Quote Originally Posted by Merton9999 View Post
As people have said, you just have to get a little more creative than just looking at the last high AH price and complaining about it. I logged on during my household chore periods and sat next to AH. Every 5 minutes or so I'd grab the keyboard and bid 1-2k on the ones I needed. I was staggered that for whatever reason there were many times this worked and I ended up paying less than 100k for each upgrade, which is not at all bad these days.
I could just kill myself for not thinking of that. I just had to grab something like 200 geodes to upgrade 7 staves (this was in addition to the geodes I already had). Good thing I'm creative at making gil.