Leatherworking as a picture book

In the Draenor expansion, you can wear three pieces of crafted gear at a time. Some of these crafted pieces seem pretty nice!

Leatherworking Shoulders

I'm kind of assuming that when you craft them they'll have some mix of the "extra" stats, like Critical Hit, Haste, etc. Otherwise they wouldn't really stand up to the other gear. Backing up that assumption is this pattern:

Heck, there's even a pattern to upgrade your crafted items once you've made them!

Of course, the part that had me stumped until just a couple days ago was how to purchase them. If you look closely, you can see that the patterns cost 1-5 "books." Hovering over that says that it's an item called, Secrets of Draenor Leatherworking. I checked all the NPCs at my Leatherworking Hut, checked other NPCs in my garrison, flew to Warspear (main hub in Draenor) to check the NPCs there ... nothing! And then I just accidentally stumbled across it. You have to make them yourself!!

I am a dummy

Boy did I feel dumb. It has a one day cooldown so I had wasted a lot of time before I figured that out. Fortunately, there are a limited number of patterns so I don't think it will impact me too much. 

On my search for the elusive Secrets of Draenor Leatherworking books, I stumbled across a PvP vendor! Apparently I have ~3200 honor from the last time I played, which means ... I could buy a couple pieces of gear right now! Even for PvE, they'd be upgrades, as they are iLvl 625 (in PvP battlegrounds/arenas that scales up to 675) and most of my gear is 615 or lower. I was wracked with indecision about which piece would be best to buy though, so I bought nothing.

PvP Gear

Even outside of which piece makes the most sense (rings? trinkets? cloaks? armor?), some of them had different dps stats - do I want Haste? Crit? Multi-Strike? Beats me! Shoot, I don't even know if I should be buying DPS gear or Healing gear! A decision best put off for the future after I've done a little research. (Honestly though, given that it's the entry level PvP gear, it probably won't matter too much. It'll get replaced by the time I figure out what I really want/need.)