Warlords of Draenor Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1-100

By Wowhead Updated: 2025/12/02

WoD Leatherworking OverviewLeatherworking Leveling 1-100 for Warlords of DraenorDraenor Leatherworking

Leara Moonsilk, Stormshield, /way #622 52.0 42.6

Garm Gladestride, Warspear, /way #624 50.4 27.4

Secret of Draenor LeatherworkingRaw Beast HideLeatherworking 1-100 Shopping List

2375x Raw Beast Hide

600x Raw Beast Hide

Leveling Leatherworking 1-80Level 80Pattern: Leather Refurbishing Kit

Level

Recipe

Materials

1-2

1x Secrets of Draenor Leatherworking

5x Raw Beast Hide

2-80

79x Leather Refurbishing Kit

2375x Raw Beast Hide

Leveling Leatherworking 81-100

Level

Recipe

Materials

20x Leather Refurbishing Kit

600x Raw Beast Hide

WoD Leatherworking Notable ItemsLeatherworking MountDustmane DirewolfRiding HarnessPattern: Riding HarnessSecret of Draenor LeatherworkingBurnished LeatherSorcerous AirNote that this requires active Draenor Leatherworking (100) to use this mount.Profession Bags

Burnished Inscription Bag

Burnished Leather Bag

Burnished Mining Bag

The Tannery: Leatherworking Garrison BuildingThe Tannery Level 1Burnished Leather

Level 1: Allows the production of Leatherworking items and work orders. 7 total work orders.

Level 2: Allows followers with the Leatherworking trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. 14 total work orders.

Level 3: 21 total work orders and unlocks profession missions.

LeatherworkingThe Tannery Level 2

Shelly Hamby / Mulverick

Bruma Swiftstone / Ka'la

The Tannery Level 3Rush Order: The TanneryKill and CutThat's Some Bull

Comments

Comment by 1261445

High Elves are not part of the Alliance, so why do Alliance get High Elven tents? If anything, the Alliance should have Kaldorei, Night Elven tents.

Comment by Justible

Where are the Tauren tents? D:
Considering 90% of Thunder Bluff is basically "tents" this shouldn't be a thing that's missing.

Comment by wiresimpson

About time we get a mount to make very exited for expansion

Comment by Prunest

Such RP potential! We can finally live as the adventurers we are!

Comment by 1331558

The guide says that after completing a handful of quests, we get a scroll (Draenor Leatherworking) that allows us to level up our profession to 700.

For our alts that are less than level 90, would we be able to pop by a profession trainer to unlock the WoD tier, or do the toons have to be 90 and do the prerequisite quests?

Comment by 1042254

It reminds me of the old Final Fantasy games where you would use a tent to heal when you were far from an inn.

Comment by 1042254

The largest horde and alliance tents are nice but not the most efficient use of materials. Check it out bro! I chopped down nine trees to make this tent. Now I'm gonna take a 10 second nap then throw the thing away. Save the planet bro!

Comment by AkimboYojimbo

Having misheard Olivia about the Leatherworking mount, I don't know that I can express my disappointment that we are not going to learn how to make a tanned wolf mount.

Comment by Dbase

Check the Orc Male in the viewer. He's got his own style for wearing the helms.

Comment by Araxu

Does anyone know how long the tents will last before they fade away? I'd love it to death if they lasted a while for roleplaying purposes, but at the same time.. All I can envision is people cramming these all over the place for spammy griefer purposes hahah!

Comment by 1350262

"If you select the Tannery without having Leatherworking, an NPC can craft Draenor Leatherworking recipes for you."

Does this mean, the npc can build everything and leatherworking is useless?

Comment by 1348730

We are already capable of making 36 slot bags for inscription, mining and leatherworking, are those going to disappear or are there more slots in the future bags.

Comment by 602893

so for professions, we can FINALLY create a whole outfit of gear to wear, instead of only 2 peices, but we are only allowed to wear 3 items max. FFS, whats the point in professions now?

Comment by rhostam

High elven alliance tents... I try to keep abreast of happenings... but it is interesting to me (not having read reasons other than those obvious).

Comment by chaea

can we re-use the tent ? or is it gone after we used it the first time?

Comment by Gianavel

Does the tent buff persist through death? Also, does it stack with other stat buffs? I'm guessing no, but one can hope.

