WoW Forever Leatherworking: Which New Recipes Make Gold (Nov 11)

Quick answer: The biggest batch of new WoW Forever Leatherworking recipes is gear you wear, not gear you sell. 78 of the 80 Azeroth Commerce Authority patterns you buy with Merchant's Favor are leveling gear, and all 76 we could load on Wowhead are Bind on Pickup. The money is in three places: the Salt Shaker cooldown (one Refined Deeprock Salt every 2 days 23 hours, which turns one Rugged Hide into two Cured Rugged Hides listed at a 40g US median each), the new Thick Armor Kits (about 30s margin each on a 50s craft), and the skill-300 BoE epics such as the Living Crown, which cost 434g in US mats and had no Auction House listings in our scan.

Last verified: Nov 11, 2026, 09:15 UTC against Wowhead's WoW Forever recipe and item database, Blizzard's Nov 10 hotfix notes and live Auction House data from AH Ledger (8 US and 8 EU markets).

Key takeaways

• 275 new recipes. Wowhead's Forever database marks 275 of its 521 Leatherworking recipes as new and 3 as changed.
• The Commerce Authority sets are for wearing, not selling. We loaded 76 of the 78 gear crafts on Wowhead, and all 76 are Bind on Pickup (required level 12 to 50). Blizzard's Nov 10 hotfix cut the vendor price of some BoP crafts it says were "intended to craft only once for themselves".
• Cured Rugged Hide is the bottleneck. 106 recipes use it, each craft needs one Refined Deeprock Salt from a Salt Shaker, and only 30 hides were listed across 3 US markets on Nov 11.
• The new armor kits are small margins. Forceful and Mystic Thick Armor Kits cost about 50s to make and were listed at an 85-89s US median.
• The 300 epics are a bet, not a business yet. A Living Crown costs 434g (US) or 338g (EU) in mats, and none of the new 300 crafts we checked was listed on any of the 16 markets we scanned.
• Raid-tier patterns wait for Dec 9. The Grovekeeper, Spiritcaller and Wildstalker's pieces need Malleable Essence of Nature, which its tooltip says comes from disenchanting Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps items.

What is new in WoW Forever Leatherworking?

Blizzard's BlizzCon Deep Dive recap says Forever adds more than 600 profession recipes. In Wowhead's Forever spell data, 275 of them are Leatherworking. They fall into six groups:

• Camping objects. The Camp Tent (skill 20, 5 Light Leather) raises the rested experience of everyone sitting nearby to 5% of a level when there is a campfire close by. The Tanning Rack is the second camp object. A Nov 6 hotfix lowered its requirement to 125 (it was 140) so it is no longer "an obstacle to crafting various Leatherworking patterns that require 125 skill"; Wowhead's data still shows 140. The Sewing Machine at 300 takes an Undeath Engine.
• Commerce Authority leveling sets. 80 patterns from skill 60 to 250 (gear sets plus two armor kits), bought with Merchant's Favor (30, 60 or 90 each).
• Upgraded armor kits. Forceful (attack power) and Mystic (spell power) versions of the Medium, Heavy, Thick and Rugged kits, plus a new Wild Leather Armor Kit at 300.
• New green gear. The Gustwoven and Windraveled pieces at 50-60 (plus head and shoulder pieces at 175), and Charged and Supple Scorpid, Blue Suede and Tooled Leather at 230-280.
• New blues at 285-295. The Bileblister, Hivethrasher's, Scalegut and Broodwatcher's hands, belts and boots, each taking 3 Enchanted Leather and 3 of one elemental essence.
• Skill-300 epics (required level 56 on the ones we checked). The Living Crown, Dawn Armor, Timbermaw Tunic, Pristine Scorpid Leggings, Black and Blue Dragonscale Helms, Red Dragonscale Leggings, Ironfeather Leggings and Warbear Helm, and the raid-tier sets.

If you have not picked your professions yet, start with our best professions to pick in WoW Forever. For the full leveling route, our WoW Forever Leatherworking calculator put 1-300 at about 193g on the US Alliance Auction House on Nov 11 (172g of reagents plus 20g 64s of training).

Can you sell the Azeroth Commerce Authority Leatherworking sets?

No. All 76 of the 78 gear crafts we could load on Wowhead are Bind on Pickup (the other 2 pages did not load). This is the biggest trap for new leatherworkers.

The Azeroth Commerce Authority (Alliance) and its Horde counterpart sell Leatherworking patterns for Merchant's Favor, the currency you earn by turning in supply crates. Wowhead lists the Leatherworking vendors as Daniel Stitchsong in Redridge Mountains and Pawani in The Barrens. The sets cover every leather and mail role: Brawler's, Defender's, Mender's, Prowler's, Skirmisher's, Skulker's, Skycaller's, Stalker's, Stormrider's, Totemic, Trapper's, Warden's and Wisdom's.

