The Money Flows
So when you’re grinding your leatherworking, or any profession, the question is: Are you willing to sacrifice gold for time?
We could go out and farm all the leather and primals in the world if we wanted, but it would take forever. Or we can take our 2200 gold, assault the auction house and blast our way up the skill-levels. We have chosen the latter. But our grind thus far has cost us 1300 gold and we still have the hardest recipes to make before we can make the one piece we really want for ourselves.
We do have a nice fire-resist set now and we totally geared up a level 62 feral druid in our guild. A few pieces have gone on the auction house but most of the stuff gets vendored.
It is entirely appropriate that we give a huge BRK Shout-Out Of Gratitude to Kaliope and her Crafter’s Tome. It’s been a super resource for us during our grind.
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ya… same grind here … hit 375 with the drums pattern ….now i use them on all fights when i remember since i have around 12 in the bank … at least they’re useful.
the ebon set is not for me, one day the chest off hydross will drop *knock on wood
Secndworst
I see you dont have a mage on your wow blogs section ^^ Tut tut. Just because we pwn u huntards
I have linked to you. Would appreciate a reciprocal. Keep up the good work mate.
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When I was leveling up my LWing, I had a guildie chanter DE all of my stuff, and I sold all the dusts and what not on the AH. A decent amount of cash obtained from all that.
It’s like we’re on the same wavelength BRK. ABout 3-4 weeks ago I saw the pattern for the Boots of the Crimson Hawk on the AH for a song. SO I bought them, dropped my 375 mining and began to level up LWing for the boots, and the EBon Netherscale set, and someday those sweet SHoulders of Lightning Reflexes from the BT when I see that pattern on the AH!
But for me with 375 Jewelcrafting meant that there was no skinnign to be had, so I’ve bought my way up the ranks so far. At 347 currently, I’m not sure where to go from here other than scanning for cheap primals, and trying to crank out Keepers of Time and Sha’tar from revered to Exalted for more drums. But I can tell you that I sent most of my crafted items to a friend to disenchant. I’ve gotten quite a few shards and essences which have sold better than I think the pieces would have, as someone else pointed out earlier.
Good luck with the skill points and keep an eye out for that Boots of the Crimson Hawk Pattenr on the AH.
Thanks,
Teneightyp and Bluray
It helps if you have (or make) an enchanting alt (or befriend one). Once you get over about 50 skill, the greens you make can be sent to the enchanter for DEing. You can usually sell the resulting enchanting mats on AH where the original items wouldn’t sell…
doh, missed 1080’s comment about DEing >.<
Those Crimson Hawk boots are amazing. The pattern was up for grabs on the trade chat yesterday and I lost out by trying to haggle the price down.
He wanted 1000g, which I thought was excessive. But he sold the pattern in about 4 mins!
Not sure if i should have just payed the 1000g or not. Bear in mind that the boots are BoP - you could never make any money from the pattern and the mats are mighty pricey.
Reading BRK is expensive. I went and got the boots pattern from the AH yesterday for 550G. Farmed everything except 5 of the primal air because I got bored.
Yeah I’ve heard Sha’tar rep for the recipe is the way to go. My 375 point was actually from making a green riding crop.
Yo.
I’ve been a Leatherworker on my Hunter since rolling him up. Recently, I’ve found it’s much more lucrative to ship the higher end stuff (skill 310+ items), like the Thick Draenish Vest and such, off to my 60 Priest for dis-enchanting.
Made myself 10 of the vests today to get to 340 and netted myself 6 Greater Planar Essence and about 12 or so Arcane Dust. Since I broke 300 LW, anything I made that wouldn’t vendor for more than 4g (just about everything) has been d/e’d and I’m up to 60 or so Arcane Dust and 20 of the Greater Planar Essences on top of the “of the Whale” or “of the Owl” crap I’ve d/e’d.
