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Ingredients • Quests • Patterns • Trainers • Equipment |
Leatherworking is one of the primary professions. Your character can only have 2 primary professions at any time.
The leatherworking profession allows players to utilize the leather gathered through the skinning profession to create a variety of items, including cloaks, leather and mail armor, and armor kits. The armor produced by leatherworking is chiefly of use to the leather and mail wearing classes: druid, hunter, shaman, monk, and rogue.
While Leatherworking used to offer specializations at later levels, most recipes that used to require those can now be trained by all leatherworkers and many of the items made are now bind on equip.
Leatherworkers take the rough, spiny or sturdy hides of beasts everywhere and turn them into useful products. First and foremost among these creations are lighter armors - leather and mail - as well as cloaks, bags, and unique patches and stitching that improve the defensive values of armor. The craft of Leatherworking is useful to those who want to outfit themselves and others with suitable armors, as well as those who want to proft from selling their rare creations.
Most Leatherworking can be done anywhere, provided you've got the necessary materials. It's not uncommon for Leatherworkers to also specialize in Skinning - the most efficient way to ensure that they have all the leather they need for their creations.[1]
Leatherworking is taught by various leatherworking trainers located throughout the world. Prospective leatherworkers must be at least level 5. Initial training costs 10, granting the Apprentice level with a potential skill of 75 and access to a few starting leatherworking patterns. More patterns can be learned from trainers or found throughout the world as the leatherworker raises their skill level.
The following are the required levels and potential skill of each stage of the profession:
Proficiency | Level | Skill |
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Apprentice | 5 | 1 - 75 |
Journeyman | 10 | 75 - 150 |
Expert | 20 | 150 - 225 |
Artisan | 35 | 225 - 300 |
Master | 50 | 1 - 75 ![]() |
Grand Master | 65 | 1 - 75 ![]() |
Illustrious Grand Master | 75 | 1 - 75 ![]() |
Zen Master | 80 | 1 - 75 ![]() |
Draenor Master † | 90 | 1 - 100 ![]() |
Legion Leatherworker | 98 | 1 - 100 ![]() |
Kul Tiran / Zandalari | - | 1 - 175 ![]() |
Shadowlands ‡ | - | 1 - 150 ![]() |
† Draenor Master is only available completing the faction specific quest [10-40] Cut 'Em Out! /
[10-40] Fair Trade
‡ Shadowlands proficiency is only available after purchasing the expansion Shadowlands.
Unlike some professions, such as blacksmithing, which requires both a purchased item and a world location for creation of items, leatherworkers do not require any special equipment or locations to process their materials into finished products. As long as the leatherworker has all of the required materials for the creation of an item, patterns can be crafted anywhere in the world at any time.
Crafting items is the only way to progress through the stages. Patterns will appear as one of four colors in the profession window, with a certain chance for a skill up (gaining a point):
As leatherworking skill increases, patterns will eventually change from orange to yellow, yellow to green and green to grey. Only by finding higher skill patterns can one continue to progress through the profession. Approximately every 5-10 points, new patterns will become available to learn from the trainers. Alternatively, patterns can be looted from corpses or purchased either from vendors or from the auction house. All patterns have a requisite leatherworking skill to be able to be learned and crafted. Additionally, some patterns cannot be gotten until you have a certain reputation standing with a particular faction. These are listed at the faction recipes entry.
Since leatherworking is almost exclusively dependent upon materials gathered from skinning creatures around the world, skinning is the most recommended profession to pair with it. Attempting to level leatherworking to max level exclusively through purchasing leather through the Auction House is not recommended unless you are on a high population server and have a lot of extra gold, as some materials are not usually available in great quantity and it can be prohibitively expensive. An alternative is to use a second character to farm leather for your leatherworker. If you do choose to level through the AH, be prepared to spend thousands of gold doing it. Also, leatherworking is unique in a few ways that makes skinning almost invaluable that most people don't see:
Leatherworkers are also able to take lower quality leather materials gathered through skinning and convert them into higher quality items. As the quality increases, for example, from light to medium, the number of lower quality materials required to make one higher quality material increases. The table below shows the conversions between all types of leather. Conversions taught by trainers are shown in bold green text. (The fractions are for comparison only. Leather cannot be split into lower grades.) Leathers cannot be converted across expansions; no amount of Knothide Leather, for example, can be converted to Borean Leather.
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In patch 4.0.1 leatherworking specializations were removed from the game. There were previously three specializations: Elemental Leatherworking for Agility leather gear, Tribal Leatherworking for Intellect leather gear, and Dragonscale Leatherworking for Intellect mail gear. Patterns that required a specialization were either made craftable by anyone or removed from the game. An article preserving information on the now-removed specializations can be found at the Leatherworking proficiencies page.
At higher skill level, leatherworkers can apply Fur Lining to their own bracers and Leg Reinforcements to their own leg armor. Since these augments are meant for the leatherworker's personal use only, applying them causes the equipment to become soulbound. The resulting enchants are generally better than any enchant you can buy or otherwise acquire.
Fur Lining and Leg Reinforcements require at least 400 leatherworking to remain active. Leg Reinforcements also have a minimum character level requirement.
Name | Stats | Rank | Level required |
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Fur Linings | |||
Fur Lining - Agility | 57 Agility | 1 | 400 |
Fur Lining - Intellect | 57 Intellect | 1 | 400 |
Fur Lining - Strength | 57 Strength | 1 | 400 |
Fur Lining - Stamina | 102 Stamina | 1 | 400 |
Fur Lining - Agility | 130 Agility | 2 | 500 |
Fur Lining - Intellect | 130 Intellect | 2 | 500 |
Fur Lining - Strength | 130 Strength | 2 | 500 |
Fur Lining - Stamina | 195 Stamina | 2 | 500 |
Fur Lining - Agility | 500 Agility | 3 | 575 |
Fur Lining - Intellect | 500 Intellect | 3 | 575 |
Fur Lining - Strength | 500 Strength | 3 | 575 |
Fur Lining - Stamina | 750 Stamina | 3 | 575 |
Name | Stats | Rank | Level required |
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Leg Reinforcements | |||
Draconic Leg Reinforcements | 37 Strength, 22 critical strike rating | 1 | 400, 65 |
Heavy Leg Reinforcements | 55 Stamina, 22 dodge | 1 | 400, 65 |
Primal Leg Reinforcements | 37 Agility, 22 critical strike rating | 1 | 400, 65 |
Draconic Leg Reinforcements | 95 Strength, 55 critical strike rating | 2 | 500, 75 |
Heavy Leg Reinforcements | 143 Stamina, 55 dodge | 2 | 500, 75 |
Primal Leg Reinforcements | 95 Agility, 55 critical strike rating | 2 | 500, 75 |
Draconic Leg Reinforcements | 285 Strength, 165 critical strike rating | 3 | 575, 80 |
Heavy Leg Reinforcements | 430 Stamina, 165 dodge | 3 | 575, 80 |
Primal Leg Reinforcements | 285 Agility, 165 critical strike rating | 3 | 575, 80 |
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