I've mapped out what I believe to be the best route to take in order to minimize wasted time and gold when leveling your Leatherworking profession.
This guide is based upon the following assumptions:
1. You have reached level 60 (or are close to it) and want to powerlevel your Leatherworking skill to 300 as quickly as possible.
2. You are only interested in trainer recipes and/or recipes that can be obtained with minimal effort.
3. You have an alt set aside to hold all of the materials you'll need to level up your Leatherworking. I recommend sending mats to your alt in the order
provided below, and when you're ready, returning them in reverse order.
4. Whenever possible, you'll only want to craft items that are Orange or Yellow difficulty, for maximum skill gain. When required to craft Yellow and/or
Green difficulty items, I've adjusted the required materials to account for less than 100% skill gain per item created. I've also listed alternate recipes and
materials in red to give you additional options to consider.
Total Materials Needed to Get to 300 Leatherworking
Listed below are the materials you'll need and the order in which you should craft items to get to 300 Leatherworking as efficiently as possible. It's highly
recommended that you farm some of these materials yourself and/or purchase them from the auction house over a span of several days, because your need for certain
items (Light Leather, Thick Leather,
Rugged Leather, etc.) will most likely surpass the available supply on the AH at any given time.
Light Leather 275
Light Hide 20
Medium Hide 25
Heavy Hide 20
Heavy Leather 220
Thick Leather 539
Rugged Leather 360
Recipes you may want to acquire before you start (Alt recipes in red)
Deviate Scale Cloak
(Kalldan Felmoon, outside Wailing Caverns) - Limited Supply (1)
Fine Leather Boots (Check AH for the World Drop recipe)
Raptor Hide Belt (Alliance)
(Androd Fadran, Arathi Highlands) - Limited Supply (1)
Raptor Hide Harness (Horde)
(Tunkk, Arathi Highlands - Horde) - Limited Supply (1)
Wicked Leather Gauntlets (Leonard Porter,
Western Plaguelands - Alliance) / (Werg Thickblade, Tirisfal Glades - Horde) - Limited Supply (1)
Heavy Scorpid Bracers
(Zannok Hidepiercer, Silithus) - Limited Supply (1)
Step-by-Step: 0 to 300 Leatherworking
Listed below is a step-by-step route for powerleveling Leatherworking using optimum recipes and expected quantities.
Learn Apprentice Leatherworking from your Leatherworking Trainer.
1 - 35 Light Armor Kit (1
Light Leather) x 35
(ALT) 1 - 35 Light Leather (3 Ruined Leather Scraps) x 45
36 - 55 Cured Light Hide (1
Light Hide, 1 Salt) X 20
(ALT) 36 - 55 Small Leather Ammo Pouch (3 Light Leather, 4 Coarse Thread) x 20
56 - 85 Embossed Leather Gloves (3
Light Leather, 2 Coarse Thread) x 30
After level 75, learn Journeyman Leatherworking from your Leatherworking Trainer.
86 - 110 Fine Leather Belt (6
Light Leather, 2 Coarse thread) x 25 (Save these for later)
(ALT) 90 - 110 Deviate Scale Cloak (4 Deviate Scale, 1 Cured Light Hide, 1 Fine Thread) x 20 (Kalldan Felmoon, outside Wailing Caverns)
111 - 125 Cured Medium Hide (1
Medium Hide, 1 Salt) x 25 (Save these for later)
(ALT) 111 - 125 Fine Leather Boots (7 Light Leather, 2 Coarse Thread) x 15 (Check AH for the World Drop recipe)
(ALT) 111 - 125 Dark Leather Boots (4 Medium Leather, 2 Fine Thread, 1 Gray Dye) x 15
126 - 150 Dark Leather Belt (1 Fine Leather Belt, 1 Cured Medium Hide, 2 Fine Thread, 1 Gray Dye) x 25
(ALT) 126 - 150 Nimble Leather Gloves (1 Elixir of Minor Agility, 6 Medium Leather, 1 Fine Thread) x 25
After level 150, learn Expert Leatherworking from your Leatherworking Trainer.
151 - 165 Cured Heavy Hide (1
Heavy Hide, 3 Salt) x 20 (Save for later)
(ALT) 151 - 165 Hillman's Cloak (5 Heavy Leather, 2 Fine Thread) x 15
166 - 180 Hillman's Cloak (5
Heavy Leather, 2 Fine Thread) x 20
181 - 190 Barbaric Shoulders (8
Heavy Leather, 1 Cured Heavy Hide, 2 Fine Thread) x 10
(ALT) 181 - 190 Raptor Hide Belt (Alliance) / Raptor Hide Harness (Horde) (4/6 Raptor Hide, 4 Heavy Leather, 2 Fine Thread) x 10 (Androd Fadran, Arathi Highlands - Alliance) / (Tunkk, Arathi Highlands - Horde)
(ALT) 186 - 190 Dusky Bracers (16 Heavy Leather, 1 Black Dye, 2 Silken Thread) x 5
191 - 200 Guardian Gloves (4
Heavy Leather, 1
Cured Heavy Hide, 1 Silken Thread) x 10
After level 200, learn Artisan Leatherworking from your Leatherworking Trainer.
201 - 220 Thick Armor Kit (5
Thick Leather, 1 Silken Thread) x 20
221 - 239 Nightscape Headband (5
Thick Leather, 2 Silken Thread) x 25
After level 225, you have the option to learn a Leatherworking Specialization.
Elemental Leatherworking is the preferred specialization for Rogues although I don't list any Elemental Leatherworking recipes in this guide. To specialize into Elemental Leatherworking, you'll need to complete a simple quest requiring you to deliver 2
Heart of Fire, 2
Globe of Water, 2
Core of Earth and 2
Breath of Wind to
Sarah Tanner in Searing Gorge.
240 - 250 Nightscape Pants (14
Thick Leather, 4 Silken Thread) x 11
251 - 260 Nightscape Boots (16
Thick Leather, 2 Silken Thread) x 10
(ALT) 251 - 260 Rugged Armor Kit (5 Rugged Leather) x 10
261 - 265 Wicked Leather Gauntlets (8
Rugged Leather, 1 Black Dye, 1 Rune Thread) x 5 (
Leonard Porter, Western Plaguelands - Alliance) / (
Werg Thickblade, Tirisfal Glades - Horde)
(ALT) 261 - 265 Heavy Scorpid Bracers (4 Rugged Leather, 4 Heavy Scorpid Scale, 1 Rune Thread) x 5 (Zannok Hidepiercer, Silithus)
266 - 290 Wicked Leather Bracers (8
Rugged Leather, 1 Black Dye, 1 Rune Thread) x 25
(ALT) 266 - 290 Heavy Scorpid Bracers (4 Rugged Leather, 4 Heavy Scorpid Scale, 1 Rune Thread) x 30 (Zannok Hidepiercer, Silithus)
291 - 300 Wicked Leather Headband (12
Rugged Leather, 1 Black Dye, 1 Rune Thread) x 10
