Leatherworking Guide 1-450

Welcome to Warcraft Tavern’s Leatherworking guide! In this guide, we’ll provide everything you need to max out your Leatherworking skill, from the materials required to level up your profession to the best recipes to follow.

Leatherworking is a crafting profession focusing mainly on creating Leather and Mail gear pieces. Some of these BoE-crafted pieces, like Ice Striker’s Cloak, serve as some classes’ pre-raid BiS. While there are more substantial choices when choosing a profession based on PvE and PvP benefits, Leatherworking does have access to a couple of unique item enhancements. With Fur Lining – Attack Power and Fur Lining – Spell Power, Leatherworkers can enchant their bracers with better stats than the Enchanting equivalent. The personal leg armors that Leatherworkers can craft don’t have better stats than their BoE counterparts, but they cost significantly less material (Nerubian Leg Reinforcements and Jormungar Leg Reinforcements).

One of the most sought-after items Leatherworkers can produce will be the drums available at 450 skill. These drums can take the place of Gift of the Wild (Drums of the Wild) and Blessing of Kings (Drums of Forgotten Kings), great for when your dungeon group or raid is missing a Druid or Paladin.

Leatherworking relies almost entirely on Leather skinned from beasts found throughout the world. Because of this, Skinning is the perfect companion gathering profession for this skill. Leatherworkers also need crystallized elements found on the corresponding elemental and revenant mobs found throughout Northrend.

Required Materials

Below you can find the materials you’ll need to level from 1-450, as well as a few tips and things to keep in mind.

• Sometimes we will have to craft yellow recipes that don’t guarantee a level up on every craft, therefore the materials required are estimates, rather than exact figures.
• Specific recipes will require items you have previously crafted, so check the lists before getting rid of crafts!
• Some recipes aren’t taught by trainers, but instead are acquired from drops or vendors.

All of these things are accounted for in the materials listed below. Listed separately from the material list are those recipes not acquired from a trainer, but rather from a vendor or world drop.

Leatherworking Trainers

You can click on a Trainer’s name from the lists below to see its exact location. If you use TomTom, you can copy-paste the location and coordinates provided (after the name) to track down the trainer you need more easily. For example:

/way Orgrimmar 75.8 24.6

Training Route

Certain crafts need to be used later to further level up the profession. Other times, the materials can be bought from a vendor instead of the Auction House, or the crafting recipe is not acquired from a trainer. Some recipes turn yellow and as such do not have a 100% chance to level up your profession with every craft; this means some randomness enters the equation when it comes to materials. We indicate all of these situations with the following icons:

	Keep crafted items for later crafts.
	Buy material from the vendor.
	Bought Recipe.
	Craft amount depends on variance.

• Classic (1-300)
• Master (300-350)
• Grand Master (350-450)

Apprentice (1-100)

Materials

• 90 Ruined Leather Scraps
• 180 Light Leather
• 120 Coarse Thread

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
1 🠖 30	30 Light Leather	90 Ruined Leather Scraps
30 🠖 45	20 Light Armor Kit	20 Light Leather
45 🠖 55	20 Handstitched Leather Cloak	40 Light Leather 20 Coarse Thread
55 🠖 100	50 Embossed Leather Gloves	150 Light Leather 100 Coarse Thread

Journeyman (100-150)

Materials

• 160 Light Leather
• 20 Medium Hide
• 20 Salt
• 40 Coarse Thread
• 40 Fine Thread
• 20 Gray Dye

Crafting

• Keep all of the Cured Medium Hide and Fine Leather Belt as we use these for Dark Leather Belt later.

100🠖105	10 Medium Leather	40 Light Leather
105🠖120	20 Cured Medium Hide	20 Medium Hide 20 Salt
120🠖130	20 Fine Leather Belt	120 Light Leather 40 Coarse Thread
130🠖150	20 Dark Leather Belt	20 Medium Hide 20 Fine Leather Belt 40 Fine Thread 20 Gray Dye

Expert (150-235)

Materials

• 20 Medium Leather
• 20 Heavy Hide
• 60 Salt
• 193 Heavy Leather
• 36 Fine Thread
• 225 Thick Leather
• 80 Silken Thread

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
150🠖155	7 Heavy Leather	30 Medium Leather
155🠖165	20 Cured Heavy Hide	20 Heavy Hide 60 Salt
165🠖180	16 Heavy Armor Kit	80 Heavy Leather 16 Fine Thread
180🠖190	10 Barbaric Shoulders	80 Heavy Leather 10 Cured Heavy Hide 20 Fine Thread
190🠖200	10 Guardian Gloves	40 Heavy Leather 10 Cured Heavy Hide 10 Silken Thread
200🠖220	20 Thick Armor Kit	100 Thick Leather 20 Silken Thread
220🠖235	25 Nightscape Headband	125 Thick Leather 50 Silken Thread

Artisan (235-300)

Materials

• 210 Thick Leather
• 60 Silken Thread
• 444 Rugged Leather
• 38 Black Dye
• 38 Rune Thread

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
235🠖250	15 Nightscape Pants	210 Thick Leather 60 Silken Thread
250🠖265	20 Rugged Armor Kit	100 Rugged Leather
265🠖290	28 Wicked Leather Bracers	224 Rugged Leather 28 Black Dye 28 Rune Thread
290🠖300	10 Wicked Leather Headband	120 Rugged Leather 10 Black Dye 10 Rune Thread

Materials

• 50 Knothide Leather Scraps
• 250 Knothide Leather
• 32 Fel Scales
• 48 Rune Thread

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
300🠖305	10 Knothide Leather	50 Knothide Leather Scraps
305🠖325	25 Knothide Armor Kit	100 Knothide Leather
325🠖335	32 Heavy Knothide Leather	160 Knothide Leather
335🠖350	16 Scaled Draenic Boots	32 Heavy Knothide Leather 32 Fel Scales 48 Rune Thread

Materials

Recipes

• 100 Borean Leather Scraps
• 1604 Borean Leather
• 70 Crystallized Water
• 310 Nerubian Chitin
• 10 Arctic Fur
• 106 Eternal Water
• 15 Frozen Orb

• Pattern: Overcast Handwraps
  • Purchased from Braeg Stoutbeard in Dalaran for 3 Heavy Borean Leather
• Pattern: Revenant’s Treads
  • Purchased from Braeg Stoutbeard in Dalaran for 2 Arctic Fur

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
350🠖362	20 Borean Leather	100 Borean Leather Scraps
362🠖380	25 Borean Armor Kit	100 Borean Leather
380🠖385	5 Iceborne Gloves	40 Borean Leather
385🠖390	5 Iceborne Boots	50 Borean Leather
390🠖405	219Heavy Borean Leather	1,314 Borean Leather
405🠖410	10 Arctic Wristguards	120 Borean Leather
410🠖420	14 Dark Frostscale Leggings	56 Heavy Borean Leather 70 Crystallized Water
420🠖430	10 Purehorn Spaulders	300 Nerubian Chitin
430🠖435	6 Overcast Handwraps	60 Heavy Borean Leather 6 Eternal Water
435-440	5 Frosthide Leg Armor	10 Arctic Fur 10 Nerubian Chitin 5 Frozen Orb
440🠖450	10 Revenant’s Treads	100 Heavy Borean Leather 100 Eternal Water 10 Frozen Orb