Leatherworking guide

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.

• 30-35
  5 x [Handstitched Leather Cloak] - 10 Light Leather, 5 Coarse Thread

• 35-65
  40 x [Cured Light Hide] - 40 Light Hide, 40 Salt

  You will need these later.

65 - 135

Learn Leatherworking Journeyman.

• 65-85
  20 x [Embossed Leather Gloves] - 60 Light Leather, 40 Coarse Thread

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

  Keep these, you will need them.

• 100-115
  15 x [Cured Medium Hide] - 15 Medium Hide, 15 Salt

• 115-125
  10 x [Dark Leather Boots] - 40 Medium Leather, 20 Fine Thread, 10 Gray Dye

• 125-130
  5 x [Dark Leather Cloak] - 40 Medium Leather, 5 Fine Thread, 5 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

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

• 150-165
  30 x [Cured Heavy Hide] - 30 Heavy Hide, 90 Salt

  You will need these later

• 165-170
  5 x [Heavy Armour Kit] - 25 Heavy Leather

If you are lucky, you will reach 170 while you are making the Cured Heavy Hides and you can skipp this part.

• 170-180
  10 x [Guardian Pants] - 120 Heavy Leather, 20 Bolts of Silk Cloth, 20 Fine Thread

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

• 190-210
  20 x [Guardian Gloves] - 80 Heavy Leather, 20 Cured Heavy Hide, 20 Silken Thread

210 - 275

Learn Leatherworking Artisan.

• 210-235
  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

• 250-260
  15 x [Rugged Armor Kit] - 75 Rugged Leather

• 260-275
  15 x [Wicked Leather Gauntlets] - 120 Rugged Leather, 15 Black Dye, 15 Rune Thread
  • Recipe location

  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:

  15 x [Heavy Scorpid Bracers] - 60 Rugged Leather, 60 Heavy Scorpid Scale, 15 Rune Thread

  • Recipe location

275 - 350

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

• 275-285
  10 x [Wicked Leather Bracers] - 80 Rugged Leather, 10 Black Dye, 10 Rune Thread

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

• 285-300
  15 x [Wicked Leather Headband] - 180 Rugged Leather, 15 Black Dye, 15 Rune Thread

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

• 310-325
  25 x [Knothide Armor Kit] - 100 Knothide Leather

• 325-330
  7 x [Heavy Knothide Leather] - 35 Knothide Leather - Recipe Location

• 330-340
  10 x [Thick Draenic Vest] - 140 Knothide Leather, 30 Rune Thread

• 340-350
  14 x [Scaled Draenic Boots] - 168 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 Nothrend and learn Leatherworking Grand Master. Click here for the trainer list.

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

• 380-385
  5 x [Arctic Boots] - 40 Borean Leather

• 385-390
  5 x [Iceborne Shoulderpads] - 50 Borean Leather

• 390-405
  281 x [Heavy Borean Leather] - 1686 Borean Leather

• 405-415
  13 x [Jormungar Leg Armor] - 65 Heavy Borean Leather, 13 Jormungar Scale

• 415-420
  5 x [Pack of Endless Pockets] - 40 Heavy Borean Leather

• 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 item 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.