Why no capped tome increase?

[Reinha]

There's no decent reason to not allow this. Yes people will rush to gear out their primary role. There's nothing wrong with that. But our characters are more than one role.

The Creation tomes are used to buy savage level gear and affect both raid progression and content farming. One reason why people farm Ex primals, Omega nm, Rabanastre and savage bosses or buy crafted gear at this point is to gear up alts. Handing out 330/340 gear for doing roulettes would kill all of that content. What you are asking for already exists in a way and it's called Verity. The item level of Verity gear just reflects how easy it is to get.

Example, you can spend up to 450 tomes a week on a set of gear (fending gear, healing gear, maiming gear, etc.) And tomes roll over to the next week if you don't spend them all.

So, the time it takes to get a full set of tome gear would stay the same, but you could get multiple full sets in parallel if you put in the time.

This would be ok if the roles were split in a consistent manner and gear was not shared between them. NIN and BRD/MCH have separate left side gear but use the same accessories. Same with DRG and MNK/SAM. If DRG and MNK have separate caps, then one can use DRG tomes to buy accessories and MNK tomes to buy left side gear. Casters would have no way to keep up with that. The tome caps would have to be based on main stat or primary role (dps/healer/tank) for it to be fair to everyone.

I would also think that the cap of 450 tomes would be a bit high because every job could be fully geared by the time an odd numbered patch arrives, leaving all content obsolete until another tome is introduced.