As you play Last Fantasy 14, you’ll amass tons of a particular forex known as Allagan Tomestones of Poetics. This forex has a cap of two,000, so you must spend them fairly than letting extras you get waste away to the aether. When you’re simply beginning out, it may be onerous to determine the place to spend them.
Understand that you aren’t going to make tens of millions of gil in revenue from Poetics. Each participant above degree 50 has Poetics, so there’s an enormous surplus. Each time a brand new enlargement comes out, you’re capable of buy the earlier enlargement’s stuff with Poetics, in order that they’re only a unified manner to purchase outdated stuff. Nonetheless, there are a variety of priceless private makes use of for Poetics!
The place to spend Tomestones of Poetics in FFXIV
You may commerce in your Poetics at each enlargement’s hub city (Mor Dhona, Idyllshire, and so forth.) however Rowena’s Consultant distributors promote all the things as much as the Stormblood enlargement, saving you the journey. (You’ll nonetheless have to go to Eulmore to get Shadowbringers gadgets, although.)
You will discover these NPCs on the map in a lot of the hub cities close to the principle Aetheryte as marked by the blue sack icon:
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Beneath, we checklist just a few issues you may dump them on, so as of our private choice.
Leveling gear for fight jobs
You will get Augmented Ironworks (degree 50) gear, Augmented Shire (degree 60) gear, and Augmented Scaevan (degree 70) gear from a Rowena’s Consultant NPC. You’ll should go to Eulmore to get Augmented Cryptlurker (degree 80) gear, although.
These items is fairly sturdy and it’ll take you a lot of the solution to the subsequent degree benchmark earlier than you’ll have to improve.
Relic weapon supplies
When you’re , you should buy the supplies for a number of the earlier expansions’ relic weapons for Poetics. You’ll solely want to purchase Thavnairian Scalepowder for the Shadowbringers relic weapon, however the A Realm Reborn relics and Heavensward relics require a plethora of various supplies.
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A Realm Reborn/Zodiac weapons require:
- 1 Radz-at-Han Quenching Oil
- 3 Thavnairian Mist
- 9 Courageous Books (a quest merchandise that’s solely purchasable if you’re on the step that wants these things)
- 3 Superior Enchanted Ink
- 15 Mysterious Maps (to get Alexandrite, which you may as well get for Allied Seals)
- 4 Sacred Spring Water
- 12 Mahatma (one other quest merchandise that’s solely purchasable throughout this step)
Heavensward/Anima weapons require:
- 10 Unidentifiable Ore
- 10 Unidentifiable Shells
- 10 Unidentifiable Bones
- 10 Unidentifiable Seeds
- 5 Aether Oil
- ~60 Umbrite
- ~150 Superior Enchanted Ink
- ~150 Thavnairian Mist (this and the ink are wanted to craft into Crystal Sand, which may also be obtained in change for Blue Scrip Tokens)
- 50 Singing Clusters
- 15 Pneumite
- 1 Archaic Enchanted Ink
That mentioned, you may replenish on a variety of these items for those who’re ever planning on backtracking relic weapons. Yay!
Orchestrions
A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, and Stormblood all have orchestrion rolls to purchase from Rowena’s Consultant for various costs, for those who like to gather the sport’s music.
Gear to commerce for Grand Firm seals
Okay, right here’s the factor. If all of your fight jobs are at max degree and also you don’t want that Cryptlurker (or older) gear anymore, you should buy it after which go flip it in to your Grand Firm for firm seals. It’s finest to purchase rings, as they’re the most affordable and nonetheless flip in for round 1,700 seals. You do must be Sergeant Second Class rank or larger at your respective GC, although.
This fashion, you should utilize GC seals to purchase issues like Ventures, GC Aetheryte Tickets, Glamour Prisms, and even Materiel Containers, that are successfully RNG loot packing containers for outdated minions and even mounts, for those who’re fortunate. When you don’t have already got it, there are additionally emotes, orchestrion rolls, and chocobo bardings to purchase.
Unidentifiable Ore to commerce in for Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil
That is actually the final resort. In case you have all the things above (or for those who actually don’t need that stuff), the soil market is all the time wonderful. To get it, you’ll have to commerce your Poetics for Unidentifiable Ore (sure, the identical ones wanted for the Anima weapon) after which head to Idyllshire. Discuss to Bertana within Mowena’s Heart for Cultural Promotion and choose “Uncanny Knickknacks” to commerce your ore for topsoil.
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Many of the supplies you commerce Poetics for are extraordinarily outdated and have little-to-no worth anymore. Nonetheless, topsoil is just about all the time in use (although the value does fluctuate) as you’ll want high-grade soil to cross breed particular vegetation (just like the very priceless Thavnairian Onion).
Some gamers will word that they’d fairly simply let their Poetics overcap than to even trouble promoting soil, nevertheless it’s as much as you.