Leatherworking

Recommended for

Good fit

• Druid (1st choice, for levelling, with Skinning): Druids can skin without leaving animal form, and Leatherworking's skill-20 Camp Tent tops up rested experience for the whole group.
• Hunter (1st choice, for levelling, with Skinning): Leatherworking makes the quivers and ammo pouches Hunters still need, and Skinning feeds it the leather.
• Rogue (1st choice, for levelling, with Skinning): Rogues wear leather, Skinning feeds Leatherworking directly, and the Camp Tent's rested experience helps all levelling.
• Shaman (1st choice, for levelling, with Skinning): Leatherworking has mail recipes from level 40 (Skycaller's Mail Boots among them) for a class that gets mail then, and makes the Camp Tent before that.

Works

• Hunter (2nd choice, at the level cap, with Engineering): Engineering adds the Repair Bot to the camp at skill 140 and keeps scope recipes available, while Leatherworking keeps ammo bags and armor coming.
• Shaman (2nd choice, at the level cap, with Enchanting): Enchanting makes the Shaman totem relics: Polished Driftwood Icon (20, 8% mana regeneration while casting), Totem of Ancestral Protection (40) and Totem of Thunder (60).
• Paladin (3rd choice, alt-friendly, with Skinning): Leatherworking makes armor kits and bags, though whether the leather beats plate for a Paladin is not settled.
• Warrior (4th choice, alt-friendly, with Skinning): Skinning's Camp Chair gives you and those sitting nearby 2% critical strike chance.

What Forever changes

Camp items

Leatherworking places a Camp Tent at skill 20 (rested experience topped up to 5% of a level for those sitting nearby), a Tanning Rack at 140 that makes certain reagents, and a Sewing Machine at 300 that some recipes need. Tier 2 and tier 3 items each need a Blueprint recipe item first.

Reagent bag

The Light Leather Reagent Bag is new: a 6-slot reagent container whose recipe turns yellow at skill 40.

Biggest recipe list

616 abilities, 288 of them new and 232 changed, make this the largest profession in the client; 162 of 204 changed yellow thresholds moved 25 skill earlier.

Dungeon recipes

Blizzard enabled a number of Leatherworking recipes intended as random dungeon drops in the 1 October beta notes.

Camp items

Leatherworking camp items

Item	Skill	Reagents	Learned from
Camp Tent	20	5 × Light Leather	Not in the client data
Tanning Rack	140	5 × Medium Leather, 3 × Fine Thread, 2 × Simple Wood	Blueprint: Tanning Rack
Sewing Machine	300	1 × Undeath Engine, 5 × Rugged Leather, 1 × Rune Thread	Blueprint: Sewing Machine

Not surveyed yet

Trainers, recipe vendors, where recipes drop come from our own in-game survey, which has not reached Leatherworking yet. Until it does, this page shows only what the game client records and what we have written ourselves.