Leatherworking 1 to 300
Before I start, you need to realize this is not a 1-85 leveling guide, it's just a guide that will help you get your
leatherworking up quick, if you need a leveling guide, the best
one is Joana's 1-90 WoW leveling Guide.
I've recently changed one of my skills to tribal leatherworking. I
couldn't find a guide to power level it so I thought I'd put make
one from what I did. I'm not going to say that this is a
comprehensive guide, I made too many mistakes. It's just a
description of what I did to get to 300 leatherworking. Hopefully it
will be useful to someone.
Materials Needed:
369 x Light Leather
586 x Medium Leather
389 x Heavy Leather
661 x Thick Leather
340 x Rugged Leather
8 x Cured Heavy Hide
5 x Iron Buckles
112 x Turtle Scales
4 x Wildvine
2 x Cured Thick Hides
In addition for the leatherworking quests you need an extra 10 Thick
Leather and 7 Wildvine.
1 - 45
49 x Light Leather Armour Kits - 49 x Light Leather
45 - 55
16 x Handstiched Leather Cloaks - 32 x Light Leather
55 - 100
47 x Embossed Leather Gloves - 141 x Light Leather
100 - 123
29 x Fine Leather Belts - 174 x Light Leather
- 369 x Light Leather total
123 - 137
16 x Dark Leather Boots - 64 x Medium Leather
137 - 155
24 x Dark Leather Pants - 288 x Medium Leather
155 - 165
10 x Hillsman Leather Gloves - 140 x Medium Leather
165 - 180
19 x Heavy Armour Kits - 95 x Heavy Leather
180 - 183
7 x Hillsman Leather Gloves (green) - 98 x Medium Leather
- 586 x Medium Leather total
183 - 191
8 x Barbaric Shoulders - 64 x Heavy Leather & 8 x Cured Heavy
Hide
191 - 196
5 x Barbaric Harnesses - 70 x Heavy Leather & 5 x Iron Buckles
196-206
10 x Dusky Bracers - 160 x Heavy Leather
- 389 x Heavy Leather, 8 x Cured Heavy Hide & 5 x Iron Buckles
total
206-220
14 x Thick Leather Armour Kits (6 for Leatherworking quest) - 70
x Thick Leather
220-225
5 x Nightscape Headbands (2 for Leatherworking quest) - 25 x
Thick Leather
225-227
2 x Turtle Scale Breastplates (Leatherworking quest) - 12 x Thick
Leather & 24 x Turtle Scales
227-229
2 x Turtle Scale Gloves (Leatherworking quest) – 12 x Thick
Leather & 16 x Turtle Scales
229-230
2 x Nightscape Tunics (Leatherworking quest) - 14 x Thick Leather
230-232
4 x Nightscape Headbands - 20 x Thick Leather
232-233
2 x Turtle Scale Bracers (Leatherworking quest) - 16 x Thick
Leather & 24 x Turtle Scales
233-235
2 x Turtle Scale Helms (Leatherworking quest) - 28 x Thick
Leather & 48 x Turtle Scales
235-237
2 x Nightscape Pants (Leatherworking quest) - 28 x Thick Leather
237-239
2 x Nightscape Boots (Leatherworking quest) - 32 x Thick Leather
239-240
1 x Wild Leather Vest (Tribal Leatherworking quest) - 12 x Thick
Leather, 2 x Wildvine & 1 x Cured Thick Hide
240-241
1 x Wild Leather Helmet (Tribal Leatherworking quest) - 10 x
Thick Leather, 2 x Wildvine & 1 x Cured Thick Hide
241-250
9 x Nightscape Pants - 126 x Thick Leather
250-265
16 x Nightscape Boots - 256 x Thick Leather
- 661 x Thick Leather total
265-285
20 x Wicked Leather Bracers - 160 x Rugged Leather
285-300
15 x Wicked Leather Headbands - 180 x Rugged Leather
- 340 x Rugged Leather total
Notes:
In general I have tried to keep as much as possible to the main
normal leather types, light, medium, heavy, thick and rugged. This
is because it always easier to buy them on the auction house,
whereas other ingredients are more difficult to obtain, and
therefore more expensive. I haven't mentioned the ingredients that
can be bought from vendors, since they are easy to obtain. I ran
into trouble around the 180 mark, where most recipes require extra
ingredient and I bought whatever had the cheapest buyout on the AH
to get me there. Have a look to see what's cheapest at the time for
you.
I could have used a lot less thick leather and started on rugged
armour kits at 250, but at that time the price of rugged leather was
high enough for it to be worth using huge amounts of thick instead
(probably because I did this the week before the Darkmoon Faire was
in town). If you can get the rugged leather cheaper it's probably
worth switching earlier (5 rugged leather Vs 15 thick leather).
