Expansion Leatherworking

[Concillian]

Anyone else think they overdid it on the Blacksmithing weapons? 549 Top end damage is a lot even with the new amounts of stamina.

Well... It's really hard to say what is overdoing and what is not at this point. Also, I expect the mats to be pretty difficult to collect, probably requiring rare items plus stuff from lockout dungeons... where there is likely going to be weapons of this caliber dropping from the bosses anyway.

Note that the 'middle' tier of the crafted weapons are virtually identical to the Arena rewards. I expect the top tier of the crafted weapons will require pretty significant mats and effort.

Edit:
Indeed this seems to be true, the top end blacksmithing weapons are not going to be easily craftable...
Quote from Kalgan:

The highest upgraded versions of the weaponsmithing items won't be crafted until guilds are well into tier 5. So, you're comparing tier 4 weapons to tier 5, which isn't an entirely useful comparison.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...105735&sid=1#23

I think making any judgements now about an item that isn't expecte dto be available until "guilds are well into tier 5" would be kind of like judging Ashkandi damage balance when there still were no level 60s. It's kind of pointless, given that everyone else will be in better stuff and there will be significant game mechanics changing.