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Comment by Bethenal

The new leather types for Mists of Pandaria:

Magnificent Hide (the rare leather for MoP)
Prismatic Scale
Sha-Touched Leather
Exotic Leather
Heavy Exotic Leather

Edit: The common leather types changed from Tanji Leathers to Sha Leathers in beta build 15650.
Edit 2: Sha Leather Scraps changed to Sha-Touched Leather and Sha Leather and Heavy Leather changed to Exotic Leather and Heavy Exotic Leather

Details correct as at Beta Build 15882

Comment by Guy19

So far, I'm like a pig in !@#$ - everyone starting off means that they're leaving a ton of skinnable creatures behind. I've having to run to keep up. :D

Comment by muhashi

Oddly enough this vendors for more than Exotic Leather.

Comment by kardinal

Patch 5.04 release day experience:
There's a ton of this stuff on the AH. Prices are dropping like stones. I was able to sell 300 (15 stacks) for 10g, but after that, within 12 hours, it's dropped to 1.5G each (30g/stack). I'm not sure if this is just the glut from the first day of MoP or what, but if you have a large stack (I have 1500), you might want to wait to sell them.

Given what's happening with Ghost Iron Ore (basically the same thing; tons of it available), I'm wondering if Blizzard is deliberately making more material available than in Wrath or Cataclysm, to keep the AH prices low.

Comment by kardinal

(Horde) Patch 5.04 early suggestion on where to get it:
Since players just starting out have two quests pretty much everyone does which involve killing skinnable mobs, you can use that to your advantage to get free leather.

The first is right off the airship; Prowler Problems calls on our Horde heroes to kill Sha-Infested Prowler. Just hang around whenever a large number of our comrades are performing this service to our prospective Pandaren allies for some extra leather.

A bit later, a quest out of Grookin Hill called The Bees' Knees requires you to kill a number of Tigerfly to acquire their legs. So there are scores of our fellow Hordies massacreing these poor Tigerflies for their Bug Leg.

IMPORTANT: As always, be polite when skinning other people's kills. Be sure they will not skin the kill before you do so. When in doubt, just leave it and come back a bit later. There should be plenty around for you.

This will certainly work early on during the expansion, but might be an excellent strategy long-term for getting Sha-Touched Leather. The Tigerfly are neutral and have half normal hitpoints, while giving plenty of leather, Mist-Touched Leather, and Plump Intestines.

Comment by Superdude312

Here's a nice farming spot I've found right at the beginning of the Pandaren island. Packs of skinnable animals that respawn in groups, if you're faster than the respawn rate, just kill the single animals in the same area between each pack kill (if really needed).

They drop both exotic leather and Sha-Touched leather. I've also skinned 1 Magnificent Hide after about 12 min. so not the best drop rate if it's only the blue hide you want.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB9f12KCzMI

Comment by w3maniak

In current live patch (5.0.5) the conversion to Exotic leather can be done while moving an/or while mounted.

Comment by Mileron

The conversion of Sha-touched Leather to Exotic Leather is something you can do at LW 500, as depicted by the item.

Note that the conversion gives you two skillups per conversion. Unfortunately I do not know the upper limit, as I was doing the conversion on my 80 LW Druid who cannot yet learn Zen Master LW, and had to stop at 524 LW.

Comment by Lovestar

Show us on the leather where the Sha touched you.

Comment by 1116605

Great macro for if you're out farming:

#showtooltip Sha-Touched Leather
/use Sha-Touched Leather

No more bag hunting and it tells you how many you have on the tooltip!

Comment by bebeguns

A great place I have found to farm this is North of Dawn's Blossom, In the Jade Forest. Tigers and porcupines drop a quick amount of these. I saw nothing about farming it on this feed so I thought I would add a good spot to look. I picked up a few greens as well. Fill them bags with leathers and moneys :D Cheers!

Comment by 921346

Until level 90 is attained--and access to more difficult areas--Silverhorn Stags, Silverhorn Yearlings, and Silverhorn Calves are a great early option for farming leather (both Sha-Touched and Exotic, more former than latter).

Additional Benefits include:

The occasional BoE
The rare Mote of Harmony drop
Vendorable junk - such as Antler Velvet (1g/stack of 20) and Splendid Antler (45g/stack of 5)
Plump Intestines
Neutral status - no aggro unless provoked
Decent spawn time
Decent Exp gain

They travel in groups of 2-5 and can wander close to another group--an easy target for AoEs.

I have personally found that it is possible to skin Magnificent Hides from these beasts. While I would not farm them for this particular purpose, every 1 Hide is 20 Exotic saved (or Spirit of Harmony, for that matter) for another day.

If you are looking for easier targets, early targets and/or limited walking distance for skinning, I suggest these creatures.
More specifically, the small groups slightly south of Dawn's Blossom (roughly 46.2, 50.7) in The Jade Forest to start.

Edit: Added additional benefits list

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Sha-Touched Leather

Item Level 86

Requires Leatherworking (500)
Use: Cleanse five pieces of sha-touched leather to create one mist-touched leather.
"Sapped of its natural strength and resilience by the Sha presence, only a skilled leatherworker can hope to recover this unusable hide."

Max Stack: 20

Sell Price: 5 50

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This item can be fished in Valley of the Four Winds (2).

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Leatherworking Leveling Guide: Fastest 1-600 Leveling and Required Materials - MoP Classic Mist-Touched Leather Farming Guide - MoP Classic Valley of the Four Winds Overview Guide - MoP Classic

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