Fastest way to get leather?

[Electroflux]

This grind for leather is killing me. Hundreds upon hundreds of it to upgrade armor, it's ridiculous.

[CombedPumpkin]

I think you're talking Origins. And...agreed

[jack_of_tears]

Leather and Wood are going to be a constant drain on you for the first half of the game but you shouldn't bother upgrading your armor but once every 3-5 levels anyway (depending on your level). Mostly, you'll find better stuff in the course of the game and upgrading is useless until you find a piece - or set - that really compliments your playstyle.

The best way to get any resource early in the game is to break down equipment - the rarer the equipment the more resources you'll get from it. You can also buy some from traders but until you're tripping over money in mid-late game that is a usually a bad investment. Always buy tablets when you see them for sale, however, as you'll need those in abundance until you've finished upgrading your ship.

[MrsSgtStriker]

Originally posted by jack_of_tears:

Leather and Wood are going to be a constant drain on you for the first half of the game but you shouldn't bother upgrading your armor but once every 3-5 levels anyway (depending on your level). Mostly, you'll find better stuff in the course of the game and upgrading is useless until you find a piece - or set - that really compliments your playstyle.

The best way to get any resource early in the game is to break down equipment - the rarer the equipment the more resources you'll get from it. You can also buy some from traders but until you're tripping over money in mid-late game that is a usually a bad investment. Always buy tablets when you see them for sale, however, as you'll need those in abundance until you've finished upgrading your ship.

This. I've played this game twice now, and second playthrough I just sold or broke down armor and arms and moved on to the next thing I'd find until I hit 50, then upgraded my favorite saved gear. If you really need supplies in a hurry, head over to Euboea to the forest area. You can't swing a cat without hitting an animal, mineral or vegetable. Also...the minerals glow at night...easier to see. Happy hunting!

[katzenkrimis]

Originally posted by Jinshushei:

This grind for leather is killing me. Hundreds upon hundreds of it to upgrade armor, it's ridiculous.

I agree. This game has a levelling/resource imbalance.

Levelling up is so lightning fast that you can't keep up with your gear upgrades.

I had all the legendary equipment that I wanted before level 30. That isn't cheap to upgrade. Especially when you fall behind on the upgrading, 3 levels on each piece.

I pick the maps clean and still run short on gold and resources.

So all I've been doing is saving up gold, then spending a half hour hopping from blacksmith to blacksmith via fast travel, buying up leather, iron and obsidian glass.

Then I blow it all in one shot, getting my gear caught up. Only to turn around and be levelled up again.

I also discovered that when you first talk to a blacksmith you can buy what you need, exit the blacksmith, then talk to him again and he refreshes his inventory. This can only be done once.

Sometimes you'll get lucky and get two full stacks of leather. Like in the 100's or 200's.

I really don't like playing games this way.

[jack_of_tears]

I don't understand why you're having so much trouble in late game. I pick up resources on the move, break down most of the equipment I pick up, and sell my purples when low on cash, and I have so many resources and drachme that I could build a fleet of ships, given the opportunity.

[MrsSgtStriker]

Originally posted by jack_of_tears:

I don't understand why you're having so much trouble in late game. I pick up resources on the move, break down most of the equipment I pick up, and sell my purples when low on cash, and I have so many resources and drachme that I could build a fleet of ships, given the opportunity.

This was my experience, too. I have an oversupply of coin and resources late game.

[Sisohiv]

Leather, wood and Iron will scale to level. For better and worse. Nothing at low levels will yield you a lot of leather. You can head to high base level areas like Petrified Islands and scoop Wood and Iron but leather will never be easy, not at low level. Return to Kephallonia and murder the wolves and goats repeatedly.

It's an unfortunate truth mentioned here in a variety of ways that getting a set of Legendary from the Helix store and upgrading it from level 1 through to level cap is a very bad idea. Even if you are willing to murder goats in the thousands and grind out Iron and wood, the Obsidian glass is mostly from Proc Iron and it only Proc's 3-5% of the time meaning 1 on 20 Iron nodes give it. You can run around walls of a few cities and farm blue weapons from the weapons racks but again, you will find level locking and you will only get the Obsidian Glass you would have gotten from 3 or 4 Iron Nodes. (when they proc)

Maybe this is all a tell as to just how pointless the stats on gear is, maybe it's poor balancing. I'm not sure why they kept Proc on Obsidian Iron so low.

t':dr Wear trash loot, power level and avoid Legendary until higher levels so you claim it when it's already upgraded.

[Jim Beam]

Buying leather helps a lot. Sounds ridiculous but you can get good amounts of it on every merchant.

[Zsokorad]

Leather - Go hunting for groups of goats and deer using the Multishot ability.
Wood - Destroy lots and lots of ships, including merchant ships.
Metal - Loot weapon racks along city walls like the wall around Athens to salvage the weapons.

There's also certain areas of the map where resources are abnormally abundant. For example, the beach area north of Hot Gates of Thermopylae in Malis is rich with wood. The Volcanic Islands are rich with metal.

There's plenty of animals to hunt along the Messenia side of the Lakonian mountain range, as well as a huge pack of wolves in the Scorched Rolling Plains of Boeotia. A couple of the islands are pretty much cat islands, as they are littered with tons of Lynx.

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[Whirl]

You can loot while you ride. You can also loot animals NPCs kill. Loot weapon racks, and resource crates, before you destroy them. My issue is wood, especially considering how much I need to complete my ship now. You get the most wood from ship battles but you also get some of the worst Mercenary jumps.

Also, only upgrade Gold items. And even then, only upgrade completed sets until you make a new set. I was using the Serpent Set, then I completed the Amazon set. Weapons don't need a lot of upgrading since you'll usually find improvements as you move on.

At the beginning of the game, there's zero point in upgrading. You'll just be getting new weapons and armour all the time.