Leather farming is horrible

[Naoki34]

Please give us another gathering class that increases leather and fur farming. It's just so out of whack with the rest of the crafting game.

Use your retainers.

[xenahawk]

Not sure what levels you might be looking at but if you havent done so already if you unlock retainer ventures and make on a combat class it can basically go out and gather you anything thats a monster drop, leather, meats, other ingrediants. But in the shadowbringers endwalker gem vendors will sell you basically any of those drops from that expasion for just a couple gems.

[SamSmoot]

Use your retainers.

That's what I do. I don't bother killing things for leather any more. If I need a few pieces quickly, I buy it with gemstones.
Key thing to remember: Join FATE farming groups early in an expansion to get your Shared FATE book filled in while everyone is doing the same. This will open up the gemstone vendors for all their items, and if you complete them all, you can buy everything from the city gemstone vendor.

[Silverbane]

Yep. The drop rates for monster drops become waaaay too low once you go over-level to keep the rate of receiving them reliable, so retainers are the way to go with monster drops on the lower level stuff.
I have 4 combat retainers for this very reason.

I have ... around a score of combat retainers, and maybe a dozen gatherer retainers.
A benefit of having 12 alts.

But only about half of them are leveled to 90 and Classical/Pactmaker geared, at the moment.

NB: my spouse and I have concluded that Fisher retainers are the least useful.
All the really good fish are not obtainable through ventures.

[Gember]

Its why you have a combat retainer. >__>'

[TaleraRistain]

EQII had a trap node where you could get skins/hides and meat and that would be a great DoL class addition here. This could be a class that has the ability to gather a variety of mob-related items from their nodes.

Barring that, they could look at retroactively applying the bicolor gemstone system to previous tier FATEs since that has made getting at least skins and hides a lot more accessible.

[Xeronia]

I would take simply adding the skins to the Grand Company vendors for GC seals like future expansion do with Bi-color gemstones (as both are acquired via FATES) so there is a reason to do fates in pre-Shadowbringer's zones and it helps smooth out that aspect for new players and may give them more incentive to level their GC rank.

[baklava151]

It would be neat to have a gatherer who specializes in getting drops from mobs. Every time I see a crafting recipe needs one I just run to the MB.

[JTWrenn]

Use your retainers.

As I said earlier, the issue is how out of whack with the rest of the crafting it is. Even if you used retainers, unless you hire extra and pay more (which I also think should not be a thing in a subscription game), the gathering rate is massively different from the rest of crafting.

[Krojack]

Not sure if it's been said or not but I get so much leather and fur from my retainers. I can easily get 500+ over a few days which will last me most of the expansion.