Everyone used to get on my case about buying a dark staff...I never wanted to spend 200k on a staff I didn't ever skill up on.
I was good at healing without one as well. Then at level 72 I came upon this beauty for 48000 conquest points. I had only 30k or so saved up...so I checked the AH. There were nine of them for sale at an average price of 9000gil!
So now I spend 9000 gil while everyone else wastes 200k on a darkstaff. I think I got the deal :)