Tribal Leatherworking or Alchemy??Follow

i went up to 300 tribal and i agree with you, i barely wore anything i made either on my hunter (pre-40) or my druid. i dont even see much that a rogue could wear beyond what he would go to instances for. yes there are a few pieces, but you can still get good stuff from instances if you choose to do that. eg even at the early levels when stats don't matter much, alliance rogues still spend a heck of a lot of time trying to get defias gear rather than wear something a LW makes.

i think the satisfaction comes in having a few characters and being your own little trade shop. if you need enchanted leather or refined deep rock salt one day, you'll be glad your LW can make it easily.

alternatively, if your new warrior needs some potions to help him get an edge, having an alchemist in the wings is great.

when you have 3-4 characters, you can have a fairly decent self-sufficience.

it's pretty easy to get 4 characters to 35 to get max 300 trade skill, while one may only really be at 60 supplying all the others with mats. eventually of course, you'll play the others and get them to 60 or closer to it.

so to answer your question, what kind of satisfaction can you get from it? i think potions may be more useable to your character(s). but herbs may sell more often and you find that actually making potions isn't that useful for generating money.

you end up really just selling herbs you collected, and not even making that many potions either. when you hit 60, you probably won't want to spend your time collecting herbs to use, so then you spend money at the AH buying herbs. this will get costly if you make potions for you and your friends.