I’m trying to decide what race would be best for a skinning leather worker, hunter alt. Worgen has the skinning buff but humans grind less with rep. Anyone know if the end game leather gear you can create locked behind a reputation grind? Cata is going into MoP soon, so mostly wondering about that.
Is leatherworking end game gear worth the effort or are you better grinding pvp or doing group content? I’m not real into raiding. Can a high lvl leatherworker enhance dropped leather armor outside of kits? If not, I could just buy kits insteading of leveling leatherworking. Thanks for any info.
The perk to leatherworking was that you could make a cheap version of the armor kit, but that cheap version does the same thing as the boe/AH version.
PvP patterns are separate from other patterns in MoP. PvP gear has pvp power (or it did back then) so it’s not part of the raid gear track. These recipes are learned by a daily craft and doesn’t require rep. What recipe you get is random though.
There are non-pvp epic patterns that also are learned in the same way.
There are some recipes that are gated behind rep (honored with golden lotus), some that are drops from the raid. But most are found from that daily craft. (WoD was the same way but it let you pick the recipe at least)
However, for end game gear that’s not pvp, you will need an item from raiders to make it. Depending on what tier it is, you’ll need blood spirit, haunting spirit, or spirit of war. These are reagents obtained from disenchanting raid items. These were very very very expensive back in the day, though obviously it got cheaper as more gear is disenchanted. I can’t imagine the situation will be better with no LFR to farm easy spirits.
So if you’re just doing PVP, you need nothing but patience to get the patterns. If you’re doing anything else you either raid or pay raiders for spirits.
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