What are you spending your Poetics on first?

[Zerker]

Since the bard set sucks even more than the soldiery set, it's hard to say - probably the gloves, since they actually have something besides skill speed on them.

Have you seen the bard poetic gear? The majority of bard BiS will probably be poetic...

[EdgeFayth]

Have you seen the bard poetic gear? The majority of bard BiS will probably be poetic...

Are you kidding?
I did my BRD BiS, in order to have around 525 acc for T13 (I go up to 550 with lava toad legs, which would be more than enough for T13), end then maximizing crit and det.
See here:

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/O4BT

Poetic items:
Left side: Head, Feet
Right side: Necklace, Ring

Poetic stuff (even the weapon) has crappy stats for BRD.

[Ooshima]

Are you kidding?
I did my BRD BiS, in order to have around 525 acc for T13 (I go up to 550 with lava toad legs, which would be more than enough for T13), end then maximizing crit and det.
See here:

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/O4BT

Poetic items:
Left side: Head, Feet
Right side: Necklace, Ring

Poetic stuff (even the weapon) has crappy stats for BRD.

I have to say that nope. Ironworks for BRD aren't entirely crap - 4/6 of their body are actually good (accuracy + crit/det or crit + det) but taking into account of overall mix/max with accuracy requirement, we only need 4 Ironworks pieces. The hands and gloves are usable if T10 refuses to drop that for you by the time you got your Magitek Bow.

I would probably complete the full set for glamours tho.