Proposal for Small change to Poetics

Ok so we all see the shiny new gear and want to build up a set of course but 3 things I do find a whole lot annoying with this category is:

1) Even playing casually just doing the daily roulettes you can cap these in 2 days which means for the remaining 5 days of the week your just losing tons of tokens.
2) You can basically only fully equip one class with the new sets during its lifetime as the "top" collectable set.
3) By the time you have completed the set after about 4 months its ends up going into the lower category 2 months later.

Basically what I propose is removing the weekly cap on poetics and replacing it with a category unlock system where each week you can unlock a different category. For example you can unlock the hands category that week and for the rest of the week you can buy any other piece of poetic hands. The Following week you could unlock the rings hands or feet category and do the same thing over. This would basically be less wasteful and in addition it means your able to not only make sure the sets arent too easy to get but at the same time your able to gear ALL your classes if you put the work into it instead of being restricted to gearing one class.

Obviously the intent in the end is to make sure the gear takes enough time to get but at the same time its also a rather wasteful system that even logging in once a day to do roulettes can be maxed out very quickly. Wether a dev sees this and considers it I dont know but thats my own idea in anyways.

Also Ty remus for the 1k bypass :P

Edit your post to bypass 1000. Also poetics is fine

1) Some casuals don't play everyday and SE seems to want to cater to them so they don't fall too behind.
2) That is the whole point, they don't want people to gear up so fast and then just /quit
3) Welcome to vertical progression

Not saying I like the mythology/soldiery/poetic caps when they were in place, but there's reasons

I would prefer it if they allow you to refund tome gear 1 item a week. Don't know if others see it the same way but I had to switch around roles for my static because we had roster problems and the people we found aren't flexible class wise so I had to bend. I had geared all the necessary roles to i90 by then but having poured most of my soldiery tome into one class expecting to raid with only that class hindered me quite a while before I got back up to speed stats wise. Letting me refund my soldiery gear from my previously used class would have been helpful back then and maybe in the future (tanking now, but who knows, I might have to go back to dps again).

So instead of 4 months to gear 1 job, it's 3 months to gear them all. I don't see how this is a bad thing at all.

I rather see slow Progress so casual players can enjoy time with Hardcore and Roleplaying players rather than a Rush game then quit and wait till something new. So I support the Weekly Cap for any new gears.

I think the cap should be based on the number of classes you have at 50. Nothing too drastic for each additional job. You start the game and your poetics cap is 400. Then for each class you get to 50, that cap raises by 50. I said class here so that people leveling Arcanist wouldn't have an unfair advantage right away.

It's the same old same old since 2.0 so I doubt SE cares/or wants to change the way poetics work. Just deal with it like the rest of us.

Yeah, the caps are a pain in the neck. I've got every job in the game bar Rogue capped and constantly have to pick and choose which one I'm going to upgrade at any given time. Most of my jobs have had to settle for lower tier 'weaker' armor because it's simply impossible to get enough Poetics (and previously, Soldiery) to upgrade them all. This means I essentially only have two jobs I can play for the tougher content since the others simply cannot be geared enough to take part.

Sad part is I know that in a few months time, Poetics will replace Soldiery and we'll be back to the whole melodrama of losing out on gear I can no longer obtain with any ease, pushing those jobs even further back in item level than ever before.

How would chest/legs work which are 825 poetics? Or the 120 weapons which are 1300 poetics?

You don't need every job at max ilvl. Everything outside coil is doable with ilvl 90 gear, nevermind ilvl 100/110 which, with the soldiery cap removal and ST loot lockout removal makes gearing up other jobs easier.

I think there a room for a lot of improvement on the current system, but your suggestion is... frankly just bad.

Once you have geared up your main, and either can't get better gear, or it's greatly slowed down because you have all the weathered gear or something... then you would many times want to gear up an alt job, but with your system, you would already have all your jobs geared up... Pretty boring IMO.

I'm a guy that usually just focus on one job, but even then, I would hate this... I don't want to gear up my main, only to never get past my alts, who have the same level of armor....

How about if tome gear would not have required class/job and required level, but favored class/job and optimal level?
It would be very easy not just to gear up the main, but also to gear up all the other DoM and DoW classes/jobs at the same time. Then you can equip every tome gear, regardless of class/job and level.
Of course you would not get the full stats if not the favored class/job at the optimal level have equiped it, but isn't it about the gear for visual appearance and not the stats? ^^

The item slot unlocking is an interesting idea, but I don't think the tomes are really in need of tweaking.
Sure it would be nice to sometimes be able to hop on an off-spec for some encounters but that's all it would be. Nice.