Quote Originally Posted by MorKazim View Post
Rough Leather Shirt . Value: 56.
cost to make
Rough Leather Roll x3 = 60
Shoddy Leather Roll x2 = 20
Leather Strips x1 = 3

total (without the markup) = 83 basic cost

so to make the Rough Leather Shirt will cost at least 83$ but its Value is 56$.
Hm, interesting. My impression is that usually crafted items are worth a little bit more than their components (e.g. rough animal skin + tannin powder -> rough leather roll). My initial thought was that maybe it's based on the raw components, but that's even worse depending on whether you calculate the tannin powder at "value" or "vendor price":
rough animal skin x 3 = 30
shoddy animal skin x 3 = 15
tannin powder x6 = 30 ( actual cost to buy from vendor is 42)
Total: 75 / 87

I would definitely be curious if that's intended or just an oversight.

( And if you are just trying to level leatherworking, I'd go camp the Amulna work order board for a bit. I don't recall the exact work order prices but with the industry bonuses, they should definitely be slightly profitable even at lower levels. Once you get to the higher levels, lw work orders are quite profitable.)

As far as use is concerned - my primary lw use for non-max level items is work orders. I will also make level 60 stuff for alt builds pretty frequently, and I've just made a level 50 helm for an alt a couple days ago. Much lower than that, I'd probably not bother making things for my own use - leveling is fast and gems are expensive. So yeah, I couldn't see myself making an enchanted rough leather shirt at this point in time.