Skill tiers
note: Classic Era 1.12 baseline; Forever has Legacy Challenges at 150/225/300 which matches these breakpoints, but Forever trainer level requirements are unpublished. tiers: rank: Apprentice; skill_range: 1-75; min_char_level: 5; rank: Journeyman; skill_range: 75-150; min_char_level: 10; rank: Expert; skill_range: 150-225; min_char_level: 20; rank: Artisan; skill_range: 225-300; min_char_level: 35 forever_legacy_challenges: Profession skill 150 / 225 / 300 each award 1 Legacy Point (Icy Veins names them Novice/Experienced/Master; fan sites say Journeyman/Expert/Artisan <Profession>) confidence: Classic-baseline (tiers); Reported (Forever Legacy milestones)
Forever changes
• Campsite object: Tanning Rack - required for more advanced Leatherworking recipes (Official); other 2 objects unknown • Community demo perk transcription (Reported): 'Armor Kits' improving leather and mail gear (Zockify: temporary bracer buffs); 'Must Go Faster' - mounted speed increased (Zockify: saddles, up to 5% at max level); new patterns emphasizing Dragonscale and Elemental sets; new bags • Biome-specific leather items exist, e.g. Wintersaber Hide Lined Gloves with 6% mount speed in Winterspring (Reported, Method itemization article - not confirmed as LW-crafted) • No LW recipes were listed on the Three Corners ACA vendor (Reported) • [General] Part of 600+ new recipes across professions and level ranges (Official) • [General] 3 campsite objects per profession, first learnable at skill 20 from trainers or camping NPCs (Official for concept/skill 20) • [General] Advanced Blueprint recipes drop from specific dungeon bosses; boss-to-blueprint tables unpublished (Official) • [General] Profession Certification item requiring 300 skill grants a unique title; sold by Azeroth Commerce Authority (Alliance) / Durotar Supply and Logistics (Horde) vendors at Three Corners, Redridge (Reported, Warcraft Tavern from demo) • [General] Legacy Challenges: 1 Legacy Point each at skill 150/225/300 (Reported) • [Sept 28 research] 289 new recipes added — the largest recipe expansion of any profession (Reported, single aggregator source Zockify; order-of-magnitude plausible given Leatherworking covers the most armor slots/types but not independently corroborated). • [Sept 28 research] Campsite object line: Camp Tent -> Tanning Rack -> Sewing Machine (Confirmed via Warcraft Tavern professions table; Tanning Rack also independently confirmed via the separate Warcraft Tavern camping article as required for new advanced Leatherworking recipes). • [Sept 28 research] Perk: No Leatherworking-specific Legacy perk found beyond the general Bountiful Harvest (applies to Skinning, the gathering side, not Leatherworking crafting itself). • [Sept 28 research] Druid note: High relevance: Leatherworking crafts leather/mail armor which Druids can wear, and pairs naturally with Skinning as the matching gathering profession — a very common and practical Druid profession pairing across all WoW eras (Reported/Confirmed as general profession pairing logic, not a Forever-specific new mechanic). • [Sept 28 research] Specializations Dragonscale (mail), Elemental and Tribal reportedly kept at skill 225 / level 40 (Reported, Zockify only). • [Sept 28 research] Alliance ACA Leatherworking vendor Daniel Stitchsong at Three Corners, Redridge sells about 81 patterns: skill 60-125 for 30 Merchant's Favor, 175-235 for 60-90, 250 for 90; Leatherworking Certification (1,000 Favor, skill 300) gives the title 'the Leatherworker' (Confirmed). This supersedes the earlier note that no LW recipes were on the Three Corners vendor. • [Sept 28 research] Mail caster/healer pieces: Skycaller's (spell damage/healing, Int, Sta), Mender's (healing-leaning), Skirmisher's (adds Strength) - shoulders 210, bracers 225, boots 235, belt 250 (Reported). Leather caster sets Wisdom's, Totemic and Stormrider's run skill 60-125 (Reported). • [Sept 28 research] Mystic Rugged Armor Kit adds spell power and needs a Classic Rugged Armor Kit as a reagent; mounted-speed saddle up to 5% at max level (Reported, Zockify). • [Sept 28 research] Leather can be bought from the Auction House or an alt, so Leatherworking does not require Skinning (Reported).
Key products
• Leather/mail armor (Classic: Devilsaur set, Black Dragonscale, Onyxia Scale Cloak) • Armor kits (Classic-baseline + Reported Forever version) • Bags incl. quivers/ammo pouches (Classic-baseline) • Saddles/mount speed (Reported) • Tanning Rack (dual role: camp buff object AND a crafting-station requirement for advanced recipes — Confirmed, cross-referenced across two Warcraft Tavern articles). • Sewing Machine (top camp tier) reported to function as a rested-XP-granting object — Reported, single source.
Trainers
horde: Orgrimmar: Karolek; Thunder Bluff: Una; Undercity: Arthur Moore alliance: Stormwind: Simon Tanner; Ironforge: Fimble Finespindle; Darnassus: Telonis artisan: Hahrana Ironhide - Camp Mojache, Feralas; Drakk Stonehand - Aerie Peak, The Hinterlands note: Artisan per Wowhead Classic/SoD article; city names Classic-baseline from memory
Specializations
Classic_baseline: Skill 225 / level 40 (Classic-baseline): Dragonscale (mail) - Peter Galen, Azshara (A) / Thorkaf Dragoneye, Badlands (H); Elemental (leather agi + resist) - Sarah Tanner, Searing Gorge (A) / Brumn Winterhoof, Arathi Highlands (H); