Leatherworking

What changed in Forever

Role-themed sets. The trade-camp vendors sell a run of new patterns for Merchant's Favor (Wowhead):

• Skill 60–110: belts, boots, tunics, gloves, legs and hoods named Brawler's, Defender's, Stormrider's, Totemic, Trapper's and Wisdom's.
• Skill 200–220: gloves, shoulders and bracers named Mender's, Prowler's, Skulker's, Skycaller's, Stalker's and Warden's, some in leather and some in mail.

ForeverDB's gear data shows which spec each name serves, and its list of candidate crafts within the level-30 bracket is long:

• Wisdom's: Restoration Druids and Shamans.
• Stormrider's: Balance Druids and Elemental Shamans.
• Trapper's: Hunters.
• Brawler's and Defender's: Rogues, Enhancement Shamans and Feral Druids. The Defender's Leather Tunic (skill 110) is an example.

Icy Veins adds that some of this gear binds on pickup, so a leatherworker can make healing pieces that nobody else could hand over.

Other new items:

• The blue Black Whelp Slippers and Dark Leather Boots for level 10, from patterns at skill 35.
• A 6-slot Light Leather Reagent Bag for Forever's new reagent bag slot.
• Armour kits with new stat lines: Icy Veins describes Forceful kits that add Attack Power and Mystic kits that add Spell Power, each alongside armour.

The early quiver and ammo pouch raise ranged attack speed by 10% (ForeverDB). Endgame recipes such as Warbear Helm and Tranquil Wristguards use Skinning's new Fel Leather, Fel Hide and Pristine materials (Icy Veins). Blizzard's 1 October notes added Leatherworking recipes as random dungeon drops.

Stations come from camps. Blizzard says the Tanning Rack is needed for more advanced Leatherworking recipes (ForeverDB). wow-professions.com says both the Rack and the Sewing Machine are needed for many recipes, and that it found such stations only at camps. The Tanning Rack blueprint drops from Razorclaw the Butcher in Shadowfang Keep; the Sewing Machine's source is still unknown.

Skill ranges moved. wow-professions.com warns against using a Classic guide past 225: many recipes there turn grey about 25 points earlier in Forever.

Levelling, in brief

From wow-professions.com, tested to 225:

wowtbc.gg prices a similar route from Auction House scans, through Light Armor Kits, Embossed Gloves, Hillman's Gloves and Guardian Gloves to about 193.

The trainers, per wow-professions.com:

• Expert: Una in Thunder Bluff (Horde) or Telonis in Darnassus (Alliance).
• Artisan: needs skill 200 and level 35. Hahrana Ironhide in Camp Mojache, Feralas (Horde), or Drakk Stonehand in Aerie Peak, The Hinterlands (Alliance).

What's worth making

• Your own gear: guides value Leatherworking mostly for this. ForeverDB's best professions tool picks Leatherworking and Skinning for Hunters, Rogues, Shamans and Druids.
• Armour kits: Icy Veins rates them for levelling, since they add a mix of defensive and offensive stats.
• Quivers and pouches: every Hunter wants one (ForeverDB).
• Selling: Icy Veins mentions profit from rare creations, without naming items.
• Title: at 300 you can buy a Leatherworking Certification and the title "the Leatherworker" for 1,000 Merchant's Favor (Wowhead).

Open questions

• Whether the Classic specialisations carry over, and what they teach.
• The real 225–300 route, and where the Sewing Machine blueprint drops.