Unlocking The Gold Saucer

Requirements
You need to be able to travel outside of your initial city, do this by completing the main scenario quest “The Gridanian/Ul’dahn/Lominsan Envoy” (depending on your initial city) at level 15.

Quest
Grab and complete the quest “It Could Happen to You” from the Well-heeled Youth in Ul’dah, Steps of Nald (x9.6, y9.0).

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Chocobo Racing

How to Race; The Official FFXIV Guide

Feed and Skills

• Bought from the Tack & Feed Trader
  Gold Saucer > Chocobo Square > x5.9, y4.7

Stats & Their Affects

• Maximum Speed – how quickly your chocobo can run.
• Stamina – the total amount of stamina your chocobo has.
• Endurance – the threshold at which your chocobo gains “Lathered” status and consumes stamina at an increased rate.
• Cunning – how effectively your chocobo can navigate a course with rough terrain.
• Acceleration – how quickly your chocobo can attain maximum speed.

Chocobo Stats

• Check through the Gold Saucer Log.
  Character > Gold Saucer > Chocobo
• You can also put bardings on your race chocobo through here.

Breeding Requirements

• • Speak to the Race Chocobo Trainer NPC in Chocobo Square to retire your chocobo. (Note that this is a permanent action.)
• Once you reach rank 40 on a chocobo, a quest should appear, “Like Sire Like Fledgling”, above the Chocobokeep in Chocobo Square, x6.2, y4.7.

Breed Chocobos at Bentbranch Meadows in Central Shroud.

• Starting the process will give you an item called a Proof of Covering. You’ll need to turn this in to get the baby chocobo later.
• It takes 30 mins to breed a new chocobo.
• Once the time comes, get your baby chocobo from the same NPC you spoke to about breeding, using the “Fledgling Adoption“ dialogue option.
• Each chocobo you retire can only breed a total of 10 times in its lifetime.

Advanced Breeding

• Pedigree is the reason you breed, and the reason why your chocobo’s will continue to improve.
• Maximum pedigree is 9.
• Each level of pedigree increases all your attribute maximums by 40.
• The Pedigree Level of a chocobo doesn’t change throughout its lifetime, the baby’s pedigree will always be equal to the pedigree of the lower-pedigree parent, plus one.
• Each star your chocobo has lit up in the “Own” star ratings section further increases that respective attribute’s maximum by 40.
  E.g.: If two chocobo have the same pedigree, but one has a 1-star Cunning rating and the other has a 3-star Cunning rating, the latter chocobo’s Cunning maximum will exceed the former’s by 80 points.

Color Inheritance

• A baby chocobo will inherit one of its parents’ colors randomly, with a 50% chance of each.
  Meaning your first breeding session will have a 50% chance that your new baby chocobo will be a different color and a 50% chance it’ll be the default color like your first one.
• Every time you buy a Covering Permission, a random color for the breeding stock chocobo will be rolled. So if you’re fishing for a certain color, you may have to spend some MGP to get it.
  

Here is an incredibly informative blog for Advanced Breeding Tips!

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Challenge Log

Weekly MGP
Doing your Challenge Log is a great way to make MGP.

• Complete 3 mini-games. MGP 1,000
• Earn 100 MGP from mini-games. MGP 1,500
• Participate in 5 GATEs. MGP 5,000
• Successfully complete 3 GATEs. MGP 8,000
• Enter 3 chocobo races. MGP 5,000
• Enter 20 chocobo races. MGP 8,000
• Win a chocobo race. MGP 5,000
• Win 10 chocobo races. MGP 8,000
• Play Triple Triad 10 times. MGP 5,000
• Win 10 Triple Triad matches. MGP 8,000
• Play 5 Triple Triad matches in the Battlehall. MGP 2,500
• Win 3 Triple Triad matches in the Battlehall. MGP 3,000
• Participate in an Open tournament and receive your reward. MGP 3,000
• Play Lord of Verminion 1 time. MGP 5,000
• Play Lord of Verminion 3 times. MGP 10,000
• Play Lord of Verminion 5 times. MGP 12,000
• Participate in 2 Doman Mahjong player battle matches. MGP 5,000

Overall players can earn up to 95,000 MGP per week.

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Fashion Report

This is the easiest and fastest way to earn 60k+ MGP weekly.
Regardless of if you dress to the theme, this is a guaranteed payout.
The payout depends on how well you dress to the theme.

Location
Speak with Masked Rose at the Gold Saucer x7.2, y7.4

Fashion Theme
Watch for Kayoko Star’s updates on Twitter or Reddit!

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Verminion

Challenge Log Farm Suggestion
Until you’re comfortable, this is a quick low-level way to farm.

• Do “Stage 2: Hatching a Plan”.
• Use Kidragoras.
• Immediately send 4 Kidragoras to B (mid).
• Now, summon 4 Kidragoras in A and 4 Kidragoras in C.
• Send them immediately to their respective A and C.
• Wait for win.

This takes about 2 minutes to win.

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Doman Mahjong

Here is a 12m36s YouTube Beginner’s Guide to Doman Mahjong
We have no clue how to play. lol~

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Jumbo & Mini Cactpot

Website for Mini Cactpot Solver

• Can be done 3 times per day at the Main Counter (x:5.1, y:6.6).
• Guaranteed payouts, even if you lose!

Jumbo Cactpot

• Grab 3 tickets from Jumbo Cactpot Broker (x8.5, y5.9) before the draw.
• Check to see if you’ve won every Saturday at 10:00 AM.
• Guaranteed payouts, even if you lose!

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Gates

These are short games you can join by talking to the Gold Saucer Attendants.

GATE Times
Every hour, on the hour (Earth Time)

• Cliffhanger
• Air Force One
• Leap of Faith (The Fall of Belah’dia)

Hourly, 20 minutes past the hour (Earth Time)

• The Slice is Right
• Cliffhanger
• Any Way the Wind Blows

Hourly, 40 minutes past the hour (Earth Time)

• Air Force One
• Any Way the Wind Blows
• Leap of Faith (The Falling City of Nym)

Website for Gate Timer

Tips

• Touch the goal in Leap of Faith and it’ll still count, even if it times out!

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MGP Cards via Wonderous Tails

This is done via Khloe Aliapoh in Idyllshire at x5.7, y6.1

• 1 line gives you 1 MGP gold card that gives 30k MGP.
• 2 lines give you 2 MGP Platinum cards that give 100k MGP.
• 3 lines give you 20 MGP Platinum cards that give 1 mil MGP.

Website for Khloe’s Wonderous Tails Solver

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