This has to be a mistake. I get the whole aspect of actually farming materials to craft something. But the amount of callous and heavy callous hides needed to make legendaries is OUTRAGEOUS. The price of purchasing them off the AH is a scam. And let’s be honest here…Leatherworking has two different sets of gear to make - mail and leather.
It would be a different story if you put in the option to take Desolate leather and turn it into heavy callous…but you didn’t.
This doesn’t make a healthy economy. It puts Leatherworkers at a disadvantage! Either they have to spend HOURS AND HOURS and HOURSSSSS farming or they have to buy materials from people wanting to scam them for 7900g per ONE enchanted.
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Cloth rank 1 items are going for less than a single Heavy Callous Hide goes for right now… and it takes between 9 to 15 to craft a single rank 1 Leatherworking item.
I skinned well over 3000 desolate leathers and got around 20 Heavy Callous Hides and 300 Callous Hides (10 to 1 conversion). That is just not nearly enough.
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Exactly! 7900g per item versus 350g for tailoring. This is a HUGE difference in rarity!
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Bump, really needs a response from Blizzard.
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I’m with ya guys. Wound up buying a few, but man, that hurt the wallet.
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yeah the drop rate is on the low side…
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Just started the grind today and wanted to see if anyone else shared the same pain i had while doing it. I agree the callous hide drop rate is insanely bad. Not sure how I am ever going to reach rank 4 for ONE legendary item. And ah prices are equally insane. Drop rates or the crafting material required needs a second look.
laughs in nolife skinning farm
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I’m not even a tailor and I got enough mats leveling to get to 100 and make a legendary cloak. I’ve spent hours skinning and I still don’t have enough callous hides to max out Leatherworking.
It’s broke.
Edit note: I’ve leveled on 4 toons so far… more than enough cloth.
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I thought the drop raters were pretty decent launch week and last week. Price for a single HCH is 1200g on my server (might be lower now)
but i just went and did about 30min of solid farming and i didnt get a single HCH. I actually googled to see if they LOWERED the drop rate compared to last week (its monday for me rn)
I can’t find anything saying thwey have further lowered the drop rate and i guess my personal experience is anecdotal. Maybe the first 2 weeks i was just getting insane luck???
anyway i have mad 80k off skinning which is a lot for me lol. Agreed the drop rate is to low.
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I was wondering what was going on with that! I thought some rich person on my server was buying everything up and scalping.
If you think it is bad now, you would be in tears if you knew how bad it was through most of alpha/beta.
Also, the price on that server for the callous hide is very low in comparison to other servers.
https://theunderminejournal.com/#us/zangarmarsh/item/172097
And the enchanted isn’t 7900 gold either typically. Right now less than 3k and again your server is on the cheap end.
https://theunderminejournal.com/#us/zangarmarsh/item/172438
You can actually just go and kill and skin yourself and get some to enchant them.
I guess I should share a tip with you. Don’t know if things went live like this but the higher you have your skinning skill the more hides you will get. So ideally, you have a worgen with a skinning knife doing all your skinning. There is also a dagger you could equip to increase skinning skill but that was more bother than it is worth imo.
It’s 5k gold for a single heavy callous hide right now on shu’halo horde side. How am I supposed to be able to afford that, plus my missives, just to make a rank 1 legendary??? I already pay monthly fees in addition to paying for expensive expansion packs. Don’t make me spend real money to just buy my legendaries. This system is EXTREMELY broken and the HCH drop rate needs to be fixed. My highest level enchants only sell for 80g, if at all. My cloth gear is selling for 100g maybe. Even my herbs don’t sell for more that 50g. This is ridiculous.
Per herb though. If you go herb or skin for a couple of hours a week you can make bank.
Otherwise competition will continue to drive those legendary item prices down.
Not only is the drop rate completely ridiculous to farm enough mats to craft just 2-3 pieces, they even nerfed the HELL out of the farming spots. I spent almost 12 hours of farming just reach crafting rank 2 mail shoulders in those farm spawning spots. This bs just makes this at least twice as long if not more. we need a fix for this, it’s not normal that tailoring’s cost is 1/10th of leatherworking when we literally have 2 armor proficiency to level up with the same shi**y callous hides. either up the drop rate or reduce the amount of green callous hide to make a heavy callous hide. Because blizzard, this is just helping 1 kind of person, BOTS. This is litterally giving bots the whole market, no one right in their mind will go farm 50+ hours to level up a SINGLE piece/slot of gear. do we have to wait for enough bots to compete agaisnt themselves to reduce the prices? Or are you making it this way so that people buy your tokens for more cash? We need an anwser from blizz.
I’ve given up on LW, I’ve just been selling all mats from skinning and buying the pieces. Debating dropping LW for enchant to disenchant
Would you say the drop rate is callous?
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Yeah this is ridiculous. Our guild is about 2/3rds leather and mail wearers and we have enough soul ash that we need the higher rank bases for legendaries now. We’re all farming like crazy but we are so behind what we can make for plate and cloth wearers it’s not even scaling remotely the same. Blizzard really needs to do something about this!
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Absolutely outrageous and couldn’t agree more. I never take to the forums, but ive been farming for a solid 3 days now, around 2-3 hours a day as a guardian druid, allowing me to pull as many as i want as close as possible (generally 5-10 mobs) and I still have not aquired anywhere near the amount to get me to HALF way on rank 1 of a single piece of leather legendary… I even went to the extra effort as to level my mages enchanting to max just so i can do the enchanted heavy callous hide, and the ratio there of 2:1 puts even more of a strain.
I love having professions back…but at what cost…ive only been able to grind this because its the christmas holidays but otherwise during the week with work and family theres no way I could keep up with farmers and maxed ranked LW’s…
I agree with everyone the drop rate to crafting rate is too high. Blizzard def needs to tune this. Either increase the drop rate of the hide or lower the number needed to craft the heavy callous hide.
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