What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?

10.4kg in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 209 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 10.4kg.

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 · Shadowlands Leatherworking · EU · prices as of 17:31 UTC

Leatherworking leveling 1 → 203 · Shadowlands Leatherworking

10.4kg in reagents over about 209 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 10.4kg.

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

Korthite Crystal×34801

4,176

×34804,176

Heavy Desolate Leather×13982

Desolate Leather×82024

196

×820196

Progenitor Essentia×251

Heavy Callous Hide×64

×629

Lightless Silk×5529

×5515

Total10,414

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 82

Orange→Yellow

Heavy Desolate Leather

trainer

About 82 crafts.196

per skill point2

Desolate Leather×820

Step 2 · Skill 82 → 92

Orange→Yellow

Comfortable Rider's Barding

trainer

About 11 crafts.37

per skill point3

Callous Hide×22

Lightless Silk×55

Step 3 · Skill 92 → 100

Orange

Shadowscale Greaves

trainer

About 3 crafts.67

per skill point8

Heavy Callous Hide×3

Pallid Bone×21

Heavy Desolate Leather×18

Step 4 · Skill 100 → 115

Orange→Green

Drums of Deathly Ferocity

trainer

About 25 crafts.450

per skill point30

Heavy Desolate Leather×75

Pallid Bone×75

Penumbra Thread×25

Step 5 · Skill 115 → 202

Orange

Vestige of Origins

trainer

About 87 crafts.9,509

per skill point109

Heavy Desolate Leather×1305

Callous Hide×1305

Pallid Bone×6090

Korthite Crystal×3480

Step 6 · Skill 202 → 203

Orange

Vestige of the Eternal

trainer

About 1 crafts.152

per skill point152

Protogenic Pelt×40

Heavy Callous Hide×3

Progenitor Essentia×2

Skill 203 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Comfortable Rider's Barding111

1111

Drums of Deathly Ferocity2525

256

Shadowscale Greaves398

Heavy Desolate Leather8212

829

Vestige of Origins871

8787

Vestige of the Eternal11

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

Back in your pocket10,394

What's worth crafting with Leatherworking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?: 10.4kg in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 209 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 10.4kg.
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.