I’m leveling a tank druid. So far he’s a skinner, and I wonder what to choose as the second profession.
Is there any particular benefit to being a leatherworker, i.e. BOP items that one could only craft for oneself?
Or would I be able to just buy the crafted items I want, and take a second gathering profession?
I’m leveling a hunter again, this time on an actual full server that’s pve instead of PvP and it’s so much better. Before I had skinning and tried to keep it level with leatherworking but the level cap prevented me from having gear that was on par with my level. Like, in order to craft level 25 gear I had to be at higher level to buy the next stage of leatherworking and quest and dungeon items were just better than what I could craft.
And after using the leather to craft stuff it wouldn’t sell for much on the AH and the vendor price was a lot less profit than just selling the leather itself. I would suggest going skinning, and eng briefly for the level 100 eng goggles because you won’t get any head gear with thats until much later on and it’s easy to get 100 eng.
Then later on drop eng for like enchanting or something just to disenchant stuff if the disenchanting mats sell for more than the vendor price does.
I wouldn’t even worry about herb or mining on character because it slows down leveling to go out of your way for them and they don’t even sell for that much anyway. Herbs don’t vendor for crap and must be sold on the AH as well to make any money. With skinning, you’re probably already grinding mobs for quests anyway so it’s just extra income that does not take much extra time to use.
Like, if you take mining or herb or whatever, yeah you’ll make some money on the way to 60, but it’ll side track you so far that you could have just made it to 60 quicker and made even more gold in half the time. Same with trying to keep your crafting professions up to date. I’d just wait till 60 to even pickup leatherworking or anything.
there are very few BOP LW patterns in classic. BC though has a TON of them though.
Not going to lie Leatherworker from what I have been told isn’t the greatest. I picked it up after I hit 60 as I planned to make myself devilsaur set + try and sell it since it’s so good for a long time. I made myself the set which made it cheaper and also sold it but reality is I didn’t really make that much more crafting the items for people than I did just selling the skins.
I know there’s a fairly rare healing recipe you can get from Dire Maul that healers need crafted. But its hard to get and any major guild will have someone with the plans by now probably. Other than that and devilsaur set I don’t know much else sought out by Leather workers. There’s also 3 types of Leather working, but the items I mentioned are all from Tribal. Unsure what the others can make that’s worth to be honest. Maybe some resistance gear but… meh. Leatheworker not great in vanilla/classic. I am going to drop it for engineering now that pvp about to be out.
druid tank has no BiS pieces that come from leatherworking…
it is a decent profession for leveling and keeping up with gear through that process…
engineer is the best profession overall… herb/alch for money/buffs…the others are pretty useless
I don’t see Herbalism being a good money maker. Nobody cares about pots and flasks. Leatherworking sucks for Druids. Engineer requires you to get our form to use most of the stuff. Go enchant. Everybody still wants enchants.
There are the BoP items from Malyfous’ Catalog in Everlook (Leggings of Arcana and Breastplate of Bloodlust,) but I forget if you actually need to be a leatherworker to make them.
Devilsaurs two piece is damn close and close enough that it is worth the tradeoff to be able to farm well if you’re not your guilds main tank
Enchanting for the Fire resist trinket.
Black dragonscale pieces are selling well on my server, but those are mail pieces only really useful for hunters and enhance shammies looking to boost their FR for the core.
Those are quest rewards. I know I got that chest on my druid back in the day and he wasn’t a LW.
OP, if you filter an item search on Wowhead for leather, bop, and crafted, you get zero results. Apparently BoP LW crafted items do not exist.
isnt there a trinket that is BIS for druid tanks that comes from engineering? aside from aoe aggro help from bombs/sappers and such thats why a druid would pick up engineering.
in classic they do not, but once ZG is released, there are great LW patterns that aren’t BOP but YOU MUST HAVE A CERTAIN LW skill level to wear.
The bat set comes to mind
Primal Bat and Blood Tiger sets…
The Blood Tiger 2 pieces set is pretty nice actually if you arent already rolling something better.
I had forgotten all about that!
Good call.
I have been going mining/skinning while leveling and it has been AWESOME for earning gold.
I plan on dropping skinning after I get my epic mount for tailoring, leveling it to craft my best in slot robe, then dropping it for engineering. Long road - I know.
I imagine you can do something similar with leatherworking through if there is a pattern you particularly want/need endgame. Otherwise going after money is where it’s at.
CAPITALISM YO.
OP your going to want to lvl enchanting first. you need to get it to 265 for your smoking heart of the mountain trinket. it is best to do this while leveling so you can DE useless quest greens for mats. after you have it you can drop enchanting for what ever you want.
As far as BoP gear or other perks go, LW doesn’t offer anything in Classic.
On the other hand, being high enough to make Refined Deeprock Salt is worth a little bit of money every three days. I’ve also found markets for gear other than the standard Devilsaur set. Have made a decent amount through LW now, exclusively buying mats from the AH and selling crafted gear.
You second profession should be Enchanting so you can craft yourself Smoking Heart of the Mountain since it’s BoP. It’s one of your BiS trinkets along with Mark of Tyranny. Once you have it, drop Enchanting for Engi.
Heh, I still have enough Primal Tiger Leather on this toon to make both items, although I only ever got the pattern for the shoulders.