WoW Classic Leatherworking guide: level 1-300

This WoW Classic Leatherworking guide takes you from 1 to 300 by training each rank before its cap, following a recipe ladder, and buying or skinning the leather tiers. A full run averages about 346 crafts, or roughly 422 with a 20% cushion for yellow recipes. The route below runs from Ruined Leather Scraps to Runic Leather Headband and covers trainers, the shopping list, specializations and the endgame patterns worth the effort.

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What Leatherworking gives you

Leatherworking turns skins into leather and mail armor, plus armor kits, quivers and other utility items. At level 60 several of its pieces carry resistance stats that raiders want. Most of its output is bind on equip, so it can be sold as well as worn.

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How to start Leatherworking

Learn Apprentice Leatherworking from a trainer in a capital city or near a starting zone; ask a city guard for directions and the trainer is marked on your map. Apprentice caps at skill 75. Journeyman raises the cap to 150 and needs character level 10, Expert reaches 225 at character level 20, and Artisan tops out at 300 at character level 35.

Plan the visits: Journeyman training falls inside the Embossed Leather Gloves stretch, Expert lands at the Heavy Leather bracket, and Artisan sits in the middle of Nightscape Headband.

Materials shopping list for 1-300

The quantities below are buffered buy amounts from the current Classic Era route, with about 20% extra for yellow-recipe luck.

Cured Heavy Hide is not on the list because you craft it yourself from Heavy Hide and Salt during the route. Light, Medium, Heavy, Thick and Rugged Leather are all Auction House commodities, so the list works without Skinning. Buying it in one trip keeps the crafts moving, and Profession Kits are one way to cover the early tiers.

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Trainer locations by rank

• Apprentice and Journeyman, Alliance: Adele Fielder in Elwynn Forest, Nadyia Maneweaver in Teldrassil and Randal Worth in Stormwind City.
• Apprentice and Journeyman, Horde: Chaw Stronghide in Mulgore and Shelene Rhobart in Tirisfal Glades.
• Expert: Aayndia Floralwind in Ashenvale, Fimble Finespindle in Ironforge, Arthur Moore in Undercity, Brawn in Stranglethorn Vale and Karolek in Orgrimmar.
• Artisan: Drakk Stonehand at Aerie Peak in the Hinterlands, Telonis in Darnassus, Una in Thunder Bluff and Brumn Winterhoof in Arathi Highlands.

Randal Worth in Stormwind teaches only the Apprentice and Journeyman ranks, not Expert.

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Best professions and classes to pair with Leatherworking

Leatherworking is a primary profession, so you can only hold two at a time. Skinning is the natural partner because it supplies the hides and leathers every recipe consumes, and buying the whole shopping list from the Auction House is the costly route. A WoW Classic Skinning boost covers the farming side while you stay at the crafting table.

Hunters can make their own low-level quivers, such as the Quickdraw Quiver.

Specialty usually follows armor type: shamans and hunters go Dragonscale for mail, leather wearers chasing damage or healing go Tribal for the agility and intellect pieces, and anyone stacking resistance gear goes Elemental.

Leatherworking leveling route 1-300

Orange recipes guarantee a skill point, yellow ones give a shrinking chance, green ones rarely give anything, and gray gives nothing. Work down the list in order and keep the crafted intermediates, since several come back as reagents later. This route applies to Classic Era, Hardcore and Anniversary realms, which share the same client. Season of Discovery adds recipes this route does not cover.

Skill 1-125

Skill 125-200

Skill 200-300

Save two Nightscape Headbands and two Nightscape Pants if you plan to take Tribal Leatherworking, because the Wild Leather quests ask for them. Rugged Armor Kit is another 250-260 option if you already have the pattern and Rugged Leather.

The Wicked Leather Gauntlets pattern is a tradeable recipe sold by Leonard Porter for the Alliance and Werg Thickblade for the Horde. Players who would rather skip the shopping and the yellow-window rolls often hand the climb to a WoW Classic Leatherworking boost.

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Leatherworking specializations

At 225 skill and character level 40 you become eligible for one of three specialties, and you can only hold one at a time. Taking a different one later means unlearning the profession and losing every pattern you know, so pick deliberately.

Dragonscale Leatherworking

Dragonscale makes mail and asks for two Tough Scorpid Breastplates, two Tough Scorpid Gloves and 10 Worn Dragonscale. The scorpion patterns drop from Wastewander mobs in northern Tanaris, and Worn Dragonscale comes from dragonkin in the Swamp of Sorrows and inside the Temple of Atal'Hakkar. Crafting the two sets costs 36 Thick Leather, 40 Scorpid Scale and 12 Silken Thread. Turn everything in to Peter Galen in Azshara or Thorkaf Dragoneye in the Badlands.

Elemental Leatherworking

Elemental makes leather armor with resistance stats and takes two each of Globe of Water, Heart of Fire, Core of Earth and Breath of Wind. Hand the four items to Sarah Tanner in Searing Gorge or Brumn Winterhoof in Arathi Highlands.

Tribal Leatherworking

Tribal is the longest chain and the one raiders chase, for the Devilsaur set and Hide of the Wild. Gather 192 Thick Leather, 112 Turtle Scale, 7 Wildvine and 4 Cured Thick Hide, then take the opening quest from Pratt McGrubben at Feathermoon Stronghold in Feralas or Jangdor Swiftstrider at Camp Mojache.

Five Wild Leather quests follow — Vest, Boots, Helmet, Leggings and Shoulders — in any order, each rewarding a pattern. Master of the Wild Leather goes to Telonis in Darnassus or Una in Thunder Bluff, and the final turn-in of a Wild Leather Vest and Wild Leather Helmet goes to Caryssia Moonhunter in Feralas or Se'Jib in Stranglethorn Vale. That last step requires character level 40.

Changing your specialization

Switching specialties means unlearning Leatherworking outright and losing all your patterns. Re-learn from a trainer, level the profession back up, then read the book sitting on the table in Narain Soothfancy's hut at Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris — it unlocks the other specialization quests without an extra quest or fee.

Notable Leatherworking recipes and their sources

• Salt Shaker: every three days an artisan leatherworker can use one, made with Engineering, to turn Deeprock Salt into Refined Deeprock Salt for Cured Rugged Hide.
• Devilsaur set: both pieces need Tribal; the Gauntlets pattern comes from Nergal in Un'Goro Crater on a 24-hour respawn, and the Leggings pattern drops from oozes in the crater.
• Hide of the Wild and Shifting Cloak: both patterns come from the cache spawned by the Free Knot! quest in Dire Maul North.
• Wolfshead Helm: learned from Artisan trainers and a key piece for feral druids, who leave and re-enter cat form to convert mana into energy.
• Corehound Belt and Chromatic Gauntlets: sold by Lokhtos Darkbargainer at Revered with the Thorium Brotherhood.
• Onyxia Scale Cloak: learned automatically from the quest after turning in the Head of Onyxia, and required to beat Nefarian in Blackwing Lair.
• Black Dragonscale set: the shoulders drop from Anvilrage Marshal, the leggings from Anvilrage Captain, the breastplate is sold by Plugger Spazzring, and the boots come from Lokhtos Darkbargainer at Honored with the Thorium Brotherhood.
• Nightscape Boots: a trainer recipe rogues use to improve their stealth.
• Swift Boots: a rare world drop granting a 15-second sprint on a one-hour cooldown.
• Resistance gear: Master Craftsman Omarion inside Naxxramas teaches the frost resistance patterns at 300 skill, with the chest pieces at Exalted Argent Dawn, and Aendel Windspear sells nature resistance patterns at Cenarion Hold with Cenarion Circle reputation.