Do you still make use of Poetics tomes?

I don't need them. I have two jobs under 70, and they are ones I am saving for new potd if we ever get it, so no armor needed. I have something like 3 completed ARR relics and 4 more in various stages, and to be blunt I can't do another relic phase that involves just grinding roulettes for tomes, only. I don't really need a lot of GC seals, because I can make money in other ways, and about the only use for poetics is to level desynth with them.

Sadly thats still more use than for verity, which i use to by scarlet urushi. Thats it.

I use them to gear up alt classes for the most part, nothing all that exciting.

Still have a number sub-50 so it helps when those classes hit 50 and then 60. But otherwise, I don't personally use them for anything else other than the occasional GC dump if I'm tired of being capped on them.

Not too much. All jobs at 70 + all 13 anima weapons. I mostly use them for topsoil for gardening, and any zeta weapons I may work on in the future.

I pretty use them just for GC seal turnover. Directly they serve no purpose anymore to me.

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Originally Posted by Driskus

If I don't need them for gear, all of mine go towards Grade 3 Shroud Soil, which in the end becomes loads of shards & Demimateria when all is said and done.

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May I ask, how does grade 3 shroud soil become demimateria? Just what are you doing for them to become demimateria? And what sort of demimateria (and if they're different levels, for example fieldcraft demimateria 1-3, what levels)? This could be a godsend for me, but I'm truly lost on how you do this.

Everything is at 70, so I only use them for Anima as all my 2.0 relics are done.

I don't use them at all, except when I notice they're capped and I decide to make some side money selling materials. That's about the only time I'll bother.

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Originally Posted by Paladinleeds

May I ask, how does grade 3 shroud soil become demimateria? Just what are you doing for them to become demimateria? And what sort of demimateria (and if they're different levels, for example fieldcraft demimateria 1-3, what levels)? This could be a godsend for me, but I'm truly lost on how you do this.

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The way I do it personally involves mostly using the shroud soil to grow a combo of voidrake & water/lightning shards. Mostly grow the shards with the grade 3, use grade 2 if you have it available for the voidrake, otherwise 3 works the same as 2 for it. I then turn in the voidrake for lots of volcanic rock salt, then buy half that amount in vitriol from the kobold vendor. Synth all that into HQ spirits of salt (rotation is superfast & easy with ala mhigan gear). Every 5 of those gets me an Artisan's Alembic (from Talan in Mor Dhona), which desynths into darksteel, fieldcraft III demimateria, or mastercraft demimateria. Whatever you can get the resources for from growing things is what you turn into desynths. This can work for most of the artisan tools.

CRP: not going to work this way since it needs spruce plywood.
BSM/ARM: get darksteel ore instead, make the needed products.
GSM: get gold ore, make rose gold cogs.
LTW: not gonna work. needs hippogryph leather.
WVR: get silver ore, make ingots, combine with silk thread to make brocade.
ALC: volcanic rock salt, get vitriol from kobold vendor.
CUL: need dzemael tomatoes. probably not the best way since it needs multiple other ingredients to make the final product.

I typically do it in batches of 1000 volcanic salt/500 vitriol. usually takes me a couple days of crafting to get it done since i just make them whenever i'm waiting on queues and stuff. I used to think demimateria hell was real, but now, its not so bad after all. (aethersand still sucks though)

Same list as OP.

Same list as OP. I think Poetics have a place in the game, but I wouldn't mind seeing the items available with them consolidated / reorganized, and made available consistently by NPCs in both Idyllshire and Mor Dhona.