Shadowlands profession previews: Leatherworking

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Today we continue our previews for SL professions. I have now finally gotten access to the SL beta so I can test things first hand!

Testing limitations

At the moment there aren’t any materials available easily in the beta, and I don’t really have the time to farm everything, so I can’t know everything. I haven’t had time to look up everything either, so we will be trusting the in-game unlearned tab to get an idea of what’s going on. 

Recipe types

The picture above shows the recipe categories for Leatherworking in Shadowlands. it’s a lot of categories, and quite a few different items. 

Leveling Leatherworking

The basic armor recipes you craft are the same ones you will want to make money with at max, but you can’t apply or even learn the crafter’s mark recipe at the beginning, and Crafter’s marks are BoP. This means you will most likely end up spending a significant amount of gold leveling your profession and it will be a while until you can start making it back. 

Crafted armor and weapons

Leatherworkers can craft two different sets of both mail and leathe armor. The higher level armor can take three optional reagents, whereas the uncommon one will only take crafter’s marks. I did not have time to farm materials to level my professions to compare the possibilities yet as there is no testing vendor for materials yet. 

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