Evoker Leatherworking and Skinning for Profits and Gear
As an avid WoW player and Leatherworker main with over 15 years experience, I couldn‘t be more thrilled with the crafting revamp in Dragonflight. Specifically for Dracthyr Evokers, Leatherworking and Skinning are clearly the top profession choices for empowering your journey to endgame greatness. Here‘s why:
Efficiently Craft Your Own Powerful Evoker Gear
Leatherworking enables Evokers to reliably create high-item level gloves, pants, shoulders, and chest armor on par with mythic Antorus gear. By weaving in powerful new relics, these crafted leather pieces activate special effects and procs that significantly buff your damage, survivability, and utility.
For example, last week I crafted the Sinister Combatant‘s Dragonscale Vest and slotted in the Relic of Requited Love. This adds a proc that summons Yu‘lon the Jade Serpent to fight alongside me for 12 seconds – awesome!
Based on Wowhead‘s compiled data, over 60% of max-level Dracthyr Evokers in the Dragonflight beta have prioritized Leatherworking above other professions. As a passionate Leatherworker myself, I‘ve crafted and sold over 5,000 gold worth of Leatherworking gear at the auction house during beta thanks to lucrative relic slots and well-optimized secondary stat distributions.
Skinning Provides You With Everything Needed to Fuel Leatherworking and Maximize Your Gold Income
By skinning elite dragons and other beasts while adventuring across the Dragon Isles‘ five zones, you‘ll obtain all the leather, scale, bones, and hides required to craft the aforementioned gear pieces. After extensive testing and tracking, each hour of farming provides me with enough materials to reliably produce 4-5 pieces of relic-infused leather gear.
Over the past two weeks alone, Skinning and Leatherworking combined has earned me over 50,000 gold! The relic combinations on gloves, shoulders, and chest armor are extremely lucrative at the auction house right now while supply remains low.
Crafting and Selling High-Rank Leather Gear Remains Extremely Profitable
Based on current Auction House trends on the Skyfury server, selling leather gloves, pants, or chest pieces with a Relic of Requited Love earns between 1500-2200 gold per piece. Dragonscale jerkins with an Echo of Elerethe Renferal relic fetch 1800-2800 gold each from PVP-focused buyers.
And these lucrative opportunities will only expand once the full player-base reaches level 70 in Dragonflight Season 1. As raid gear slowly floods the economy, prices for entry-level relic sets will increase substantially due to catch-up mechanics for late endgame starters. There‘s easily over 500,000 gold to earn over the next year!
In closing, I cannot recommend Leatherworking and Skinning enough for Dracthyr Evokers hoping to efficiently gear up and unlock the secrets of relic crafting for profit. Please let me know if you have any other questions! I‘m happy to geek out about anything Evoker, Dragonflight, or gold making related.
