Gil is one of the easiest currencies to farm in FFXIV and truthfully with it being as easy as it is, you would assume that MGP would be a bit easier to farm.

The short answer is no, it’s not too late at all! Ninety-nine percent of the game’s content is always available. Even old school raids, dungeons, and trials are easy to jump into — thanks to smart decisions around how FF14 distributes loot. However, there’s also a longer, more complicated answer to the conundrum of starting FF14. To enter the housing scene you’ll have to find a plot for sale first, which is the real challenge. Aside from that though, you’ll need a lot of gil up front as a plot of land will cost millions. The price for a small plot is 3-3.75 million gil, while a medium will cost 16-20 million and a large will be 40-50 million.

The thing is, MGP can be difficult to farm if you’re not doing the right things to get it.

While there are a number of ways that you can get MGP, including games at the Gold Saucer, Triple Triad Matches and various GATEs, some of them are going to give you a higher yield and some of them are going to be less fun than others.

The following are the most optimal ways of collecting MGP.

WEEKLY CHALLENGE LOGS (WEEKLY)

By far one of the best ways to optimize your time playing FFXIV is by doing your weekly challenge logs.

Challenge Logs are split up by different categories including things like Beast Tribes, Retainers, Eureka and of course the Gold Saucer.

Now, the thing about the Gold Saucer challenge logs is that some of them give a much higher yield of MGP than others.

The Gold Saucer related challenge logs are as follows. I’ve marked the ones I complete weekly with two asterisks and the ones I complete when I have time with one astrisk:

**Complete 3 Mini-Games (1,000 MGP)

**Earn 100 MGP from Mini-Games (1,500 MGP)

*Participate in 5 GATEs (5,000 MGP)

*Successfully Complete 3 GATEs (8,000 MGP)

*Enter 3 Chocobo Races (5,000 MGP)

*Enter 20 Chocobo Races (8,000 MGP)

**Play Triple Triad 10 Times (5,000 MGP)

**Win 10 Triple Triad Matches (8,000 MGP)

Play 5 Triple Triad Matches in the Battlehall (2,500 MGP)

Win 3 Triple Triad Matches in the Battlehall (3,000 MGP)

**Play Lord of Verminion 1 Times (5,000 MGP)

**Play Lord of Verminion 3 Times (10,000 MGP)

**Play Lord of Verminion 5 Times (12,000 MGP)

Participate in 2 Doman Mahjong Player Matches (5,000 MGP)

NOTE: The total amount of MGP you can get in a week from the weekly challenge logs is 79,000 MGP.
If you do the bare minimum and lose at everything you can get around 55,000 MGP.

As you can see, the majority of the challenges I choose to complete are ones that don’t require me to be playing the game with other players or need to be playing the game at a particular time.

I personally do a lot of my MGP challenge logs while watching Netflix on a second monitor or while getting some work done.

I’ll cover the most optimal ways to complete these challenge logs in the sections that are dedicated to their topic.

JUMBO CACTPOT (WEEKLY)

The Jumbo Cactpot is something that you absolutely never want to miss out on.

It’s the most brainless way of getting a good amount of MGP a week.

You can purchase a maximum of 3 tickets a week for 100 MGP (increases by 50 per ticket) and tickets will be drawn every Saturday at 2 P.M. Earth Time.

The lowest yield for the Jumbo Cactpot is 1,000 MGP, however, the rewards scale based on the number of tickets bought.

That being said, even if there aren’t a whole lot of tickets purchased that week it’s still a good idea to buy tickets just for a steady passive income of MGP.

SIDE NOTE: my partner won the Jackpot one week… you can all rage quit.

FASHION REPORT (WEEKLY)

The Fashion Report was a part of the Gold Saucer I was completely unaware of for months of playing the game.

At first, when my partner told me about it I was intimidated by the name and thought that I would have to spend a whole lot of Gil in exchange for getting MGP, however, this is the furthest thing from true.

The Fashion Report has you looking for glamours that fit into different categories like “Do Rats Fly” which is referring to the “Sky Rat” glamour set, or “‘Fringe’ Benefits” which refers to glamours with Fringes.

Most Fashion Reports will only require you to dye pairs of clothing or to purchase vendor glamours for an easy 80 points, which gives you the highest reward.

There’s a lovely player on Reddit who goes by the name Kaiyoko who posts guides to it weekly. They’re super, super awesome! Thank you Kaiyoko for doing that <3

The only reason you will want a score of 100 on your Fashion Report is if you want the title “Fashion Leader” which you will only receive once.

So, might as well save yourself some time and some Gil and just settle on getting 80’s every week. (As I did in high school…)

Teachers upload their lesson plans for other teachers to use. If you’re a teacher that has created lesson plans in the past then you might already be sitting on the resources needed to start making money today. Teaching to Make Money Is Great. Teaching will always be a great way to make money because people always want to learn. I want to teach online and earn money email lessons. You’ll need to break your material up into 10 short lessons (400-600 words) and a quick, end-of-course quiz. We’ll then package it all up into beautifully designed email lessons and send them out to your subscribers. Create, host and sell courses in 5 simple steps on the world's largest learning marketplace to increase your influence and income. Leverage our teaching resources to build successful courses.

If you are nervous that you didn’t get everything right, don’t worry! You can get judged four times by the Masked Rose and you will receive the rewards you missed out on!

The MGP award for the Fashion Report is 60,000 MGP, but that can be boosted with the Gold Saucer VIP Card (which I’ll talk about below) or an FC Gold Saucer MPG Boost.

MINI CACTPOT (DAILY)

The Mini Cactpot costs 10 MGP to participate in and will provide you with a 3 x 3 square with one number revealed.

Win real money or prizesonline, free. Well then welcome to Winneroo! Looking for a little fun and games.

You will be given the opportunity to reveal three other numbers to help you make the choice of which line you will scratch.

You will then be given a reward based on the sum of all the numbers in the row that you have selected.

While rewards are not guaranteed, the Mini Cactpot is an extremely low-risk game that can give you quite a high yield.

Rewards are as low as 36 MGP and as high as 10,000.

I usually get rewards between 360-3,600 on a daily basis without using a solver.

That being said, there are a few solvers out there and some of them are handier than others.

The following is my favourite Mini Cactpot Solver.

You can participate in the Mini Cactpot 3 times per day.

LORD OF VERMINION (WEEKLY)

I know a lot of you are shocked that I’m even putting this one on the list, but let me make my point.

The actual game, Lord of Verminion isn’t the greatest, especially for folks who don’t want to invest in learning a mini-game that people don’t really play.

Thing is, even if you don’t want to take time to invest in learning the game, you can grind Stage 2: Hatching a Plan in under 2 minutes to get your weekly challenge logs done.

So, what does that mean? In under 10-Minutes, you will be able to get a minimum of 27,000 MGP per week from your challenge logs.

If your FC has a boost on the MGP you can also receive a 10% boost to this.

NOTE: I would never grind MGP from Lord of Verminion as it will require you to complete new quests or play against other players… gross… MMO who?

GATEs (WEEKLY OR DAILY)

GATEs are the equivalent to Mario Party

Is Ffxiv Against Real Money Being Spent