Comment by DaltonImperial

Why (unless I'm just missing them) aren't there green/Uncommon craftable items (for just mats, not things with cooldowns) to help with leveling/gearing alts who are just starting Draenor? Things like Arctic Chestpiece helped my alts and gave me an incentive to level professions more so than getting max level gear.

Edit: The "Unique-Equipped: Warlords Crafted (3)" isn't on the rare BoPs for Level 92, 95, and 98, so I'm pretty sure I can answer my own question about whether the item limit applied to those items with "no."

Comment by nurseferatu

I admit to being a bit puzzled about the 36 slot bags.
With the new bank tab, there is no reason to haul around huge bags of crafting mats anymore.
You drop them all in the bank at your garrison and can craft without ever removing them from the bank.
There are going to be a vanishingly small number of people who will want profession specific bags unless I am missing something?

Comment by 234707

So no more leg enhancements huh, was a nice little g cash cow.

Comment by madar222

How this tents works? Are they usable on raids? You have to use one before every boss try? Seems a bit expensive to that.

Comment by 570044

Engineering vs Leatherworking, which one should I take before I boost my hunter? I mostly do PVE and PVP sometimes.

Comment by sushibar

The profession bags are completely pointless now, with the 200 reagent stacks.

An existing 28 slot bag will hold 5600 reagent items, far more than any person is likely to collect in one session

A 36 slot profession bag will hold 7200 reagents, and nothing else. The only gatherers that might benefit from the profession bags are bots that gather 24 hours a day..

Comment by Skaoi

Reference for all crafted items which have <Random Enchantment> on them:

<Random Enchantment> (...of the...) = Stat 1 + Stat 2

Aurora = Haste + Versatility
Deft = Haste + Multistrike
Feverflare = Haste + Mastery
Fireflash = Crit + Haste
Harmonious = Mastery + Versatility
Merciless = Mastery + Multistrike
Peerless = Crit + Mastery
Quickblade = Crit + Versatility
Savage = Crit + Multistrike
Strategist = Multistrike + Versatility

Comment by sivla

the system is deeply flawed.

If you arrive in draenor without leather working, which is quite likely. And you know nothing about the quest that eventually gives you a mob you kill to get the bag with both the tannery blue prints and draenor leatherworking, there is absolutely no know way of obtaining the tannery rank 1 blue prints at all.

There is this bizarre misconception that the dirty note can drop from any mob...it cannot. it drops from the voidwalker boss at the end of a chain quest in embarri village. If you do not have this profession at the time you kill the quest mob, you are quite literally screwed...with no known way to to do anything about it.

I always knew the professions where going to be even worse in this expansion, but this is braindead retarded what the developers have done!

If you need to buy the draenor leather working plans in stormshield, then it more than reasonable to know you to also buy the tannery blue prints too, since you cannot get them from any drop apart from the voidwalker boss chain quest.

Even after picking up leatherworking and going back to hope and kill the elite despite the fact you have already done it, you won't get a thing.

There was some theory on waiting until your level 96 to upgrade your townhall to level 2...as far as i know i don't even have a townhall!

The Garrsion system is extremely poorly implemented indeed. If you where never invited to the beta, you will have no clue what anything does...how you go about getting stuff for it blah blah.

A tutorial would have sufficed, but lazy goits in califailure couldn't even be bothered to do that.

Now I am left with a useless garrison, no point in having something that is useless....i couldnt care less about the retarded missions you send the npc's on...its too star wars the old republic crap....at the the swtor companions bring back useful mats....

no point worrying about something that fails in a big way and this does that with bells on...

Comment by SeriesSix

100 Burnished Leather? Are they kidding! Its as bad as Blacksmithing.
Once again they are making any meaningful crafting pointless. Its much easier to run Heroics and get better gear a lot easier. Come one week the Raids are released making the crafting gear even more pointless.
Lower the crafting mat requirement by 80% and it becomes a viable alternative for alts to fill the gear gaps on the way to the raiding team/LFR.
They need to release a lot more transmog gear to make crafting worthwhile - similar to what they did to Blacksmithing briefly at the end of MOP.

Comment by derby31

It is nice to have an alternative method to get recipes for 36 slot profession bags. It means avoiding grinding old content like the Molten Front or endlessly crafting Magnificent Hide.

