I don't think I could even list the multitude of ways that my wife and I make money. We change things up quite a bit so that we don't get too frustrated and bogged down in one type of gil making.

1. Norg runs - We get her a level 1 character, fame it up, and we run it to Norg to do all of the NIN scroll quests. This once was insanely profitable but RMT are crawling all over it now and pushing prices through the floor. We can still make about 1M/run which doesn't seem work it for the effort at times but ocassionally we do it for quick money.

2. Selling drops - We almost never farm. We sell drops from XP or sky or whatever else. We never throw anything away. Sure it might only sell for 1k/stack but to us that's a free chocobo. We sort all random items away onto one mule in our army of mules (16+ I think) and sell it later. This makes for a very very steady income that will cover basic costs for almost anyone. I'd highly recommend it.

3. Crafting - I'm a crafting fiend. Between the two of us we've found numerous methods for making money with our various crafts. HQ bolts with her woodworking is good. Kaginawa is a decent market I hope to get into once I get my Cloth over 60. Plenty of other easy sources in crafting.

4. NM camping - This is something I hate doing and only do in situations that allow me to be slightly above the luck level. NMs like Padfoot are great... 21-24hr pop... 5 pops... 100% drop on one of the pops. If you track the ToD over a decent amount of time you can do pretty well against the competition. I don't, however, ever camp NMs that are absolutely luck based. I can make more money in the time it takes them to pop than their item is worth.

5. Mercenary work - I rarely accept money or gifts for my help as long as the person I'm helping isn't an asshat. If someone is looking to pay 100k/person to a group of 6 and I know I can solo or duo what they need I'll take 100k and do it solo to save them some gil. I can solo/duo (with my wife) all but a handful of AF3 NMs, all AF2, almost every rank misison before 8-1 in every nation. Decent money there if I felt like taking it.

6. Fishing - I'll do this sometimes if I'm bored. Since I'm still working on my LuShang's it's not much profit though I plan to just buy the rest of the carp (5M worth) to get my LuShang's before doing much more. There is a lot of money to be made here.

7. Chocobo Digging - This wouldn't be profitable at my low level if I did not have so many crafts leveld but since I do I can refine my digs and make out pretty well.



This is just a shortlist among the many other more detailed things me and my wife use to make gil. I would definitely consider us to be in one of the upper echelons of wealth just below the "I can buy anything I want any time" group of people.