WoW Forever Leatherworking Leveling Guide

Leatherworking Route by Skill

Craft each pattern to the end of its band, then switch. Don't copy a Classic route. WoW-Professions says most of the Classic route's recipes above 225 turn gray 25 points earlier in Forever.Source: WoW-Professions Leatherworking route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

Planned crafts add expected misses to one craft per point. We assume the Classic rule, where the chance of a point falls evenly from 100% at yellow to 0% at gray. That rule isn't confirmed for Forever, so treat the counts as estimates. Green is the midpoint between yellow and gray, and the client doesn't store it.Source: Wago SkillLineAbility, build 1.60.1.70862, checked Nov 8, 2026.

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The Fine Leather Belts and Cured Medium Hides you make in the 80s and 90s feed the Dark Leather Belts at 115, so keep them. WoW-Professions says the Expert trainers in Thunder Bluff and Darnassus don't teach Nightscape Pants, so the 210 row needs an Artisan trainer. The table below names them.Source: WoW-Professions Leatherworking route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

For trainers, rank costs and what Forever changed, use the Leatherworking guide. To compare professions, see Profession leveling. To look up another pattern, use the Profession Recipes tool.

What to Buy Before Each Rank Cap

Buy one trip at a time. Counts are planned crafts times reagents, with leather and hides the route makes already taken out. Each row lists materials for bands that start in that range, so a band can run past the cap shown.

You can cure the 32 hides yourself, at 1 Heavy Hide and 3 Salt each. Skinning covers much of this list, so see the Skinning guide if you plan to gather it. For your character's leveling route, RestedXP's WoW Forever leveling guide handles that job.

Leather by Grade

The route's largest purchases are 930 Rugged Leather, 481 Thick Leather and 408 Medium Leather, along with 209 Heavy Leather and 199 Light Leather. The client lets you turn lower grades into higher ones: 3 Ruined Leather Scraps make 1 Light Leather, 4 Light Leather make 1 Medium Leather and 5 Medium Leather make 1 Heavy Leather.Source: Wago SpellReagents, build 1.60.1.70862, checked Nov 8, 2026. Compare those prices on your realm before you buy a higher grade.

What Thread, Dye and Salt Cost

Most trainers have a Leatherworking Supply vendor nearby. WoW-Professions says the Elwynn Forest and Tirisfal Glades trainers don't, so buy Salt and Coarse Thread from Tharynn Bouden in Goldshire or Abigail Shiel in Brill.Source: WoW-Professions Leatherworking route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

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That comes to about 57 gold 41 silver, and Rune Thread is about 70% of it.Source: Wago ItemSparse, build 1.60.1.70862, checked Nov 8, 2026. Leather prices depend on your realm, so this page doesn't total them.

What the Finished Gear Is Worth

Selling every item the route makes to a vendor returns about 127 gold 22 silver at client-stored prices. Runic Leather Headbands are 66 gold 53 silver of that, Wicked Leather Gauntlets 23 gold 36 silver and Nightscape Pants 13 gold 6 silver.Source: Wago ItemSparse, build 1.60.1.70862, checked Nov 8, 2026. That's a floor, so check the Auction House first. Most of it comes from the last two rows, which also use the most materials.

Where to Train Each Rank

Journeyman is taught in every capital city. The next two stops are specific NPCs, so plan them before you reach the cap. Expert costs 50 silver.Source: WoW-Professions Leatherworking route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

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If your character is under level 35, stop at 225 and resume once you can train Artisan.

Patterns to Buy, and Swaps

The last two rows need vendor patterns. Werg Thickblade in Tirisfal Glades and Leonard Porter in Western Plaguelands sell Wicked Leather Gauntlets. Jase Farlane at Light's Hope Chapel sells Runic Leather Headband.Source: WoW-Professions Leatherworking route, checked Nov 8, 2026.

If you have one of these patterns, it can replace the Headband from 285:

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If you'd rather not buy Heavy Hide, WoW-Professions has a route without it: Hillman's Leather Gloves from 130 to 155, then Barbaric Leggings and Barbaric Harness to 175.

If you bought Light Leather instead of scraps, make Light Armor Kit from skill 1 instead of the first row.Source: WoW-Professions Leatherworking route, checked Nov 8, 2026. The client lists no recipe item for the patterns below, which points to a trainer. Confirm with yours before you buy materials.

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Where the Sources Disagree

Learn skills are the main unknown. The client stores a minimum skill of 1 for every pattern on this route, so it doesn't say when a trainer offers them.Source: Wago SkillLineAbility, build 1.60.1.70862, checked Nov 8, 2026. WoW-Professions says its route was tested through 225, and MetaBot's estimate for Guardian Gloves, 165, matches where this route starts them.Source: MetaBot.GG Leatherworking leveling route, checked Nov 8, 2026. If a trainer refuses a row, keep crafting the previous one while it still gives points.

MetaBot calculates another route using Heavy Leather, Cured Rugged Hide, Volcanic Leggings and Gordok Ogre Suit. It labels most trainer learn skills as estimates, because the client doesn't store when a trainer offers a recipe.Source: MetaBot.GG Leatherworking leveling route, checked Nov 8, 2026. WoW-Professions couldn't test above 225 because of the beta level cap, so treat those rows as a plan.