell...
I sell stuff constantly with my retainers and I feel like people think I’m nuts lol. But I don’t need the random junk I pick up and the junk that sells for less than 50 Gil I give to a vendor cause it’s not worth it sitting in my two retainers.
Welp, 90% of the items that max out all 3 of my retainers are non-tradeable glamour pieces that don't fit in my 400/400 glamour dresser :') yeah I could just get rid of them and farm the content for when I need it, but after grinding Dusk Vigil 20+ times, running Arboretum 42 times and getting through Kugane Castle 35 times for a singular item, I'd rather keep the stuff when I get it.
I have 7 retainers all pretty much full 😭. I'm such a hoarder. Now I can't even be bothered selling them cause I have to go through so muuuuch shit. Although they are at least organised.
First couple minutes, and this just looks unreal. And I feel called out. Time to get rid of all that glam i never wear anyways and just... clear out a lot of mats. The "Hide completed recipes" is somethin I did not know about, and this may become my goal for the next couple weeks till the expansion drops
I started leveling my crafters whit less than 2 million on my character now they all lvl 80 and im at 32 million . I made 30 mill just leveling them lol its awesome
It really is weird how many people horde stuff in-game, and then go on to complain about lack of inventory space. Glamour space I get a bit more since it is harder to justify throwing away older raid gear that may be hard to get back, but damn so many people do NOT understand that your gil slot is your most potent storage option. Just liquidate anything you don't need now, since unless you think that item is about to skyrocket in value, there's very little difference between holding onto it and just rebuying or reobtaining it later on. That said, I'm also spoiled at this point since all my gil just comes from Coffee Biscuits and submarines. Subs bring me 500k a day for no effort, and between me and my friend I pool my gil with, we have 10 characters doing Coffee Biscuit leves bringing in over 1m per day. Not having to deal with marketboard PvP is comfy.
Free trial players if you want to instantly sink your gil, buy dark matter 7 from a vendor. I had like 2,500 by the time I ended my trial and sold them all on the market for 1:1 minimum. People will actually buy it for more than vendor because lazy
1:53 why don't you just give them to mutamix instead of waiting for them to sell? even if you get materia you can't use then, the might atlest sell quicker.
Everything sub 100 gil i just vendor but otherwise my inventory is mostly filled with crappy leveling stuff for all the jobs i try to finish before ew :/
It hurt me seeing him undercut a 66,960 item to 66,000. If someone then undercuts (unnecessarily, but very commonly) to 65,999, will he then under cut to 65,000. 😿 It doesn’t take much effort to under cut to 3 or 4 digits, meaning you are only ever undercutting by 1-0.1% or 0.1-0.01% respectively instead of 10-1% if only using 2 digits. Better yet, under cut exactly, or by 1 Gil!
Alternative Title: Wesker flexes on his game completion % while teaching some good market basics.
No joke, but really. Completion of the crafting log ensures a large portion of the items that would be otherwise hoarded can be sold off without hesitation. Do I really need to hold all these GSM gemstones? No, but I can put them to use now and never need them again.
Honestly his flexes are so un-flex and informative that he's my favorite advice/content creator
Additional tip: some gear that cannot be saved in your Armoire, sold for gil, desynth'd, nor exchanged for seals are actually saved in NPCs such as the Calamity Salvager and the various relic gear NPCs. You can throw away your lvl 50 (EDIT: sorry this can be stored in the Armoire, but can also be acquired from the CS NPC), lvl 70, and lvl80 nondyeable relic gear, as well as gear you get from quests and achievements because you can buy them back usually for 1k gil or even free. Go to your nearest Calamity Salvager as well as the NPCs that gives off the relic gear for all expansions to see which ones you can throw away.
thank you for this tip!
You can actually use this to turn Gil into seals into ventures into mats/minions/whatnot into Gil.
@@MystiInferno Not the relics and quest rewards, even the older ones. Cannot even desynth or sell them.
@@the0s0ph1st [EDIT] I am sorry, I was wrong, I thought I could get them back, but I cannot, I sold off one of them, then thought I could buy it back (which I could have sworn I did, but it was a different gear piece I can't seem to recover now) Sorry again for the false info!
