change to leather scrap requirements

on live, i can make 2 leather using:

1x leather recipe: 2 hides, 1 salt
2x leather from scraps recipe: 2 hides, 2 salt, 24 scraps

and so it makes no sense economically to use the scraps recipe.

on QA, that's reduced to 12 scraps instead of 24. it STILL makes no sense to use it.

 

wow looks counter productive to me ... why bother if using scraps still needs the same amount of hides???? and more salt lol it does not make any sense at all...

 

On the live server, you get two leather from two hides and one salt. Did they nerf it so that now you only get one leather from that recipe?

 

@Alley Oop
I saw the "1x leather recipe" and thought you meant that it was making one leather.

 

predicting the "fix" will be to make the normal leather recipe be 2 hides -> 1 leather,

since, why not take every opportunity to make things arbitrarily harder.

 

This is why I haven't yelled about this issue.

 

Sad that we are driven to this assumption/prediction. Being that I am trying really hard to look at the bright side, shame shame shame. This will probably be fixed asap.

 

The Scraps recipes for leather/fabric have long made no sense and this change they still don't make sense.
This is for a couple reasons:
1. There's no way to get an abundance of leather/cloth scrap, as mobs don't drop leather/cloth junk. You occasionally get them from searching sacks/barrels or fishing them up, but that's it. The only other way is by salvaging something you've crafted (useful when you get nonexceptional boots/gloves, I guess) or blowing things up enchanting.
2. The fuel cost of curing salt and wax make use of scraps uneconomical. In most cases, you'd be better off selling the scraps for 1 gold each and buying more hides/cotton. I thought the new recipes would address this, but it seems, not.

 

Periodically I try out the leather from scraps recipe to see if they have fixed it but I'm always disappointed. It's really odd to me that they can't see how it's broken.

 

Was just about to bug report this. Found this it is still a problem (it the same as above i think). But write i piece just in case it is something different.

Leather From Scraps
1 X Curing Salt
6 X Leather Scraps
1 X Animal Hide
=> 1 X Leather

Leather
1 X Curing Salt
2 X Animal Hide
=> 2 X Leather

So the leather form scraps recipes just consumes leather scrap for no additional benefit......

I assume the Leather From Scraps recipes should be 2 leather as well, then it makes sense.
Can i also assume at some point it was changed for balance and the scraps recipe got forgotten???

Spung

 

I guess the original idea was that animal hides would have a higher value among players, making scrap recipes more economical. Since Leather Armors are discriminated against, and the server population is on the low end of the curve, as it stands leather scraps are waste. If the leather armor skills and stats improve or the population rises, I expect the scraps to be relevant.