I still like to equip a profession bag when out and about as the profession bags also hold other items that aren't crafting reagents. It also means I don't have to keep visiting banks to drop off crafting reagents.

I'm sure the demand for these bags has reduced significantly on the AH due to the improvements in stack sizes and the reagent bank tab. But I'm glad these bag recipes have been added.

Comment by Draewind

In WoW professions we now buid items that can rival the raid drop items and are far better than the dungeon drop items. They start small and can be made bigger and bigger. They all are created with what is called a <Random Enchantment>. We even craft items to take another roll at the <Random Enchantment> on the gear. The random enchant includes 2 of the secondary stats (giving us a measurable chance or RNG). Items for the Back (cloak), neck, neck, finger(ring), weapon, and shield, have a greater number of possibilities than other armor items, because they can contain the secondary statistics of Bonus Armor and Spirit (fortunately they do not include the combination of both those statistics ;-).

All of the items have a name in the form of "<ItemName> of the <RandomEnchantComboName>". If you click on the <RandomEnchantComboName> link, it will take you to a chart with all the possible names and combinations. I wish I could add a picture here.

http://compuball.com/forum/WoWRandomEnchantment.png

Examples:
"Steelforged Shield of the Guileful" would have Critical Strike and Bonus Armor as the <Random Enchant>
"Truesteel Breastplate of the Harmonious" would have Mastery and Versatitility as the <Random Enchant>
(I think I threw up a little bit there)

Most Armor Items:
As we see from this graph, the number of possible <Random Enchantments> for most armor items will be 10. So, you have a 1 in 10 (1/10 or 10%) possibility of getting just the mixture of statistics you want.

Cloaks, Necks, Rings, Shields, Weapons:
These items have an additional 2 statisctics added to the normal 4. The added statistics, as mentioned earlier, are Bonus Armor and Spirit (Tank and Healer statistics, respectively). Fortunately there is no combination of both Bonus Armor and Spirit (ever here of teats on a boar hog?)

Only weapon types intended for a healing class will have the possibility of Spirit, and only weapon types intended for a tanking class will have Bonus Armor. Weapons intended for both, will have the same chances as all the jewelry, cloaks, and shields. So if it can be enchanted (by enchanting) or is a shield, it fits in this class of item.

So your chances of getting the perfect necklace with just the right two secondary statistics is 1 in 20 (1/20 or 5%). I am not certain whether Bonus Armor and Spirit have the same chance of being included. If they are given a single chance and then chosen between the two, then your chance for an item with perfect statistics not including Bonus Armor or Spirit would be 1 in 15 (1/15 or 6.67%).

I would list here all the values associated with the <Random Enchantments>, however they vary depending on the slot and material. They also vary with the level of the individual wearing or looking at them.

There you have it. All the possible names and combinations. All items of the same level contain the same amount of statistic, such as "54 Critical Strike" and I have not seen a crafted item with a double a statistic (only one statistic but twice the value).

EDIT: None of content, just spelling and highlighting.

Comment by 1410650

hi,
i am max skill at leatherworking (700) but when i make burnished leather it still produced 4 a day. do i miss something here ?

Comment by Papa63

Dont make a Tannery with a mage or warlock. You get intellect on the items in stead of agility. You cant choose the items. I thought I make a Tannery and I could make items with agility for my rogue and druid. But that isnt possible. So i have to rebuild another again

Comment by Xenophobiac

The buff from the tents does NOT work in raids.
Such a let-down.

Comment by Constrictors

For those wondering: when the item is made, it assigns the primary stat based on your current spec. Example, if you are a destro lock the primary stat will be Intellect, however, that is not the bound stat until equipped. You'll notice a greyed out alternate primary stat on the item description(Agility in the case of a mail piece). So if you mail it(or sell it) to a mail wearer, Agility will become the active primary stat when they mouse over it. That will not become permanent until the item is equipped and subsequently soulbound.

So if you're making it for an alt or a friend, don't panic when you see the primary stat for YOUR spec, it will change when traded/mailed to them.

Comment by 1432648

At the end of the guide in the 6.1 updates it says, and has a link to, the lv3 Gem Boutique as a requirement for the leather worker follower missions.

Comment by UlarnekIronclaw

The Elven tents are NOT faction specific, kind of misleading.

Comment by Azaram

How many secrets of leatherworking are necessary to buy all the recipes? The number of leather is nice, but it's easier to remember 'I need to make X books' than "Now I'm down to Y leather..."