@@MystiInferno Can these gear be claimed from the Calamity Salvager or other NPCs for free or 1k gil when you lose them?
"I'm saving them for an emergency!"
"I'D SAY THIS PRETTY HANDILY QUALIFIES AS AN EMERGECY!!!"
"But what if there's a **BIGGER EMERGENCY?!?!**"
Literally me in every RPG ever
My armory chest is stuffed because a) I hate throwing things out b) I hate getting rid of things that I may need if I decide to level up a new job.
I have 7 retainers! They are all hoarders! It's not me, it's them.
On free trial inventory sorting: i threw everything under the lv30 gathering once i hit 50 in crafting because rarely there is a recipe gonna use them. And once i hit level 60 crafting i throw out every materials that isn’t from unspoiled or legendary nodes (because i dont like waiting). Master recipes at that level use materials that can be bought from shops in idyllshire
I'll respond to your rant with my own little counter rant
First of, thanks for pointing out that housing items are also removed from the crafting log, now I'll have to re-fill my inventory with junk to craft it all.
Second, big difference between a person who has played since X expansion, has done probably everything in the game there is VS someone who hardly played a year and is not just about to finish everything before another new expansion drops.
Third, you have a 3rd retainer. Now the question is why? If your inventory is so nice and clean why would I want to pay a MONTHLY FEE for a 3rd retainer to hold my stuff?
And no, I will hoard, you cannot stop me!
If I managed to juggle 3 free inventory spaces on FT I can juggle all my junk for "what ifs" and, emergencies that are not as big as potential bigger emergencies that will never happen.
And yet the video covered those who aren't done with everything. Either use the materials or get rid of em.
@@WeskAlber But I'll use them latteeeerrrrrrr....maybe
Great info that I will definitely keep in mind. I know I need to work a bit to clean out my inventories but im taking it one step at a time for now and I'm making the first step being getting all the jobs to cap and minimize my armory chest. Everything should fall into good place once that is finished off.
Very timely, thank you! Just leveled my crafters and I have a bunch of leftover materials. I never thought to just work through my crafting log!
My inventory is almost always full. I only have the two retainers. There's a lot of gear so currently I've been leveling all classes so I can get rid of all the lower level gear
a lot of my hoarding comes from saving vendor trash for the next Doman Enclave reset
Well, I guess you’re my Life Coach now.
Thanks, this video was necessary considering all the junk we will gather in Endwalker. I managed to make Pexaras, my material retainer, pare down to only a couple of inks I might need to craft Orchestrion rolls and Grade 5 Dark Matter if I want to overrepair my gear in the future. (I will probably toss that as Endwalker gear will probably require much higher grades than Grade 5.)
I am going to now go to Serphinas, my untradable item retainer, and start dragged out unnecessary materia and crap to vend off. Since I got a s***ton of Rank VII Materia from quests alone, I don't need the lesser grades unless I decide to go insane and do the Zodiac Relics for the rest of my jobs. (I got Longinus Zeta and decided to just end it right there. Kess will be handling ten Zodiac relic grinds. XD)
EDIT: HOLY PISS! Excuse my colorful language, but that's a LOOOOOOOOOOOT of Ventures. I've been doing beast tribes and only get 2 from each daily. I know you can buy ventures from other places but how did you get so over 1,000???? O_O
Grand company turnins from expert delivery - 200 GC seals is 1 venture so if you roll on literally everything you can turn every random dungeon run/set of daily roulettes into a good chunk of ventures
This is the WeskAlber video I come back to every year to remind myself to STOP HOARDING MY INVENTORY
I don't know, I feel like selling all those small things and reactualising the orders adds up to A LOT of time that could be better spent.
Also, you only use half of your glam dresser??? I use around that amount (150-ish slots) for BRD clothing just to perform in venues ^^
Small things aren't small unless you check the price. 10 ore at 1.5k is 15k. Is that small? Extremely worth it to me.
And if it isn't big.... can still put it up anyway. You had to take the time to check the price.
