I recently saw the post on reddit regarding increasing the cap of poetics. Which when I saw the response to why it won't be increased I thought well that's not a valid reason at all.

The tidbit I am talking about:

Q3. Can you increase the number of max. Poetics that can be held? There are lots of uses for it from gear to Relic Weapons and 2000 seems to be too little of amount for it. It should be at least twice as what it is now.

A3. Allagan Tomestones is one of the most important items in the game that are used in various matter. I believe their uses will keep on increasing in the future.

However, if we increase the number that can be held because there are a lot of use for it the game's meta will change to that of storing it in advance because there will be a lot of use for it and the developer will have to increase the amount of Poetic Tomestones required for an item. Therefore 2000 is set as an method of preventing from hording it more than it is required. I'm sorry.

(Editor's note: tldr; inflation so no.)
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...rean_pll_last/


I decided to have a look at what can be bought with poetics that could possibly cause "inflation" and other than materia and maybe Unidentified stuff to trade for topsoil everything seemed kinda meh. Sure you can buy stuff for the relic weapons but you only do those for the collection and not for the actual use of the weapon beyond maybe glamour. From my experience "Inflation" also doesn't work like that. The less there is of something the more value there is to it.

Also materia is thrown around by the buckets. I actually use to hand in materia every week for the Doma hand-ins and I still have a ton of the stuff that I decided to turn my fishing retainer into a materia hoarder (Even have some elemental materia in there for the lols)

Now if they were referring to the other tomestones then yes, I get it and honestly don't mind the cap on those. I just find it really silly to have to go buy something every time I cap poetics just to turn it into GC seals for the sake of buying another few ventures.

tldr; There is no valid reason to have a cap on poetics other than to make me go buy stuff I am never going to use.