I'm rather new to the World here... I was just wondering what the best path for a Hunter doing Leatherworking would be. I was looking at Dragonscale and thougt that would be good, but a friend of mine told me Tribal would be the best overall for money and the agility I'm going to need as a Hunter.
Also... I'm only 190 in my leatherworking. Where would be the best place to get Medium/heavy leather, seeing as how I can't do thick yet?
Edited, Fri Feb 17 08:50:22 2006 by KingJudas
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As only a lvl 39 hunter right now, I can't really speak to the Tribal vs Dragonscale question... But for Medium and Heavy leathers I've had really good luck in Desolace, 1000 Needles, and Arathi Highlands. Unfortunately most of the mobs I've found Heavy leather on are closer to 35-38 levels. For a fairly consistent drop of Heavy on lower levels mobs you could try the Worgen in Duskwood. They tended to drop fairly well and you get the bonus of collecting money from each kill as well as being able to skin them. hope this helps!
i'd say that you should go with tribal if you wanna make money, elemental if you are ranged/crit speced and if you wanna get some pretty good armor that takes forever to make, go for the dragonscale.
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Why is elemental good for if I'm ranged/crit speced? What kind of elemental armor can you make for someone speced for ranged/crit? I am actually ranged/crit speced, but I went with the tribal for money. I just hit lvl 46 and I'm at 270 on leatherworking now.
Stranglethorn Vale (at least in my opinion) is the best for leather farming. The upper (northern) area gives the medium leather drops, the middle gives heavy leather, and if/when you hit thick leather, you can skin it in the southernmost area. This way if you are feeling like one area is too high-lvl for you, you can just move a little further north where mobs are weaker. Also, there are lots of beast-mobs, so lots of skinning available. A good idea would be to get the flight path to Booty Bay, too...there are a couple leatherworking quests there.
I'm a level 60 hunter with Dragonscale Leatherworking. I'm missing very few patterns. It can be profitable. Chromatic Cloak is an epic craftable cloak that pvpers love. If you can get the pattern (Just takes a few runs in Dire Maul North) you can make money on it.
Depending on your server Dragonscale can be profitable to varying degrees. I used to sell Dragonscale Gauntlets for 25-30g when the server was still smaller pop. We had two transfers and its down to maybe 12g now. The price is low enough that I don't btoher making them anymore. Black Dragonscale goods still sell well. Especially if you farm the materials yourself. If you get the legging pattern, and there is a low number of them out there, you have a license to print a limited amount of money. Hunters and Shamns (if youa re horde) need the Fire Resist on these.
Depending on your server Dragonscale can be profitable to varying degrees. I used to sell Dragonscale Gauntlets for 25-30g when the server was still smaller pop. We had two transfers and its down to maybe 12g now. The price is low enough that I don't btoher making them anymore. Black Dragonscale goods still sell well. Especially if you farm the materials yourself. If you get the legging pattern, and there is a low number of them out there, you have a license to print a limited amount of money. Hunters and Shamns (if youa re horde) need the Fire Resist on these.
STV is great for harvesting leather. There are tons of animal mobs to skin. It's also a popular zone, so there are usually lots of unskinned mob corpses just laying around waiting to be skinned.
Broaddus' suggestions were also right on. Arathi, Desolace, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
Make sure you go there with plenty of bag space. The other things the animals drop (whiskers and such) are also pretty decent vendor trash.
As to the Dragonscale vs. Tribal question, I'm pondering that same thing myself. One thing I have found on my server is that if you're going to be buying recipes in the AH, the prices of Dragonscale patterns were shockingly more expensive than the patterns for the other leatherworking specialties. A pattern for a piece of elemental armor, for example, would have a 1.5 gp buyout. Dragonscale pattern was 20-80 gp (or more). I'm not talking about one specific dragonscale pattern. They were all similarly priced.
Broaddus' suggestions were also right on. Arathi, Desolace, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
Make sure you go there with plenty of bag space. The other things the animals drop (whiskers and such) are also pretty decent vendor trash.
As to the Dragonscale vs. Tribal question, I'm pondering that same thing myself. One thing I have found on my server is that if you're going to be buying recipes in the AH, the prices of Dragonscale patterns were shockingly more expensive than the patterns for the other leatherworking specialties. A pattern for a piece of elemental armor, for example, would have a 1.5 gp buyout. Dragonscale pattern was 20-80 gp (or more). I'm not talking about one specific dragonscale pattern. They were all similarly priced.
Why does Tribal mean more money? Aren't Rogues the only people who wear it? I'm confused as to which road to take myself. I'm about to hit lvl 41 and my leather working is 250. I haven't chosen a specialty yet but I was leaning toward Dragonscale for the increased armor. Do Hunters and Shamen really wear leather when they could be wearing mail? I want to take the specialty that I will get the most use out of as a Hunter. As far as money I was planning to harvest Black Dragon Scales and Devilsaur Leather to sell in the AH. Is this not a good plan? Should I focus more on being able to sell craftable items instead of mats?
feral druids and rogues like devilsaur patterns which can earn you loads and loads of money, since they are really good items.
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I'm a level 39 Hunter, and only have a couple of thousand to make 40, I have been hunting in Stranglethorn Vale and the Badlands for Leather, they are both rich in Beasts, and Stranglethorn has dozens of quests!
I should make 40 today, and have to make the path choice as well, A friend (Level 60 Rogue) told me that the Dragon hide path will be best for my Night Elf Hunter.
I will do a little more research and let you know what I have decided...
Dronaith
I should make 40 today, and have to make the path choice as well, A friend (Level 60 Rogue) told me that the Dragon hide path will be best for my Night Elf Hunter.
I will do a little more research and let you know what I have decided...
Dronaith
I, myself, am a hunter.. Currently level 45 with 261 dragonscale leatherworking (which of course doesn't matter..), but I'd say go for Dragonscale, as that is VERY profitable... The Black Dragonscale set (which you can create at 290-300 skill), normally sells for 100-150g on my server, and if you're a hunter, being able to create mail armor is nice, too... I'd say it goes likes this: (not sure, though)
Tribal: Druids
Elemental: Rogues
Dragonscale: Hunter, Shaman
Tribal: Druids
Elemental: Rogues
Dragonscale: Hunter, Shaman
Hunter can easily get away with wearing leather in PvE since their pets should always be tanking anyway. Devilsaur gear is pretty nice till you get instance stuff for example.
My shaman is dragonscale, but I hardly ever craft anything. It's way easier to make money with my alts running around collecting herbs/ore (mostly herbs).
My shaman is dragonscale, but I hardly ever craft anything. It's way easier to make money with my alts running around collecting herbs/ore (mostly herbs).
take tribal because you can just make tons of money and buy the other stuff. sad but true.
The prices of Dragonscale leather patterns are insane on my server(prolly cause its fairly new) Ive seen them go for up to 700g each. I get the feeling that it will only be lucrative on my server if either the prices go down or i get my own patterns. :-/
PhineasPoe wrote:
...Do Hunters and Shamen really wear leather when they could be wearing mail?...
Keep in mind that there are higher-level leatherworking recipes that are actually mail.
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