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, I listed both with a simple rule for which one to make. Leatherworking is best combined with Skinning because leather is most of the cost, but you can also buy everything in the guide from the Auction House.

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.

An alternative replaces the whole row, so buy the one that is cheaper.

1-225

You need level 35 to go past 225, so I split the list in two. Buy this part first.

	Material	Alternative (if cheaper)
	100x Ruined Leather Scraps	60x Light Leather
	230x Light Leather
	128x Medium Leather	27x Light Hide and 186x Light Leather
	307x Medium Leather
	10x Medium Hide	66x Light Leather and 142x Medium Leather
	20x Heavy Hide and 120x Heavy Leather	240x Heavy Leather, 140x Medium Leather, 17x Moss Agate and 5x Iron Buckle
	97x Heavy Leather
	26x Cured Heavy Hide	26x Heavy Hide
	315x Thick Leather

225-300

This list is not final yet, but the skill ranges come from the game data, so it should be pretty close.

	Material
	192x Thick Leather
	1030x Rugged Leather
	530x Runecloth

Leatherworking Trainer Locations

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

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 Alliance

Capital Cities

• Orgrimmar: Kamari
• Undercity: Dan Golthas
• Thunder Bluff: Mak

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
Skyborne	Zephras Isle	Emerii Tallgust in Valanaar, Indari Sunseam in Shen'dar Village

Capital Cities

• Stormwind City: Randal Worth
• Ironforge: Gretta Finespindle
• Darnassus: Darianna

Starting Zones

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

Race	Zone	Closest trainer
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
Skyborne	Zephras Isle	Emerii Tallgust in Valanaar, Indari Sunseam in Shen'dar Village

You can find every Leatherworking trainer for Horde and Alliance on my WoW Forever Leatherworking Trainers page.

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, make Light Armor Kit until 30 instead, 1 Light Leather each.

• 30-45
  24x Light Armor Kit - 24 Light Leather

  NOTE: Most trainers have a Leatherworking Supply vendor nearby that sells the threads, dyes, and salt, except the trainers in Elwynn Forest and Tirisfal Glades. For those, buy the Salt and Coarse Thread in Goldshire from Tharynn Bouden or in Brill from Abigail Shiel.

  Alternative:

  If you bought Light Hides, make this until 55 instead:

  27x Cured Light Hide - 27 Light Hide, 27 Salt.

  Keep 24 of the hides, you will need them for the Light Leather Pants at 100.

• 45-55
  10x Embossed Leather Gloves - 30 Light Leather, 20 Coarse Thread

  Skip this if you made the Cured Light Hides until 55.

Journeyman Leatherworking (55-130)

To train past 75, visit one of these trainers and learn Journeyman Leatherworking, it requires Leatherworking 50 and level 10:

• 55-75
  21x Embossed Leather Gloves - 63 Light Leather, 42 Coarse Thread

• 75-80
  8x Medium Leather - 32 Light Leather

• 80-90
  10x Cured Medium Hide - 10 Medium Hide, 10 Salt

  Keep the Cured Medium Hides, you will need them for the Dark Leather Belts at 115.

  Alternative:

  If you bought Medium Leather instead of Medium Hides, make this:

  11x Fine Leather Belt - 66 Light Leather, 22 Coarse Thread.

• 90-100
  19x Fine Leather Belt - 114 Light Leather, 38 Coarse Thread

  Keep 10 of the belts for the Dark Leather Belts at 115.

• 100-115
  16x Dark Leather Cloak - 128 Medium Leather, 16 Fine Thread, 16 Gray Dye

  Alternative:

  If you bought Light Hides, make this instead:

  24x Light Leather Pants - 240 Light Leather, 24 Cured Light Hide, 24 Fine Thread.

• 115-125
  10x Dark Leather Belt - 10 Fine Leather Belt, 10 Cured Medium Hide, 20 Fine Thread, 10 Gray Dye

  Alternative:

  If you bought Medium Leather instead of Medium Hides, make these:

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

  120-125: 5x Hillman's Leather Gloves - 70 Medium Leather, 20 Fine Thread.

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

Expert Leatherworking (130-210)

To train past 150, visit Una in Thunder Bluff (Horde) or Telonis in Darnassus (Alliance) and learn Expert Leatherworking, it requires Leatherworking 125 and level 20 and costs 50 silver.

Heavy Hide vs Heavy Leather

If 20x Heavy Hide cost less than around 120x Heavy Leather, 140x Medium Leather and 17x Moss Agate pick the Cured Heavy Hide tab, if they cost more pick the Leveling without Heavy Hide tab.

• 175-195
  26x Guardian Gloves - 104 Heavy Leather, 26 Cured Heavy Hide, 26 Silken Thread

  If you bought Heavy Hide instead, turn them into Cured Heavy Hide first, each one takes 3 Salt.

• 195-210
  21x Nightscape Headband - 105 Thick Leather, 42 Silken Thread

Artisan Leatherworking (210-300)

To train past 225, visit Hahrana Ironhide in Camp Mojache, Feralas (Horde) or Drakk Stonehand in Aerie Peak, The Hinterlands (Alliance) and learn Artisan Leatherworking, it requires Leatherworking 200 and level 35.

• 210-225
  15x Nightscape Pants - 210 Thick Leather, 60 Silken Thread

  The Expert trainers in Thunder Bluff and Darnassus don't teach this recipe, you can only learn it from the two trainers above.

• 225-235
  12x Nightscape Boots - 192 Thick Leather, 24 Heavy Silken Thread

• 235-250
  15x Wicked Leather Gauntlets - 120 Rugged Leather, 15 Black Dye, 15 Rune Thread

  The pattern is sold by Werg Thickblade in Tirisfal Glades (Horde) and Leonard Porter in Western Plaguelands (Alliance).

• 250-265
  21x Wicked Leather Gauntlets - 168 Rugged Leather, 21 Black Dye, 21 Rune Thread

• 265-285
  20x Runic Leather Headband - 280 Rugged Leather, 200 Runecloth, 20 Rune Thread

  The pattern is sold by Jase Farlane at Light's Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands.

• 285-300
  33x Runic Leather Headband - 462 Rugged Leather, 330 Runecloth, 33 Rune Thread

  Alternative:

  If you have one of these patterns, make it instead:

  • 15x Heavy Scorpid Shoulders - 210 Rugged Leather, 210 Heavy Scorpid Scale, 15 Cured Rugged Hide, 30 Rune Thread
  • 15x Wicked Leather Armor - 300 Rugged Leather, 30 Cured Rugged Hide, 90 Felcloth, 60 Black Dye, 30 Rune Thread
  • 15x Tooled Leather Pants - 270 Rugged Leather, 15 Cured Rugged Hide, 15 Orange Dye, 15 Rune Thread

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