World of Warcraft: Forever Leatherworking Leveling Guide

You can level Leatherworking to 225 with the recipes you start with and the ones your trainers teach. Save the hides you cure and ten of the first belts you make. You'll use both for later crafts.

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Leatherworking Overview

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Leatherworking Overview

Skinning supplies the leather and hides. Buy your Salt, thread, and dye from a Leatherworking Supplies vendor. If Heavy Hide is expensive on your realm, check the alternative at 130 before buying materials for that stretch.

The shopping list counts the raw materials you need to gather or buy. It already subtracts the leather you make at 75 and 125. The leveling tables show the materials for each whole batch. Yellow and green recipes can take a few extra crafts, so stop at the listed skill unless the guide tells you to save a specific number of items.

Material	Approximate Quantity
Light Leather	440
Light Hide	27
Medium Leather	27
Medium Hide	10
Heavy Leather	198
Heavy Hide	20
Thick Leather	410
Salt	97
Coarse Thread	74
Fine Thread	79
Gray Dye	10
Silken Thread	130

If you've been skinning, turn 3× Ruined Leather Scraps into 1× Light Leather while the conversion still gives skill. Then make Light Armor Kit until 30. The table assumes you start with leather and shows how many kits you'd need without scraps.

At 30, start making Cured Light Hide. Save the whole batch for Light Leather Pants at 100. Switch to Embossed Leather Gloves at 55. Once you're level 10 with 50 Leatherworking, you can train Journeyman so you can keep gaining skill past 75.

Skill Range	Item	Approximate Crafts	Materials
1 to 30	Light Armor Kit	29	29× Light Leather
30 to 55	Cured Light Hide	27	27× Light Hide 27× Salt
55 to 75	Embossed Leather Gloves	21	63× Light Leather 42× Coarse Thread

Keep the Medium Leather you make on the way to 80. Next, make and save 10× Cured Medium Hide. At 90, switch to Fine Leather Belt and keep ten finished belts. Each Dark Leather Belt you make at 115 uses one of those belts and one of the cured hides.

Between the two belt recipes, make Light Leather Pants with the Cured Light Hide you saved earlier. If you run out before 115, cure another Light Hide with 1× Salt for each extra pair.

At 125, combine 5× Medium Leather into 1× Heavy Leather until you reach 130. You can train Expert with Telonis in Darnassus or Una in Thunder Bluff once you're level 20 with 125 Leatherworking. Train before you reach the Journeyman cap of 150.

At 130, make 20× Cured Heavy Hide, even if the last few give no skill. Save ten for shoulders and ten for gloves. Make Heavy Armor Kit for the remaining points to 150.

If Heavy Hide is expensive, you can replace the entire stretch from 130 to 175. Make Heavy Armor Kit until 160, then make 15× Dusky Bracers to reach 175. For this option alone, budget about 450× Heavy Leather, 42× Fine Thread, 15× Black Dye, and 30× Silken Thread. Count any leather you just made toward the 450.

Skill Range	Item	Approximate Crafts	Materials
75 to 80	Medium Leather	8	32× Light Leather
80 to 90	Cured Medium Hide	10	10× Medium Hide 10× Salt
90 to 100	Fine Leather Belt	16	96× Light Leather 32× Coarse Thread
100 to 115	Light Leather Pants	22	220× Light Leather 22× Cured Light Hide 22× Fine Thread
115 to 125	Dark Leather Belt	10	10× Fine Leather Belt 10× Cured Medium Hide 20× Fine Thread 10× Gray Dye
125 to 130	Heavy Leather	7	35× Medium Leather
At 130	Cured Heavy Hide	20	20× Heavy Hide 60× Salt
To 150	Heavy Armor Kit	9	45× Heavy Leather 9× Fine Thread

Continue making Heavy Armor Kit until 155. Use the 20× Cured Heavy Hide you set aside for ten crafts each of Barbaric Shoulders and Guardian Gloves. If you took the Dusky Bracers option, rejoin the table at 175.

Make Thick Armor Kit from 175 to 195, then switch to Nightscape Headband. Set aside 210× Thick Leather for the final 15 crafts before you start making headbands.

At 210, learn Nightscape Pants from Alliance Drakk Stonehand at Aerie Peak in The Hinterlands or Horde Hahrana Ironhide at Camp Mojache in Feralas. You'll find their map pins in the Artisan tab above. The pants give one point per craft through 225.

Skill Range	Item	Approximate Crafts	Materials
150 to 155	Heavy Armor Kit	8	40× Heavy Leather 8× Fine Thread
155 to 165	Barbaric Shoulders	10	80× Heavy Leather 10× Cured Heavy Hide 20× Fine Thread
165 to 175	Guardian Gloves	10	40× Heavy Leather 10× Cured Heavy Hide 10× Silken Thread
175 to 195	Thick Armor Kit	20	100× Thick Leather 20× Silken Thread
195 to 210	Nightscape Headband	20	100× Thick Leather 40× Silken Thread
210 to 225	Nightscape Pants	15	210× Thick Leather 60× Silken Thread

We don’t yet have enough information to recommend a route from 225 to 300 in WoW Forever. We’ll update this section once we can confirm the leveling steps.

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