Comment by BMHunterMain

Wish there were more on the tents here, seems like the best place for it, compared to one of the 20(?) individual tent pages ... I am pretty sure their buff is only +10% stats (despite it being called Well-Rested, there is no accompanying exp boost like you get from being well rested in the conventional sense, which is very confusing and makes me wonder why they didn't just call it something else).

As far as I can tell, you can't just sit in some random tent and get the buff, nor can you throw a tent down for randoms to grab the buff. If you are in a raid group or party with whoever made the tent, then maybe it'd work? But i don't know. All i know is I can put a tent down, sit in it, and get buffed, where I get no benefit from sitting in tents randoms have built.

Such a frustrating aspect of this game is that so much isn't intuitive at all, and so much stuff is neither intuitive nor easily figured out after months of playing and hours and hours of reading. It makes me wonder why they don't just start actually explaining how things work in tooltips, like if you can dedicate however much resources to making these tents (just as an example) the literally 10 minutes it'd take to have someone write a descriptive tooltip is nothing... It is like you either have to let the game consume your life, or you literally never know what is going on with anything.

Comment by lankybrit

In the Garrison Building: Leatherworking section, you mention the L3 Gem Boutique, when I'm sure you meant to mention the L3 Tannery.

Comment by sivla

Level 3 tannery does not give daily missions...despite the bs in the description

Comment by sivla

I hope that in the next expansion that all professions are removed. There is no need for them, never has been a need for then, and Tanaan clearly shows with a bit of effort one can get gear up to around 665 which is more then enough to get into heroic raids which will give you enough ilvl to get into mythic or later raids at 695 ilvl

it would be a dream come true in wow, if they did remove the professions (not fishing or first aid since you can use both to make health pots.)

But to confirm there are no daily tannery quests after upgrading to level 3.

Comment by SomeoneSneaky

Is it possible to buy the tents from a LW follower in another person's garrison? I have a friend who wanted to come to mine and pick some up for herself, but it wouldn't let her get any. Not sure if it's a bug or intended.

Comment by Mondoblasto

It appears that all tents are available for crafting now, but I did not look all that carefully at the list the last time I bought them pre-patch.

Comment by 1380249

~~I believe the guides all need to be updated. The work orders are all doubled since 6.2 in the production of the respective cooldown mats.~~ Strike that - guide seems to have been adjusted. Ty for all the work on the guides :)

Comment by UsedLemon45

Here's my question:
Should I be spending Primal Spirit on Burnished Leather, Sorcerous materials, or something else? I have over 200 Primals so I'm not sure what is the best option.
Note: I would like to craft Savage Burnished Essences because that are really expensive in the AH. Any advice?
I Have:
-Level 2 Barn
-Level 3 Tannery w/ Worker

Thanks!

Comment by bigunde

Sumptuous Fur & Raw Beast Hide Farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AWCEoyhcRw

Comment by kliao

Read the first couple parts and I now I don't even know where am I.

Why is this always so complicated?

I want an guide that goes:
1. Go <location>
2. Skin <mobs>
3. Craft <this> from <recipe> that is bought\looted from <location>.

That's it! And all this mumbo-jumbo is for Advanced Guide.

Comment by Esinar

Surprised no one has mentioned this... but if you want to know the absolute fastest way to get to 650 out of 700 and don't mind spending a few thousand gold then do this:

Learn Leatherworking,
Buy the 700-limit Draenor Leatherworking by visiting the vendor in Stormshield/Warspear,
Buy 1625 Raw Beast Hide from the Auction House (a stack of 200 went for about 400g on my realm),
Make 1 Secrets of Draenor Leatherworking,
Buy the Drums of Fury pattern from the vendor above,
Make 324 Drums of Fury (each gives 2 points until 650).

Takes about 20 minutes and cost me about 3.5k gold. Worth it to save hours and hours of farming IMO.

Comment by 1683999

Do you learn 700 item recipes & then upgrade the recipe or is it the item you make that a leather worker can then upgrade. Can other people upgrade it with something you give them. Basically How do I make 715 items for people?

Comment by floofwolfe

You now get the upgraded versions of the mail and leather armor by using Impressive Burnished Essence when crafting a piece, which is a BOP optional reagent crafted by Leatherworkers.

Warlords of Draenor Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1-100

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