I've been using it just to check general pricing from a few origination points, but know I can do better outside the tool. But for that I just use a simple itinerary that's far from the completed one I want.

I have in the past successfully priced out 3 of them in the tool that were quite complex but can't get it to do much anymore. But I still ended up paying $125 change fees right after booking on 2 of them to switch to code shares that were more friendly to AAdvantage earning. So for around that you could get quite a few travel agents to book it for you as you want up front without the headache of dealing with QF as your ticketing airline. As long as you've done a good bit of your homework up front. For example we all know that the tool won't put QR as your first carrier, so just pick something else to get a ballpark price then get your agent to use QR instead. Depending on a few variables it is unlikely to increase your cost when you switch it to QR, at least not significantly and may very well decrease.