Craft (examples)	Skill	Required level	Binding	Pattern cost
Wisdom's Leather Belt	60	12	Bind on Pickup	30 Merchant's Favor
Brawler's Leather Hood	100	20	Bind on Pickup	30 Merchant's Favor
Mender's Leather Gloves	175	35	Bind on Pickup	60 Merchant's Favor
Mender's Mail Belt	250	50	Bind on Pickup	90 Merchant's Favor

Warcraft Tavern's Sept 17 article, written from BlizzCon demo footage, said these crafts were BoE. The live item data now says Bind on Pickup on all 76 we checked. On Nov 10 Blizzard also "reduced the price vendors pay for some crafted armor items from Leatherworking, Tailoring, and Blacksmithing", adding that "the adjusted items were all bind-on-pickup items that a player was intended to craft only once for themselves". So they cannot go on the Auction House, and if these sets are among the adjusted items, vendoring them now pays less too.

Use them the way Blizzard intended: as your own leveling gear, and as skill-ups. Most also need Pristine Leather or Pristine Hide, the new scarce skins. Both are cheap on the Auction House for now (Pristine Leather 17s and Pristine Hide 5s at the US median, with more than 3,000 of each listed).

Which new Leatherworking recipes make gold?

Prices are Nov 11 listing medians (the median of each market's median) across 8 US and 8 EU markets. Margin = listing median minus the 5% Auction House cut, minus mat cost, if it sells at that price. "Not listed" means none were for sale on any market we scanned.

Craft	Skill	Mat cost US / EU	Listing median US / EU	Margin per craft US / EU
Cured Rugged Hide x2 (with your own salt)	225	92s / 73s	39g 98s / 22g 77s each	75g / 43g
Forceful Thick Armor Kit	185	50s / 48s	85s / 70s	30s / 18s
Mystic Thick Armor Kit	185	54s / 48s	89s / 77s	30s / 25s
Light Leather Reagent Bag	30	7s / 6s	9s 50c / 8s	2s / 1s
Forceful Rugged Armor Kit	235	22g 67s / 19g 08s	not listed / 15g 01s	loss in the EU
Wild Leather Armor Kit	300	29g 51s / 68g 56s	not listed	unknown
Living Crown	300	434g / 338g	not listed	unknown
Pristine Scorpid Leggings	300	275g / 259g	not listed	unknown

Three things stand out.

The Salt Shaker is the best margin we found. The Salt Shaker is made by engineers (Engineering 250) and needs 250 Leatherworking to use. It was listed at 14g in the US (22 listed) and 13g in the EU (69 listed). It turns one Deeprock Salt (under 3s on the Auction House) into one Refined Deeprock Salt every 2 days 23 hours. That salt plus a Rugged Hide (89s US) makes two Cured Rugged Hides, a reagent in 106 recipes. At the US median, two hides come to about 76g after the cut. Refined Deeprock Salt itself was listed at about 52g in the US, but only 5 were for sale, so treat that as a few asking prices. The hide market is thin too: 30 hides were listed across 3 US markets and 33 across 4 EU markets, so a few crafts can move the price. One Salt Shaker per leatherworker means two hides about every three days, a good job for an alt with Leatherworking.

The Thick Armor Kits are the volume play. The Forceful pattern costs 60 Merchant's Favor from the Commerce Authority. At 185, a Thick Armor Kit and 2 Vision Dust plus 2 Mana Potions (Mystic) or 2 Elixirs of Ogre Strength (Forceful) make a kit listed at 85-89s in the US. Around 30s a craft is not much, and more than 150 of each were listed, so check how fast they move on your market. The Medium and Heavy versions were listed at 11-29s in the US and are mostly skill-ups.

The Rugged kits do not pay yet. The Mystic Rugged kit had no listings on any market, and the Forceful one loses money where it does sell. Both need a Fel Hide (17g 50s US median, only 26 listed) and a Pristine Scale. The only Forceful Rugged kits listed were 6 on one EU market at 15g, below the 19g they cost to make there. The Mystic pattern also needs Honored with the Commerce Authority and 90 Merchant's Favor.

Is the Living Crown worth crafting?

Not to sell this week. The Living Crown is a BoE head piece (Required level 56, +18 Intellect, +14 Spirit, up to 73 healing) that takes 20 Rugged Leather, 20 Living Essence, 20 Essence of Water, 10 Pristine Scale, 4 Cured Rugged Hide, 10 Rune Thread and 20 Fel Leather.

Living Crown mat cost by reagent, Nov 11. Source: timesaver.gg from AH Ledger data.

At Nov 11 medians that is 434g in the US and 338g in the EU. The four Cured Rugged Hides alone are 160g in the US, and the Essence of Water is 133-138g. None of the new 300 crafts we checked (Living Crown, Dawn Armor, Timbermaw Tunic, Pristine Scorpid Leggings, Wild Leather Armor Kit) was listed on any of the 16 markets, and Wowhead has no source recorded for their patterns yet. The Living Crown and Pristine Scorpid Leggings patterns are not Bind on Pickup, so they can be traded once they turn up.

