Why does ZOS hate medium armor crafters?

ontheleftcoast

As I've been playing up a Nightblade up to VR9 I've noticed something. In each zone where you start getting ores, wood, and cloth materials for the next higher set of gear you're screwed if you're looking for leather scraps. For example, I'm in Rivenspire which is VR8 for AD players as a Cadwell's Gold zone. When I kill monsters for leather they drop Superb Hide scraps which makes VR7-VR8 gear. But I find Voidstone Ore, Nightwood, and Voidbloom flowers all over the place. Which means I can craft heavy armor, weapons, light armor, and shields for my VR9 toon but I'm screwed on leather unless I head to Craglorn or the Alik'r Desert zone or resort to buying it from the guilds. What gives? Why the mismatch on crafting materials? It seems like a pretty silly oversight. Just make the VR8 (or VR5, VR2, etc.) monsters drop the same quality materials as you can harvest for all the other crafters. Don't hate on medium armor, Zenimax.

CP5

Mobs seem artificially restricted to dropping crafting mats only for your characters level or below. Why? For science ontheleftcoast, for science...

Siniztor

Yeah its tied to your level vr 9 being the magical number to get shadow hide..

The plus side people farm creatures for vr's and cp' so there is and will be alot of higher end Hide on the market..You can't farm rock mobs and wood mobs for materials lol

ontheleftcoast

Actually I'm VR9 and I'm still getting Superb Hide scraps. It appears to be the monster level and not mine that dictates what drops. I need to be in a VR9 zone it seems. Or go into a group dungeon and have the monsters scale to my level. Fortunately I had a stack of Shadowhide on my clothing expert from earlier I just forgot about it. That was enough to make my set so I'm good for now.

Robbmrp

Most zones have material that span across a few different levels. If your getting Voidstone and those kinds of things, there should be Shadowhide also off the higher level creatures. Find creatures in the zone your in that are V9 and up and you should get what your looking for. In Craglorn the Welwa's and jackals drop it.

ontheleftcoast

There are no VR9 monsters in Rivenspire though. That's the problem. Unless I do into a group dungeon that scales that is. But I've cleared about 70% of Rivenspire now and still haven't found a single piece of Shadowhide scrap. And never will.

Siniztor

Bangkorai should be the place for shadow hide if your in DC on Cadwells Gold