capped on allagan tomestone of poetics - what can I do with them?

I have shire gear or better, but dont have access to stormblood yet (working on dragonsong). So, afaik nothing to spend them on. They are going to waste now since Im capped on them. Is there a tomestone or something I should trade these for to save for later? I see I can trade for encrypted tomestone, rowena's token (poetics), and rowena's token (soldiery) but I dont know what those are for or if it would help.

You can upgrade your Shire gear with items in the Other tab from the same vendor. Take the item and the gear to another vendor in Idyllshire to trade it in for Augmented Shire.

If you have everything you want and you're still capped, you can buy Demimateria and sell it to a vendor for some extra gil.

If you're into Relic Chasing, you'll never have enough poetics. Otherwise, what Mollusk said.

You'll have to wait till early StormBlood to buy i390 scaevan gear with them. That's the best gear once you reach level 70.

But do you have upgraded Ironworks and Shire gear for all combat classes?

That's what I do with my poetics when I start capping on them. I go and start buying and upgrading the 50 and 60 (and now 70) gear for the rest of the jobs. I haven't yet reached the point where I've completed all of those sets. I'll figure that part out when I get there, I guess.

Unidentifiable Ore > Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil > save until a patch that introduces new gardening crossbreeds > sell on MB

If you have nothing to spend poetics on gear wise, as in you upgraded your gear to 270 & don't need them you could always buy material or materials & either sell them, or put them into your gear.
Also going to assume you don't have access to SB yet.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

Unidentifiable Ore > Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil > save until a patch that introduces new gardening crossbreeds > sell on MB

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Shhh.. you're giving away the money making secrets!

Never cap on poetics. Never. Buy resources to sell, work on a relic, get gear for an alt in advance, get things to level up your desynth, etc. There's always SOMETHING to spend it on to make a profit, so never cap them

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Originally Posted by CazzT

If you're into Relic Chasing, you'll never have enough poetics. Otherwise, what Mollusk said.

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This. Relics ate my tomestsones. All of them. No mercy.
ARR is pretty tame now but HW relic still eats thousands of poetics with no way to lower the costs for the most part.
If you want to actively play some other combat classes, the (augmented) 50/60 gear is always worth investing into. Otherwise: mats.

buy tome gears and upgrade them for each class in the game, work your relics, buy tome craft item and sell them on mb

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Originally Posted by Rilifane

This. Relics are my tomestsones. All of them. No mercy.
ARR is pretty tame now but HW relic still eats thousands of poetics with no way to lower the costs for the most part.
If you want to actively play some other combat classes, the (augmented) 50/60 gear is always worth investing into. Otherwise: mats.

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God, I can't even get through the nerfed books. The people that did that in ARR's prime are MVP's.

I used mine to get all my job's lvl 70 ilvl400 gear lol. After you finish collecting all the gear you need you can start wasting them on old 4.0 crafting mats. Most of them still sell for 1-1.5k each :D.

Try looking up these 2 items:

Ground Sloth Pelt
Thavnairian Alumen

I think you could buy them NQ for 10 poetics each. That's at least 200k for 2000 poetics.

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Originally Posted by Taramin

God, I can't even get through the nerfed books. The people that did that in ARR's prime are MVP's.

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Yes... I would know. It was absolutely brutal.

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God, I can't even get through the nerfed books. The people that did that in ARR's prime are MVP's.

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It sucked. Waiting for the right FATEs was what took most time for me as gold rating was needed and I was often too late to get it with so many other people doing them. As a dps I imagine the queue times for the 45+ dungeons were annoying aswell.
But on the bright side: the books are the longest and most annoying stage. Everything after that is relatively fast and easy, escpecially at 60+.
Book stage was the one where I almost gave up.

There are no bad suggestions here, but one thing not mentioned is that you can use poetics to trade for combat based grade VI materia in Idyllshire for 800 each. There are other ways to obtain grade VI (obviously) but it's no longer awarded through DF dailies (via clusters) and it's a 20 point stat increase over grade VII while requiring a much lower iLvl to meld. As you move into Shadowbringers, having some extra materia couldn't hurt.

Also, 2000 poetics might seem like a lot, but you can hit cap a couple of times a week just by doing dailies, so if you stay on top of it, you will find that they have many uses because they are basically SE's way of making sure new players can catch up.