Do you get the tome dungeon reward when running unsynched? If so, then it seems to me that people can just run KotL unsynched to get poetics for the bones and shells. At 100 poetics per 15 minute run, that would take about 68 hours to get all the poetics for the 20 bones and 20 shells...
Another way to look at it is that it would take just 68 KotL runs to get 10 tokens, while it would take 100 A1/A2 runs for the same tokens...