Leatherworking Guide for Dragonflight (2024)

An important addition to Leatherworking is the new Pattern: Adaptive Dracothyst Armguardsrecipe, which can be obtained from Ponzo in the new Zaralek Cavernzone. This recipe allows you to create Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards, whichis best in slot for most Mail Intellect users. The new Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patchis also used by multiple DPS specializations as one of the strongest embellishmentsavailable in Season 2.

As shown in the image, Pattern: Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards can be guaranteedmaximum quality, even at 447 maximum item level, by using Illustrious Insightand maximum quality materials, as long as your Leatherworking skill and talentswith Mail Wrist gear is maxed! This is extremely useful as recrafts on this particularitem use both Dracothyst and Obsidian Cobraskin, making it oneof the most expensive items in the game to recraft for a 447 Inspirationproc.

Also, a great goldmaking trick with Leatherworkingis to guarantee rank 3 Toxified Armor Patch crafts while using maximumMulticraft profession stat for high profit,which can be done with maxed out Leatherworking and one Lesser Illustrious Insight.You can create 5 lesser insights by right clicking one Illustrious Insight,making it have a cheap cost of 10 Artisan's Mettle.

While Leatherworking is still responsible for the creation of Leather and Mailarmor, including Decayed gear with special kiss/curse procs, such as Acidic Hailstone Treads, as well as some of the new profession tools andaccessories, such as Expert Alchemist's Hat.

It is also responsible for creating Feral Hide Drums, Bow of the Dragon Huntersand leg enchants for Agility and Strength users, such as Fierce Armor Kit,along with some toys and crafting materials used by other professions.

Dragonflight introduces Crafting Specializations, which youare able to unlock once your profession skill hits 25. These serve as a professiontalent tree system fueled by Leatherworking Knowledge, obtained from weeklyquests, one-time treasures in the Dragon Isles, Draconic Treatises, and first-timecrafts.

While you will eventually be able to unlock all talents, doing so will requirea long time as the sources of knowledge are very limited, especially once one-timetreasures and first-crafts are exhausted.

Leatherworking works well with characters that can use its gear, such asHunters, Druids and other Mail and Leather using classes.

Dragonflight introduces a few new concepts to professions, which wedelve deeper into in the specialized guide below:

Dragonflight introduces four new stats specific to crafting professions:Multicraft, Resourcefulness, Inspiration, and Crafting Speed.

We explain what each stat does and how to maximize them in the specialized guidebelow:

Leatherworking can make great use of all four stats, but you might want to focus onspecific stats with different Leatherworking specializations. We go into detail withLeatherworking stats and the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

The most important source of Leatherworking skill is your profession level,which is increased by performing difficult crafts. While leveling is generallystraightforward, you should still take into account any special recipes that canhelp you along the way, as discussed in our specialized guide below:

Leatherworking Specializations are divided into four disciplines, each with avarying number of sub-specializations within which can be unlocked as you put pointsinto their pre-requisite disciplines, akin to talent trees.

The best specialization for you depends on what your goals are: are you lookingto make the best leather or mail armor, profession gear, leg enchants, mass producingLeatherworking base materials efficiently, or creating Bows and Drums? Each treehas its own unique perks which can help you reach these goals.

Leatherworking Disciplineis all about reducing the amount of resources you need through Resourcefulness,empowering other crafts through added Inspiration and improving your generalcrafting abilities, especially for drums, leg enchants, profession gear and reagents.

We would recommend you to pick the Inspiration talents of the tree firstand foremost to enable early maximum quality crafting, followed by investment intowhatever type of items you want to specialize into producing.

The Leather Armortree is responsible for Leather armor crafting. There are two main branches:Shaped Leather Armor which focus on chests, helms, shoulders, and wrists, andEmbroidered Leather Armor which focuses on legs, gloves, belts, and boots.

The Mail Armor treeis responsible for Mail armor crafting. There are two main branches: LargeMail which focus on chests, helms, shoulders, and wrists, and Intricate Mailwhich focuses on legs, gloves, belts, and boots.

PrimordialLeatherworking enables and improves the crafting of gear with special effects,such as Acidic Hailstone Treads, and also of optional reagents that improvethis type of gear, such as Toxified Armor Patch.

You can also learn how to craft the Bow of the Dragon Hunters with theBestial Primacy tree.

Leatherworking allows you to convert cheap leathers and scales into expensivegear, leg enchants, and other crafts. High-end gear pieces are likely to fetch agood price in the Crafting Orders system, which you can learn more detailsabout in the specialized guide below:

While commodities sold on the auction house are less likely to go as high inprice, they can be mass produced and sold for good profits over time.

We have a specialized guide for Dragonflight goldmaking below, which containsa goldmaking tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successfulgold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!