Leatherworking super duper expensive?

[Simaril]

Ltw is easy and expensive if you buy skins or leather, or time consuming and cheap if you farm them. It doesn't seem like there's any fast cheap way to powerlevel. HOWEVER, if you're leveling multiple battle classes you should just naturally come across many of the skins you'll need, and it wouldn't be hard to just pay a little extra attention to the mobs that drop what you need. I was farming Alumen to get my Min to 20, and have a few stacks that are selling dirt cheap... so I know that not all materials are expensive. It is worth looking at both the cost of the skin and the cost of the leather... I've found HQ skins surprisingly cheaply a few times.

I'm currently above 20 in all DoH and Min Btn. A few of them are noticably different. Cul requires tons of ingredients... but many of them are available at merchants (even for for the 21-25 recipes). Wvr requires an absurd number of steps (1 cloth takes 3 steps, and a lot of recipes use more than 1 cloth. Alc uses some of the very lowest level recipes on the highest items (needed cinnabar for quicksilver, for growth formula for the lv 26 wand). Arm, Bsm, Crp, Gsm all seem pretty normal...

[Manila]

I leveled it by farming the skins myself, which didn't take much time at all. I farmed 100 of each skin type, and that was more than enough to get me to 50. only took a 3-4 hours to get them all. Leatherworking was actually very profitable while leveling.

[Capita]

I'm currently leveling CRP, WVR, and LTW at the same time. LTW is definitely the most expensive, and I'm currently stuck on it until I start farming stuff myself. WVR is also expensive, but Flax is easy to come by if you have BTN leveled, which I do. So I'm currently breaking even, although most of my expenses go into the tons of Lightning Shards it's using up. CRP is very, very cheap to level and I'm not worried about it at all.

LTW, though... Boar skins are going for like 1000g each, non-HQ.

[mjk]

As people have said, LTW is only expensive if you buy the skin/leather. Equip some gear to spiritbind, get out your chocobo and grind away. 2 stacks each of aldgoat, boar and raptor should get you to 50.

The bottleneck for LTW is hippogryph sinew. Not as bad as fleece though.

[FCrowles]

When you guys say it takes 1-2 stacks of Aldgoat, boar and raptor what are you doing to level? Are you doing the repeatable Leather levequest or other levequests or just making random things? Currently 36 LW and just curious to the most effecient method of leveling. I am on Pieste armor now. I have troubles Critting leather for the levequests with only 40 durability and however much CP I have. I don't have anything but LW abilities.
I still have 56 levequests remaining and I hope they are enough to take me to 50. I'd love to get started on my monks Gryphon armor.