How do you make farming leather more profitable?

Its easy, skin mobs that drop profitable cooking meats. By doing this, you “double” up on your farming and make more profit.

What meats should I farm?

The common meats needed for cooking are Worm Meat, Rhino Meat, Shoveltusk Flank, and Chunk o” Mammoth. Look on your AH and see which is going for more gold at that time and farm that type. Vary it up, so you dont flood the market with one type!

Where do I find mobs with good drop rates?

Worm meat has a high drop rate off Ravenous Jormungar and Roaming Jormungar in a cave in Storm Peaks that is marked by a circle below:

Rhino meat has a high drop rate off Shardhorn Rhino around The Suntouched Pillar, north of the Nessingway Base Camp in Sholazar Basin that is marked by circles below:

Shoveltusk Flank can be found off all Shoveltusk all over Howling Fjord.

Chunk o’ Mammoth has a high drop rate off Stoic Mammoth ouside a cave in Storm Peaks that is marked by a circle below:

The main tricks to making gold off cooking raid foods, is to learning when to list them and which ones to make.

When to list them

As with flasks and pots, raid consumables should be listed an hour before normal raid days on your server. On my server normal raid times are at 7:30 on Tue-Thurs-Sun so I list them at 6:30 on those days. This way I am the lowest person on the market, and they are listed at the time when they are searched for the most.

Popular Foods

The best in game food for each buff requires Northrend spices. This can be very costly to make and since they are so expensive compared to the lower WotLK recipe, they don’t sell as well. If you want to try selling these, I would recommend making a stack and seeing how well they sell.  If they don’t sell well it may be best to use the spices to cook food for yourself, or sell the spices on the AH.

The second best in game food require Northrend meat but no Northrend spices. These are the middle of the road food for someone who wants the buff but doesn’t want to pay ridiculous prices. They also tend to use less meat in the recipe as well.

The third best raid food in the game is Outland recipes.  The meat for these is relatively cheap and easy to farm, and most people do not craft these any more to put up on the AH. The down side is most people don’t think to look for outland food when they look for raid buffs. However, this area sells quicker than the best food in game.