WoW Leatherworking guide 1 - 450

This WoW Leatherworking guide will show you the fastest and cheapest way how to level your Leatherworking skill up from 1 to 450. Updated for WoW patch 3.3

Leatherworking is the best combined with Skinning, but it's not required to have skinning aswell. You can buy the materials at the Auction House too, but then make sure you will have enough gold. Check out my Skinning guide, if you want to level Skinning.

If you are low on gold, I recommend you to try this Gold Making Guide, it can help you to make loads of gold. If you are still leveling your character or you just started a new alt, I recommend you to use a leveling guide. You can level your character from 1 to 80 in 7 days with this guide. My personal record is 4 days 5 hours played time, but it was with heirlooms.

Leatherworking guide sections:

Leatherworking Apprentice 1 - 55
Leatherworking Journeyman 55 - 135
Leatherworking Expert 135 - 210
Leatherworking Artisan 205 - 290
Leatherworking Master 290 - 350
Leatherworking Grand Master 350 - 450

Related Guides:

• WoW Skinning Guide 1-450

Approximate Materials Required for 1-450:
- 57 Ruined Leather Scraps
- 130 Coarse Thread
- 10 Medium Hide
- 75 Salt
- 245 Light Leather
- 130 Medium Leather
- 190 Fine Thread
- 30 Gray Dye
- 20 Heavy Hide
- 180 Heavy Leather
- 410 Thick Leather
- 145 Silken Thread
- 410 Rugged Leather
- 35 Black Dye
- 92 Rune Thread
- 100 Knothide Leather Scraps
- 307 Knothide Leather
- 28 Fel Scales
- 1750 Borean Leather
- 100 Crystallized Water
- 18 Eternal Water
- 10 Arctic Fur
- 10 Nerubian Chitin OR 10 Icy Dragonscale
- 5 Frozen Orb
- 440-450 material list is not included, because there are so many path to choose.

WoW Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1 - 450

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Leatherworking Apprentice.

• 1-20
  19 x [Light Leather] - 57 Ruined Leather Scraps

• 20-30 or 1-30
  10 x [Light Armour Kit] - 10 Light Leather

  You can make these from 1-30 too, if you don't have Ruined Leather Scraps.

• 30-50
  20 x [Handstitched Leather Cloak] - 40 Light Leather, 20 Coarse Thread

• 50-55
  5 x [Small Leather Ammo Pouch] - 15 Light Leather, 20 Coarse Thread

55 - 135

Learn Leatherworking Journeyman.

• 55-85
  30 x [Embossed Leather Gloves] - 90 Light Leather, 60 Coarse Thread

• 85-100
  15 x [Fine Leather Belt] - 90 Light Leather, 30 Coarse Thread

  Keep these, you will need them.

• 100-115
  Keep the Medium Hides, you will need them.

  15 x [Cured Medium Hide] - 15 Medium Hide, 15 Salt

  Make [Medium Armor Kit] if you can't find Medium Hides at the AH.

• 115-130
  15 x [Dark Leather Boots] - 60 Medium Leather, 30 Fine Thread, 15 Gray Dye

135 - 200

Learn Leatherworking Expert.

• 130-145
  15 x [Dark Leather Belt] - 15 Fine Leather Belt, 15 Cured Medium Hide, 30 Fine Thread, 15 Gray Die

Make [Dark Leather Cloak] if you still don't have [Cured Medium Hide].

• 145-150
  5 x [Hillman's Leather Gloves] - 70 Medium Leather, 20 Fine Thread

• 150-155
  5 x [Heavy Leather Ball] - 10 Heavy Leather, 5 Fine Thread

  The pattern is sold by these NPCs.

• 155-165
  You will need the Cured Heavy Hides later.

  20 x [Cured Heavy Hide] - 20 Heavy Hide, 60 Salt

  Make 15 x [Heavy Armor Kit] if you can't find any Heavy Hide in the AH, in this case you will need [Raptor Hides] instead of Heavy Hides and you will have to buy one of the following recipes:

  • [Pattern: Raptor Hide Belt] - Alliance - Sold by Androd Fadran
  • [Pattern: Raptor Hide Harness] - Horde - Sold by Tunkk

  Now you should make [Heavy Armour Kit] up to 180, and after that make one of the recipes above up to 195. When you are out of Raptor Hides, make [Guardian Pants] or [Barbaric Leggings] up to 195 instead, which is really expensive to make so you should wait until you can get a few Heavy Hides.

  The [Barbaric Leggings] recipe is sold by these NPCs.

