Up Poetics Cap to 600.

[Aethaeryn]

I don't think we need such a thing now considering how close 3.0 is to release.

Poetic gear now is mostly best given to a Job you main or to a alt to your main anyways. It is not ment to be something that can be given to all your Jobs until they move on to the next Tome update.

I agree that it's too late to really matter with poetics right now, but this is going to be the same thing we see in 3.0.

I don't think anyone has been asking for it to be completely uncapped so that we can gear every job in a month. People just want to be able to gear more than 1.5-2 jobs every 6 months. This game punishes you for wanting to play multiple jobs, and it also punishes you for making alts. Can't really win if you like to play everything. :/

[Ashkendor]

The promises they made when selling the game, that the game would have a focus on "multiple classes" which clearly isnt the case, as I already stated multiple times.

Never did they say that the game would stuff enough tomes in your pocket to have all of your classes geared in the highest current item level gear at any given level cap. That's not what multiple class support means. It does have a focus on multiple classes, but like many other games you have to choose a class to focus on as a main. After that, you can gear a secondary. Or you could just make an alt instead.

[BigPapaSmurf]

Never did they say that the game would stuff enough tomes in your pocket to have all of your classes geared in the highest current item level gear at any given level cap...

Neither did he say that.

[Viridiana]

Or the maybe it's the fact that you're oblivious to obvious reasons as to why gear upgrades needs to be paced. Also, what promises are you referring to and please provide a source for said promise.

Nevermind that this very forum has given good ideas before on how to simultaneously pace upgrades and let us gear more than one to two classes per patch.

[EdwinLi]

I agree that it's too late to really matter with poetics right now, but this is going to be the same thing we see in 3.0.

I don't think anyone has been asking for it to be completely uncapped so that we can gear every job in a month. People just want to be able to gear more than 1.5-2 jobs every 6 months. This game punishes you for wanting to play multiple jobs, and it also punishes you for making alts. Can't really win if you like to play everything. :/

Well my best guess is that they may increase the basic tome cap in 3.0 or sometime in 3.X era.

But that is still quite sometime away despite how close 3.0 is.

[Ghastly]

My hope is they always follow the poetic formula with a weaker alternative like soldiery for secondary jobs. It's an amazing formula and it's the way to go, big praise from me to Yoshi.

[Ashkendor]

Neither did he say that.

He's indicating that the gear that's readily available (i.e. the currency to buy it is uncapped) isn't good enough for him on his alternate classes, so I can only assume he wants to load them down with poetics gear. Soldiery gear is still more than usable, as is High Allagan gear. You don't really need any better gear for anything short of FCoB (and honestly you don't really NEED it for that either, it just makes things a lot easier).

[Raist]

Have to remember that Poetics puts you in gear that is 30 i-levels higher than what... 90% of the current content available in the game (if not more)?

I've always been annoyed with how the cap didn't accommodate 7 days of the once-daily Expert rate of acquisition simply because you were meeting the cap so early by just running one DF once a day. Not because it hindered gear progression... it was just an OCD kind of thing with the math I guess.

But just the same... I finished my BLM in base Ironworks the other night, and I didn't cap every week initially when they came out because of RL stuff getting in the way. So, rate of acquisition isn't as dire as presented here. Granted, I wouldn't mind if it were a bit faster I guess... but it's steady enough against the rate of new content releases I suppose.

[Dwill]

The promises they made when selling the game, that the game would have a focus on "multiple classes" which clearly isnt the case, as I already stated multiple times.

The game already focuses on multiple classes. You not liking their approach doesn't mean that they aren't.

Nevermind that this very forum has given good ideas before on how to simultaneously pace upgrades and let us gear more than one to two classes per patch.

If you can gear 3+ classes in one patch, then it's not really pacing.

[Viridiana]

If you can gear 3+ classes in one patch, then it's not really pacing.

Depends on what you mean by pacing.