Leatherworking Guide for Midnight

Leatherworking is still responsible for the creation of Leather and Mail armor, including Embellished gear with special effects, such as World Tender's Rootslippers. They also craft optional reagents, such as Blessed Pango Charm, reagents like Silvermoon Weapon Wrap, and new profession tools and accessories, such as Thalassian Alchemist's Mixcap.

It can also create House Decor and the Bloodlust alternative Void-Touched Drums, as well as leg enchants for Agility and Strength users, such as the Forest Hunter's Armor Kit.

Alliance players can be Kul'Tiran for +2 skill points, but that is as far as Leatherworking racial bonuses go.

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

Increasing your skill is done by crafting items that grant skill points as usual, and in order to be efficient, we recommend trying to get as many first-craft bonuses while leveling as possible, which also grant experience if you are not at maximum level.

Besides learning basic recipes from the trainer, you can also learn extra recipes beyond the profession trainer by buying them with Moxie from reputation vendors and the vendor next to the profession table in Silvermoon. These will grant more first crafts and can occasionally be the most efficient way to level in the later levels.

You will be able to track all weekly and one-time sources of profession knowledge with Myu's Knowledge Points Tracker, which has been converted to an addon in Midnight!

There are also eight treasures around the world that you can loot to gain up to 24 extra knowledge. You can find them all easily in-game with the aforementioned addon.

The best specialization for you depends on what your goals are, but no matter what specialization you choose, you will always want to complement it with the high general stat boosts of Learned Leatherworker and its sub-trees, which also increase the efficiency of your Concentration usage.

Leather gear crafters will want to go into the Lasting Leather tree to learn all the generic epic patterns, such as Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers and maximize their skill with them, while Mail gear crafters will go into the Safeguarding Scales tree instead, for recipes such as Farstrider's Razor Talons and extra skill when doing them.

Finally, the Flawless Fortes tree boosts skill and stats with the rest of your crafts and enables you to craft better profession gear, leg enchants, reagents, and optional reagents with its multiple sub-nodes.

Leatherworking allows you to convert cheap leathers and scales into expensive gear, leg enchants, and other crafts. High-end gear pieces are likely to fetch a good price in the Crafting Orders system, provided you can find customers willing to give good commission fees.

Until you fully max out skill, gear, and knowledge for your desired crafts, you will be reliant on Concentration to get maximum ranks out, which can quickly be exhausted every day, so make sure to create some alts to increase your production cap while it is still very profitable to do so! Even later on those can still be useful as they will be able to create maximum rank items more cheaply than the guaranteed method, which requires full maximum Rank reagents.

We have a specialized guide for Midnight gold-making below, which contains a gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!