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>On 19/02/2014 11:58 PM, Catriona R wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:46:02 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
>
>>> But if you also want to level a profession you have to spend a good
>>> amount of time with farming mats.  Especially if you pick leatherworking
>>> which may take even longer than just leveling a char from 1 to 90! ;)
>>
>> So true! That said, I'm hoping they'll finally get around to fixing it
>> this time, I've seen a few comments that they're aware it's a problem
>> (erm, yes, I was telling them it was a problem back in the requested
>> feedback in Cataclysm beta... :-P), so perhaps they'll do something
>> about it this time! I love crafting professions but they're all fairly
>> bad to level; at least with ore and herbs being more common since Cata
>> it's less painful to get the materials for most, but obtaining leather
>> is as bad as it's ever been (cloth not much better but at least that
>> tends to be on the AH since it drops for everyone!)
>
>Whats so bad about leather?
>On the worgen druid it had a mountain.
>I have no leatherworking so not a clue what a lot actually is:-)
>I am guessing
>   1) it is a few particular rare drop types making roadblocks?
>   or
>   2) one small item needs 200 leather, or something

This - at some stages in vanilla one skillup = 24 leather or something
daft like that, and farming it is a pain. Actually at some stages
later on it's like 10 heavy knothide/borean leather, and it takes 10
regular leather to make one heavy, argh. This is why I only have two
high-skill leatherworkers, both of which levelled before the Cataclysm
sped things up (one was from vanilla, the other TBC)... back then,
with only a little exta farming, it was possible to gather enough
while levelling to just about keep up with your level, and what you
didn't get while levelling you could finish skilling at max lvl for
the expansion. Nowadays you're miles behind before you even finish
1-60.

Back in the day, leatherworking was one of the easiest, and
blacksmithing the hardest, but with Cata they hugely increased spawns
of veins and herbs... and didn't increase skinning yield, so you still
need to kill numbers of skinnable mobs that was tuned for vanilla
levelling pace, not current pace. It just doesn't add up :-)

>   4) you have to kill and skin each one
>      - this isn't that much difference to mining or herb, up until 
>panda many nodes have a guardian mob anyway. If you use a gatherer, skin 
>and mine or skin and herb you get both.

The killing is a pain, because in many zones you quest through, you're
not killing skinnable creatures. I couldn't even keep skinning up with
my level (which requries nowhere near as much as leatherworking!) as a
night elf in Teldrassil/Darkshore/Ashenvale, damn treehuggers don't
want you killing wild animals so you never kill enough to skill up
skinning lol :-P Ok, this isn't so relevant if you're a lvl 90 going
back, but as I usually do my professions while levelling, my
experience is leatherworking is by far the worst, as you have to go
out of your way to farm tons of skinnable creatures that you don't
even need for questing.

>  Or something else?  I elected not to do leatherwork on the druid but 
>may pick it up soon. like sometime this decade.
>As a pure gatherer I found the worgen druid with skin/herb just gathered 
>flowers and skinned like crazy.
>Something about a blood spattered wolf gutting everything in sight to 
>get to a bunch of daisies appealed.
>On the other hand, that wolf was also a cat after catnip :-)
>
>Flight form + worgen skin speed was quite smooth.
>I think there may have been a guild perk helping out ?

You're a worgen - they have racial faster skinning speed, like tauren
have faster herbing :-)