Leatherworking and Tailoring - Why so unfair?

My husband is a 70 lock. I'm a 70 druid. We both have our crafting professions (he's a tailor, I'm a leatherworker) at 375.

However, as I'm watching him level his tailoring, I couldn't help but think of how unfair it was to see him get points for bolting netherweave, simple bags, etc. long after I had finished getting points for heavy knothide.

It seemed that after 350-355ish, every point in leatherworking was getting so expensive. Even the drums didn't last all that long and I had to be exalted with some factions to get them. None of his "move me up quick" recipes for tailoring had to have that kind of rep.

Then I started looking at the crafted pieces and couldn't believe when I saw that an EPIC crafted set began below 375 for him (frozen shadoweave) and required no primal nethers. He said, "Well, I had to specialize in shadow.. blah blah." Well, I had to specialize in tribal leatherworking, but my epic set is Windhauk and I don't get that until 375 and 2 of the 3 pieces require primal nethers.

Given that both these professions are mainly focused on gear, shouldn't leveling them be around the same?|||It isn't balanced, leatherworkers have been getting the short end of the stick for a long time.

Hopefully this will change in the future.|||I feel your pain on the LW front, I'm sitting at 371 LW and can choose to farm a TON of mats for a chance at a point. About the only equalizer I can think of is the 3 day cooldown on making the specialty cloth. (I still make refined deeprck salt, don't ask me why.)|||Tailoring after 350 gets extremely expensive and slow, and the epic crafted sets are BoP and avaible at 350 skill after you do the specialisation quest, however sisnce they cost over 1000g in mats I dont really see how you could count them as quick levelling options :)|||Quote:








Tailoring after 350 gets extremely expensive and slow, and the epic crafted sets are BoP and avaible at 350 skill after you do the specialisation quest, however sisnce they cost over 1000g in mats I dont really see how you could count them as quick levelling options :)




I'm not saying that the epic sets are quick leveling. It's other stuff that is quick levelings that you don't have to have exalted status for.

However, you DO get to have epic sets that you can make yourself for not that much cost (just wait out the CD on shadowcloth) that you can make without primal nether and before you hit 375.|||My main is currently 355 tailoring, and i'm missing these quick leveling recipes you are talking about. I went spellfire instead of frozen shadoweave, so even my belt requires 12 primal fire. Currently, that is the only recipe I have that isn't green, so I wouldn't call lvling tailoring a quick process.|||I didn't have any problem leveling it as holy.

You need to go buy the imbued netherweave patterns and farm mech for some other patterns that will skill you up.

Or buy patterns from the ah that start at 350.

I have maxed it on two char fairly easily and have both a pmc and fsw set.|||Blacksmithing after 350 is worse. Trust me|||375 Leatherworker/ 375 Engineer.

I'm a masochist.

If you think leveling Leatherworking is tough, try Engineering. At least with Leatherworking you can sell most of the items you craft. Engineers don't have that luxury. So when an engineer spends 100g for mats to make an item that will (hopefully) level them- they're stuck with it... to either vendor for some silver or have someone DE it for them.|||Quote:








375 Leatherworker/ 375 Engineer.

I'm a masochist.

If you think leveling Leatherworking is tough, try Engineering. At least with Leatherworking you can sell most of the items you craft. Engineers don't have that luxury. So when an engineer spends 100g for mats to make an item that will (hopefully) level them- they're stuck with it... to either vendor for some silver or have someone DE it for them.




No, try Engineering with BS. It's even more self-torturing