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Comment by 9248

A good place to farm light leather (for Alliance) is in the North-east part of Loch Modan. The level 16-17 bears and boars drop 1-2 light leather with some medium leather, but no scraps. Also, the density is high and I was able to farm continually on my 36 druid.

I tried the level 14-15 croc island, where the spawn rate is really high, but they dropped too many scraps.

Comment by 13263

Elwynn Forest (32, 85)

the boar in the field..... in an hour i farmed about 160 Light Leather as a lvl 11 rogue. Of course i did have to combine quite a few scraps but collectively about 160 LL per hour in that area for me.

Comment by Ostal

Shadowfang keep ! there is a lot of skinning going on there.

Comment by Pacifist

Elwynn Forest, Maclure Farm.

Boars here have 0 respawn time. You have as much of a chance to get light leather as you can ruined scraps, but with the rate of boar respawns it hardly matters. You'll also get lots of meat for cooking here.

AoE helps for instant kills after pulling multiple boars. Throwing/wands also helps to pull them into a nice pile so you don't have to move as much. Time pulls inbetween looting/skinning for maximum efficiency.

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Comment by GalortAkama

Well the advice giving here on the comments for light leather was some what ok... But i really needed to get light leather Fast and Easy so this path i have gave me like 60 light leather within about half an hour...(on my 40 mage)
Ally only
"Darkshore" Below "The Grove of Ancients " is the best place to Farm Light Leather why you ask?
Well they are "Giant ForestStriders" " Grizzled Thistle Bears" "Moon Stalkers"(Lvl17-19) And some Sickly Dear that will some times give you it. Mostly I got like 1-2 Light leather every time.... a couple of Medium and like 1 or 2 light Hide. This place is the Best from what i Experience today farming it because they are all in the same area and you dont have to walk a lot to find them to Skin them :-)

Comment by 264265

anything for one who does not have skinning as a prof.?

Comment by 297512

A great place to farm these is to kill the Great Goretusk's in Redridge Mountains, they have a very high drop rate and gives 1-2 light leather, they also drop Light Hide sometimes.

Comment by 344854

sometimes i wished i was a horde cuz there is quite a lot of good things that come from the horde

Comment by 352219

For anyone leveling skinning at a high level (Im looking at you, fellow Death Knights) For a Horde, there is a great way to do it. Just head West from Org, south to the road to crossroads, get there, and skin all the way. If U dont have 80 skinning by then, skin around crossroads till u do. Fly to camp Taurahe and head south. I got 2 150 skinning from 10 in a little less than an hour.

Comment by tcaruth

in my experience..

loch modan is the best place to farm teh leather, but not the northeast corner.
i've had much greater success on the middle island (the one with all the crocs)

in 45 min i picked up

4 stacks of leather
27 scraps (which will make more leather
4 medium leathers
4 light hides

plus a bag, 2 greens, and a bunch of grey/white stuff that can be sold on the way to the flightmaster
and the crocs respawn is super super fast (had trouble clearing the island)

Comment by 440975

loch modan is the best place that i found the light leather.

1.loch modan
2.redridge mountains
3.duskwood
4.dun morogh
5.elywwn forest

Comment by 452994

I have just cleared every Boar and Bear between Bingles and the dam, and not one piece of leather.

Comment by Niobid

If your level is high enough go to duskwood. Start at top left corner of the zone and follow the river to the east.

I went west -> east -> west, it took me 40 mins (as lvl33 tank specced druid using cat form) and I got:
8 stacks (=160) of light leather
22x medium leather
14x light hide
1x medium hide
36x lean wolf flank

Comment by 392060

Nice place just found to farm light leather for Alliance is in duskwood north part the whole "The Darkened Bank"
From Darkshire go north till hit river then go west killing the wolfs
after 30 mins this is what got:

Light Leather: 92
Medium Leather: 20
Light Hide: 5
Medium Hide: 4
Lean Wolf Flank: 25
1 leatherworking recipe
3 green items
5 Sharp Claws
and a few grays
all in all i think this could be a decent spot to farm light leather.

Comment by Demonist

I'm just appalled. I took up skinning after a friend told me it's a gold sink, and I failed at Mining and BSing, with no interest in either. But with within 20 minutes, I got my skinning to 75, and made around 15G, off of stacks of Light Leathers. This profession is just amazing.

