I own all the Ironworks gear from Moh Dohna so I'm always at 2000/2000 for poetics from doing roulette and what not daily. Just wondering if they are used for anything else later on, or is it just for the items with Auriana? Thanks!
What do I use the poetics tomes for now?
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06-29-2015, 10:27 PM416to305What do I use the poetics tomes for now?
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06-29-2015, 10:29 PMTwilite
They become useless like soldiery.
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06-29-2015, 10:33 PM416to305
K thanks, figured just wanted to check.
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06-30-2015, 08:15 AMthunderbreak
Mostly gearing alt jobs for 3.0, 2.0 relic quest and crafting mats, also some minions. You can also trade the poetic gears for grand company seals, so there's that too.
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06-30-2015, 08:23 AMArchvile78
You could always buy poetic gears and desynthesize it, if that's something you do.
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06-30-2015, 09:19 AMFelisSadly crafting mats got removed from the tome shop in Mor DhonaQuote:
Originally Posted by thunderbreak
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06-30-2015, 10:16 AMGamer3427
Yea, even without having all poetics gear, I don't see the point in the tomestones. Without the Carbontwine and Carboncoats to upgrade everything, there's no point in buying the Ironworks gear since you can literally buy equips from the NPC vendors in Ishgard that are only slightly worse, and after two levels, are better. Because of this Poetic tomestones have become even more worthless than Soldiery were, since Weathered gear was at least a good upgrade, (and really the best gear before you got WoD/Ironworks gear), compared to the best gear you could buy at the time, and all the "better" gear required quite a bit of grinding and praying to the RNG for your drop. As is, there's no use for Poetics post lvl 52 unless you're back using them for maps for alexes for a relic weapon.....
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06-30-2015, 10:24 AMEul
You could buy some equip for desynthesis :)
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06-30-2015, 10:28 AMAlphaFoxThis, basically all I do with em now.Quote:
Originally Posted by thunderbreak
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06-30-2015, 10:45 AMKaedan94You can still do the 3 raid repeatable quest for the choice of carbontwine or carboncoats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gamer3427
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06-30-2015, 11:02 AMGamer3427Two things....Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaedan94
1) Did they change it to repeatable daily, or is it still weekly repeatable? If it's still weekly, then by the time you could upgrade a full set of Ironworks gear, you could also have gotten well past the point that the upgraded gear would be useful.....
2) I can still see this as being a viable way of upgrading your gear if you're short on gil now that I think about it. Even buying from the MB, getting full gear at 50 would still cost about 100k, (on my server at least, currently), which while not much for most players, can be a bit much for players who don't craft or gather items, or who otherwise don't sell on the MB. I was just getting at that for the average player, Poetics have become worth a lot less than Soldiery was a week ago, (a little over a week for those of us with EA). Particularly on your first class going into the 3.0 quests, as they throw HQ gear at you like candy every couple of levels...... -
06-30-2015, 11:11 AMKaedan94
1) Not sure. Haven't completed it yet, as I've been too busy with HW. Will let you know. And yes, you are correct. You can probably just level and get things faster anyway. But it's more for gearing out alts than your main.
2) It's just an alternative to questing for gear/buying it. Again, mainly designed for Alts. You can only at most get sets for two jobs via quests, since they generally offer all the DoW armors in one quest and all the DoM armors in the next quest. So if you're gearing up your main with quests, you can basically keep one DoW and one DoM geared as you level. So the Poetics help to catch your other alts up in gear until they can get better gear from the new dungeons or buy it with gil (though unless it's crafted, bought gear won't be HQ).