I am really guilty of this. I've only been playing about 6 months, but I am running around with stuff. I'm still trying to figure out what is important. I haven't done crafts yet really with the exception of cloth.
What I would suggest is to level botanist and miner (and fishing if you want but it's not as necessary) by 10 levels, then level your crafting classes by 10 levels. It's not 100% accurate, but most of the time crafts sync up with the materials you can get as a gatherer.
@@BlazingAzureTheta TY for that advice!
The state of my inventory would scare you🤣 same for my saddlebags and retainers. I need this guide
i weirdly made gil on alt just by selling leveling gear i got thru the msq and by the time i reached level cap i was able gear up two jobs with 510 gears with some change. Also when i was leveling monk 70-80 with yellow quest in shb area, a few of them gave out HQ gear that earn me a decent amount.
I've been on and off since ARR (mostly off), and I remember back when the game was young, I tried crafting, and what it did to my armory in particular, especially when keeping relevant gear for jobs I was or was thinking about leveling, was brutal, since leveling just one crafting job seems to be virtually meaningless. As a result, when I created a new character (again) when I started playing in the last year, I decided to ignore crafting until I was done leveling jobs. Seems extreme, but I've made a lot of money and kept my inventory neat by sort of doing them all in parallel. The amount of sellable and decently profitable gear that MSQ and side quests throw at you is obscene, and even when holding onto some of those gear pieces, between selling the rest and all the little gil that comes from dungeon/roulette grinding/drops, I've managed to make a good deal of gil, most of which is admittedly spent on glam items. I've got over 300 items in the glamour dresser haha. It still allows for me to decently gear each job up at 80 though, even with me blowing millions of gil on contemporary style clothing.
And when I'm done, and start crafting, the gear management should be much less of a headache than it was.
*edit* Additionally, this approach allowed for me to make most efficient use out of MSQ and side quest XP. After cleaning up all the lowest-level quests, I was able to turn in just about any quest I came across with a level-appropriate job that would get the most mileage out of it, thus making the leveling process even more efficient. I've still got a handful of level-sync-70 side quests I'm holding onto for jobs I'm really not eager to touch again... mainly MNK. Other than that though, and some raid-related and other side quests line, aside from my inventory looking pretty neat, so do my maps.
When selling, just look at the selling price and make it a round number. That way you are on the average market price.
Also, I feel that works only NOW because Square Enix is doing away with gatherable HQ items.
While there is a lot of stuff I don't need anymore probably, I am too lazy to go out and farm stuff every time just to get a piece of craftable item done, and especially for every class that uses the same materials. Going out to get Alumen every 10 or so levels to make x leather from y skin/hide feels pointless time wasting to me.
This is something I need as much help and I can get!
Honestly, I've got 1 retainer half full of different game currencies and totems, but the rest is pretty much full to have quick access to the market board to see what's good to sell at the time. Saves an incredible amount of time.
So as a new player I spotted a flux on the market where some mushrooms where being asked for like 300 gil a piece, which were lvl 20 botanist, 70% gathereable. They were the perfect xp farm for my lvl 21 botanist while waiting 10 minute queues on my rouge. So like after 4 dungeons of rouge I sold 150 of those mushrooms and laugh at the stupid profit (near 50000 gil just while leveling my botanist). I thought of saving some for myself because if they were so pricy there was a reason or something but I could just gather a few like nothing. I suppose the buyers were lvl 80 endwalker prebuyers or some high level thing but I got my share, and honestly I don't really need gil at my level. I have 1mil sitting around just from playing and leveling up some jobs (the game pays you if you are a healer it seems). I know buying a house is a nightmare and that I'll need money to speed level crafters (if my gatherer inventory doesn't have the items that is) but I'm not worried about money rn. But it's true that leveling like 15 jobs together eats tons of inventory, I should focus on a few jobs and only save the best weapon for a class lmao
I need to do another inventory purge myself, lot of useless junk or old pieces of gear that I need to either sell to NPCs or turn in for company seals where applicable. I feel like I just did that a month ago yet it's already filled up again! Curse my IRL pack rat tendencies bleeding into the game.
