Leatherworking

• Recipe List
• Video Guide
• Talent Calculator
• Wowhead Leatherworking Guide
• Levelling Guide

Tools of the Trade

• BiS Accessories:
  • Artisan Leatherworker’s Toolset (bs made, +11 skill) 
  • Arathi Leatherworker’s Smock (lw made, +11 skill)
• BiS Tool: Artisan Leatherworker’s Knife (bs made, +18 skill)
  • Tool stat + enchant for various situations:
  • Consumables & reagents: Multicraft + Resourcefulness
  • Patron & public orders: Resourcefulness + Resourcefulness
  • High end craft orders: Ingenuity + Ingenuity
• Specialty Bag: Hideshaper’s Workbag – Increases your Multicraft rating by 10 when crafting Thunderous Drums 

Leatherworking Specializations (4)

1. Learned Leatherworker

Learned Leatherworker is the efficiency specialization. The base node improves your ingenuity, and the 3 subnodes are dedicated to:

• Resourcefulness
• Better concentration refunds for ingenious breakthroughs
• Skill & multicraft for consumables & reagents

2. Luxurious Leathers

Luxurious Leathers improves your skill at making leather armor, and provides access to the Rune-Branded armor recipes. It’s split into two paths:

• Group A = chest / head / shoulders / wrists
• Group B = legs / hands / feet / belt

The base node improves skill for all leather armor, and gives you the ability to increase ilvl via optional reagents. The secondary nodes increase skill for that subgroup of armor, and adds the ability to use missives and finishing reagents. Opening up a 3rd layer node will teach you the recipe for the Rune-Branded armor piece for that gear slot. 

3. Concrete Chitin

Concrete Chitin works exactly like Luxurious Leathers, but is for mail and gives you access to the Glyph-Etched armor recipes.

4. Flawless Fortes

Flawless Fortes improves your ability to craft specialty items- embellishments, pre-embellished gear, profession equipment, and armor kits – and teaches you some of the recipes for these. 

The base node increases your skill with all types of specialty items, and the 5 secondary nodes increase your skill & other stats for crafting specific types of specialty items:

1. Arathi Armorer: improves your skill with “Arathi” (holy-themed) embellishments and pre-embellished armor. It teaches you 3 recipes:
   • Blessed Weapon Grip – embellishment 
   • Sanctified Torchbearer’s Grips – embellished mail gloves for dps
   • Waders of the Unifying Flame – embellished leather feet for healers
2. Nerubian Nous: improves your skill with “Nerubian” (shadow-themed) embellishments and pre-embellished armor. These tend to both help and harm you. It teaches you 3 recipes:
   • Writhing Armor Banding – embellishment
   • Adrenal Surge Clasp – leather belt
   • Vambraces of Deepening Darkness – mail wrist
3. Beastly Bulwarks: improves your skill with “Beast” (nature-themed) embellishments and pre-embellished armor. It teaches you 2 recipes:
   • Weathered Stormfront Vest – leather chest. All 3 pieces of the Storm Rook set are craftable, but you’ll need to find the hand & wrist recipes elsewhere.
   • Smoldering Pollen Hauberk – mail chest. All 3 pieces of the Cinderbee set are craftable, but you’ll need to find the boot & belt recipes elsewhere.
4. Epic Ensembles: skill for profession equipment
5. Spotless Stitching: skill for armor kits and reagents, and the ability to use finishing reagents on them.

Things of Note

• Leatherworkers don’t seem to have a bow recipe in TWW
• If your focus is on making basic leather or mail armor, you don’t need to leave that specialization for additional skill points like in DF

Suggestions

Armorer Build: 

Dive straight into either Luxurious Leathers or Concrete Chitin. If you want to get all of the recipes as quickly as possible:

1. Invest 10 points into the base node to open up a secondary node
2. Fill that secondary node to open each tertiary node to learn the recipes. This will also get you the ability to use finishing reagents as well. Don’t invest in the tertiary nodes yet.
3. Bring the base node up to 20 which will open the other secondary node
4. Repeat step 2 for this side of the tree. You’ll need 80 points to unlock all of the recipes. Here’s the visual.

Remember that you can use concentration to fill in for missing skill- you only need to spend enough in your armor spec to get your results into the quality 4 zone, and then you can plug in the gaps with concentration grout. This works fine if you’re only crafting once in a while, and can let your concentration regenerate, but if you plan to be crafting frequently, you’ll need to invest more in skill so you don’t run out of concentration.

Example for context: a max skill LW with uncommon quality tools & accessories, and 80 points in Concrete Chitin (primary and secondary nodes filled), can craft Glyph-Etched Bindings at max quality, using quality 3 reagents, by spending 623 concentration. Concentration regenerates at 10/hour, so it would take 24.6 hours to have enough concentration to do this again (a bit faster if there was an ingenious breakthrough). 

TLDR: You can think of concentration as a daily CD to create max quality armor after you’ve invested your 80 points as suggested.

At this point you can:

• Invest more in your current armor tree to increase your skill so you use less concentration per craft. Prioritize investing in non-tier slots, which are requested far more frequently.
• Switch over to the other basic armor tree (leather/chitin) to get all those recipes (another 80 points)
• Invest in Learned Leatherworker for more efficiency/profit
• If any of the pre-embellished Arathi/Nerubian/Beast armor pieces end up in the season 1 BiS list, consider investing in Flawless Fortes & the corresponding subspecialization. Your skill boni from this specialization will stack with your skill boni in Luxurious Leathers/Concrete Chitin, which you’ll need because the pre-embellished pieces have a much higher difficulty to make. Keep in mind any buff/nerf cycle can completely change the demand for these pre-embellished pieces. Pursuing Flawless Fortes for the armor making synergies is a high risk, high reward adventure. Before investing, check to see if any of the recipes require some idiotic, hard to access leatherworking station like the Altar of Decay in DF. 

Overlaps & Slot Priorities

If you want to min-max the early points you spend in your armor spec for maximal overlap with the pre-embellished gear from Flawless Fortes, and/or put extra weight on what tends to be the most frequently ordered gear slots, here’s the breakdown…

LEATHER	Shaped Leather  chest 🐻 head  shoulder wrist 💗🐻	Embroidered Leather legs hands 🐻 waist 💗👾 feet 💗👼
CHITIN	Large Chitin chest 🐻 head shoulder wrist 💗👾	Intricate Chitin legs hands 👼 waist 💗🐻 feet 💗🐻

Consumables, reagents & profession accessories: 

Start with Flawless Fortes and add in Epic Ensembles (profession tools) and Spotless Stitching (armor kits & reagents). Early in the expansion, quality profession gear is in demand, so there’s potential profit there. LW will be able to make 8 different accessories for 7 different professions – the same slots as in DF. For armor kits & reagents, you’ll also want to delve into Learned Leatherworking→Industrious Innovations for additional skill points and multicraft procs.