I don’t know why you start LW just now. I have been leatherworker all the way, and I still had a hard time getting the 375 skillpoints together. Especially the lasst 10 or so suck like hell. I have been lucky enough to get the set together quite early though.
Considering the items you have access to through your Karazhan raids it’s probably not really worth it. You will most likely engage Gruul and Magtheridon soon, so …
I made a lot of Heavy Clefthoof Boots, and got a guildie to DE them for shards. Took quite a bit of farming for the clefthoof leather, though.
isn’t there another epic chest other than the ebon netherscale one with just about as good of stats? I saw one on AH the other day so I’ve been farming the netherscales over the weekend. I’m assuming its not LW skill required and it’s got pretty good stats. The AH seller was wanting 1500g which is waaay overpriced considering the mats needed, something like 38 netherscales, some heavy knothide, primal airs, and a primal nether.
-Pakasmohks
Just to clarify, I was referring to a crafted epic chest. Little confusing when I reread my previous comment.
-Pakasmohks
there’s the thick metherscape breastplate… it’s quite awesome! the pattern drops in SSC, or can be bought off the AH for about 1500g
36 agi (36 ap, .9%crit)
36 sta
25 int
76 AP (+36 from agi = 112)
the ebon scale has more crit, but the thick netherscale is damned nice IMO! and can be made before 375, I want to say 365 is the skill level needed
I dropped LW on my hunter because I couldn’t see spending that much money for the 1 or 2 items that were worth it. Hopefully there will be more in an upcoming patch, but for now, any crafting is a money draining prof.
My lock spent at least 1500g to get tailoring to 375, but he gets the frozen shadoweave set, which kicks some serious booty. You know what I learned in that grind? Six Bolt of Imbued Netherweave, two Netherweb Spider Silk and a Rune Thread get you a large prismatic shard (or an Imbued Netherweave Tunic/Robe) I think I had 10 large pris before I got 375 tailoring.
Am I mistaken or can the thick netherscale breastplate be bought and worn by non LW’s? I don’t think I’ve read the contrary. If so, I’d say the small tradeoff would be worth the savings…farm mats, pay a hefty crafting fee, and keeep your gathering professions.
-pakasmohks
Oooh 360! Almost at the magic 365 suckage number.
And yeah, exalted Shattar for 365-370, and exalted KoT for 370-375 is the only reasonable way to go.
I’m really disappointed in the Crimson Hawk boots tbh, was halfway through farming the mats when I realized that they’re moderately worse than the pvp boots, and they’re harder to get.
Hunter-centric mail FTL, wtb more enhance mail gear. /yanks on asbestos long-johns
yea the thick netherscale is BoE… I’ve seen the pattern sell for 800g and the breastplate sell for 1000g…
so sell make yours, and sell 2 others and you just about break even, assuming you farm the mats….
if you have to buy the mats , you’ll spend about 300 on the primals (except primal nether, you have to farm) and another 100g on the scales and leather…
800 for the pattern,
1200 for the mats for 3
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2000
sell 2@1000 each = 2000
a little off OT but BRK did you consider keeping your professions (and all that $$ spent) and buy the thick netherscale chest? I did some quick calcs and it looks like the ebon is slightly better, but not by that much:
Thick:
112 RAP (76RAP + 36 AGI)
.9% crit (from 36 AGI)
36 STAM
25 INT
Ebon:
116 RAP (80RAP+20RAP gem+16 agi gems)
1.44% crit (from 31 crit + 16 agi gems)
25 STAM
23 INT
SO the thick has more stam and agi while ebon has slightly more RAP and more crit. Correct me if my figures are wrong?
-Pakasmohks
Don’t forget that the Ebon also has 846 armour compared to 744 on the Thick.
The biggest difference is the gem slots - you can play around with those to create a very nice customization to suit your own requirements. You could even make extra chests using different gems for different occasions (health vs dps for example).
Plus, 375 LW is great to have ready for when we can level to 450 after the expansion. I wonder what the epic lvl 80 set will look like….?