3:10, I made this exact same glamour for my crafters two weeks ago only using a bandana instead of sunglasses, wtf haha
Whew, I’m glad I’ve done most of this stuff, I just don’t have a third retainer. It’s time for some clean up before Endwalker!
I have a bad habit off holding onto food. All food is useful for leveling with that 3% exp buff, and sometimes the substats come in handy. I've been slowly chipping away at my inventory this expansion, but I can't get rid of my mind goblins about certain things. I still have my gear coffers from leveling through the MSQ, and I don't even know when I'm gonna use them!!! I'm slowly getting better, but I still have attachment problems because I still have a few classes to level.
Basically one of my 2 retainers is for crafting items I used often, that, if its something I can regain easily and sells for a decent price ill sell it. My other retainer is for my hoard of items that I know consistently sell for decent money. Once a week I go through and decide if those bat fang's and wings are really necessary. And decide what im going to sell for the coming week.
Not gonna lie, I would LOVE to send in my inventory and get ideas on what can still get moved about and thrown away. Overall, great video, as I have just managed to clear a huge chunck of my inventory.
I think I'm probably missing something here because 2 things about this vid strike me as real odd:
-using the mats I already have to complete the crafting list sounds good on paper, but the problem is general, I have plenty of some mats but missing others required for those recipes. Particularly certain commonly used, expensive items, like glues, alchemical formulas and so on, as well as of course uncommon monster drops. To actually use the mats I do have for crafting would require wasting a ton of time gathering, or a ton of gil buying those missing items. Am I missing something here?
-...why complete all recipes in the first place? As far as I know, the crafting exp bonus you get from a first-time recipe completion is the only benefit of it, and even taht's virtually worthless once you outlevel the recipe. On the other hand there's tons of ways to level crafters extremely easily without relying on that, such as collectable turn-ins or leves. I'm guessing there's achievements related to it, but unless you're a hardcore completionist(in which case you'd be compelled to go for it anyway), those wouldn't matter. Is there any reason I don't know about to go for that goal, such as an achievement with a unique reward for it?
Gather them. Then it's pure profit. And how is it "tons" of time gaathering? If it's only one missing item, its super quick. You can also pick and choose what you make. But if the price for the item is high, the "long gather time" is worth it.
Achievements, to say to did, for the money of all the different items give you. It's an arbitrary goal that - provided you don't throw gil at the problem which I explicitly say not to. The issue with collectibles is it doesn't clear the inventory. Which I say, either use, or just sell all those items you don't need.
@@WeskAlber lots of the items I'd need to gether, though, are on the price range of "not expensive enough to be worth farming in large amounts, expensive enough that the adding up costs would bankrupt me if I go for full clear", though. Just about every recipe in my list as I spedran through crafter leveling, I have 2/3, 2/4 items needed for it(except culinarian of course which is more often 1/5). It's not like the finished products have particularly high prices unless they are either component mats with annoying-to-gather mats or quest items, either.
I WILL be taking the lesson to "check the market price for everything, if it's more than petty change just put it on sale, if not npc sell it as you could easily just buy more if ever needed" and slowly clear my inventory that way since I'll never again need basically any ARR/HW mats with rare exceptions... but without a completionist goal like that, there really isn't much of a point to completing crafting list, and I was confused with the video because you presented it as something worthwhile to do, so it had me wondering if there was some actual in-game reward for it I didn't know about.
@@OpXarxa Then instead of making stuff, sell it off. You're not using it, you don't want to gather, then just sell it off and make some gil.
Completing the craft list IS worth it, because it gets you a lot of gil. Which was the point of the video. Empty inventory AND turn a profit
Pretty much agree with 100% of this video even if I am not 200% rigorous about it.
My problem is glam. I have so much cute shit that I want to wear but there’s not enough room. I’ve already used all 400 spaces in the glamour dresser and I’m not sure where to put all my stuff.
I love your job breakdowns but THIS! I NEED THIS
Welp since i've been crafting early i have had to learn how to manage my inventory and i dont really sell the super cheap stuff (Through the market board since it doesnt sell for much) i've assumed id need it at some point... but once i realize i needed more space... i just sell them on the market board if their worth... or just sell them through vendors cause they can easily be bought , but these tips have helped me even more cause just crafting the stuff makes more sense than just selling them and i need to stop undercutting some items. Probably alot more things i need to do better but ill learn as i continue my journey through crafters and gathers
Thanks bud, I'm a new player and this helped me out quite a bit!!
