Before the Fall 2.55 part 2 - Release date...

[Kiara1]

There are caps on poetics (just as the 2 tomes prior) to prevent players from gearing too quickly. It staggers the gearing up process. With more characters you get more poetics in the sense that you have more characters to grind it on, but you are still cap locked on each of those alts of yours and you aren't able to use those poetics for anyone else.

Hence alts are viable, since you can gear up more classes in a single week- With the current system it takes x weeks to gear up ONE class, and since this game lets you play all classes on one character we should be able to get, say "tankpoetics" "healer poetics" "casterpoetics" "meleepoetics". It isn't made for multiclasses really since you can decide on gearing up one class to max, or getting gear for each class every week but you can't gear them all up until cap is gone

[SDaemon]

Hence alts are viable, since you can gear up more classes in a single week- With the current system it takes x weeks to gear up ONE class, and since this game lets you play all classes on one character we should be able to get, say "tankpoetics" "healer poetics" "casterpoetics" "meleepoetics". It isn't made for multiclasses really since you can decide on gearing up one class to max, or getting gear for each class every week.

Um...your argument was alts being a reason for the cap. The cap doesn't exist to support alts. It exists to slow down the gearing process. With or without alts being possible the cap would still be there. The game is designed to level multiple classes, whether you level multiple jobs is your choice and is supported with various means of getting high-level gear for various jobs.