If you farm your own mats, you spend less gold, though the mats could still have been sold. Our guides to the Essence of Water farm and the Living Essence farm show where those two drop. If you are a Druid healer, its +73 healing makes a self-made Living Crown worth considering for yourself. Just do not count on selling one for a profit until a price appears.

The new blues at 285-295 follow the same pattern. The Bileblister Claws pattern needs Friendly with the Cenarion Circle, and the Claws (Required level 53, +19 Stamina, +11 Intellect, +5 Nature Resistance) cost about 46g in the US because of the 3 Essence of Air, and none were listed. See our Essence of Air and Earth guide and the Essence of Fire guide for the other essences.

What should leatherworkers stockpile before raids open on Dec 9?

Fel Leather. Every raid-tier Leatherworking piece (Grovekeeper, Spiritcaller, Wildstalker's, Grimstitch) takes 18-24 Fel Leather, and the Wild Leather Armor Kit takes 22. It was 1g 25s at the US median with 416 listed, and 3g 02s in the EU. Wowhead has no source recorded for it yet.

Cured Rugged Hide. The raid sets take 2-4 each, on top of the 300 epics. If you have a Salt Shaker, start the cooldown now.

Do not buy Malleable Essence of Nature early. It is the other raid-tier reagent, and its tooltip says it is "acquired from disenchanting items from Hyjal Summit or Barrow Deeps". Both raids open on Dec 9, so supply should only appear after that. The tier patterns we checked also cost 6 Malleable Essence each. The Grovekeeper Trousers we checked are BoE but class-locked (Druid) and Unique-Equipped as Artisan's Tier.

How do you get the Leatherworker title?

Buy the Leatherworking Certification from the Commerce Authority vendor for 1,000 Merchant's Favor at 300 skill. It unlocks "the Leatherworker" for every character on your account, but a character needs 300 Leatherworking to show it. You also earn one Legacy Point each the first time you reach 150, 225 and 300 Leatherworking, per Wowhead's guide. Our Legacy system explainer covers how to spend them. Spend your Favor on the patterns you need first, because 1,000 is a lot of crates.

How do you make Leatherworking pay?

• Pair it with Skinning. You skin the Light, Medium, Heavy and Thick Leather for the leveling crafts, and Rugged Hide for the hides. Our skinning gold guide shows when to sell skins instead.
• Run a Salt Shaker on every leatherworker. It is the one Leatherworking cooldown with a real margin right now; buy it from an engineer or the Auction House.
• Sell Thick Armor Kits in batches. Check the market first; at 30s each a crash wipes out the margin.
• Ignore Pristine Scale vendor prices. The Gadgetzan-faction vendor Mister Graphed sells it for 52g 63s each, while the Auction House median was 2g 20s with 560 listed.
• Track your prices. See the WoW Forever gold farming guide, the launch-week Auction House report and the WoW Forever gold price today.

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FAQ

Is Leatherworking good for gold in WoW Forever? Yes, but not through the new leveling sets. On Nov 11 the best margins we found were the Salt Shaker cooldown (two Cured Rugged Hides per salt, 40g US listing median each) and the new Thick Armor Kits (about 30s each). The 76 Commerce Authority gear crafts we checked are all Bind on Pickup.

How many new Leatherworking recipes are in WoW Forever? Wowhead's Forever database marks 275 Leatherworking recipes as new and 3 as changed, out of 521 in total.

Are the WoW Forever Commerce Authority leather sets BoE? No. All 76 of the 78 gear crafts we could load on Wowhead's live Forever data are Bind on Pickup, and Blizzard's Nov 10 hotfix describes the crafts whose vendor price it cut as bind-on-pickup items "intended to craft only once for themselves". Early beta coverage that called them BoE is out of date.

What does the Leatherworking Tanning Rack do in WoW Forever? It is a Leatherworking camp object that some patterns need nearby. Since the Nov 6 hotfix you can make it at 125 skill (it was 140). It takes 5 Medium Leather, 3 Fine Thread and 2 Simple Wood.

How much does it cost to level Leatherworking 1-300 in WoW Forever? About 193g on the US Alliance Auction House on Nov 11, 2026 (172g of reagents and 20g 64s of training), per our Leatherworking calculator.

What is the new Wild Leather Armor Kit? A Leatherworking 300 kit that adds 4 Defense to a chest, legs, hands or feet item, usable from level 60. It takes 22 Fel Leather and 3 Rune Thread, about 30g in the US. Its pattern is Bind on Pickup, and Wowhead has no source for it yet.

How much does a Living Crown cost to craft in WoW Forever? About 434g in US mats and 338g in EU mats at Nov 11 Auction House medians. Four Cured Rugged Hides and 20 Essence of Water are most of the cost.