Man inventory is so much... I am balancing out trial weapon mats, glam mats, and housing mats along with some variety items cause I at least want to have 1 retainer empty for Endwalker stuff. I also have many phases of mats like lumber and log versions of something instead of just having the log version. This makes me so nervous cause I just want to be prepared for Endwalker 😭
We all have sinned at one point or another. My second retainer is capped due to me hoarding all of the crafting materials when I should have just discarded them immediately, especially those you buy at the guild suppliers. If I need Maple Lumber, I can go to Ehcatl Nine and ask the Ixal there to sell it for cheap sauce. XD
Thanks for opening my eyes to this. I will be spending the weekend clearing out my retainers. Pexaras thanks you deeply. ;)
every point here is correct,
but i'm crying bc i'm into housing and glam, two of my retainers are stuffed with farmable glam (which even unsync is luck based to get); mogstation items that can't be put into armory and idk if i should just throw them away? dye.. i have a lot of dye for convenience... housing item basics for walls, floors ceiling for whenever i want to refurbish the home.. at least the only crafting items i have are for pots, chicken, and coffee biscuits, always on hand for use during q times
Problem is that I'm nowhere near endgame and I want to play multiple jobs, so my inventory gets full of gear from many different levels and I can't remember what was important for which gear set so I don't sell it or get GC seals for them. If I sell that set for one class maybe I want to play it and then now I have to go buy or otherwise craft gear for that class. The market is too competitive for common items, people undercut by 50% or greater so your retainers sit with their inventories full because nothing is getting sold. Everything is easy when you are endgame, make a guide with a free trial character and show us how fast you make that 300K gil cap. I don't spend time on leves and other content because there are literally hundreds of MSQs I need to churn through to understand what is happening to catch up to the expansions. Who wants to level up crafting/gathering when you have in-game weeks worth of MSQs to churn through?
If it's in your armory chest, important. If it isn't, can always get again
Cries in flint stones and other 1.0 memorabilia
Are you trying to tell me that having 9 retainers is pointless?! I'm real bad at hoarding and you have shamed me into wanting to clean up a bit now. Let me just procrastinate a bit longer please.
I love the flex of the crafting menu
got more of my relic weapons in my inventory ATM but my inventory is basically the same - Might attempt the crafting everything after completing endwalker MSQ but might not. Will likely transfer some of my excess stuff to my retainers. Nearly got all 4 of them up to level 80. lot of the beast tribe stuff is currently cluttering the second half of my inventory.
can't i just send you my info and you fix my ...inventory, chocobo bag, 3 full retainers, 1 brand new retainer who's already a full page deep. that one time i started an alt character for storage space until i realized mail system sucks.. and while you're at it, my macros, class tabs, glamour, glamour plates, armory and dresser? but _NOT_ my hotkeys. nobody should ever touch mine holy clutterbuttons 😨
I won't lie to you, I pay for the maximum amount of retainers, and I keep most materials. I have definitely had to narrow things down, because even 9 retainers isn't enough to comfortably store the absurd amount of materials in this game. I'm not even close to endgame, I'm in the middle of stormblood
Edit: My stock is always going in and out though, people really pay 40k for linen clothing. But I enjoy having all the stuff around. My friend- who has been playing this game for years, comes to me, just a little sprout, to make items for him ❤️
One thing I want to add though, I do not keep things I don't use unless I am working on getting specific master craftsman books. You say to broaden your horizons: but let me say this. From the first day I started this game I dabbled in everything, got really deep into crafting and gathering, and realized I like it just as much as the story and the "main content"
I have no qualms about my 9 retainers full of stuff. I thin out my stock bi weekly and make a lot of money for someone who hasn't even finished the game. It's interesting how different our views are on this particular topic
I just hope not many Runescape players come over and play FF. I've played RS for a long time and FF for a few months, and I've already figured out good ways to make money.
