What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?

5.3kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 214 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 5.3kg. 87% of the route is priced

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 17:57 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 · Kul Tiran Leatherworking · US · prices as of 17:57 UTC

Leatherworking leveling 1 → 200 · Kul Tiran Leatherworking

5.3kg in reagents over about 214 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 5.3kg. 87% of the route is priced

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

Seabreeze Saddle Blanket×8430

Coarse Leather Barding×844

382

×84382

Blood-Stained Bone×29275

Amber Tanning Oil×862

×861

Total5,341

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 70

Orange→Green

Hardened Tempest Hide

trainer

About 86 crafts.9

per skill point13

Tempest Hide×86

Amber Tanning Oil×86

Step 2 · Skill 70 → 75

Yellow

Shimmerscale Pauldrons

trainer

About 7 crafts.89

per skill point17

Shimmerscale×56

Blood-Stained Bone×42

Step 3 · Skill 75 → 125

Orange→Yellow

Coarse Leather Barding

needs the recipe item

About 54 crafts.1,215

per skill point24

Coarse Leather×810

Step 4 · Skill 125 → 150

Orange

Drums of the Maelstrom

trainer

About 25 crafts.1,125

per skill point45

Coarse Leather×625

Blood-Stained Bone×250

Step 5 · Skill 150 → 175

Orange→Green

Comfortable Rider's Barding

trainer

About 42 crafts.2,902

per skill point116

Coarse Leather Barding×84

Seabreeze Saddle Blanket×84

Skill 175 → 200

No recipe in this expansion covers this stretch, so it is left out of the totals.

Skill 200 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Comfortable Rider's Barding421

4242

Coarse Leather Barding5437

5420

Drums of the Maelstrom2550

2512

Shimmerscale Pauldrons715

Hardened Tempest Hide861

8686

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

Back in your pocket5,265

What's worth crafting with Leatherworking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?: 5.3kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 214 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 5.3kg. 87% of the route is priced
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 17:57 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.