What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?

11.4kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 205 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 11.4kg.

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 17:57 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 · Shadowlands Leatherworking · US · prices as of 17:57 UTC

Leatherworking leveling 1 → 203 · Shadowlands Leatherworking

11.4kg in reagents over about 205 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 11.4kg.

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

Progenitor Essentia×17650

8,886

×1768,886

Protogenic Pelt×352050

Desolate Leather×82020

164

×820164

Heavy Desolate Leather×1031

162

×103162

Heavy Callous Hide×26850

Total11,368

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 82

Orange→Yellow

Heavy Desolate Leather

trainer

About 82 crafts.164

per skill point2

Desolate Leather×820

Step 2 · Skill 82 → 85

Orange

Shadowscale Helm

trainer

About 1 crafts.9

per skill point3

Callous Hide×5

Pallid Bone×7

Heavy Desolate Leather×4

Step 3 · Skill 85 → 90

Orange

Comfortable Rider's Barding

trainer

About 5 crafts.16

per skill point3

Callous Hide×10

Lightless Silk×25

Step 4 · Skill 90 → 100

Orange

Shadowscale Greaves

trainer

About 4 crafts.41

per skill point4

Heavy Callous Hide×4

Pallid Bone×28

Heavy Desolate Leather×24

Step 5 · Skill 100 → 115

Orange→Green

Drums of Deathly Ferocity

trainer

About 25 crafts.358

per skill point23

Heavy Desolate Leather×75

Pallid Bone×75

Penumbra Thread×25

Step 6 · Skill 115 → 203

Orange

Vestige of the Eternal

trainer

About 88 crafts.10,778

per skill point122

Protogenic Pelt×3520

Heavy Callous Hide×264

Progenitor Essentia×176

Skill 203 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Drums of Deathly Ferocity2525

256

Comfortable Rider's Barding51

Shadowscale Greaves498

Shadowscale Helm173

173

Heavy Desolate Leather8212

829

Vestige of the Eternal881

8888

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

Back in your pocket11,352

What's worth crafting with Leatherworking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Leatherworking right now?: 11.4kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 205 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 11.4kg.
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 17:57 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.