Poetics

[Iscah]

Small point of clarification: At 60, you'll be buying i270 Augmented Shire gear. i240 looks to be raid gear. Looks like you could also technically buy it with poetics, but... naturally better to gear up with the best first, save the lower stuff for glamour options.

He did say Shire, but certainly getting numbers crossed somewhere...

Also worth mentioning that you get a few free sets of the i240 primal gear during post-Heavensward, though in any case it sounds like the real issue is elsewhere...

Good info, but it's the 2K carry cap that has me concerned. The gear is untradeable, so I assume unsellable. I have plenty of 50 gear, most of what I wear is 56/139 crafted gear (VERY generous FC folks!). I contemplated the skip to HW, but I'd rather see the story play out...

If you're "contemplating the skip to Heavensward" (don't) then you're a long way off accessing any of the level 60 poetics gear anyway. You're also quite overlevelled and should look at picking up alternate classes to share some experience around.

You won't be able to spend poetics on level 60 gear until late in Heavensward, and you'll run into the same problem when you want level 70 gear before the end of Stormblood. But it's absolutely not worth skipping the game just to avoid wasting them.

If you need to spend poetics but don't need anything right now, you can look at buying level 50 gear for other classes, or you could start stocking up on items you'll need for the level 60 relic weapon (basically a poetics sink for glamour now) which are sold in Mor Dhona under the "special arms" tab of the gear vendor.

From memory, for the first few steps you need:
10 of each "unidentified" item
5 pots of aether oil
80 umbrite

If you get all that and still need to spend more, equal amounts of enchanted ink and Thavnairian Mist up to 200 each.

[Rongway]

But it's absolutely not worth skipping the game just to avoid wasting them.

This, though. Poetics fall off trees. You will have so many poetics throughout your adventuring career that you won't know what to do with. If you really care to, you can spend them on crafting materials and then sell those on the board, but unless you're quite diligent about doing it (and I personally don't think it's worth worrying about), you'll find yourself capping often with nothing worthwhile to spend them on.

If you have inventory space, you might pre-gear your next job to hit the available poetics gear levels. But otherwise don't worry too much if you find yourself sitting on 2,000 often.