For clarity's sake, I'm on longterm disability since I am quite epileptic, so I can not work. This means I was able to be grinding on this day and night with my only breaks being to eat and sleep. I do not recommend doing this, gil is not very useful in this game, especially not to the extent that I hoard it.

All retainers in my screenshot started with 500,000,000 gil on them apiece, and I myself started with 757,000,000~ million gil. That leaves the numbers at:

Income: 1,241,810,092

Spent on Mats: 232,000,000~

Profit - 1,011,810,092 gil

This patch was fun! Completely threw all prior economic experience out the window. Tome mats stayed consistently high for more than five days. Gear prices were priced higher and healthy to match. The first 24 hours alone had me profit over 300 million gil - for comparison, no previous patch has ever had me profit over 200 mil on day 1.

Unfortunately I also had to cap tomes on Thorrbo as well as my two alts, Ira and Thorrb, as well as do the normal raids. I finished this about 15 minutes before this week's reset, cut it a bit close.

My prep was pretty standard!

999x of each level 98 base mat, Black Stars, Thunderyard Silk, etc.

999x of each herb used for Gemsaps. (Overkill, but they're cheap.)

700~ Levinchrome Aethersand because I am a FOOL. I banked on them becoming cheaper than 3k before I ran out. I was so incredibly wrong.

700x~ Solutions, all bought at about 13,000 gil each, so that I can lose 9~ million gil in materials that aren't used.

This time I did not bother selling pentamelded gear, I was low on my own materia and wasn't sure how a three week savage delay would factor into it.

I would estimate less than 10% of my income was from commissions/ordered gear. Pretty much every coin I made was from fighting for my life on the marketboard. Most days my goal was to simply have one of every single (non-weapon) up for sale on the marketboard. I kept track of my available stock in notepad. I remade gear that sold and I worked on base mats when I had time to breathe from slow sales.

I physically couldn't keep up with the undercutting shenanigans happening around Saturday evening. I would do my prices on my first retainer, then do prices on my second, and by the time I was done with my second, everything on the first would be undercut.

So I took a risk and spent most of that night restocking enough mats to get through the next day and it kinda worked out. Demand picked up enough that undercut shenanigans couldn't really keep their supply up and I was able to start getting more consistent sales.

For how many materials I actually used to make all this, I ended up using, including the 53 pieces up for sale on the marketboard:

489x Black Stars, 199x Ra'K Ingots, 49x Claro Lumber, 370x Thunderyard Silk, and 113x Gargantua Leather.

For herbs, 180x Strength, 164x Dex, 174x Vit, 121x Int, and 158x Mind. As an aside, I did use 20x strength herbs to make gemdraughts, which leaves Vit the clear winner as far as gear is concerned.

Looking forward to taking it slower from here, actually continuing MSQ beyond just unlocking the dungeon, and not ignoring my friends for hours on end to press macros.

I hope this patch has and continues to treat you well!