Another gear crafting staple profession is on the list today in Leatherworking. While the overall setup of what you can craft has not been massively changed there are some new elements in the supply chain in Mists that make it a different prospect, and as with many other professions as we go down the line it will have daily cooldowns!
Gear and enchants
There’s pretty much two relevant item types leatherworkers can craft. Leg enchants for agility and strength classes and leather and mail gear. Both of these categories sell really well, and with MoP bringing a new leather class to the game we can expect leather to be a strong seller, even if Monk is not the most popular class in WoW overall.
Magnificent Hides
Magnificent Hides is a new rare material. It can drop from skinning, but you can also craft it with 50 Mist-Touched Leather. Eventually you can also craft one with a daily cooldown for 20 leather or 20 scales. In general you will need a lot of magnificent hides for most of the relevant crafts and you will often be crafting these yourself. If you have multiple accounts this makes LW perfect for your second account to mass craft while playing the game.
Spirits for Leg Enchants
The best in slot leg enchants require a Spirit of Harmony alongside a Magnificent Hide. The main bottleneck here will be getting the required Spirits of Harmony. This will likely keep profit margins relatively healthy
The GEAR
Anyone who has followed me for a while will now I love crafting gear, in particulare the catch up pvp gear. Mists is no exception, and leatherworking is fantastic. Especially in the later patches with the Dreadful and malevolent PvP sets with an absolute MASSIVE number of different gear pieces. In the beginning the contender’s sets will likely sell well, but the recipes will cost you a Spirit of Harmony so you may need to do some farming to get them going. The epic recipes are from the Golden Lotus reputation, and cost a lot of Spirits of Harmony, so if you want to go into those you will need to get a good Spirit of Harmony farming setup going.
Stock up on hides
Magnificent hides will be needed in absolutely massive quantities eventually due to the daily cooldowns in the later patches as well as the new catch up PvP gear. This is a great candidate for a material to stock up on once the initial rush has died down, so pay attention to the price as we approach 5.2 and 5.4 in particular.