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Midnight Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1-100

This Midnight Leatherworking leveling guide will show you the fastest and cheapest way to level Leatherworking from 1 to 100. I'll cover the trainer location, a shopping list, and what to craft at every skill range. I recommend checking the shopping list before you start so you can buy everything at once from the Auction House.

Leatherworking pairs best with Skinning because you can farm your own leather and scales instead of buying everything from the Auction House. If you don't have Skinning, you will need a fair amount of gold.

If you're looking for a full overview of all Leatherworking recipes and knowledge sources, or want help picking a specialization, check out these guides:

Recipes & Knowledge Points Specialization Guide & Builds

Looking for the War Within version? TWW Leatherworking Leveling Guide

Leatherworking Trainer Location

The Midnight Leatherworking trainer is Talmar in Silvermoon City. Talk to him to learn Leatherworking and pick up new recipes as you level up.

Silvermoon City
Silvermoon City
Talmar
Talmar

Shopping List

These are all the materials you need to craft every trainer recipe. I didn't include 60-100 here because it depends on your specialization and which recipes you have.

Leveling 1 - 60

1 - 7

You start with two recipes: Smuggler's Leather Wristbands and Scout's Scaled Bracers. Craft each one for the first-craft bonus, then visit the trainer for more recipes.

7 - 60

Leatherworking is straightforward to level. You unlock new trainer recipes every 5 to 10 skill points, and crafting each one once for the first-craft bonus is enough to keep pace. Just work through the list below and visit the trainer whenever you hit the next threshold.

  1. Buy the materials from the Shopping List if you haven't already.
  2. In your Profession window, click on Filter and tick "First Craft Bonus". This will only show recipes that still give the first-craft bonus.
  3. Keep the Profession window open, then click your trainer to open the trainer window too. Both windows should be visible side by side (not required, but makes it easier to learn new recipes).
  4. Craft each recipe that gives the first-craft bonus until nothing is left in your Profession Book.
  5. Learn new recipes from the trainer.
  6. Repeat until you've crafted everything and there are no trainer recipes left (last batch will be at 50).

By the time you've crafted every first-craft recipe through the skill 50 trainer batch, you'll be around skill 61.

Equip the Hideworker's Cover.

Specializations

You unlock your first specialization at skill 25. Check out my Midnight Leatherworking Specialization Guide for detailed builds and where to spend your Knowledge Points.

Leveling 60 - 100

You do not have to rush this part unless you need extra skill points to hit specific breakpoints. Extra skill gives you no real benefit until you want guaranteed gold-quality crafts without Concentration. The main reason to level here is if you want to craft armor and reach Rank 4, so you can push it to Rank 5 with Concentration.

If you are not crafting armor, you can just stop here and use Patron Orders to pick up extra skill points over time. It's mostly RNG what you get, but you will often see a few cheap orders that still give skill points.

60 - 91

Craft any of the options below to reach skill 91, then finish the last 9 points by crafting 3 epic pieces. All options go orange to 80, yellow to 90, and grey at 100. You need around 35 crafts to reach 91. Pick whichever pattern you can get.

Recipe (~35x) Materials Source
Blessed Pango Charm Quest reward from the The Medicine Loa's Shrine questline in Zul'Aman (starts at Loa Disturbance)
Primal Spore Binding Drops from Ziekket in The Blinding Vale or Auction House
Blood Knight's Armor Kit Flawless Fortes specialization (Crucial Consumables node)
Forest Hunter's Armor Kit Sold by Magovu in Zul'Aman for Artisan's Moxie
Devouring Banding Flawless Fortes specialization (Overwhelming Optionals node)

91 - 100

The recipes from the table above give skill points all the way to 100, so you can keep crafting them to finish. But the last few points can be slow because the skill-up chance drops. If you have any epic armor recipe unlocked, I recommend switching to those because they give 3 skill points each and stay orange to 100, so you only need 3 crafts. You can wait for a public or patron order, or stop early and save the last few points for when you craft a piece for yourself.

Completing Crafting Orders for skill points

Epic leather and mail armor recipes come from the leather armor and mail armor specialization trees, as well as from vendors, drops, and quests. They all give 3 skill points each and are orange to 100, so you need to complete 3 orders to go from 91 to 100.

Public Orders

When you open the Crafting Orders tab, make sure to hit "Search" in the top left corner on the Public Orders tab, they won't load automatically. You probably won't see many crafting orders because players immediately complete them when they are posted.

Public orders are not cross-realm. You will only see orders from players on the same realm, so if you're on a low-population realm, there may be very few or no public orders available.

Patron Crafting Orders

Patron Orders are NPC crafting orders. NPCs will send you requests to craft epic armor, and you will frequently receive them, though you may not be able to complete some of them until you acquire more knowledge points.

These orders are player-specific, so other players can't claim them. However, they are randomly generated, so it's not guaranteed that you will receive orders for recipes you can currently craft.