I play a level 30 Hunter, currently Skinning/Mining. My plan was to keep up those two professions so I could raise a bunch of money, then eventually drop Mining and pick up Leatherworking, and try to skill up really quickly.
So, I currently have 128g and I'm wondering if I'm ready. How much money can I expect to blow on LW before my skill gets high enough to become profitable? Keeping in mind that 100g mount I need to buy in 10 levels, is now the right time?
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Keep in mind that the higher your level, the more money you will need for training and other expenses. I leveled leather working right from the start on my very first character(also a hunter) and while I had enough for my mount at level 40, it was a bit touch and go. The higher level leatherworking recipes typically start requiring higher end mats that may be harder for you to acquire.
I won't try to dissuade you against crafting, I find both leatherworking and tailoring to be personally rewarding. However, don't expect to go into these professions to earn any significant amount of money. While you certainly can earn some and there are other ways to defray your expenses....you may wish to consider waiting to start leatherworking until you have purchased your level 60 epic mount.
To level up your leatherworking and keep leveling it as you progress in the game is going to be pretty expensive, although if you stockpile leather that will help some. 128 gold is a very modest amount, you will for sure spend far more than that leveling leatherworking.
To be honest, the gear you will be making will not sell all that well. Not because it isn't nice, but the simple fact is that there are so many other crafters flooding the market with their products too. And yes, some of the things you can make at lower levels *are* nice....from my own point of view they aren't nice enough to justify leveling a crafting profession until your character is at least level 60 plus.
Edited, Mar 1st 2008 2:51am by Misskreant
I won't try to dissuade you against crafting, I find both leatherworking and tailoring to be personally rewarding. However, don't expect to go into these professions to earn any significant amount of money. While you certainly can earn some and there are other ways to defray your expenses....you may wish to consider waiting to start leatherworking until you have purchased your level 60 epic mount.
To level up your leatherworking and keep leveling it as you progress in the game is going to be pretty expensive, although if you stockpile leather that will help some. 128 gold is a very modest amount, you will for sure spend far more than that leveling leatherworking.
To be honest, the gear you will be making will not sell all that well. Not because it isn't nice, but the simple fact is that there are so many other crafters flooding the market with their products too. And yes, some of the things you can make at lower levels *are* nice....from my own point of view they aren't nice enough to justify leveling a crafting profession until your character is at least level 60 plus.
Edited, Mar 1st 2008 2:51am by Misskreant
Kayleefrye wrote:
How much money can I expect to blow on LW before my skill gets high enough to become profitable?
It will never become profitable. The only reason for leatherworking is to make stuff for yourself.
Never profitable? Damn. Blizzard really ought to fix that. But I guess I can live with it.
The other option would be to look up any of the many leatherworking leveling guides, find out how much of each type of leather you need and as your skinning, just save enough from the skinning to easily powerlvl your leatherworking. Now yes you'll take a small hit in the coinpurse by not selling all your leather to the AH, but I think that in the end it will be an even trade, especially if your server is like mine and most leather prices have really dropped lately.
Kayleefrye wrote:
Never profitable? Damn. Blizzard really ought to fix that. But I guess I can live with it.
Well, none (or few) crafting professions are 'profitable' in a strict sense: In that you can't just buy up materials on the AH, make stuff, and sell it for more. That's just the way the game is. The biggest 'profit' is in gear you can make for yourself.
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I play a level 30 Hunter, currently Skinning/Mining. My plan was to keep up those two professions so I could raise a bunch of money, then eventually drop Mining and pick up Leatherworking, and try to skill up really quickly.
So, I currently have 128g and I'm wondering if I'm ready. How much money can I expect to blow on LW before my skill gets high enough to become profitable? Keeping in mind that 100g mount I need to buy in 10 levels, is now the right time?
So, I currently have 128g and I'm wondering if I'm ready. How much money can I expect to blow on LW before my skill gets high enough to become profitable? Keeping in mind that 100g mount I need to buy in 10 levels, is now the right time?
It'll never become profitable.
As for cost to level from zero up, well, did you keep all the leather you've skinned over the levels or did you sell it?
If you've been selling it, then you know how expensive it'll be because you should know what a stack of leather sells for right now.
Personally, I'd just keep the two gathering skills and simply make money off of 'em.
