Compare this to:

450 krymetal ore.
350 verda fibers
250 sun crystals.

But only 6 dawnhide.

There is something seriously wrong with that. Luckily, I didn't plan on doing leatherworking. But my friend who DID had serious difficulties collecting enough leather to even skill up to 50, much less go beyond that. Also, since this game uses a silly trivial loot code, high level players can't even farm their own on monster, since no hide drops from them.

There is something wrong, EME. Change its drop rate, or add skinning to the game to make up for thier ridiculously low drop rate.

Yeah I was thinking of that myself! I do want to do Leatherworking. But if the base material is such a rare drop it will make that skill impractical.

The other thing about this that drives me crazy is that critters that ought to drop "Hides" don't. I've only ever had it drop from other mobs. Just makes no sense to me!

Please! EME isn't there something you can do to change this?

I noticed this. I ended up selling my dawnhides as I was levelling up since 50 silver/hide was a lot to a level 10-20, and as soon as 30 silver * 50 hides didn't seem like a lot of money to me anymore, I AH'd myself through the profession.

I do feel it's worth saying that professions in this game don't really produce useful items. They can be very easily levelled compared to 'that other game' and seem to work best for producing junk sacrificial items.

Dawnhide scarcity compared to the other professions doesn't make sense to me. If I'm just producing junk items, why should I use my runes to make a pair of sacrificial leather gloves rather than a pair of sacrificial plate gauntlets? They're the same; i'll take the easiest path.

Tera crafting is odd.

Get on that extraction.

Quote: Ahmon on 04/24/2012, 07:57 PM - view

Extraction extracts zalisleather. Zalisleather does not provide skillups.

Quote: InulahS3v3n on 04/24/2012, 07:57 PM - view
Well, that just sucks.

i gotta say it does feel like its oddly broken. or like we are missing something. like we are suppose to go somewhere and say "oh look, it was here the whole time!"

i looked at my bank after playing like a madman the whole beta and i had around 10 total for all the different types after long hours at the comp every single day. i can understand that i went looking for harvest stuff for the buffs so id have alot of that. but considering its a drop its weird to see so little of it across the board. unless we are suppose to hunt specific mobs for it? confused.

where the hell are leather-workers suppose to get their leather?

Yeah, to even make any of the items that use zalisleather, you need to have 50 skill, which you can only get by making zalisleather.

I am almost certain that the dawnhide droprate cannot be intentional. It is completely broken at the moment.

Did anyone else play in OB that DID NOT experience this dawnhide shortage issue?

I noticed also that very little leather dropped. If your going to be crafting leather, be prepared to buy from the auction house.