What do I use the poetics tomes for now?

[Gamer3427]

Words.

Two things....

1) Did they change it to repeatable daily, or is it still weekly repeatable? If it's still weekly, then by the time you could upgrade a full set of Ironworks gear, you could also have gotten well past the point that the upgraded gear would be useful.....

2) I can still see this as being a viable way of upgrading your gear if you're short on gil now that I think about it. Even buying from the MB, getting full gear at 50 would still cost about 100k, (on my server at least, currently), which while not much for most players, can be a bit much for players who don't craft or gather items, or who otherwise don't sell on the MB. I was just getting at that for the average player, Poetics have become worth a lot less than Soldiery was a week ago, (a little over a week for those of us with EA). Particularly on your first class going into the 3.0 quests, as they throw HQ gear at you like candy every couple of levels......

[Kaedan94]

1) Not sure. Haven't completed it yet, as I've been too busy with HW. Will let you know. And yes, you are correct. You can probably just level and get things faster anyway. But it's more for gearing out alts than your main.

2) It's just an alternative to questing for gear/buying it. Again, mainly designed for Alts. You can only at most get sets for two jobs via quests, since they generally offer all the DoW armors in one quest and all the DoM armors in the next quest. So if you're gearing up your main with quests, you can basically keep one DoW and one DoM geared as you level. So the Poetics help to catch your other alts up in gear until they can get better gear from the new dungeons or buy it with gil (though unless it's crafted, bought gear won't be HQ).