WoW Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1 - 600

This WoW Leatherworking guide will show you the fastest and cheapest way how to level your Leatherworking skill up from 1 to 600. Updated for WoW patch 5.4

Leatherworking is the best combined with Skinning, it's not required to have skinning, but it's strongly recommended. Check out the Skinning Leveling Guide if you want to level Skinning. You can also buy the materials at the Auction House, but then make sure you have enough gold.

Approximate Materials Required for 1-600:
  • 57 Ruined Leather Scraps
  • 130 Coarse Thread
  • 15 Medium Hide
  • 75 Salt - vendor
  • 260 Light Leather
  • 160 Medium Leather
  • 197 Fine Thread
  • 31 Gray Dye - vendor
  • 20 Heavy Hide
  • 195 Heavy Leather
  • 410 Thick Leather
  • 145 Silken Thread - vendor
  • 410 Rugged Leather
  • 35 Black Dye - vendor
  • 92 Rune Thread - vendor
  • 100 Knothide Leather Scraps
  • 307 Knothide Leather
  • 28 Fel Scales
  • 320 Borean Leather
  • 50 Savage Leather Scraps
  • 60 Eternium Thread
  • 385 Savage Leather
  • 21 Heavy Savage Leather (110 Savage Leather)
  • 2 Volatile Fire
  • 2 Volatile Air
  • 2 Volatile Water
  • 26 Volatile Earth
  • 65 Sha-Touched Leather
  • 40 Exotic Leather
  • 300 Exotic Leather or Prismatic Scale. (Choose the cheaper one. You can also use 150 Exotic Leather and 150 Prismatic Scale for example)
  • 1 Spirit of Harmony

 

Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1 - 55

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Leatherworking Apprentice.

Check out my Farming Guides if you wan to farm the leathers instead of buying them.

You should start with Light Leather farming if you want to farm the leathers.

Make the next recipe if you don't have Ruined Leather Scraps.

 

55 - 135

Learn Leatherworking Journeyman.

Keep these, you will need them.

  • 100-115
    Keep the Medium Hides, you will need them.

15 x [Cured Medium Hide] - 15 Medium Hide, 15 Salt

Make [Medium Armor Kit] if you can't find Medium Hides at the AH.

Check out my Medium Leather farming guide if you want to farm the leathers.

 

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

Make [Dark Leather Cloak] if you still don't have [Cured Medium Hide].

You can also make the following recipe:

5 x [Heavy Leather Ball] - 10 Heavy Leather, 5 Fine Thread

The pattern is sold by these NPCs.

Check out my Heavy Leather farming guide if you want to farm the leathers.

  • 155-165
    You will need the Cured Heavy Hides later.

20 x [Cured Heavy Hide] - 20 Heavy Hide, 60 Salt

Below you can find an alternative way if you don't have any Heavy Hides at all. Which is usually the case, since Heavy Hide has pretty low drop rate. If you can get 5 Heavy Hides for example, you should stop making Barbaric Leggings at 195 and start making Guardian Gloves, you can find this recipe at the 190-200 part in the guide.

155-180 - [Heavy Armor Kit] or [Hillman's Cloak]
180-190 - [Guardian Pants] or [Barbaric Leggings]
190-200 - [Barbaric Leggings]

The [Barbaric Leggings] recipe is sold by these NPCs.

Check out my Thick Leather farming guide if you want to farm the leathers.

 

205 - 265

Learn Leatherworking Artisan.

Check out my Rugged Leather farming guide if you want to farm the leathers.

Recipe is yellow for the last few points, you might need to make more.

If 4 Heavy Scorpid Scale are cheaper than 4 Rugged Leather, you can craft the following item:

[Heavy Scorpid Bracers] - Recipe location

Or make [Frostsaber Boots] if one Essence of Water is cheaper than 4 Rugged Leather on your realm.

 

290 - 350

Visit your trainer learn Leatherworking Master.

Check out my Knothide Leather farming guide if you want to farm the leathers.

Just skip this part and start making [Knothide Armor Kit], if you don't have Knothide Leather Scraps.

Just go to the next step if you didn't reach 335 by making these, but then you will need a few more [Heavy Knothide Leather].

If one Heavy Knothide Leather is cheaper than 5 Knothide Leather, stop making the Heavy Knothide Leathers when you reach 330, buy them from the Auction House instead.

  • 335-340
    5 x [Thick Draenic Vest] - 15 Heavy Knothide Leather, 15 Rune Thread
  • 340-350
    If you don't have that much Fel Scales, you can make [Thick Draenic Vest] up to 345 or 350 if you can't find any Fel Scales in the AH at all.

14 x [Scaled Draenic Boots] - 28 Heavy 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 - 425

Visit your trainer and learn Leatherworking Grand Master.

Check out my Borean Leather farming guide if you want to farm the leathers.

Transform all your [Borean Leather Scraps] into [Borean Leather] if you are a Skinner. The recipe is yellow up to 362, do not right click the Leather Scraps, there is actually a recipe that give you skill-ups, use that.

Make this one up to 435 if you don't have Savage Leather Scraps. I must mention I think this is a bug because it just seems strange that a recipe, which uses materials that you can buy from the vendor, gives you 35 skill points.

 

425 - 500

Visit your trainer and learn Leatherworking Illustrious.

Check out my Savage Leather farming guide if you want to farm the leathers.

Start making the next recipe in the guide if you don't have Savage Leather Scraps, and obviously if you have more Scraps, just make Savage Leather until it turns gray.

You can buy Eternium Threads from Leatherworking Supply vendors and you could also make any other item that requires 7 Savage Leather.

  • 460-470
    10 x [Savage Cloak] - 70 Savage Leather, 10 Eternium Thread

Or any other orange item that requires 7 Savage Leather.

You can alse make [Scorched Leg Armor] up to 485.

You can alse make [Twilight Leg Armor] up to 490 or any other orange item that requires 12 Savage Leather.

 

500 - 600

Visit your trainer and learn Zen Leatherworking.

Check your Calendar in-game to see if the Darkmoon Faire is open, the event starts at 00:01 on the Sunday before the 1st Monday of each month.

You can gain +5 skill points by completing a single quest. Click here to read more about the quests.

Visit my Exotic Leather farming guide if you want to farm the leathers.

The Fur Lining recipes will become green again at 500. You can make any of those up to 505. You can buy Eternium Threads from Tailoring and Leatherworking supply vendors.

But if you already have the Sha-Touched Leathers from skinning mobs, just make Exotic Leathers.

From this point I will usually list two recipes because the droprate of Exotic Leather and Prismatic Scale seems pretty close right now. Choose the leather type that's cheaper for you, or if you farm your own leathers mix it up to make use all of your leathers.

You'll need 1 Spirit of Harmony to purchase a recipe and you only need one recipe. You can get Spirit of Harmony by combining 10 Motes of Harmony. Motes are dropped by every mob in Pandaria, even in dungeons. The drop rate is low, so it may take you 2 hours to collect 10 motes.

Choose one recipe from the Contender's Armor recipes. It doesn't matter which one because if one of them requires more leathers, it will give you more skill points. You will need around 150 Exotic Leather or Prismatic Scale.

I hope you liked this WoW Leatherworking guide, GZ to 600!