WoW Forever Leatherworking Leveling Guide

This WoW Forever Leatherworking leveling guide provides a cost-efficient path from skill 1 to 300. The route uses estimated material costs together with each recipe's skill-up range to select efficient crafts as you level.

Leatherworking uses some materials crafted at earlier skill levels in later recipes. Items marked (keep) should be saved, as the route expects to use them in subsequent crafts.

Quantities marked with an asterisk are estimates because yellow and green recipes don't guarantee a skill point on every craft.

Aggressive

Level	Craft
1-21	20Light Leather (keep) Requires 60 Ruined Leather Scraps
21-41	20Handstitched Leather Cloak Requires 40 Light Leather 20 Coarse Thread
41-51	10Cured Light Hide Requires 10 Light Hide 10 Salt
51-71	20Embossed Leather Gloves Requires 60 Light Leather 40 Coarse Thread
71-75	4Fine Leather Belt Requires 24 Light Leather 8 Coarse Thread
Train Journeyman 75-150 (req. L10)
75-91	16Cured Medium Hide (keep) Requires 16 Medium Hide 16 Salt
91-101	10Gray Leather Boots Requires 40 Medium Leather 20 Fine Thread 10 Gray Dye
101-125	26Dark Leather Pants Requires* 312 Medium Leather 26 Gray Dye 26 Fine Thread
125-139	15Cured Heavy Hide (keep)* Requires 15 Heavy Hide 45 Salt
139-150	12Heavy Armor Kit Requires* 60 Heavy Leather 12 Fine Thread
Train Expert 150-225 (req. L20)
150-165	15Barbaric Shoulders Requires 120 Heavy Leather 15 Cured Heavy Hide 30 Fine Thread
165-186	21Guardian Gloves Requires 84 Heavy Leather 21 Cured Heavy Hide 21 Silken Thread
186-196	10Thick Armor Kit Requires 50 Thick Leather 10 Silken Thread
196-220	44Nightscape Headband Requires* 220 Thick Leather 88 Silken Thread
Train Artisan 225-300 (req. L35)
225-240	24Rugged Armor Kit Requires* 120 Rugged Leather
240-261	21Wicked Leather Bracers Requires Pattern: Wicked Leather Bracers 168 Rugged Leather 21 Black Dye 21 Rune Thread
261-276	15Wicked Leather Headband Requires Pattern: Wicked Leather Headband 180 Rugged Leather 15 Black Dye 15 Rune Thread
276-296	20Wicked Leather Belt Requires 280 Rugged Leather 40 Black Dye 40 Rune Thread
296-300	4Wicked Leather Armor Requires 80 Rugged Leather 16 Black Dye 8 Cured Rugged Hide 24 Felcloth
*May require a few more or a few less depending on your luck

Leatherworking Leveling Tips

Keep any materials marked (keep) in the guide. Some materials crafted while leveling are required by later recipes, so selling them may mean having to craft or buy them again.

Before starting a long crafting section, check that you have the required threads, dyes, salt and other vendor materials. These are easy to overlook when buying the leather needed for the route.

Leatherworking Patterns

Most of the route uses recipes available through normal Leatherworking progression, but some later sections require specific patterns. Check the requirements shown in the guide before buying all of your materials so you don't reach a skill level without access to the next recipe.

In particular, the final part of this route uses Pattern: Wicked Leather Bracers and Pattern: Wicked Leather Headband.

Normal vs Aggressive Leveling

Enable Aggressive if you're willing to continue using recipes after their skill-up chance begins to fall when the estimated material savings justify the additional crafts. The standard route is more conservative.

Because yellow and green skill-ups are probabilistic, your actual material requirements may be slightly higher or lower than the quantities shown.