Leatherworking

	Leatherworking (Profession)
	Ingredients • Quests • Patterns • Trainers • Equipment

Leatherworking is one of the primary professions. Your character can only have 2 primary professions at one 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 armors, armor kits, quivers, and ammo pouches. The armor produced by Leatherworking is chiefly of use to the leather- and mail-wearing classes: the Druid, Hunter, Shaman, and Rogue.

At later levels, players can choose from one of three specializations within the Leatherworking profession to create certain higher quality items. These three specializations are: Dragonscale Leatherworking, Elemental Leatherworking, or Tribal Leatherworking. Each specialization grants the crafter the ability to create and equip special soulbound armor sets at higher levels in The Burning Crusade.

Getting started

Getting Started with Leatherworking
Places to Farm

Requirements

Unlike other 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, it can be made anywhere in the world at any time. There is an exception to this in the case of the curing component, [Refined Deeprock Salt]. This can only be made every three days by Leatherworkers with 250 Skill or higher who have acquired a [Salt Shaker] from an Engineer. Note that especially with the advent of the Burning Crusade, the use of Refined Deeprock Salt is nearly nonexistant and you can level without the salt shaker.

Suggested 2nd profession

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 375 exclusively through purchasing leather through the Auction House is not recommended on most servers, as some materials are not usually available in great quantity and it can be prohibitively expensive. That is not to say it is impossible, however, especially if an alternate character is used to farm leather for your leatherworker. If you do choose to level through the AH, be prepared to spend from 1500g to 2000g doing it.

Suggested classes

Training in Leatherworking

There are Leatherworking trainers in most of the capital cities that can teach you the basic Leatherworking profession. As with most of the professions in the game, there are several ranks of Leatherworking, each trainable upon acquiring an appropriate skill and class level, and are trained from the next higher up trainer.

The tiers, requirements, and costs for training are:

Rank	Skill Levels	Required Level	Required Skill	Trained From	Cost	Honored Cost	Exalted Cost
Apprentice	1-75	5	None	Apprentice Trainers	10	9	8
Journeyman	75-150	10	50	Journeyman Trainers	5	4 50	4
Expert	150-225	20	125	Expert Trainers	50	45	40
Artisan	225-300	35	200	Artisan Trainer	5	4 50	4
Master	300-375	50	275	Master Trainer	10	9	8

See Leatherworking trainers for trainer names and locations.

Faction recipes

Some recipes are only learnable after achieving a certain reputation level with a particular faction. These are listed at the faction recipes entry.

Leather conversions

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.

**Standard Leather**
	Ruined	Light	Medium	Heavy	Thick	Rugged
Ruined	1	3	12	60	360	2160
Light	1/3	1	4	20	120	720
Medium	1/12	1/4	1	5	30	180
Heavy	1/60	1/20	1/5	1	6	36
Thick	1/360	1/120	1/30	1/6	1	6
Rugged	1/2160	1/720	1/180	1/36	1/6	1

**Knothide Leather**
	Scraps	Leather	Heavy
Scraps	1	5	25
Leather	1/5	1	5
Heavy	1/25	1/5	1

About relative Leatherworking skill levels

When you open the Leatherworking window or go to a Trainer, you'll notice that the items in the list are colorized. The color used for the name of the item to be made has the following meanings:

Red: You're not yet able to learn to make this item (you'll only see this on pattern items).
Orange: You will almost always gain a skill point making the item (unless you're already at the maximum, but the skill point is not guaranteed).
Yellow: You will probably gain a skill point making the item, but might not.
Green: You will most likely not gain a skill point making an item, but you could. (unlikely)
Gray: You won't gain any skill points making an item. In most cases, you'll probably just want to ignore gray skills completely (though don't forget that you can always use them as needed; for example, to turn leather scraps into light leather...)

As your Leatherworking skill level increases (by making items), patterns will go from Red to Orange, Orange to Yellow, Yellow to Green, and Green to Gray. This means you must keep learning new leatherworking patterns to continue advancing in skill.

High-level and specialized Leatherworking

To create [Refined Deeprock Salt] for curing [Rugged Hide], you'll need an Engineering-made [Salt Shaker] This item has a 3 day cooldown time; thus, [Refined Deeprock Salt] becomes the high-level bottleneck for Leatherworking, much like the [Mooncloth] recipe is for Tailoring, and the [Philosopher's Stone] transmutations for Alchemy/Blacksmithing.

Gaining a 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. Refer to the table below for a list of questgivers and their locations.

Switching a specialization

As of patch 2.1.3, you can switch your Leatherworking specialization without losing any skill points and without doing the specialization quest.

First you must unlearn your current specialization. To do that, go back to the original quest giver for your Leatherworking specialization and pay 100 to remove your specialization (this cost varies depending on your level, 25 at 49 for instance. See herefor more.) You will lose only patterns that require that specialization. Note: you will not lose any patterns available prior to The Burning Crusade since their specialization requirements were removed when the expansion was released.

You can then learn a new specialization by going to Narain Soothfancy and reading a book. He is located north of Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris. The book on his table will teach you either the Dragonscale, Elemental or Tribal leatherworking specialization skill.

Specializations and trainers

This section concerns content related to The Burning Crusade.

Specialization	Description	Trainer / Quest Giver	Specialization Quest	Exclusive bind on pickup items
Elemental Leatherworking	Suitable for leather-wearing melee, e.g., Rogues, Feral Druids, or Marskman Hunters.	Sarah Tanner in Tanner Camp, Searing Gorge ^[63, 75] Brumn Winterhoof in the Arathi Highlands	[55] Elemental Leatherworking	[Blackstorm Leggings] [Primalstorm Breastplate] [Primal Intent] (armor set)
Dragonscale Leatherworking	Mail armor, as such is most useful to Shamans and Hunters.	Peter Galen in Ruins of Eldarath, Azshara ^[37, 65] Thorkaf Dragoneye in the Badlands	[55] Dragonscale Leatherworking	[Dragonstrike Leggings] [Golden Dragonstrike Breastplate] [Netherscale Armor] (armor set) [Netherstrike Armor] (armor set)
Tribal Leatherworking	Leather caster-based gear, most useful for Balance and Restoration Druids.	Pratt McGrubben in Feathermoon Stronghold, Feralas Jangdor Swiftstrider in Feralas	Wild Leatherworking Quests (prerequisite)	[Wildfeather Leggings] [Living Crystal Breastplate] [Windhawk Armor] (armor set)
Tribal Leatherworking		Caryssia Moonhunter in Thalanaar, Feralas ^[89, 46] Se'Jib in Stranglethorn Vale ^[36, 34]	[55] Tribal Leatherworking

List of Leatherworking Crafted Items Still Useful at Level 70

This section lists the leatherworking crafted items that are useful at level 70 as well as how to get them. All of these items are crafted with recipes found in the world, either as reputation rewards, drops from a specific mob or boss, or as world drop.

Wowhead has a list of all the leatherworking recipes that can be found or bought.