Alternative methods to obtain Geomancer scrolls.

[Merton9999]

That's interesting they are 100k each in the AH on your server. On Bismarck, we haven't had any of them sold or in stock. If they were on the AH to some consistency by now, I would think that is good balance. I can understand an early adoption price as inflation from sheer demand (such as the Petrified Log price spike). But after a couple weeks, it should be evening out in price. 2-3 million spent early sure. 8 million to start? not so much.

In my opinion, to be an effective class players should already be able to contemplate a compelling reason to use the job for any of the activities they do. Or at least knowing what the job can fully do, can offer suggestions to bring Geomancer to being desirable for events. There's a lot more discussion with Rune Fencer and it's capabilities because it's easier to bring to it's current maximum.

I think a solution would be just to alleviate these spells in procurement so more appear on the AH. For example, possible reward from reives as well. Or specify it to lair reives which are more rarely as an incentive to do them with higher loot.

You know, after I read this I was afraid I just got lucky for a day. But either there are some altruistic souls on Quetz or people are spamming Skirmish here because I just got 4 more (indi- and -ra) for 100k each and a couple others for a bit more. I'm guessing it won't be long before this happens on other servers, and I'm probably dumb for not waiting on an even larger price drop.

I certainly wouldn't mind if scrolls became even more readily available through other means, like you suggested. But even if we look beyond early adoption, the history of FFXI is filled with expensive spell prices for essentials. Raise III and Erase I remember being bad for a while, though luckily there was some spam activity when I leveled WHM. Phalanx is still pretty bad for new RDM/PLD/RUN. I don't think these fit the OP's original request, though, since there are other ways to obtain them besides gil. But it turns out that's abundantly true for GEO too now, at least on my server.