Comment by 544538

Ok north of Raven Hill Cemetery in Duskwood but also a little bit east--directly north of it is terrible for farming as the wolves are very spaced out.

Comment by 570500

Skinning:

Shortage of Elder Mottled Boar

Comment by 579758

There is another place to farm light leather. On the extreme northern edge of the Redridge mountains, near the border to the Burning steppes, there are, id say 6 boars. Doesn't seem like much, but the respawn time (for me at least) was amazing. And they are not spread out at all. Try it.

Comment by Thottbot

where is the best place to hunt this stuff?

Comment by Thottbot

Hi all.

The Deep Elem Mine (56:46) In Silverpine Forest is THE place for Light leather and scraps!
The Moonrage Mobs drop Money and can be skinned when in Wolfform (if they have any other form, i'm not sure ^_^)
Respawn rate is crazy! :D Right now i'm farming light leather. There is a priest/warlock combo here and noone of them is Skinner. Best Conditions!
So long, have fun.

Comment by Thottbot

I just farmed some of these Moonrage guys... they look like the worgen in duskwood... and they drop more Ruined Leather Scraps than anything... 1 out of every 10 skins is a Light Leather. I would go to the barrens for your light leather.

Comment by Thottbot

I used Jaggedswine Farm right outside the zep landing near Ogrimmar to gain skinning levels, got quite a lot of light leather and scraps there.

Comment by Thottbot

the easiest way to get light leather is to go the southern part of Westfall an kill all this pigs or whatever they're called. they are everywhere kill all from lvl 15 up to 19. After one run they all have respawned-quite nice

Comment by Thottbot

All I did was when I got skinning i went to one of the Molsen farm or that other farm.got skinning up to 50 there.went to westfall skin the boars there untill u get to 100 then redridge right outside of town boars and dragon whelps. then duskwood til 200 then stranglethorn till 250 then tanaris till 275 then winterspring 300

Comment by Thottbot

AH :) a 20 stack goes mostly for 50 silver to 1 gold or higher it depends on the prices on your server..

Comment by Thottbot

If you can't get it off the AH for cheap (i.e. less than 60s or so) a nice place to farm it is around Camp T in the Barrens.

I was farming it with my druid and if you're 25+, the kills are really easy and fast. The respawn rate is good too. You almost always get one or two light leather on the 17+ beasts, with a few medium thrown in here and there. None of the annoying scraps. :)

The best part is that generally no one comes out there, so Alliance can do it gank-free. After about an hour farming (close to 6 stacks) I had only seen two Horde, both lower than me (28 at the time) and neither bothered me.

Comment by Thottbot

When people say that certain mobs drop leather, does that mean that they drop it, or that u must use the skinning skill?

Comment by Thottbot

Probably the easiest place for horde is to work a path between the raptor nests just north of the gold road bridge over to the raptor grounds (where you do the stolen silver quest) and back in The Barrens, killing sytheclaw raptors, ornery plainstriders and zhevras. You will get the occasional medium leather but mostly these mobs will drop 1-2 light leathers and NO scraps.

The respawn rate in the raptor grounds is insane so you can get a load of light leather just from clearing this space alone. What you want is level 15-18 skinnable mobs.

Comment by Thottbot

Best location for me was in Duskwood, between the cemetary and river bank. The wolves there drop almost everytime and some at 2X. I gathered 40 in less than 15 minutes.

Comment by Thottbot

The best place for Alliance to farm Light Leather, by far, is Redridge, particularly along the southern coast of the lake. It is crawling with Great Goretusk boars, which often drop 1-2 light leathers and never scraps. They are also intermixed with Black Dragon Whelplings, which give the boost of coming with a small portion of copper and the occasional drop of black whelp scales - though these mostly give out 1-2 light leathers as well. There is also a small, extremely fast-respawning cluster of murlocs which drop various scales for leatherworking. For all mobs there the respawn rate is lightning-fast, and the mobs are around lvl 16-20. Good luck

Comment by Thottbot

For Light Leather:

Hillsbrad Foothills
Elder Grey Bear

Sometimes 100% for 2 drops of LL.

