The first alt I made was a druid. She was originally just to d/e my green drops, and I'd read that tailoring was the best profession to level up enchanting with. I got her up to 35, and maxed both professions out to 300.
Now, I'm actually leveling her up. I plan to make her a healer when she hits 70. I'm wondering if I should drop tailoring and try to powerlevel leatherworking without a skinning character, or will the healing patterns in tailoring be acceptable?
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Whoever told you tailoring was the best to go with enchanting was flawed. The main reason most people go tailor+chant is because most people make a clothie their tailor, and just pick up enchanting as well since no gathering skill goes with tailoring. For enchanting, you actually have four options which would be more cost-effective, 3 of them lumped together:
1. Go enchanting + gathering (mining, skinning, herbalism) to rake in the gold to fund your enchanting. My warrior is skinner + enchanter, the skinning generates a little extra gold since enchanting is so darn expensive.
2. Go enchanting + leatherworking. Leather is generally cheaper than cloth, so if you sell your cloth mats and buy leather mats, you can get cheaper greens to DE. And hey, at the same time you get leather gear!
I'm not too sure how the LW gear works for healing, but if you want to heal in PvP you need to have only 1 piece of cloth gear - your cloak. other than that, leather, leather, jewelery! In PvE healing I'm sure cloth gear would work just fine, but it should be interim gear, not goal gear.
1. Go enchanting + gathering (mining, skinning, herbalism) to rake in the gold to fund your enchanting. My warrior is skinner + enchanter, the skinning generates a little extra gold since enchanting is so darn expensive.
2. Go enchanting + leatherworking. Leather is generally cheaper than cloth, so if you sell your cloth mats and buy leather mats, you can get cheaper greens to DE. And hey, at the same time you get leather gear!
I'm not too sure how the LW gear works for healing, but if you want to heal in PvP you need to have only 1 piece of cloth gear - your cloak. other than that, leather, leather, jewelery! In PvE healing I'm sure cloth gear would work just fine, but it should be interim gear, not goal gear.
I can tell you from experience that leveling tailoring is soooo much cheaper than leveling Leatherworking. Tailoring requires a little arcane dust as well as Netherweb spidersilk for the last 30 or so points (as well as cloth) and the items you craft can be DE'd to give you Large Prismatic Shards which are worth heaps at the moment.
LW requires a heap of Primals for the last 30 or so points and really, really hurts.
All my current alts are being leveled with tailoring & alchemy for the Primal Mooncloth making & transmute speciality. Most of them are able to level most of their tailoring without even buying cloth with just what they gather while leveling. Except for the Netherweave which you need massiva amounts of. I just get all my 70's to send any they collect to my bank toon who's bank & backback are full of netherweave waiting for the next alt to get up to needing it. With selling all the DE'd tailoring stuff, it probably costs me more in training the various patterns & buying the silk thread etc than it does for all the mats to level.
LW requires a heap of Primals for the last 30 or so points and really, really hurts.
All my current alts are being leveled with tailoring & alchemy for the Primal Mooncloth making & transmute speciality. Most of them are able to level most of their tailoring without even buying cloth with just what they gather while leveling. Except for the Netherweave which you need massiva amounts of. I just get all my 70's to send any they collect to my bank toon who's bank & backback are full of netherweave waiting for the next alt to get up to needing it. With selling all the DE'd tailoring stuff, it probably costs me more in training the various patterns & buying the silk thread etc than it does for all the mats to level.
RareBeast wrote:
I can tell you from experience that leveling tailoring is soooo much cheaper than leveling Leatherworking. Tailoring requires a little arcane dust as well as Netherweb spidersilk for the last 30 or so points (as well as cloth) and the items you craft can be DE'd to give you Large Prismatic Shards which are worth heaps at the moment.
LW requires a heap of Primals for the last 30 or so points and really, really hurts.
All my current alts are being leveled with tailoring & alchemy for the Primal Mooncloth making & transmute speciality. Most of them are able to level most of their tailoring without even buying cloth with just what they gather while leveling. Except for the Netherweave which you need massiva amounts of. I just get all my 70's to send any they collect to my bank toon who's bank & backback are full of netherweave waiting for the next alt to get up to needing it. With selling all the DE'd tailoring stuff, it probably costs me more in training the various patterns & buying the silk thread etc than it does for all the mats to level.
LW requires a heap of Primals for the last 30 or so points and really, really hurts.
All my current alts are being leveled with tailoring & alchemy for the Primal Mooncloth making & transmute speciality. Most of them are able to level most of their tailoring without even buying cloth with just what they gather while leveling. Except for the Netherweave which you need massiva amounts of. I just get all my 70's to send any they collect to my bank toon who's bank & backback are full of netherweave waiting for the next alt to get up to needing it. With selling all the DE'd tailoring stuff, it probably costs me more in training the various patterns & buying the silk thread etc than it does for all the mats to level.
I had to use about 20 primal earths to level LW up to 375. That's not a heap. That's nothing, as primal earths sell for 4 gold each on my server. I have a miner who gets them all the time anyway so I didn't even have to buy any.
The only expensive / time consuming part of leveling leatherworking is the Thick Clefthoof Leather. 360-365 will require 100. 365 - 370 will require 20+. 370 - 375 is amazingly simple. From 350-360 make Heavy Knothide Armor Kits, very cheap mats (just some Heavy Knothide Leather). From 360-365 make Heavy Clefthoof Boots. Fairly expensive but it's only 5 points. Then Make Drums of Battle from 365-370 and Drums of Panic from 370-375 and you're set. LW is by FAR the cheapest and easiest to level profession I've done.
Actually, I stand corrected. When I did LW (just after BC came out) the Heavy Clefthoof Leather was selling for much more than it is now. Also they nerfed the mats cost of the drums a few patches ago to make them much cheaper to craft as well.
When I was doing it, each point from about 360 was costing about 100g worth of mats, and even then the recipes were yellow so you sometimes didn't get a skillup :(
I still think that tailoring is cheaper as most of the cloth can be collected while leveling, but the difference is far less than I implied earlier.
When I was doing it, each point from about 360 was costing about 100g worth of mats, and even then the recipes were yellow so you sometimes didn't get a skillup :(
I still think that tailoring is cheaper as most of the cloth can be collected while leveling, but the difference is far less than I implied earlier.
RareBeast wrote:
Actually, I stand corrected. When I did LW (just after BC came out) the Heavy Clefthoof Leather was selling for much more than it is now. Also they nerfed the mats cost of the drums a few patches ago to make them much cheaper to craft as well.
When I was doing it, each point from about 360 was costing about 100g worth of mats, and even then the recipes were yellow so you sometimes didn't get a skillup :(
I still think that tailoring is cheaper as most of the cloth can be collected while leveling, but the difference is far less than I implied earlier.
When I was doing it, each point from about 360 was costing about 100g worth of mats, and even then the recipes were yellow so you sometimes didn't get a skillup :(
I still think that tailoring is cheaper as most of the cloth can be collected while leveling, but the difference is far less than I implied earlier.
Yeah, the simultaneous cheapification and easification that 2.3 brought to high-level leatherworking ruled, almost as much as our newfound ability to use drums in form. In fact, the lower-rep-required cheaper-mat drum patterns is the only reason I bothered moving on from the magical 361 that for many of us druids represented the one point we got from making our own Heavy Clefthoof Vest at 360.
I was, however, pretty dissapointed to find out that you can't disenchant the blue Drums of Battle you can make as you level from 365+. I was anticipating a cheap source of shards...guess Blizz saw that one comin.
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