What are you spending your Poetics on first?

[SirTaint]

Sorry but 2 and 3 less Defense on every piece is actually a substantial amount of flat damage mitigation. thats a total of 14 less defense if you are talking vs 120 gear, and more if you are talking about 130 gear.
Its a lot of money to burn on a sidegrade piece. While the crafted accessories last patch, were BiS all the way through this patch. It seems sort of a let down.

(14 less defense is huge)

14 is not huge, ask Foresight.

The crafted accessories were not BiS unless you were in Savage coil. The same is true of the Wootz set. Its barely better then the other i110 stuff but if you are pushing progression then its worth it.

You also can't cap i120 for 8 weeks.(left side only) i130 is all RNG from Coil since tanks are not getting sands anytime soon and when you do get a sand you'll use it on your Augmented sword.