Comment by Thottbot

Best place is absolutely south from camp taurojo. Kodos, Thunderheads, Zhevra couser etc. Almost every time 2x light leather

Comment by Thottbot

Try Shadowfang Keep, u got lots of money AND Light leather from skinning wolfs and those wolf/human thing.

Comment by Thottbot

Alright the absolute best plaace i have found to farm this leather is est of the loch in loch modan. Farming the black bear patriarch almost always drops 2x light leather with each skinning and they're everywhere along with boars and crocodiles for more skins.

Comment by Thottbot

ok, i found THE best place for ally to farm for light leather

lvl 6s drop rate is every other one for me and scraps that can be turned into light leather as well so win win

go to stonefield farm in elwynn forest.

the pigs spawn after each kill so u never loose time

10min i made about 3 stacks

some pigs will spawn everytime u kill the one before so they'll spawn next to u.

im 70 and one shots all around and u got urself ALOT of light leather

Comment by Thottbot

if your low lvl and just starting like lvl 5-6-7 go to stonfield farm lots of boars respawn rate is nice

Comment by Thottbot

With out a shadow of a doubt the wolves at the top of darkshire are the place to be for light leather. I killed about 50 in about 10-15 minutes and came away with 14 med leather - 92 light leather and a few hides too. they often drop 2 with skinning and almost everyone drops at least one.

Comment by Thottbot

You can always get some guildies or a friend to help you at it, or just farm at The Deep Elm Mine or at camp Taurajo.

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Meltor lvl 21 Warrior

Comment by Thottbot

I confer, Deep Elem Mine in the middle of Splintertree Forest is the best spot for light leather. At least for a higher lvl. I am lvl 45 and with one hit per enemy was able to acquire the 340 skins i needed for lvl 130 in just 2 hours.

Comment by Thottbot

I found one of the best places for light leather is in the Barrens, between Honor's Stand & The Forgotten Pools. I have been through almost the whole Barrens for light leather, and this is the best place so far.
Good Luck :D

Comment by Thottbot

Depending on your level, Shadowfang Keep is the best place for Light Leather as it also has the change of droping twink wep.

Comment by Thottbot

how can you get light leather if you are not a skinner?

Comment by Thottbot

Maclure Vineyard south of Goldshire was the best for me. There's about 7 Boars that have a crazy fast respawn time. Had a huge pile of pig bodies in a matter of seconds.

Comment by Thottbot

i'm a blacksmith and minner, and i need light leather to do itens for a quest, where can i get it?

Comment by Thottbot

If you are a higher level that can solo SFK theres tons of light and meduim leather to be made in there off the almost entire amounts of skinnable mobs.

Comment by Thottbot

A Great Farm Area needs several things including a fast respawn rate, mobs that don't drop a lot of trash (we have to loot to skin), and consistent skinning results. The raptors respawn here as fast as you can skin them, in fact not once in the time I was farming was I able to actually clear the Grounds for more than 2 seconds before the Raptors started respawning, and I was one-shotting them! In 90 min, I gathered 15 stacks of light leather (300), 35 medium leather, 16 light hide, 3 medium hide, 6 green drops for AH and only had seven stacks of vendor trash (teeth, claws, scales mostly). Great spot with minimal traffic!

Comment by Thottbot

I know a really great farm place. However you would probably want to be alliance, and it can be dangerous until at least 20.

It's in Loch Modan. In the Loch, there are 6 islands. The southern one (54,54) is amazing for these things. It's filled with lvl 14 and 15 loch crocolisks. There is about 10 of them (or more) on this one tiny island that takes 10 seconds to run across. But you don't even have to run across it. If you stay on the eastern part, there are around 3 of the guys who will always be there. Kill one, there's another behind you to take its place. They drop mostly light leather, but occasionally scraps, but you can just transform those into lights.

I got 100 light leathers from this place in 45 minutes, although I was a lvl 40 dwarf hunter.

Comment by Thottbot

My favorite place for light leather, at least for Horde, is along the road west of the front gates of Undercity. You can start at UC, head west, and as soon as you get into the wooded area, there are worgs on either side of the road. The best spot, however, is after you travel down the road a bit. You will come to a place on the right that looks like a Christmas tree farm. Among the trees are tons of worgs. Work your way down the road to this farm, kill all the worgs there, go back to the beginning, and start over. Lots of light leather in a short amount of time.

The reason this farm is so good is that it is a quest location for noob undead, so the respawn rate is very high.