• 170-180
  10 x [Heavy Armor Kit] - 50 Heavy Leather, 10 Fine Thread

• 180-190
  10 x [Barbaric Shoulders] - 80 Heavy Leather, 10 Cured Heavy Hide, 20 Fine Thread

• 190-200
  10 x [Guardian Gloves] - 40 Heavy Leather, 10 Cured Heavy Hide, 10 Silken Thread

• 200-205
  5 x [Thick Armor Kit] - 25 Thick Leather, 5 Silken Thread

205 - 265

Learn Leatherworking Artisan.

• 205-235
  35 x [Nightscape Headband] - 175 Thick Leather, 70 Silken Thread

Specialization

When you reach 225 skill and level 40, you unlock a set of quests. These quests allow you to specialize in various types of armor, which you can make for yourself only. As of patch 2.1.3, you can switch your Leatherworking specialization without losing any skill points and without doing the specialization quest. Here blelow there is the 3 way with each specialization.

Elemantal Leatherworking

• list of recipes

The items you create as an Elemantal Leatherworker focus on melee based leather items (agility and attack power).

Dragonscale Leatherworking

• list of recipes

This specialisation offers offensive mail items - there are both caster and melee based sets.

Tribal Leatherworking

• list of recipes

The Tribal Leatherworking items are all leather items focused on healing.

• 235-250
  15 x [Nightscape Pants] - 210 Thick Leather, 60 Silken Thread

• 250-265
  18 x [Rugged Armor Kit] - 90 Rugged Leather

• 265-290
  25 x [Wicked Leather Bracers] - 200 Rugged Leather, 25 Black Dye, 25 Rune Thread

  If there are some Heavy Scorpid Scale in the Auction House and it's cheaper than the Rugged Leather, you can craft the following item:

  [Heavy Scorpid Bracers] - Recipe location

  Or make [Frostsaber Boots] if Essence of Water is cheap on your realm.

290 - 350

Go to Outland and learn Leatherworking Master. Click here for the trainer list.

• 290-300
  10 x [Wicked Leather Headband] - 120 Rugged Leather, 10 Black Dye, 10 Rune Thread

• 300-310
  20 x [Knothide Leather] - 100 Knothide Leather Scraps

  Just skipp this part and start making [Knothide Armor Kit], if you don't have Knothide Leather Scraps.

• 310-325
  23 x [Knothide Armor Kit] - 92 Knothide Leather

• 325-335
  43 x [Heavy Knothide Leather] - 215 Knothide Leather

  Just go to the next step if you didn't reach 335 by making these, but then you will need a few more [Heavy Knothide Leather].

  If one Heavy Knothide Leather is cheaper than 5 Knothide Leather, stop making the Heavy Knothide Leathers when you reach 330, buy them from the Auction House instead.

• 335-340
  5 x [Thick Draenic Vest] - 15 Heavy Knothide Leather, 15 Rune Thread

• 340-350
  If you don't have to that much Fel Scales, you can make [Thick Draenic Vest] up to 345 or 350 if you can't find any Fel Scales in the AH at all.

  14 x [Scaled Draenic Boots] - 28 Heavy Knothide Leather, 28 Fel Scales, 42 Rune Thread

  This recipe goes yellow at 345, so you will need to make a few extra ones. I suggest gathering enough materials for 14.

350 - 450

Go to Northrend and learn Leatherworking Grand Master. Click here for the trainer list.

• 350-380
  33 x [Borean Armor Kit] - 132 Borean Leather

• 380-390
  10 x [Arctic Boots] - 80 Borean Leather

• 390-405
  258 x [Heavy Borean Leather] - 1548 Borean Leather

• 405-420
  20 x [Dark Frostscale Leggings] - 80 Heavy Borean Leather, 100 Crystallized Water

  Make [Dark Iceborne Leggings] if Crystallized Shadow is cheaper than Crystallized Water.

• 420-425
  5 x [Overcast Bracers] - 40 Heavy Borean Leather, 5 Eternal Water

  The recipe sold by Braeg Stoutbeard in Dalaran. It costs 3 Heavy Borean Leather.

• 425-435
  13 x [Overcast Handwraps] - 130 Heavy Borean Leather, 13 Eternal Water

  The recipe sold by Braeg Stoutbeard in Dalaran. It costs 3 Heavy Borean Leather.

• 435-440

  You might need to make more of these than 5, because the recipes will be yellow.

  5 x [Frosthide Leg Armor] - 10 Arctic Fur, 10 Nerubian Chitin, 5 Frozen Orb

  or

  5 x [Icescale Leg Armor] - 10 Arctic Fur, 10 Icy Dragonscale, 5 Frozen Orb

• 440-450
  You can continue to make the recipes above, you will sell them at AH anyway and you will get most of your gold back. The faster way is to craft any epic items you learn at 440, search for players on the trade channel who need those items and tell them you will craft it for free. If you have lots of gold, you should just buy the materials and craft those items, then sell them at the Auction House.

I hope you liked this WoW Leatherworking guide, GZ to 450!

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