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WoW Forever Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1-300

This WoW Forever Leatherworking leveling guide will show you the fastest and cheapest way to level your Leatherworking skill from 1 to 300. You will also find every trainer location and where to train Leatherworking past 75, 150 and 225.

Below you will find the full shopping list, the Leatherworking trainers by starting zone and capital city, and the cheapest recipes for every skill range from Apprentice to Artisan. Where two recipes are close in price, both are listed with a simple rule for which one to make. Skinning pairs well with Leatherworking because leather is most of the cost, but everything in the guide can also be bought from the Auction House.

Everything in this guide comes from the Forever beta clients. Materials and skill requirements can still change before launch.

Shopping List

These numbers are estimates. Once a recipe turns yellow you won't get a skill point from every craft, so you might need a few more or a few less.

NOTE: You can buy the threads, dyes, and salt from Leatherworking Supply vendors near your trainer.

Leatherworking Trainer Locations

Apprentice Leatherworking has no level requirement in Forever right now, so you can learn it on a fresh character.

Capital Cities

Every capital city has a trainer. You can also ask a guard, then it will be marked with a red flag on your map.

Horde trainers:

Alliance trainers:

Starting Zones

Not every zone has a trainer, the table shows the closest one for each race.

Race Zone Closest trainer
Orc, Troll Durotar There is no Leatherworking trainer in Durotar, go to Kamari in the Drag in Orgrimmar
Tauren Mulgore Chaw Stronghide in Bloodhoof Village
Undead Tirisfal Glades Shelene Rhobart at the road junction southeast of Brill
Human Elwynn Forest Adele Fielder in the small house by Crystal Lake, northeast of Goldshire
Dwarf, Gnome Dun Morogh There is no Leatherworking trainer in Dun Morogh, go to Gretta Finespindle at the Great Forge in Ironforge
Night Elf Teldrassil Nadyia Maneweaver in the small house near the road to Darnassus

Apprentice Leatherworking (1-55)

  • 1-30
    33x Light Leather - 100 Ruined Leather Scraps

    It turns yellow at 20, so a few crafts won't give a point.

    If you bought Light Leather instead of scraps, skip this and start making Light Armor Kits.

  • 30-45
    20x Light Armor Kit - 20 Light Leather

    The kits are yellow from 30, count on a few extra.

    If you skipped the scraps and start from 1, you will need around 50 Light Armor Kits to reach 45.

Journeyman Leatherworking (55-130)

You can only train Leatherworking past 75 if you learn Journeyman Leatherworking. It requires Leatherworking 50 and level 10, and not every trainer teaches it, you have to find an Expert Leatherworker.

Horde trainers:

Alliance trainers:

There are two routes from 55 to 125, pick the cheaper one:

  • Cured Medium Hide if 25x Medium Hide cost less than around 270x Medium Leather.
  • Leveling with Medium Leather if they cost more.

You can also mix them. Every Cured Medium Hide you get turns one Fine Leather Belt into a Dark Leather Belt between 100 and 125.

  • 55-80
    25x Fine Leather Belt - 150 Light Leather, 50 Coarse Thread

    Keep the belts, you will need all of them at 100.

  • 80-100
    25x Cured Medium Hide - 25 Medium Hide, 25 Salt

    Keep the Cured Medium Hides too. Yellow from 90 and green from 97, so the last few points take more crafts, but you need 25 hides anyway.

  • 100-125
    25x Dark Leather Belt - 25 Fine Leather Belt, 25 Cured Medium Hide, 50 Fine Thread, 25 Gray Dye
  • 55-75
    20x Embossed Leather Gloves - 60 Light Leather, 40 Coarse Thread

    The last five points are yellow, you might need one or two more.

  • 75-80
    7x Medium Leather - 28 Light Leather

    Keep the Medium Leather, you will need it later. Stop at 80 because the recipe turns green.

  • 80-95
    17x Fine Leather Belt - 102 Light Leather, 34 Coarse Thread

    Yellow from 85, so the last few belts might not all give a point.

  • 105-115
    11x Dark Leather Cloak - 88 Medium Leather, 11 Fine Thread, 11 Gray Dye

    The cloak turns yellow at 110, so you might need to make more.

  • 115-120
    6x Dark Leather Pants - 72 Medium Leather, 6 Gray Dye, 6 Fine Thread

    These are yellow the whole way, make a couple extra if needed.

  • 125-130
    7x Heavy Leather - 35 Medium Leather

    Keep the Heavy Leather, you will need it later. Stop at 130 because the recipe turns green.

Expert Leatherworking (130-225)

To become an Expert Leatherworker you need Leatherworking 125 and level 20, then find an Expert Leatherworking trainer. It costs 50 silver.

You can learn Expert Leatherworking from Una in Thunder Bluff (Horde) and Telonis in Darnassus (Alliance).

There are two routes from 130 to 175, pick the cheaper one:

You can also mix them. For example, with around 5 Heavy Hides, make 5x Cured Heavy Hide, then stop making Dusky Bracers at 170 and switch to Guardian Gloves.

  • 130-150
    21x Hillman's Leather Gloves - 294 Medium Leather, 84 Fine Thread

    The gloves go yellow at 145, so the end might take a few more.

  • 150-165
    15x Barbaric Leggings - 150 Heavy Leather, 30 Fine Thread, 15 Moss Agate

    The pattern is sold by these vendors:

    If 1 Moss Agate costs a lot more than 6 Heavy Leather, swap to the next recipe at 160.

  • 160-175
    10x Dusky Bracers - 160 Heavy Leather, 10 Black Dye, 20 Silken Thread

    Black Dye is sold by the Leatherworking supply vendor near your trainer.

  • 130-140
    20x Cured Heavy Hide - 20 Heavy Hide, 60 Salt

    You will need the Cured Heavy Hides later.

  • 140-155
    16x Hillman's Leather Gloves - 224 Medium Leather, 64 Fine Thread

    The gloves go yellow at 145, so the end might take a few more.

  • 165-175
    10x Guardian Gloves - 40 Heavy Leather, 10 Cured Heavy Hide, 10 Silken Thread

Leveling from 175 to 200

The beta level cap is 20 right now (30 soon) and Thick Leather only drops from level 40 mobs, so Heavy Leather will probably be the cheaper way to level here until the cap goes up. I keep both routes here until then.

  • 175-185
    10x Barbaric Harness - 140 Heavy Leather, 20 Fine Thread, 10 Iron Buckle
  • 185-200
    18x Dusky Belt - 180 Heavy Leather, 36 Bolt of Silk Cloth, 36 Black Dye, 18 Iron Buckle

    The belt turns yellow at 190, so the last 10 points take a few more crafts.

  • 200-205
    6x Nightscape Headband - 30 Thick Leather, 12 Silken Thread

    The headband is yellow here, so it might take an extra craft or two.

Artisan Leatherworking (225-300)

To train Leatherworking past 225 you need Leatherworking 200 and level 35, then find an Artisan Leatherworking trainer.

You can learn Artisan Leatherworking from Hahrana Ironhide in Camp Mojache, Feralas (Horde) and Drakk Stonehand in Aerie Peak, The Hinterlands (Alliance).

This section can't be tested on the beta right now. I have a rough draft based on the datamined skill ranges and what I expect the materials to cost, and I will probably post it later, but everything here will only be tested properly after live, once I can get high enough to level through it. Meanwhile I'm checking vendors for recipe changes.

A lot of skill ranges changed compared to Classic Era, so don't follow the Classic guide for this part, most of its recipes turn grey 25 points earlier in Forever.

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