Dragonflight Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1-100 (2024)

This Dragonflight Leatherworking leveling guide will show you the fastest and cheapest way to level your Dragon Isles Leatherworking skill up from 1 to 100.

Leatherworking is best combined with skinning, and I highly recommend leveling these professions together because it will be easier to get the needed materials if you have skinning. So, check out my Skinning Leveling Guide if you want to level skinning. You can also buy the leathers at the Auction House, but you will need a lot of gold.

Dragonflight Leatherworking Trainers
New features in Dragonflight
Crafting Orders
Shopping List
Leveling to 65
65 to 100

Dragonflight Leatherworking Trainers

Deirdre Flemmin in The Waking Shores.
Hideshaper Koruz in Valdrakken.
Shurom in Ohn'ahran Plains.
Lontupit in The Azura Span.

New Dragonflight Leatherworking features

There are a lot of new stats added to professions in Dragonflight, so here is a quick explanation for some of these.

Recipe Difficulty

Recipe Difficulty shows you how much profession skill is required to make a recipe at the highest quality. You can see your current profession Skill below the Recipe Difficulty stat. Your Skill comes from your base profession skill, specializations, profession equipment, racials, and using high-quality reagents. So, your profession skill can go well above 100.

Item Quality

Every crafted piece of Leatherworking armor and weapon has 5 different qualities. Leatherworking Crafted Reagents, Enchantments, and Consumable items have 3 different qualities.

Basically, if you have higher skill, you can make higher ilvl gear, higher quality consumables that give more stat, and higher quality reagents that give more profession skill when used in recipes.

Inspiration, Multicraft, Resourcefulness

Inspiration: Each time you craft something, there is a chance you get Inspired and craft the recipe with some bonus profession skill, so you can craft an item with higher quality than you could normally.
Resourcefulness: You have a chance to use fewer reagents.
Multicraft: You have a chance to craft additional items. (doesn't work on crafted gear, only consumables and reagents)

Dragon Isles Leatherworking Knowledge

Dragon Isles Leatherworking Knowledge points are the "talent points" that you can put into your profession specialization to learn new skills, stats, and bonuses.

Leatherworking Crafting Orders

Crafting Orders are a new way for players to request a crafter to craft something for them. The interface looks like the Auction House, but instead of players posting Auctions, it will be filled with Crafting Orders that you can complete as a Leatherworker.

Completing crafting orders can give you skill points if you complete orders for items that would normally give you skill point.

How to Complete Crafting Orders

Clicking on the Crafting Orders tab at the bottom of your profession window will open up the Crafting Order UI, where you can browse Crafting Orders posted by other players. You must be near a Crafting Table for your profession to be able to access Crafting Orders.

Leatherworking Crafting Table location

You can find the Leatherworking crafting table in Valdrakken at the location marked in the picture below.

Shopping list

This is the total list of materials required to reach 65. The 65-100 part is not included here because there are too many alternative recipes you can use.

The quality doesn't matter for leveling. Buy the cheapest.

Leveling Dragonflight Leatherworking

First Craft Bonus

You will get 1xDragon Isles Leatherworking Knowledge talent pointeach time you craft something for the first time. Dragon Isles Leatherworking Knowledge is very valuable and has a weekly cap from other sources.

1 - 7

Because of the "First Craft Bonus" I recommend crafting one mail and one leather piece when possible. I think it's just better to get your First Craft Bonus while you can also get skill points from them.

1x Pioneer's Leather Wristguards - 15x Resilient Leather, 5x Adamant Scales
1x Trailblazer's Scale Bracers - 5x Resilient Leather, 15x Adamant Scales

Leatherworking Specializations

When you hit 25, you will unlock Leatherworking specializations.

Which Specialization to choose first?

I recommend choosing Leather Armor Crafting or Mail Armor crafting as your first specialization. Choose the one that your class can wear. (you can learn all 4 as you level up your profession)

You will need 50 skill points to unlock the second specialization, 65 for the third, and 75 for the fourth. 65 is very easy to reach, but it may take a little longer to level to 75.

Where should you put your Dragon Isles Leatherworking Knowledge talent points?

