Comments on Kaliope's WoW Crafting Blog: Why is Arctic Fur on the Vendor?

Heres my problem with all of that.I have 2 new 80s...

2010-06-05T18:18:51.173-07:00

Heres my problem with all of that.I have 2 new 80s.;look at the prices for gear and trying to socket/enchant/n so on.then add in cold weather flying.5000 GOLD.I do skinning and minning on most of my characters.The higher your lev and skills...the higher your pay off SHOULD be.In outland for ezample fel ore sells for more then most ore in northern.I tryed farming artic fur and selling in the

IOW if a recipe wants 15 borean leather and 8 arct...

2009-11-06T14:25:24.398-08:00

IOW if a recipe wants 15 borean leather and 8 arctic furs I should not have to farm more that 18 heavy borean leather to get 8 arctic furs

The issue with Arctic Fur (like many things)is the...

2009-10-29T13:18:45.323-07:00

The issue with Arctic Fur (like many things)is the drop rate is inconsistent. In some areas it will NEVER drop, and other areas will consistently drop every 40-50 skinnings. This only works out though when the ratio of borean leather in a recipe is proportional to the amount of arctic fur required. Which using my droprate is about 40 to 1.

"Why did the not introduce a conversion from borea...

2009-10-28T20:48:03.387-07:00

"Why did the not introduce a conversion from borean leather to a fur with the help of the salt shaker? 1 day cooldown (or 4 days)."

THIS. Absolutely. Arctic Furs are already beaten down to around 30g on my VERY small population server, and though I'm not a skinner... I feel bad that their "Woot!" moment is going to be stolen. ...I personally liked the ink

And they did it again. Cooldown on Saronite -> Tit...

2009-10-26T06:12:47.872-07:00

And they did it again. Cooldown on Saronite -> Titanium removed. Another two items are linked to fix their price.

Maybe I just hate this fur stuff because I suffere...

2009-10-26T02:30:55.178-07:00

Maybe I just hate this fur stuff because I suffered through it while leveling letherworking back in vanilla. Where you could be sure to always be able to craft items that would have been useful 10 level ago... because of these special leathers.

Having multiple materials to craft stuff from is great (if it doesn't get out of hand like with engineering). Jewelcrafting is a good

Kring: I think the original idea behind Arctic Fur...

2009-10-23T17:54:47.797-07:00

Kring: I think the original idea behind Arctic Fur was to give skinners a "rare" item equivalent to the Frost Lotus for Herbalists. Unfortunately that doesn't actually provide strong value to skinning itself, just the rare drop needed for raid craftables. Leatherworking in general still has no strong consumable items that will motivate skinner to continue collecting.

For 25man the drums/scrolls are pretty worthless, ...

2009-10-23T15:39:51.407-07:00

For 25man the drums/scrolls are pretty worthless, however for 10 man they are very usefull.

They should just remove these crappy items. Why d...

2009-10-22T03:01:54.227-07:00

They should just remove these crappy items.

Why do we need arctic fur if they have to link it to leather to couple the prices?

Why do we need two kind of shards? And then allow us to convert one into dust? Make epics disenchant into 3-4 shards and drop the epic shard crap. Like in the good old days :-)

Funny, I wasn't expecting this much consensus. It...

2009-10-20T09:51:35.456-07:00

Funny, I wasn't expecting this much consensus. It might be an option to increase the drop rate, but if no one is skinning that's unlikely to even be noticed. They would also have to mention it in the patch notes so players would be prodded into skinning again.

I think they tried to create additional consumables by bringing drums back, unfortunately it hasn't actually

I like the change - mostly because it takes away t...

2009-10-20T07:08:04.577-07:00

I like the change - mostly because it takes away the randomness that is obtaining Arctic Furs through skinning. I went through 5 heavy-skinnable dungeons with my skinner (Oculus, Violet Hold, AN, AK and Nexus, in order), and got a grand total of... ZERO Arctic Furs. Also, there's more bosses you can salvage than bosses you can skin, in current raid progression (Ulduar, ToC and Onyxia). At

At the moment on my server Borean Leather goes for...

2009-10-20T06:20:10.202-07:00

At the moment on my server Borean Leather goes for 50s a piece, Heavy Borean Leather appears from time to time at around 4G a piece but doesn't sell, Arctic Furs are currently 80G each. I think part of the problem is there are few consumables from leather. Armor kits sell but slowly, the leg armours take Arctic Fur but it's scarce because no-one bothers farming leather any more because

As a skinner LW myself l wish l could skin humanoi...

2009-10-20T05:16:36.154-07:00

As a skinner LW myself l wish l could skin humanoids for like,...enchanted hide,.. or something,... as it is l skin everything and would skin a rat if l could. What l don't use myself l give to a fellow LW or ultimately post on AH. When l post l always check price first an undercut the lowest poster by enough that it doesn't encourage scalpers grabbin everything an posting higher,...

I must admit than on the server I play on (Aszune)...

2009-10-20T02:39:38.061-07:00

I must admit than on the server I play on (Aszune) I've mostly given up on the AH now. Or should I say, I've given up on having any clue what I'm likely to have to pay for ANYthing. Levelling low level alts and hoping to buy a green or two to keep me topped up is a joke (25g for a level 20-something piece? No thanks) and the price of mats is all over the place.

I think there is a better way to fix the problem. ...

2009-10-19T18:39:54.960-07:00

I think there is a better way to fix the problem. If the demand for leather were higher, then farming it would pay again and more people would do so. To increase the demand for leather, a few new recipes could be introduced that de into mats for profit rather well. This is effectively what drives the demand for cloth, eternals, herbs and gems. By carefully choosing the leather cost and de results