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Category:Leatherworking (WoW)

	Leatherworking (Primary Profession)
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Leatherworking is a profession focused on crafting items out of leather goods and similiar materials.

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What Leatherworking Creates
What Leatherworking Requires
Is Leatherworking For Me?
Specialization
Leatherworking Quests
New In Wrath of the Lich King

Starter Armor Sets
Lack of Mail items

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What Leatherworking Creates

Most obviously, leatherworking makes leather armor. There are also armor kits that can be applied to certain items for a bonus, similiar to enchants, as well as quivers and ammo pouches for hunters. At later levels, leatherworking expands into also some types of mail armor.

List of Leatherworking products

What Leatherworking Requires

Leatherworking needs, well, leather! Leather typically comes from skinning dead beasts. A majority of the other materials needed for LW come from skinning as well, such as the scales for mail armor.

Is Leatherworking For Me?

Leatherworking is a good personal tradeskill and a so-so one for supporting other players. It is primarily taken up by classes that initially use leather armor. (Rogues, druids, shamans, hunters.)

In terms of making money, leatherworking is not wonderful, but there are a few select patterns that can be capitalized on, especially depending on your specialization.

The benefits of being your own leatherworker include certain high-end pieces of equipment, and there are some recipes that drop in instances that are bind on pickup, as are the items they make. Leatherworkers can also create and use Drums of Battle, Drums of Panic, Drums of Restoration, Drums of Speed and Drums of War which are desired in some raid encounters.

Specialization

Beyond a skill level of 225 (and character level 40,) leatherworkers can choose to specialize in Tribal, Elemental, or Dragonscale leatherworking. Each style is catered toward particular combat.

Tribal is primarily for leather-wearing casters, such as restoration and balance druids.
Elemental focuses on combat for leather-workers. This is generally the preferred choice for rogues and perhaps feral druids.
Dragonscale creates scale mail for hunters and shamans.

Each has its own quest(s) to begin.

Leatherworking Quests

This is by no means a complete list.

Quests that are just for leatherworkers

Quests that require products from a leatherworker:

The Gordok Ogre Suit (Dire Maul, level 60)
Bartolo's Yeti Fur Cloak (Hillsbrad Foothills, level 34)

New In Wrath of the Lich King

Starter Armor Sets

They've given Leatherworkers a pair of leather armor sets to get you going in the new content. There's one for casters and one for melee.

The melee set is called Borean Embrace and includes set bonuses:

2 Pieces increases your critical strike rating by 15
4 pieces increases your attack power by 40

The set is as follows:

Borean Embrace
Piece	Armor	Agility	Stamina	AP	Crit	Hit Rating	Materials
Arctic Boots	218	32	30	54			10 Borean Leather
Arctic Chestpiece	326	43	42	76			10 Borean Leather
Arctic Leggings	277		36	74	46		10 Borean Leather
Arctic Belt	188		33	32	31		8 Borean Leather
Arctic Gloves	198	34	25			28	8 Borean Leather
Artic Shoulderpads	244	36	27	60			8 Borean Leather
Totals	1451	145	193	296	77	28	54 Borean Leather

The caster set doesn't appear to give any set bonuses at the moment, all of the pieces just have "Verdant Tundra" in the names. Remember that with the changes to WotLK, Spellpower now refers to both healing and damage spells. So any spell power bonuses are given to both equally.

Also, because of the way the pieces are spaced it's possible to mix and match the two sets if it makes sense to do so with your spec.

Enchants Eligible for Scrolls
Piece	Armor	Intellect	Spirit	Stamina	Spellpower	Materials
Verdant Tundra Boots	238	23		45	44	8 Borean Leather
Verdant Tundra Bracers	151	15	20		36	6 Borean Leather
Verdant Tundra Belt	195	29		34	47	8 Borean Leather
Verdant Tundra Cap	288	43		51	60	10 Borean Leather
Verdant Tundra Shoulderpads	266	26	33		44	8 Borean Leather
Totals	1138	136	53	130	231	40 Borean Leather

There are also 2 new armor kits so far:

Borean Armor Kit - Increases the stamina of head, chest, shoulders, legs, hands or feet by 12 Heavy Borean Armor Kit - Increases the stamina of head, chest, shoulders, legs, hands or feet by 12

In addition to these Leatherworkers will be able to create a 24 slot leatherworking bag o keep all their leatherworking gear in.

Lack of Mail items

If youve been paying attention you'll notice that all of the items found so far for leatherworkers are only leather. We can hope that the mail items for Hunters and Shaman simply haven't been implemented yet.