Leatherworking

Learning and using Leatherworking

Leatherworking uses leather, hides, scales, thread and other materials to make armor and enhancements. Skinning provides a natural supply route, though some patterns require additional trades.

Compare the armor type and recipient’s requirements before making equipment. Use the recorded ingredient relationships to plan materials for a particular learned pattern.

At a campsite

At skill 20, a Camp Tent increases rested experience to 5% of a level, with no effect when rested experience already exceeds that amount. A Tanning Rack is required for some advanced Leatherworking recipes; the November 6 hotfix lowered its skill requirement from 140 to 125.

See Camping for shared camp rules and feature limits.

Planning materials and practice

Skinning supplies hides and leather from eligible creatures while questing. Keep different grades separate and check a recipe’s actual ingredients before processing or selling them.

Choose a specialization according to the patterns and equipment you intend to make, after checking current trainer requirements. Compare the value of the materials and finished gear; gathered ingredients still have an opportunity cost.

The unofficial WoW Forever profession planner suggests Light Armor Kit at 1–30, Cured Light Hide at 30–55 and Embossed Leather Gloves at 55–75. Its plan uses light leather, hides, salt and thread; confirm your available patterns and supplies. This is a dated planning suggestion, not a guaranteed skill gain or confirmed current trainer menu.

Further leveling and decisions

For 130–210, a Forever beta-based guide offers Cured Heavy Hide, Hillman’s Leather Gloves, Barbaric Shoulders and Guardian Gloves, followed by Nightscape Headbands. Its alternative avoids some hide by using Barbaric Leggings; compare the pattern and material cost.

The released-client calculation proposes Cured Rugged Hide and Rugged Armor Kits after 225, then recipe-item patterns including Charged Scorpid Bracers and Blue Suede Bracers toward 300. It does not establish where those patterns are obtained or whether they are currently available. Blizzard’s November 6 hotfix lowered Tanning Rack to skill 125.

Gather and reserve

Skinning supplies leather and hides; keep these separate because curing and armor patterns use different inputs. Save salt and thread alongside leather, then compare whether a hide is most useful cured, crafted or sold. Non-skinners need to account for purchases and other professions’ components.

Armor kits can enhance eligible gear before a replacement drops. Compare the intended wearer’s armor type and stats with their existing gear; an item useful to someone else need not be the best skill-up for you.

Branches and Tanning Rack

Wowhead’s Forever quest record says completing Elemental Leatherworking prevents learning Tribal and Dragonscale through that choice. Compare actual patterns, materials and uses, then confirm the current quest terms before committing.

Comparing a client-derived route

A Forever-client model uses Light Armor Kit and Cured Light Hide early; later examples include Cured Medium Hide, Gray Leather Boots and Dark Leather Belt. The belt combines a Fine Leather Belt with cured hide, thread and dye.

Its middle examples include Heavy Armor Kit, Guardian Gloves and Nightscape Headband. Later it models Cured Rugged Hide, Rugged Armor Kit and separate pattern items. This calculated path leaves pattern access and trainer learning levels unverified.

Example ingredients from the Forever client

Recorded ability	Recorded reagents
Light Armor Kit	1 × Light Leather
Cured Light Hide	1 × Light Hide, 1 × Salt
Embossed Leather Gloves	3 × Light Leather, 2 × Coarse Thread
Cured Medium Hide	1 × Medium Hide, 1 × Salt
Dark Leather Belt	1 × Fine Leather Belt, 1 × Cured Medium Hide, 2 × Fine Thread, 1 × Gray Dye

Reading these examples

These are selective client-record reagent counts, not proven output, training requirements or current availability. The Recipes and Materials tabs provide more recorded relationships.