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I have a rogue that I have sticking in the 20's right now that is making so much profit. I just sell the dusky and nightscape sets for 2 - 4 gold per piece and don't have to buy anything for the mats since they are so easy to get.
I also sell Toughened Leather Gloves for about 10G each and Shadowskin gloves for a little more.
I have my lvl 56 lock get the spider silk and shadowcat hide for those though. as for Black Pearls. Thats the only item I consistently have to buy.
Now LW isn't always good for money. to level there are some tough spots.
If you really want to make money... well just never drop mining.
I also sell Toughened Leather Gloves for about 10G each and Shadowskin gloves for a little more.
I have my lvl 56 lock get the spider silk and shadowcat hide for those though. as for Black Pearls. Thats the only item I consistently have to buy.
Now LW isn't always good for money. to level there are some tough spots.
If you really want to make money... well just never drop mining.
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I've always found leatherworking profitable right from the start. The majority of mats can be looted from beasts, so provided you are prepared to use the bank and bag space storing materials until you can use them and fight the right creatures in the first place, there is very little that you need to buy in terms of mats. Fighting obviously boosts your exp, depending on the level of the monster. However, the Auction House is always expensive when it comes to leather, so it's not worth it unless you are prepared to collect your own materials. That's how I've found things so far, I'm selling things for between 1 and 8 gold effectively pure profit and I've only got 150 skill.
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I've always found leatherworking profitable right from the start. The majority of mats can be looted from beasts, so provided you are prepared to use the bank and bag space storing materials until you can use them and fight the right creatures in the first place, there is very little that you need to buy in terms of mats. Fighting obviously boosts your exp, depending on the level of the monster. However, the Auction House is always expensive when it comes to leather, so it's not worth it unless you are prepared to collect your own materials. That's how I've found things so far, I'm selling things for between 1 and 8 gold effectively pure profit and I've only got 150 skill.
If you can get more golds selling the mats than using them to make an item, you're actually losing money. If 5G of mats turn into a 4G pair of pants, you've effectively lost 1G. You haven't gained 4G.
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Well, no, it's not a loss unless you are actually making a loss. If I am selling something at 4 gold when it cost me nothing to make it, that's still 4 gold profit! Sure, maybe in the short term I could have sold the individual mats for 5 gold and I'd have, oh a whole gold coin more but what skill would I get from that? Nothing. In the short term I can make 4 gold pure profit, gain the skill knowing that in the long term I can make better items which I can sell for 10, 15 gold and eventually more. I'm sacrificing making a slightly larger profit in the short term for a long term investment.
Anyone still reading this thread of mine?
So I've been stockpiling my skins according to a power-leveling guide I found here on this site and am currently level 40. I also have found that by hitting the AH a lot and bidding on low-priced stacks I can pick up some amazing deals when no one else is paying attention (Stack of Light Leather for 2s? Yeah I think I can afford that..)
Even though the advice has overwhelmingly been to NOT drop mining and just wait 'till I was 60 or 70 to start crafting, I feel like I'm just too damn bored to be gathering all the time. Plus, as a Hunter, I almost always have my humanoid tracker or beast racker or some other kind of tracker on and usually not my Find Minerals. This means my mining skill has suffered as I am often neglectful of it and miss nodes which most other people would have found.
The first of the BoP leatherworking gear is made for level 45 so I think by that time I'm going to do my best to stockpile a lot of leather and be ready for the changeover.
So I've been stockpiling my skins according to a power-leveling guide I found here on this site and am currently level 40. I also have found that by hitting the AH a lot and bidding on low-priced stacks I can pick up some amazing deals when no one else is paying attention (Stack of Light Leather for 2s? Yeah I think I can afford that..)
Even though the advice has overwhelmingly been to NOT drop mining and just wait 'till I was 60 or 70 to start crafting, I feel like I'm just too damn bored to be gathering all the time. Plus, as a Hunter, I almost always have my humanoid tracker or beast racker or some other kind of tracker on and usually not my Find Minerals. This means my mining skill has suffered as I am often neglectful of it and miss nodes which most other people would have found.
The first of the BoP leatherworking gear is made for level 45 so I think by that time I'm going to do my best to stockpile a lot of leather and be ready for the changeover.
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