Leatherworking – The War Within

Hey Gaming Heroes! In this guide we’ll go over Leatherworker in The War Within, how it works, and how you can make gold with it!

Pro Tip before we start: If your character is Kul’Tiran, you’ll get the Jack of All Trades buff which is great for crafting in general!

Leatherworking Trainer

Starting at character level 68, you can learn Khaz Algar Leatherworking from the following trainers in Dornogal:

Marbb – located in Dornogal at coordinates /way 55.2 68.4

If you’re having trouble locating the trainer, don’t hesitate to ask a city guard for directions.

Materials You’ll Be Using

Click for a list of materials you’ll be using for Leatherworking in the War Within.

Sold by NPC

Mosswool Thread

Other

Profaned Tinderbox

From Alchemy

From herbalism & mining

Production reagents

From Skinning

Craft materials

From Blacksmithing

Ringing Deeps Ingot

Leatherworking Equipment

For each crafting and gathering profession, there is one tool and two accessories slots. They’ll give you additional stats that will be much welcome!

There are two variants of each tool and accessories. You can already create a version with level 68 and buy or sell in the auction house. You can create the significantly better version yourself, depending on your profession, or purchase it through the craft order system from other players. You must be level 80 for use.

You can craft one of your accessories yourself:

Your tool and second accessory all come from Blacksmithing

Proficient Leatherworker’s Knife

Artisan Leatherworker’s Knife

Leatherworking Bag

This is a new thing in the War Within, you get really cool profession specific bags that give you bonuses when crafting! The one for Leatherworking is Hideshaper’s Workbag, you can get it through work orders.

Leveling Leatherworking

Here’s how to go from 1 to 100 skill points in TWW Leatherworking:

(you’ll need about 555-645x Stormcharged Leather, 255x Gloom Chitin, 3x Viridescent Spores, 11-14x Thunderous Hide and 3x Sunless Carapace to get to level 67)

1-4

1x Tracker’s Chitin Cuffs

4-10

2x Spelunker’s Leather Bands

10-13

1x Spelunker’s Leather Footpads

13-16

1x Tracker’s Chitin Galoshes

16-19

1x Spelunker’s Leather Jerkin

19-22

1x Tracker’s Chitin Hauberk

22-28

2x Spelunker’s Practiced Sash

28-31

1x Tracker’s Toughened Girdle

31-34

1x Spelunker’s Practiced Mitts

34-37

1x Tracker’s Toughened Handguards

37-40

1x Gemcutter’s Apron

40-43

1x Steelsmith’s Apron

43-46

1x Apothecary’s Cap

46-49

1x Tracker’s Toughened Links

49-52

1x Spelunker’s Practiced Britches

52-55

1x Tracker’s Toughened Headgear

55-67

8-11x Spelunker’s Practiced Hat

Past this point things will get a bit slower. You’ll need to gain knowledge points to then unlock new recipes and then craft those for skill points. Every new recipe gives you knowledge points on the first craft, so make sure to do that as often as possible!

Specializations

Once your leatherworking skill reaches 25, you’ll unlock specializations. It’s important to carefully review these options and choose the path that aligns with your goals. To unlock the second specialization, you’ll need a skill level of 50, for the third, a skill level of 65, and the final one will unlock at skill level 75.

If you aim to unlock all specializations, be prepared to invest a total of 800 knowledge points.

By investing knowledge points in the various specialization trees, you’ll increase your skill in that category by 1 point per knowledge point. The higher your skill, the better your yield. Additionally, every 5 knowledge points unlock additional attributes!

Learned Leatherworker

This specialization is about improving your leatherworking in all points.

The main spec will increase your resourcefulness and ingenuity, reduce how much concentration you use and make leatherworking faster.

Then you have three subspecs: Waste Not is great for increasing resourcefulness (i.e using less materials), Commanding Concentration is for increasing your Ingenuity and reducing how much concentration you use, while the final subspec Industrious Innovations is great for reagent crafting as it will boost your Multicraft.

Luxurious Leathers

This spec is for Leather crafting. You’ll be able to specialize in the specific type of gear that you want to craft, or you could just go for a more general build if you want to do something more casual.

You can activate the following plans:

Concrete Chitin

This is similar to the previous spec except it is for crafting Mail gear.

You can activate the following plans:

Flawless Fortes

With this spec you’ll learn a LOT of cool stuff. Let’s go over all 5 subspecs:

Arathi Armorer – teaches Blessed Weapon Grip crafting and gives you buffs when crafting Arathi gear.
Nerubian Nous – teaches Writhing Armor Banding crafting and gives you buffs when crafting Nerubian gear.
Beastly Bulwarks – teaches Weathered Stormfront Vest and Smoldering Pollen Hauberk crafting and gives you buffs when crafting beast items.
Epic Ensembles – gives you buffs when crafting profession gear.
Spotless Stitching – great for reagent and armor kit crafting.

Knowledge Points

Unique knowledge points

In the crafting professions, the first production of an object grants a point of knowledge, which is why you should at least produce each recipe.

From the master of the craftsman consortium
Lyrendal Dornogal /way 59.82 56.40
For Artisan’s Acuity you can buy these items (they’ll give you tons of knowledge points)
When reaching a certain level of reputation
Void-Lit Leatherworking Notes – needs level 14 renown with the Arathi
Sold by Auralia Steelstrike in Mereldar for 1625 Resonance Crystals
/way 41.2 53.0

Weekly knowledge points

Profession Quest in Dornogal
Once a week,you’ll be able to pickup the Quest Leatherworking Services Requested, you will get two knowledge points. To activate these, the quest of Roldira needs to be completed.
NPC orders
At your job table, you now have jobs from NPCs (customers). Look out for Flicker of Leatherworking Knowledge and Glimmer of Leatherworking Knowledge!
From the inscription customer via crafts mission
Algari Treatise on Leatherworking: An object that the scribes can produce for you by means of a crafting order and which you can use once a week.
Knowledge from boxes in the world
According to rumors, there are two items for each manufacturing profession, which can be found in boxes in each area, on a weekly basis. You grant 1-2 knowledge points per item. For leatherworking, the Sturdy Nerubian Carapace and Stone-Leather Swatch would be.

Monthly knowledge points

As usual, you can get some knowledge points from completing quests in the Darkmoon Faire.

Thank you for reading this guide!

August 24, 2024

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