Good thing is, money isn't a game changer here so just play at your own pace:)
You would be surprised, having a lot of money can make some stuff very easy, like levelling crafters.
See, I haven't started hand/land yet, so I just sold what I could and stuffed a retainer page full of Alexander/Omega rewards.
This was the therapy session I needed.
So I do have one question, since you've been mentioning crafting a lot, would you recommend getting all the crafters and level them all or focus on one then get the next and rinse and repeat
Leveling all crafters together save you armory space, since they all share the same gear, except by main/off weapon. If you keep them all at the same level, you only need to keep one set of crafting gear in hand.
You also benefit from cross-class manufactured ingredients, since often you need some leather for armorer or some gems for carpenter, so stuff like that.
@@NibelungJ thanks for the info. I'll grab the rest of the crafters and get them to the same level as my weaver
batch leveling is so good, minus the tools it's so much easier on your inventory, use beast tribes for gear
Hello good Sir, I am a new player to FFXIV and have found your guides to be the greatest help. I have to say I am not sure I would have stuck it out if I did not find them. And now I am a daily player as of late. I was hoping that you could give me some advise on how to efficiently level an alternate job. I am having no problem leveling my main, white mage btw, but would really like to try some of the other jobs but seem to be having a great struggle in leveling them with out the benefit of the MSQ. Any help would be awesome thank you in advance and again keep up the great videos I can only speak for myself but i need them.
Roulettes and dungeon spam
I reeeaaallly needed this one lmao thank you
I second the crafting log. I'm slowly making my way through it (almost done, in the 70s+ in all of them) but making them all in HQ fulfills both the completionist-side of myself but also makes me a TON of gil selling. Some friends make the same things over and over again depending on market value, but I am not good at keeping up with that and just decided to do my crafting log.
It takes less than a week to reach a million just selling things I've made; results vary depending if my retainers are selling 20 items at a time and if i'm consistently refilling them daily.
PLUS It raises your Crafting EXP at the same time XD
I hit 80 on almost all of them (and the ones aren't are all 75+) and I have not done a lot of Leves or the Restoration project (I've done some but nowhere near as much as people seem to be doing them for the purpose of leveling their crafting)
Not to mention how SATISFACTORY it can be to wear your own self-crafted HQ gear when leveling a class/job, which can have the same stats as dungeon gear 4 or 5 levels above (I'm not kidding here, craft a piece of gear and compare it to dungeon gear).
I felt very attacked during this video. Why are you shaming me, WeskAlber??
Sorting all my inventories is going to take some good amount of time... >.
So what exactly is best for retainer classes? I have just the two, both are battle classes. Would it be best to have one gatherer and one battle? Or both gatherer classes?
I have been making some gil recently selling items that my retainers bring from quick ventures. Haven't gotten lucky yet with a decent minion to sell...
Personally I like one battle and one of either BTN or MIN for easy farming of mats. MIN tends to have more stuff you need from unspoiled nodes.
@@WeskAlber Thanks for responding and your input. I shall try it out!
I sell stuff constantly with my retainers and I feel like people think I’m nuts lol. But I don’t need the random junk I pick up and the junk that sells for less than 50 Gil I give to a vendor cause it’s not worth it sitting in my two retainers.
This feels like an intervention lol
Great message thanks
Cleaning up my inventory before endwalker is going to be “fun”
He did it. The madlad really did it.
I’m laughing my arse off at that Dafu
I finally decided to sell everything in my retainers.
Half of my inventory is materia I don't use and dyes I don't need
was dieing while watching the video
Welp, 90% of the items that max out all 3 of my retainers are non-tradeable glamour pieces that don't fit in my 400/400 glamour dresser :') yeah I could just get rid of them and farm the content for when I need it, but after grinding Dusk Vigil 20+ times, running Arboretum 42 times and getting through Kugane Castle 35 times for a singular item, I'd rather keep the stuff when I get it.
I have 7 retainers all pretty much full 😭. I'm such a hoarder. Now I can't even be bothered selling them cause I have to go through so muuuuch shit. Although they are at least organised.
