I’m rarely getting any callous hide and almost never get heavy callous hide when skinning. Heavy callous hide is required in large amounts to be able to increase rank in crafting legendaries. I feel like, by the time I am able to rank up my legendary, my ilvls will already be much higher. Please increase the drop chance for these hides when skinning!
Let’s be honest…the only folks who can craft higher ranked leather and mail legendaries are the cheating chicken bots. Why do we want to incentivize and reward bots?
On the flip side, if the materials were less rare, you would get less $ for your time.
If you’re planning on skinning your own mats to make your own legendaries, don’t bother, because you won’t have enough time to actually play the game and use those legendaries.
This whole system supports multi boxers, people who buy gold, and botters over the regular player/crafter.
Now, if it was like 5 items to rank up a base item, maybe that would feel better with the current drop rates.
Only problem with buying the finished products, you’re supporting someone’s cheating chicken farm
I honestly doubt you’re making “tons of money” from hides bc the drop chance is so low. It’s the players using automation that are making a killing and they are ruining your income MUCH more than a bump in drop chance would.
my toons dont bot and after about 1-2 hours skinning, I either have drops of Heavy Callous hides or pleanty of Callous hides to convert to Heavy callous hides…stop complaining about everything in game and do some work…
I swear every post you put up is a complaint to make the game easy mode for you…
Actually, I made 300k by leveling my DH in Ardenwald through skinning and selling the hides on my hunter. I would go for about 1-2 hours a day and I did that in one weekend.
And as for buying the finished product, its better to do that than have 14 or 15 other pieces that won’t sell for the cost of mats. People need to realize that Mail/Leather base patterns for Rank 2 and above are selling at higher rate than their counterparts Tailoring and Blacksmithing because those mats are easily obtained.
Blame the bots that farm 24/7. Blizz needs to get rid of hyperspawns. I can farm for 30 minutes and kill hundreds in one spot. Maybe more if I didnt have to compete with bot groups tapping my product.
Do an armory search on the seller. If its a character that doesn’t seem fishy, buy from them. Or farm the mats and have someone that can make it, make it.
Understandably, I get the reason why you don’t want to buy from a botter. But the finished product probably isn’t going to come from them. It requires you to push a bit into the campaign to get the patterns. Ive seen 4 druids that are 51, experienced stopped, and are farming the Ardenwald hyperspawn areas.
I have a feeling, they the rate get reduced when you hit 60. Ive seen people who farmed up herbs get more per node than they do now at 60. I wonder if the same goes for skinning or if it is just pure bad RNG luck.
I’d prefer to farm the materials myself, but the drop rate on callous hides is SO low. People who have the higher ranks unlocked want $$$ for crafting, and I’m not doing that.
Whether directly or indirectly, I can’t help but feel buying anything Skinning/Leatherworking related in the auction house is supporting bot farmers. Yes, I could try my best to track the source of mats or leggo prereqs…but it’d be so much better if Blizz could just fix the need to grind hours of mindless skinning just to get enough hide for 1 prereq when you need 15 to rank up.