I have mostly kept to trainer taught recipes. The exceptions to this are the recipes gained through the leatherworking quests and the recipes for Wicked Leather Bracer and Headband, which I bought on the auction house for 5 and 2 gold respectively (you could substitute Wicked Leather Gauntlet for Wicked Leather Bracers.
I hope that this helps. I know that there are a few places where it
could have been done a bit better but I don't think I made too many
glaring errors.
Leatherworking 300 to 375
300-310
Knothide Leather (5 x Knothide Leather Scraps) x 20 = 100 x Knothide
Leather Scraps
N.B. make as many as it takes to get to 310. Your going to need
around 725 Knothide leather, so you may aswell get the skill up
points for this.
310-320
Wild Draenish Gloves (9 x Knothide Leather, 3 x Rune Thread) x 10
320-325
Thick Draenic Boots (10 x Knothide Leather, 3 x Rune Thread) x 5
325-335
Heavy Knothide Leather (5 x Knothide Leather) x 90
335-340
Thick Draenic Vest (14 x Knothide Leather, 3 x Rune Thread) x 5
340-350
Felscale Breastplate (14 x Knothide Leather, 3 x Fel Scales, 3 x
Rune Thread) x 15
N.B. as is common with all the professions now, getting from 350
to 375 is a huge pain. Trainers dont teach anything worthwhile, so
the only way to do it, is via random world drop patterns or rep
rewards. I'll use rep reward patterns in this guide.
350-355
For those with Scryers rep - Honoured:
Enchanted Felscale Gloves or Boots (4 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 10 x
Fel Scales, 6 x Primal Mana) x 5
For those with The Consortium rep - Honored
Fel Leather Boots (10 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 8 x Fel Hide, 8 x
Primal Shadow, 3 x Rune Thread) x 5
355-365
You need to be Friendly with Cenarion Expedition for the next part:
Heavy Clefthoof Boots (4 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 20 x Thick
Clefthoof Leather, 4 x Primal Earth, 2 x Rune Thread) x 10
N.B. these last 10 points are going to cost you a LOT! (as if the
last 15 didn't cost enough!) The materials required are fairly
insane and so is the rep requirement, but at the moment I don't see
a better way of levelling up.
365-370
If your Exalted with Thrallmar or Honor Hold, then make:
Nethercobra Leg Armor (4 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 4 x Cobra Scales,
8 x Primal Air, 1 x Primal Nether) x 5
N.B. The Cobra Scales and Primal Nether are a major pain to get
and I would seriously urge you to work on Sha'tar rep and do the
following:
Alternatively, if your exalted with The Sha'tar:
Drums of Battle (2 Heavy Knothide Leather, 1 x Primal Fire, 1 Primal
Earth) x 5
N.B. any of the above three will take you to 375, but the
material requirement makes for a LOT of farming, as those last 5
points can mean making another 20-30 items.
370-375
Your either going to have to make random world drop epics here
with lots of insane material requirements OR go and get exalted with
Keepers of Time.
Seeing as the epics are random world drop patterns, I'll go with
Keepers of Time rep rewards. You'll need to be level 66 to start
your Keepers of Time rep and spend a LOT of time in The Caverns of
Time.
Drums of Panic (2 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 2 x Primal Shadow) x 5
Approximate Materials Required
With Scryers Rep
100 x Knothide Leather Scraps
715 x Knothide Leather
100 x Rune Thread
85 x Fel Scales
30 x Primal Mana
200 x Thick Clefthoof Leather
20 x Cobra Scales (if your Thrallmar or Honor Hold exalted)
40 x Primal Air (if your Thrallmar or Honor Hold exalted) or 5 x
Primal Earth and 5 x Primal Fire if you went with Sha'tar rep)
5 x Primal Nether (Dont need these if you go with CE or Sha'tar rep)
20 x Primal Earth
10 x Primal Shadow
N.B. if you went with Sha'tar rep at 365, then you'll need 10
less Heavy Knothide Leather, 40 less Primal Air, 5 Primal Earth and
5 less Primal Nether. Gets complicated, dont it?
With The Consortium Rep
100 x Knothide Leather Scraps
675 x Knothide Leather
200 x Thick Clefthoof Leather
40 x Fel Hide
70 x Rune Thread
85 x Fel Scales
20 x Cobra Scales (if your Thrallmar or Honor Hold exalted)
40 x Primal Air (if your Thrallmar or Honor Hold exalted) or 5 x
Primal Earth and 5 x Primal Fire if you went with Sha'tar rep)
5 x Primal Nether (Dont need these if you go with CE or Sha'tar rep)
20 x Primal Earth
50 x Primal Shadow
N.B. if you went with Sha'tar rep at 365, then you'll need 10
less Heavy Knothide Leather, 40 less Primal Air, 5 Primal Earth and
5 less Primal Nether.
