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Originally Posted by sherrjo
So what is best leatherworking, or tailoring?
BTW this site is great I started as an outfitter last night. Found it really strange that the 15 bundles I'd harvested couldn't be used until level 4 crafting. Still I suppose I've just done it in the wrong order by harvesting before crafting.
Thanks to all who posted here it has really helped me understand. I didn't know about locking skills in your character sheet. That's a big plus  |
The simple, but obnoxious, answer is it depends what you want to make. Tailoring emphasizes cloth products like bags and light armor, leatherworking emphasizes leather products like horse tack and medium armor. Finding leather nodes to harvest is easy if you adventure as well, since many animal corpses can be skinned; plant fiber doesn't fight back although it may be a challenge to find the plants and to get to them, so tailoring might be better if you are a pure crafter or crafter/diplomat.
You didn't do things in the "wrong" order, just got ahead of yourself -- if there is a problem, it is in the game design that makes the component higher level than the product it is used in.
I would suggest doing work orders until you get most of your tier 1 recipes before making many real items. The lower level recipes then become easier to do and you have earned some coin and, perhaps, some nice crafting equipment in the process.