Quote Originally Posted by Moonleg View Post
Poetics seem to now be essentially a "Vanilla gear for glamour" currency; not necessarily a bad thing either if you can desynth Poetics gear!
The main purpose is to help new players increase their iLvl enough to complete the 2.x storyline, since you can't enter any of the 51+ areas until 2.55 is complete, and that requires iLvl 90+ for Steps of Faith. And yeah, for people who don't get HW, it's the only/last tome gear you can get. You'd have to get higher gear (merchant and crafted) from the market board.