The way we've managed to get around this is funneling all hides our guild members get into a designated leatherworker. It has resulted in us with surplus. :)

That said, my guild's focus is to support crafters, and we have a pre-constructed priority system for who gets what mats, so this might not be realistic for most people.

HUGE BUMP! It is rediculously unbalanced compared to rocks, essence and plants!

I am tempted to go and try and "gather" dawnhides by doing back to noob island and killing mobs. But I don't even think I will get any drops as a 32.

Does that mean once you reach a certain level your only option is to buy the hides of the broker?

Yes, too high of level, can't get the drops. The system is slightly fubar in that way. Now if animals that made sense to drop the leather dropped it much more frequently, that would be nice. Generally though, Valley of Titans and Celestial Hills mobs (locations, not servers) drop the leather fairly frequently, but their dangerously close to the realm of, "day late and a dollar short."

An alternative fix would be to change extracted materials from their refined forms into their unrefined forms. Instead of getting ingots or zalisleather or cloth during extraction, players get ore, hides and fibers.

A third scenario would be placing down random animal carcasses to gather from.

There's no problem in gaining a sickening over abundance of fibers or ores. You need more runes than you do fibers/ores for your crafts (and that's a whole other thread about how ****ed up the crafting system is,) I don't see why hides need to be so gosh darn rare in comparison.

I literally spent all day Saturday trying to farm dawnhide and I only ended up with 8 at the end of the day.

I finally hit 50 leatherworking last night after farming since Friday.... and now I'm too high a level for anything in that bracket to be worth crafting, except to resell. So now I have to do this whole song and dance over again with greenhides. :c

Quote: Scape13 on 04/22/2012, 08:37 AM - view

Meanwhile, you can probably collect 8 ore/essences in roughly a minute.

I farmed stuff like the boars outside Lumbertown, so I wouldn't level up.

BUMP

I am currently running into this issue as well...
Reached cap yesterday evening and decided to work on Professions today, specifically Leathercraft. I had a total of 369 fibers, 349 ore, 343 essence, and FIFTEEN dawnhide... So now what? Too high of a level to farm it, so buy it? Dawnhide prices in Broker are way overpriced because of their needless rarity. Very frustrating.

Quote: Littleman on 04/22/2012, 08:22 AM

^Perfect idea^

Absolutely, this NEEDS to be fixed. I don't know about dropping carcasses everywhere since that might mar the landscape, but a much increased supply via drop or extraction is desperately needed.

The same treatment needs to be given to Greenhide as well, and even future hides we haven't reached yet if their drop rates are just as atrocious.