Don't spend any points yet, I recommend leveling your profession to 65 first. You will need 20 points to unlock a recipe that you will use to level Leatherworking. (more on this later)

25 - 31

1x Pioneer's Practiced Gloves - 16x Resilient Leather, 2x Dense Hide
1x Trailblazer's Toughened Grips - 16x Adamant Scales, 2x Lustrous Scaled Hide

31- 37

1x Jeweler's Cover - 10x Resilient Leather, 2x Dense Hide
1x Protective Gloves - 10x Adamant Scales, 2x Lustrous Scaled Hide

37 - 41

1x Alchemist's Hat - 10x Adamant Scales, 2x Lustrous Scaled Hide
1x Smithing Apron - 10x Adamant Scales, 2x Dense Hide

41 - 47

1x Pioneer's Practiced Shoulderpads - 16x Resilient Leather, 2x Dense Hide
1x Trailblazer's Toughened Spikes - 16x Adamant Scales, 2x Lustrous Scaled Hide

47 - 52

1x Pioneer's Practiced Leggings - 16x Resilient Leather, 2x Dense Hide
1x Trailblazer's Toughened Legguards - 16x Adamant Scales, 2x Lustrous Scaled Hide

52 - 65

25x Pioneer's Practiced Cowl - 400x Resilient Leather, 50x Dense Hide

The recipe will be green for the last few points, so you might have to make more.

65 - 100

From this point, almost every single recipe that give you skill point require a Spark of Ingenuity. This crafting reagent Binds on Pickup (BoP), so you can't just buy it from the Auction House.

Below is a step by step guide how to get Spark of Ingenuity for leveling your profession. Step 1 is the most time consuming, but it's account-wide and it's something you probably already compelted.

Step 1. #Dragonflight campaign quests

To get Spark of Ingenuity, you must complete the Dragonflight main story campaign quests until you unlock World Quests. This is ACCOUNT-WIDE, so you only need to complete these quests with one of your characters. If you open your quest log, you will find these quests at the top in the campaign section under the "Dragonflight" title.

Complete the Dragonflight campaign quests until you get Renown of the Dragon Isles from Alexstrasza the Life-Binder.
Talk to Therazal to complete Renown of the Dragon Isles.

Step 2. #Engine of Innovation Questline

Pick up the Learning Ingenuity quest from Therazal. This quest will start the Engine of Innovation Questline that will award you with Spark of Ingenuity.

Talk to Greyzik Cobblefinger to complete Learning Ingenuity and pick up the Jump-Start? Jump-Starting! quest.

If you have already completed the Engine of Innovation Questline with one of your characters, you don't have to do it again. Talk to Greyzik Cobblefinger to skip the quests, and then talk to Maiden of Inspiration to get your 5x Spark of Ingenuity.

Otherwise, you need to complete the entire Engine of Innovation Questline until you get all five Spark of Ingenuity.

Step 3. #Spending Knowledge Points and Crafting Bracers

Put your first 20 points in the Leather Armor Crafting or Mail Armor crafting specialization like this:

Leather Armor Crafting

Put 10 points into Leather Armor Crafting.
Learn the Shaped-Leather Armor sub-specialization (left tree), then put 10 points into Shaped-Leather Armor.
Learn the Wristwraps sub-specizalization. This will teach you the Life-Bound Bindings recipe.

Mail Armor Crafting

Put 10 points into Mail Armor Crafting.
Learn the Large Mail sub-specialization (left tree), then put 10 points into Large Mail.
Learn the Bracers sub-specizalization. This will teach you the Flame-Touched Cuffs recipe.

Craft 5x Life-Bound Bindings or Flame-Touched Cuffs

You can make any other mail or leather armor if you have more knowledge points to spend. You can learn the other recipes the same way in the other sub-specializations.

Step 4. #Getting more Sparks

To level to 100, you will need another 8x Spark of Ingenuity. Unfortunately, you can't get more than 5 on one character. However, you can use the crafting order system to send crafting orders to your own characters, so you can get more from your alts or by creating trial characters.

Creating a trial character

If you have two level 58 alt characters, you can skip this part and use them instead of creating trials.

Go to the character selection screen and click "Create New Character" in the bottom left corner.
On the character creation page, tick the "Class Trial" box in the bottom left corner.
Choose any class and talents, then create your Character.
Go to the portal room in Orgrimmar/Stormwind and click on the Valdrakken portal.

Skipping quests to get 5x Sparks

Talk to Greyzik Cobblefinger about skipping the quests, and then talk to Maiden of Inspiration.
Talk to the crafting order NPC Clerk Silverpaw in Valdrakken.
Click on Armor -> Mail or Leather -> Wrist, then click "Search" and pick Life-Bound Bindings or Flame-Touched Cuffs.
Change Public Order to Personal Order in the top right, then type in your main character name.
You don't have to fill in materials other than the Spark of Ingenuity in the "Spark" slot. You can fill the rest of the materials with your main.
Log in with your main, and go to the Leatherworking crafting table in Valdrakken. (scroll back to the crafting order section above in the guide if you don't know where it is)
Open your profession window and click Crafting Orders tab at the bottom.
Click on the Personal Tab and complete the crafting orders from your alts.
Repeat these steps above until you reach 100.