What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?

254g in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 80 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 242g.

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 19:57 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 · Pandaria Leatherworking · US · prices as of 19:57 UTC

Leatherworking leveling 1 → 75 · Pandaria Leatherworking

254g in reagents over about 80 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 242g.

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

Mist-Touched Leather×62840

Total254

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 3

Yellow

needs the recipe item

About 25 crafts.120

per skill point4

Mist-Touched Leather×300

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Misthide Bracers3015

304

Contender's Leather Bracers2515

253

Sha Armor Kit721

Misthide Chestguard515

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

Back in your pocket242

What's worth crafting with Leatherworking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?: 254g in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 80 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 242g.
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 19:57 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.