Morrigan’s Robe.

No other way to start this post really except to say I finally turned in all the materials, items, and Imperial coins to get my robe done. Wow! This piece is simply amazing. Not only that, it caps off one hell of a good streak I had for about the last month. I got an Altruistic cape from sea last week, a Hautecalire from the mog bonanza, and now the Morrigan’s robe.


I won’t lie; upgrading the Robe nearly killed me. I had about 3 million of the 9 million it cost to upgrade before the last piece dropped meaning I needed a lot of gil still to upgrade it. I basically set small goals for myself to try and get this done. First, make sure everyday I was making some gil. Second, farm no les than 50k every day I logged on. Third, do ENM’s on a regular basis. Fourth, garden with all my characters to try for elemental ores. Last, sell everything that wasn’t needed for RDM and PLD. This kind of hurt to do since I was really enjoying leveling my DRK and BLM but it had to be done. Doing all of this for the last 2 months slowly and steadily brought the funds in. Although, I did borrow the last 3 ingots from a friend in my Limbus shell and still need to pay him back. About another 1.5 mil to go to be completely cleared.

I learned a lot about gil making to be honest and overall this may be an even bigger benefit to me as a whole than even the robe is. Farming, for as boring as it is, really isn’t as bad as I had thought. I used to farm and make lots of money but then the economy bottomed out and it was hard to find something worth while. You could spend an hour farming and barely make 20k. Just didn’t seem worth it. However, doing just a little bit every day really does add up. I did find some things that brought me up to 30k an hour (sometimes 40k) and farmed at least 2 hours every day. Over the course of a week this brought in about 350k. Do that for 2 months and I was looking at 2.8 million of the 6 million I still needed. Nearly half way done just slowly pecking away at it.

Gardening was pretty mixed in truth. I made maybe 600k from this over 2 months once you subtract out all the cost for materials including tables and pots. However it’s so easy to do I’m going to keep it up as a way to supplement what I earn and see it as an easy bonus. ENM’s was almost a bust with all the crap drops I got but hell even those got me probably 200k over the course of a few month’s. Gear selling netted me about 1 mil. Sold my dusk gloves, chivalrous chain, vasago’s scythe, potent belt, and some other miscellaneous stuff mostly all for DRK.

I kept waiting to buy ingots in hope that the price would go down. Well I did that after the first 4 anyways. I was so excited when I got all the drops that I blew that 3 mil I had on 4 ingots right away. Then I got more cautious although in the end the prices stayed at 750k for the last several I bought. The mog bonanza helped with ore prices and I managed to snag one ingot for 630k, 1 for 670k, and 1 for 710k. All told saved 240k from the short time price drop.

I got to nine ingots and finally got so excited I asked to borrow for the last 3 ingots. A friend had offered before but I declined because I didn’t want to be that indebted to someone (at time only had 5/12) and I wanted to accomplish this on my own. However, as I got closer and new it was only a matter of time I went ahead and borrowed the last 3. Got enough to pay back 1 soon as AH stuff sells and the other 2 should take a few more weeks at most to get me in the clear.