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Originally Posted by 'Stealthy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=103337#pos t103337
Because leatherworkers receive free upgrades to all their crafted gear in WotLK AMIRITE? The fact is, regardless of whether you get your gear through crafting or PvP, you will still have to grind it out to get it in WotLK.
While PvP might be the more boring of the two grinds, at least the gear is updated more often (how many new LW recipes added in since BC introduced?). There is also an opportunity cost with LW, since it requires giving up one of only two profession slots (2 on one toon at least, since you'll need skinning).
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Drysc: Sound very cool. Ok, let’s move on to Leatherworking. We added some cool stuff in 2.3, obviously, drums and such. But same question as all the previous, how did it go in Burning Crusade and where’s it going for Lich King.
Jon LeCraft: Leatherworking was off to a rough start, because the drums were in a place where we were probably too conservative. You know, they were on very difficult reps, they had Primals in the reagents, and you know didn’t really match up with the power that you got from them. And once we brought them to where we wanted to in 2.3, I think it helped a lot. It helped with the leveling definitely, where you’re making something that you can consume and that you’re using a lot rather than these just esoteric items that somebody may or may not want. So I think that worked out pretty well. Another thing that was a little weird about Leatherworking, and this is the same thing with Tailoring, is that they required you to max out the skill to get your bind on pickup item. Like the Primalstrike and whatnot. And that just felt a little too punishing. We’ll probably… like 350 is around, you know to give it in terms of Burning Crusade, is where we’re more comfortable with that. Kind of like we did with the Engineering goggles and things like that.
