Do you still make use of Poetics tomes?

[RokkuEkkusu]

I have seen people use them. I have seen people dismiss them.

What is your current stance on poetics tomes?

For me, I still use them for the following:

1. Gearing up alt classes below 70.
2. Buying and turning in shire accessories to GC for GC seals and FC points.
3. Relic (Zodiac and Anima items, though I just put them on the side until I need them).

[hynaku]

Nope haven't used them for over a year. All of my job classes is between level 60 to 70. Also already have full set of ilvl 270 for all my classes that level 60. wish could trade them up for creation tomestones.

[Darrcyphfeid]

I'm mostly finished with Poetics at this point. I have all the Ironworks and Shire gear upgraded and stored on retainers, I have all of the items I need for the last bits of my Zodiac and Anima relics, and I don't really care about GC seals/don't need Topsoils. About the only use I have left for Poetics are to purchase the Mahatma for the Zetas since you can't purchase them in advance. I need about 2,400 total for that; I'm currently sitting capped.

I'm not advocating for their removal and I don't especially want anything else added to them for purchase (until next expansion when they move the i390 Tomestone gear into them) either, though. It's good that there's a defined endpoint since they're really useful for getting leveling gear.

[Driskus]

If I don't need them for gear, all of mine go towards Grade 3 Shroud Soil, which in the end becomes loads of shards & Demimateria when all is said and done.

[XiXiQ]

yeah, I've just been getting unidentifiable ore and trading that for thanalan soil with them, so they are useful for something. Just

[Sacred_Nym]

I burned through a bunch recently with several of my lower level jobs closing in on 50 and working on a BRD anima for glamour. I expect though that soon enough I won't have a use for them anymore.Can you even get mats from them anymore?

[Fynlar]

I still need an asston more umbrite and poetics are still the only way to get them, so yes.

[BillyKaplan]

Getting relic maps to try and spawn Agrippa the Mighty >_>

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I decided to go back and do Anima, so whenever I'm close to capping, I dump them for Umbrite. Can't say I ever want to do ARR relics again though. Fuck those books.

[Squintina]

Pretty much the same thing as you:

1. alt jobs
2. relic
3. get gear to turn in for GC seals (which are then used to buy mats to sell on MB, money money moneeeeyyy)

#3 is also how I spend allied seals when I'm not buying aetheryte tickets or venture coins.

While I don't seek out poetics (or AS) anymore, I do try to keep them unmaxed because all those GC = money, and I imagine I'll treat Creation the same way once 4.2 comes out and I gear up my other jobs.