What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?

904g in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 375 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 891g.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:31 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Classic Leatherworking · EU · prices as of 17:31 UTC

Leatherworking leveling 1 → 340 · Classic Leatherworking

904g in reagents over about 375 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 891g.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Total904

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 255

Orange→Yellow

Cured Rugged Hide

trainer

About 256 crafts.340

per skill point1

Rugged Hide×256

Deeprock Salt×256

Step 2 · Skill 255 → 340

Orange→Green

Molten Belt

needs the recipe item

About 119 crafts.564

per skill point6

Fiery Core×238

Lava Core×238

Core Leather×238

Skill 340 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Cured Rugged Hide2565

25612

Molten Belt11933

11939

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket891

What's worth crafting with Leatherworking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?: 904g in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 375 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 891g.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:31 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.