Leatherworking Leveling Guide – Leatherworking Guide to 450
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Lawbringer under Efficiency Tips, General Tips, Gold Building, Leatherworking, PVE, PVP, Power Leveling, Powerleveling, Raiding, Skinning, Supply And Demand, Tips, Trade Skills, World of Warcraft, WotLKPowerleveling Leather Working From 1 to 450
Leatherworking is one of those professions that doesn’t get a whole lot of play. But it does have reasonable gold-making and toon buffing potential for your character – plus it’s not all that expensive to power level if you do it properly. Having a good Leatherworking Guide can certainly save you time and expense. The link above will take you all the way through the steps to do it cheaper and faster.
Primarily we recommend that you use professions that have the greatest benefit to your toon for end-game activities such as arena and raiding. The crafting professions are generally best for this but the list of professions with the best toon buffs combinations is fairly short.
You’ll see a lot of casters going with Tailoring and Enchanting, while mail and plate wearers tend to go with Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting for their min/max needs. It’s hard to beat those combinations for pure added power. However, if you already have those professions covered and need something different for balance Leatherworking isn’t a bad choice either.
The fur linings can actually outdo the extra gem slots from blacksmithing, even if you are slotting in the JC only gems. If Spell Power and Attack power fit your toon needs best, Leatherworking is a great choice.
The Leg armors and drums also have some decent profit potential from auction house sales. And considering there are probably far fewer Leatherworkers than Tailors on many servers it means that for the most part you can probably make more selling leg armors than threads. That’s not always the case on every server, but you might look into it.
Getting all the mats for leather working may be a little tough for power leveling, but if you know ahead of time what you need and have any patience at all at the ah you should be able to get it done without too much waiting and expense. Northrend mats should be plentiful, it’s the mid levels that might give you fits. A DK alt with skinning is just the ticket to solve that issue.
If you’re cheap, and don’t mind farming, skinning is a joke to level. If you skin your way through the mats list in our Leatherworking Guide, you’ll have no trouble making it through the rougher parts of the leatherworking mats. Plus, DK’s come with all the flight paths and and epic land mount to boot, so you don’t have to waste skinning on a main.
So while Leather working may not be your first choice, it’s certainly not a bad choice for an end-game profession. And if you’re using it for raiding you may very well end up with one of the new 264 ilevel gear recipes which are selling quite well in patch 3.3. As a matter of fact – I may just do JC/LW on my old druid. In the end leveling leatherworking is not all that hard and gives you a chance to Dominate in raids and at the AH.
Imba
Thx so much
My current LW moneymaker is the Mammoth Mining Bag, Can usually get the Heavy Borean at a reasonable price otherwise look at Borean Leather and create the Heavy. I sell 1-2 of these per week for roughly $25 profit. Another point for those that may have missed it, 10 Heavy Borean can buy you an Arctic Fur.