"And a Lalafell" lmao
I got 6 or 7 retainers and I am still out of space
First couple minutes, and this just looks unreal. And I feel called out. Time to get rid of all that glam i never wear anyways and just... clear out a lot of mats.
The "Hide completed recipes" is somethin I did not know about, and this may become my goal for the next couple weeks till the expansion drops
Damn I got called out, I’m indeed guilty of doing some of these things lmao
he don't miss
Man i don't want to stop hoarding armor for glam
But but but.......we waiting for a pack rat achievement :(
I only have current tokens and those aetherite tickects for free teleports in my bags....
I started leveling my crafters whit less than 2 million on my character now they all lvl 80 and im at 32 million . I made 30 mill just leveling them lol its awesome
I feel attacked... and I need to clean up.
It really is weird how many people horde stuff in-game, and then go on to complain about lack of inventory space. Glamour space I get a bit more since it is harder to justify throwing away older raid gear that may be hard to get back, but damn so many people do NOT understand that your gil slot is your most potent storage option. Just liquidate anything you don't need now, since unless you think that item is about to skyrocket in value, there's very little difference between holding onto it and just rebuying or reobtaining it later on.
That said, I'm also spoiled at this point since all my gil just comes from Coffee Biscuits and submarines. Subs bring me 500k a day for no effort, and between me and my friend I pool my gil with, we have 10 characters doing Coffee Biscuit leves bringing in over 1m per day. Not having to deal with marketboard PvP is comfy.
no. cuz im fk loot gremlin
Even if a common item suddenly becomes in demand the flocks of people looking to make money off it will bring it down to normal prices anyways.
Free trial players if you want to instantly sink your gil, buy dark matter 7 from a vendor. I had like 2,500 by the time I ended my trial and sold them all on the market for 1:1 minimum. People will actually buy it for more than vendor because lazy
1:53 why don't you just give them to mutamix instead of waiting for them to sell? even if you get materia you can't use then, the might atlest sell quicker.
Higher profits.
Hasn’t used half the space in his glamour dresser.
How can I trust another word you have to say?
Everything sub 100 gil i just vendor but otherwise my inventory is mostly filled with crappy leveling stuff for all the jobs i try to finish before ew :/
My inventory is so cluttered!
so i gotta buy a retainer, got it
I volunteer to have my inventory fixed by you
Your inventories so clean, but your hotbars so messy D: Love the tip on keeping first page of your inventory empty for new items tho
I have 2 free hotbars while still keeping everything i want around. Not sure how those are messy exactly.
But, if i want to craft gear for my friend that is lv 9 all 2 levels i totaly need to keep my bronze ingots
ayo chill out on Zan
Why are you paying an extra $2 a month for a third retainer when you have so much extra space? Just looks like you're wasting your money.
For if I ever do, and for the extra gatherer.
Extra sell slots helps as well.
Plus each extra retainer is another treasure map held for map burns.
Why I have like 3 extra retainers myself.
Ngl the richer I got ingame the lazier I got as well xD
less than 1 minute in and attacked for having more than 15 items for fishing
Ya my inventory is super full lol so I'm guilty of this:/
It hurt me seeing him undercut a 66,960 item to 66,000.
If someone then undercuts (unnecessarily, but very commonly) to 65,999, will he then under cut to 65,000. 😿
It doesn’t take much effort to under cut to 3 or 4 digits, meaning you are only ever undercutting by 1-0.1% or 0.1-0.01% respectively instead of 10-1% if only using 2 digits. Better yet, under cut exactly, or by 1 Gil!
Cutting by 1 gil is the most evil thing you can do.
I'd rather you just cut me for 1k
i totally understand your selling points but undercutting crashes markets, which is always a good thing :D
My inv is beyond saving
7 retainers and all mostly full. Omnicrafters need a shitload of space .
Also an omnicrafter here. No need for that much space. 1 retainer holds it all
Bruh don't tell em to to make their leves ya killing my gains.
Desynth junk gear for mats & sell or craft.
Why... ...are you carrying around 440 Flatbread...?
+3% exp forever
Fair enough.
How many actual skeletons/dead bodies do you have in your house IRL? Nice flex tho for real.