From 667f31cf0a74bfbf10a6c2a9346ab193a00deef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pinapelz Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:27:09 -0700 Subject: write grand company seals section --- src/content/blog/ffxiv-gil-making.mdx | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'src/content') diff --git a/src/content/blog/ffxiv-gil-making.mdx b/src/content/blog/ffxiv-gil-making.mdx index eb35a28..9cd993f 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/ffxiv-gil-making.mdx +++ b/src/content/blog/ffxiv-gil-making.mdx @@ -17,4 +17,35 @@ This post will attempt to be a somewhat comprehensive guide/info sheet to making Keep in mind though that crafters are probably one of the most consistent methods of getting gil. There will be a lot more "instability" with these methods. -# Grand Company Seals \ No newline at end of file +# Grand Company Seals +You can rack up Grand Company seals (or GC Seals) fairly quickly by completing "Expert Deliveries". This is where you can +cash in on useless old gear or dungeon drops. You can usually get around `2000` seals per piece of "high level dungeon" gear. + +Then you can spend these seals on certain items that are needed for crafting. In my opinion, most of these items net fairly low gil +but some commonly exchanged items are... +- Glamour Prisms +- Coke +- Potash +- Cordials + + +|As an example of how much these materials go for... | It's consistent but slow... | +|----------|----------| +| | | + +You can also try your luck by exchaning `20 000` seals for either a 3.0 or 4.0 `Materiel Coffer`. These drop random minions and +mounts from that particular expansion. + +Don't get your hopes up so quick though. A very vast majority of the minions are basically worthless on the marketboard. +The actual rare mounts and minions have some serious Japanese gacha game drop rates... + +Let's take the Night Pegasus Whistle as an example: + +> Based on the drop rate collected by the FFXIV Dalamud Plugin `Tracky`. +> ### [This item has a drop rate of roughly 0.03%](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VfncSL5gf9E7ehgND5nZgguUyUAmZiAMbQllLKcoxTQ/edit?gid=1530436115#gid=1530436115) + +The same story is true for all of the other rare mounts/minions. If you were to test your luck though I'd go for the 4.0 coffers since it beats +the 3.0 coffers in number of rare items which will give you a slight statistical edge. + +- Overall: Very slow but a good way to get rid of old gear. Don't bother specifically farming dungeons specifically for gear to turn in since the gil comes very slow + -- cgit v1.2.3