SE, We need to talk about Leatherworker ...

[Katchoo]

Edited my original post for a bit more clarity after the discussion

... in fact Leatherworker, Alchemist, Weaver, basically any recipe with a mob drop in it.

It is completely ridiculous that we are still in this situation with some of these drops. Limited spawn locations, low drop rates and not dropping enough mats for recipes that are BASIC levelling recipes.

To point out, i have no issues with having to put more work into some recipes. I'm cool with that, the issue is that when basic recipes for levelling require a disproportionate amount of work compared to other jobs.

This does not only apply to LTH but also to things like WYV and Dawn Serge metals requiring stupid amount of mobs drop (Chimera Felt all over again)

One of the biggest peeves i have is the inconsistency of mob drops for these recipes. All too often i have gone to farm something to start out fairly solid and then suddenly 10 kills later still nothing. It's incredibly frustrating to invest time into something and get nothing in return. I know RNG is RNG but not having a rough idea of how much time i need to farm for any given thing is annoying.

Personally i feel like many of the mob drops for low and mid level crafts should be increased.

EDIT: About retainers.

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And even with retainers, it still takes too long to get all those materials. You might be fine for LTW, where each piece of leather takes 3 skins, even though the drop rates on those are horrendously low, but ONE piece of Worsted Yarn takes 4 mob drops, and ONE piece of Dawn Serge takes 3 yarns - that's 16 items for one complete material! And then your ultimate item might (probably) requires more than one cloth. Nobody's asking for the ability to get dozens of the items per drop but the amount of time invested. That's 3 hours alone for your retainer to get enough materials for 1 cloth. You're pretty much required to have multiple DoW retainers to get these items at a decent pace.

"Just use your retainer" isn't the answer, we need a buff to the drop rate or the amount you get per drop.