There will be an update on reducing amounts of material costs and percentage increase in upgrading your gear. IT IS 100% that they will do this update before or sooner after introducing upcoming raids. For now you have to just do your dailies and wait for next raid “Argos” and “Valtan” to come out.
I am 1345 (Parked) and just doing my dailies, Abysal raids (1340) and etc. I am earning golds from selling these overpriced honing materials (Which will drop dramatically in next update).
Gather your honing materials until those raids come out. There is no need to use any materials or waste your golds to upgrade your gears with huge overpriced materials.
Well this tip does not apply to huge whales want to play games with spending real money.