Comment by Thottbot

Went to Deep Elem Mine skinning produced about 70-80% light leather with some scraps thrown in, and the respawn rate is pretty good with a small area to cover. Plenty of bears to skin in surrounding forest too.

Comment by Thottbot

Darkened bank in duskwood is best place to farm, long strip of wolfs that drop 1-2 light leather without any scraps

Comment by Thottbot

The best place I found to farm light leather in the Barrens is the Raptor Grounds, 58, 54. They pop like crazy, all light with some medium and occasional green item drops.

Comment by Allakhazam

yah light lether is a great way to make money for low levels i can get a stack within 20mins with my lvl 12 and sell 70s and now im just goin to send it down to a lvl 1 blood elf for some sweet stuff

Comment by Allakhazam

where is the best place to find leather? can you buy it? best drop creature?

Comment by Allakhazam

hey don't hate on the light leather.... we've all had to use it at one point or another.... if you're leather worker anyways

Comment by Allakhazam

if you need light leather and are a high level, SFK is definitely the place to farm, with 60% drop rate on the worgs and the ease of soloability, this is the best place to get your light leather

Comment by Allakhazam

Another great place for Alliance skinners to collect Light leather is off of the Wolves along the banks of the river in northern Duskwood. Wolves are plentiful and respawn is quick. Just be respectful of players killing them for the quests. There is plenty for everyone, so just move on.

Skinning often yields 1 or 2 light leather. Also you get some medium leather and light and medium hides; no leather scraps.

Comment by Allakhazam

I've noticed that a fairly good way of getting decent stacks of Light Leather and not bore yourself to death while at it is to dive into the instance of Wailing Caverns in the Barrens. Most mobs can be skinned for Light Leather, and you'll most likely end up with a couple of stacks of Medium Leather as well.
With Ratchet's faction free bank, mailbox and vendors close, it is not a bad choice at all.

Comment by Allakhazam

SFK is the best place to farm light leatehr, if your a high level GO THERE, its easy and efficient, 60%drop rate and availibility of other leathers makes this an awesome place to farm

Comment by Allakhazam

Create another character and farm with it. Easy way to get those supplies that you need in the beginning. Sucks later though. I like having one character to farm and another to create. Makes both characters jump easier. Challenge to play though.

Comment by Allakhazam

I usually solo SFK and get 5-6 stacks of Light Leather that sell for 60-70 silver a stack.

Comment by Allakhazam

Due to an absurd amount of people trying to undercut one another, the price of a stack of 20 light leather is 99 sp or less.

Honestly, I wish I could get 2 gp for a stack... *sighs*

Comment by Allakhazam

im trying to get light leather for my engeneer with out paying outrageus AH prices man thats easier said then done

Comment by Allakhazam

Judging from the stats on this it looks like Ashenvale would be the best place to farm this, from Wild Bucks (13 - 19) 27.56% (71,881) and Ghostpaw Runners (15 - 20) 24.02% (122,379). I'm gonna try it out later. Need some for tailoring.

Comment by UnbridledRage

An amazing place to level Skinning and collecting Ruined Leather Scraps and Light Leather is the site of the quest Echeyakee , which is on the east side of the hill behind Grol'dom Farm. Savannah Huntresses constantly spawn there, in a never-ending stream.

Comment by cleric670

I don't think it's been mentioned but mobs under level 5 cannot be skinned. Gotta be level 5 or higher.

Comment by RagnCajn

The Maclure Vineyards(41,41), south of Goldshire. Lots of stonetusk boar. They repop fast - should provide an easy way to level through the early stages of skinning (and leatherworking).

Comment by Poppabare

Best place by far for light leather is north end of Redridge Mountains just before going into Burning Steppes. Instant respawn of 16-17 Great Gortusks.

Comment by childofnewlight

If you're looking to convert your Light Leather into Strange Dust, the Embossed Leather Gloves is the most optimal pattern.

For 3 pieces of leather you can generate 1-2 pieces of strange dust. That's a 2:1 conversion. In contrast. The next closest is the Fine Leather Belt with a 2.4:1 ratio.

This ratio can also help you calculate whether or not it's worth converting the leather into strange dust on your server.

One strange dust must be worth AT LEAST two pieces of light leather on your server to break even.

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