The great thing about an expansion launch is that everybody is starting from mostly a clean slate as far as new resources go. With this article, I wanted to go over a lot of what I find worth spending your time on while breaking it down into different categories and playstyles.
As a note before we dive in, Universalis is a great tool for checking the prices of items. I recommend double checking in game since that’s always the most up to date information that you can get. That said, Universalis is usually not going to be far off especially if the items are very active on the market!
If you want every item in a convenient package, I’ve included a teamcraft list containing everything I’m going to mention in the article. That way you can easily check your local prices, considering I’m basing my findings off NA since that’s where I play.
Materia
We have new Materia for crafters and gatherers, XIs and XIIs for each type. As of the time that I write this, these are what I think is worth selling.
Guerdon XIIs - 60k
Guile XIIs - 60k
Grasp XIs - 50k
Cunning XIIs - 60k
Command XIIs - 60k
Competence XIIs - 60k
Cunning V - 20k
I’ve included all of the XIs and XIIs in the teamcraft list because I think it’s worth keeping an eye on them. Some of you might also appreciate the lower priced but faster selling materia if you value rapid sales since people will be overmelding those a lot. That might be preferable if your market is especially competitive and/or you don’t have the time to undercut as much as you’d like.
I’ve also included Cunning Vs since people are using whatever they can slot in for CP melds. Looking at all of the odd numbered Cunning materia is a good idea.
Crafting materia seems to be dropping more quickly (for reasons I’ll mention in the next section) but in general I’m seeing at least a 1k-2k drop off the price each day as we get further from the early launch window market craze. Prices will stabilize eventually and while they’ll still be decent, I recommend taking advantage of the current demand as much as you can.
Crafters will mostly be getting materia from scrip turn-ins. A lot of people prefer the culinarian turn ins, Rarefied Tacos de Carne Asada and Rarefied Stuffed Peppers. Pick whatever you prefer to craft or more importantly, which has the cheapest materials on the marketboard. I’ve been loving the Rarefied Cunning Craftsman's Tisane since it requires no pre-crafts.
For Gatherers, while spiritbond rates have been nerfed, it’s still the best way to farm materia. They changed it so that nodes within a 10 level range are all about the same effectiveness, which means that you can maximize your spiritbond rate by hitting every legendary node from Dawntrail AND Endwalker in the 6 minute timed node windows. This can rack up in travel costs but it’s still worth it when a single materia is going for 60k or more. When you can, try to spend your GP on collectible nodes since yield has nothing to do with spirtbond rates. This way you can double dip on how much materia you’re getting because you’re leveraging both spiritbond and scrips at the same time. Be sure to use a spiritbond potion of fc buff!
Just make sure to pentameld even if you dump cheap trash combat materia into empty slots. As long as a slot is filled, your spiritbond rate is higher. Of course make sure to meld the stats that matter to you but in this market, I’m focusing on selling materia before I even bother to use the new stuff on my own gear for anything that isn’t the guaranteed slots. Melding EW materia can still be good in a situation like this!
Scrip Exchange/Misc
Dawntrail has introduced a new type of long term mount grind, the Rroneek Mount! It uses orange gather scrips which you exchange for tokens. You need 100 Rroneek Horn Tokens for the mount and each token costs 1000 scrips.
You can buy 2 gathering XII materia with 1000 orange scrips so check to see how both the tokens and the materia are performing on your world to see what’s the best use. For example on my world, tokens are going for 240k right now and at least 15 are selling per day. Compare that to materia, the best I can get is 70k per Guerdon XII right now. You might think that Rronkeek tokens are worth almost twice as much as spending scrips on materia but materia sells waaaay faster because many people are doing their melds and burning through a lot of it. You have to decide on what you value more, sale speed or profit!
If you want to go hard, you could always farm out all 100 tokens yourself and sell the mount instead but that’s too risky for me haha.
I’ve also included the Hingan Rock Garden here since you can get that with Orange Crafting Scrips. It’s not a long term grind like the Rroneek mount but it’s a good looking item and competitive with materia sales in value per scrip!
Rroneek Horn Token - 200k
Rroneek Horn - 30 million
Hingan Rock Garden - 200k
All of these items are available at the scrip exchange.
Maps
Timeworn Loboskin Maps are selling for around 22k. It’s not a lot but it’s really easy and guaranteed everyday. The Timeworn Br’aaxskin Maps aren’t worth much but that may change once the new treasure dungeon is out so keep a lookout for prices on that one and wait to sell them until then! Remember that you can have friends mail you the maps so you can hold more in your mail inventory
Timeworn Loboskin Map - 22k
Timeworn Br'aaxskin Map - 6k
Timed Node Gathering
Dawntrail has 6 timed material (folklore) nodes and 4 ephemeral (aethersands) nodes to gather currently and all of them are going to be used to craft the crafted combat gear, food, and pots coming out with the savage tier release on the 30th.
I’m seeing the prices on the folklore mats hovering around 1k-2k per item which is great if you want a chill gather grind. I would consider stocking up on these since they’ll be very valuable once people actually need to them to craft since they are useless right now. That way you can craft as much gear as you need once it comes out or sell your stockpile day 1 for big value.
A stack of 99 will net you around 150k gil if you’re impatient, which still isn’t bad at all. This can be a nice form of side income if you’re going to click on the nodes anyway for spiritbond farming!
Recommendation: Stock this up to sell on savage launch!
Timed Mats
Harmonite Ore - 1-2k
Turali Alumen - 1-2k
Fine Silver Ore - 1-2k
Blackseed Cotton Boll - 1-2k
Ipe Log - 1-2k
Nopaliflower - 1-2k
Aethersands
Sunglit Aethersand - 2-4k
Mythloam Aethersand - 6-8k
Mythroot Aethersand - 6-8k
Mythbrine Aethersand - 6-8k
Regular Gatherable Mats
While all of the gatherable mats are worth looking into in Dawntrail since they can vary a lot from server to server, some of the likely options are going to be the following since they’re used in scrip turn-in crafts:
Yyasulani Garlic - 60-80k per stack
White Pepper - 60-80k per stack
Ut'ohmu Tomato - 60-80k per stack
Yak T'el Spring Water - 60-80k per stack
Aside from these, any of the mats used in level 98 crafts like Raw Black Star and Claro Walnut Log are likely to have some good demand as well.
Honorable Mentions
While I’m not farming these because I think the other stuff is a better use of time right now if you’re trying to make gil, there is stable income in selling some of the level 98 pre-crafts like Black Star and Claro Walnut Lumber or even earlier stuff that like Tungsten Ink as well as any of the various leves being used for crafters to level.
Here’s a separate list of the level 98 pre-crafts as well as some items including those that may be worth stocking up on for their predicted use in savage gear crafting:
https://ffxivteamcraft.com/list/nM7Bibvc0X4Y8UwG1D4r
Teamcraft List
If you want a convenient way to view all of these, here’s the link to a Teamcraft list where I’ve added everything in this article (unless I missed something!)
https://ffxivteamcraft.com/list/rgEZO1ORC9cYjGHCWjUT - All Items Worth Selling
I plan on making more lists to cover things like leves but I wanted the focus of this list to be on the bigger value items that are easy to sell right now due to high demand. Look forward to another article talking about what you can do without any crafting and gathering at all !
Have questions or other fun stuff on the market that you wanna share? Let me know in the discord!