The Borean Leather Crisis - July 4th Gold Mine

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

Go farm borean leather. Farm it immediately. Use my iceweb spidersilk and borean leather farming spot if you have to or better yet use the best aoe spot in the game for leather: the Mammoth and Worms of storm peaks. Why? Because all of the gold farmers are dead. Borean leather has almost tripled in price on some servers and the end result is that people are running out of both epic and rare leg armor types. As the leg armors disappear at their old prices players are finding that they cannot afford to craft the armor at this point with prices so high, so you know what they do? They stop crafting and leg armors become super expensive.

This weekend is the ultimate chance to make gold for leather workers. You are going to have one of the busiest wow weekends (with new players back from school and a three day American holiday) in the year to sell during a time when very few auctioneers will have the ability to sell leg armor kits at the old prices.

Obviously you will want to sell every other item you can, unless of course you're a bum like me and going to see two families for the holidays. You will make an absolute killing and I'm jealous!

My prediction is that eventually the gold farmers will get their bots or even human players back on the borean leather grind but until then start buying that leather for 20 gold a stack and craft your leg armor kits to sell at far more than the current rate. I almost feel like it's the start of the expansion and farming your own leather is more profitable than buying it. I've mixed buying leather for 2x what I used to pay for it and farming to at least make an attempt at keeping my supply of leg armors. Sadly I have slowly been losing the supply battle and ran out of leg armors this week. I will try to farm today and then post Friday morning for 48 hours. Even if I put up 20 of each armor type I doubt I will have any left over.

The market is ripe for those that can get their hands on borean leather because the mats to make the armors (icy dragonscales, nerubian chitin, and eternal earths) are all down in price from players not crafting and excess supply from before the farmers were slaughtered unmercifully by blizzard. Don't limit yourself to epic armor kits however as the rares will be just as good and also don't forget about heavy borean armor kits. I will be selling those rare and uncommon leg kits for 100-300 gold each. Be careful with jormungar leg armor as those can be difficult to profit off of due to the high cost of jormungar scales. Most people who see this opportunity will focus on their epic leg armors and fail to see the equally amazing opportunity in selling both rare and uncommon kits in addition to the epics.

Good luck this weekend and go make a killing leather workers! Happy holidays for those that are celebrating.

PS: If you're like me and cannot get your hands on as many mats as you'd like to (especially frozen orbs) then don't be afraid to buy out the crafted leg armor already on the auction house for it's normal price (what was normal before the farmers disappeared) because this weekend they will almost double for sure. I am buying all epic leg armor below 200 gold on my server and selling it for 350-500 gold this weekend. Don't be afraid to let demand take care of a few undercutters as well; ie. if two people post below you by 100 gold either buy them out or let the market do it for you.