Leatherworking guide

[Nahaz 5]

Here's a guide for LW 1-300 that i found online. All credit goes to wow-guide.blogspot. They seem to have guides for every profession so that might be helpful.

 

http://wow-guide.blogspot.be/

 

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. The recipe is vendor bought from leatherworking suppliers http://www.thotbott.com/?i=11493 it's limited supply though, and after 20 minutes of camping for it I gave up).

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.

[Ursh 2]

Should add for any prospective young leatherworker, follow this advice:

 

Skin everything you come across, including other people's mobs.  You will not find enough leather on your own with the appropriate level ranges unless you're exclusively grinding animals to level.  

[gotmilk0112 10]

^Though it's not much of a problem. Leather is so ridiculously cheap that you should be able to just purchase any extra you need.

 

Even the higher level stuff like Thick / Rugged leather, is only going for 80s to 1g per stack.

[Fatherfrost 3]

Thank you for the guide. This is really useful.

[csant 3]

On 12/26/2016 at 10:43 AM, Ursh said:

Should add for any prospective young leatherworker, follow this advice:

 

Skin everything you come across, including other people's mobs.  You will not find enough leather on your own with the appropriate level ranges unless you're exclusively grinding animals to level.  

I always get to where I wanna get late cuz I stop to skin everything that I come across that is laying around. So, many carcasses... =)