WoW Leatherworking

eatherworking is a World of Warcraft profession that allows players to create items out of leather and other regeants. Most of these items can be traded with other players and sold on the auction house, while others are bind on pick up items which are very useful to certain classes. Players are able to specialize in different types of leatherworking, such as tribal, dragonscale, and elemental. The gear produced through each of these specializations is slightly different and geared towards characters of different classes and specializations. As leatherworkers level their leatherworking skill level up they are able to train formulas which create higher level desirable items. At high leatherworking skill levels players also have the ability to create epic gear.

There are many items that leatherworkers are able to create such as leather armor, mail armor, cloth backs, armor kits (which give stat increases to items), ammo pouches, quivers, and other neat items such as riding crops, drums, and throwing balls. Leatherworkers are also able to combine certain types of leather to create higher level types of leather. Leatherworkers often sell extra stacks of leather or items such as riding crops on the auction house to make themselves a little extra money.

The profession most commonly trained along with leatherworking is skinning. Skinning allows players to skin mobs for leather and hides, which are required for leatherworking formulas. Skinning is the support profession of leatherworking and although it's possible to obtain leather and hides from the auction house, if you are planning on becoming a leatherworker the best other profession to train is skinning.

Since most leatherworkers choose to use skinning to get the leather and hides for their leatherworking formulas leatherworkers often have to grind on mobs to get the supplies they need. Skinning for supplies can get to be very tedious and time consuming, so if you don't like the idea of grinding on mobs you may want to choose another profession.

Any race and class can become a leatherworker but the majority of classes that choose to train the profession are leather or mail wearing melee classes. This is due to the fact that the majority of the gear created by leatherworking is most suited towards these classes. If you don't mind training skinning and grinding on mobs to get your supplies and if you can wear the items created through leatherworking is a great profession to train.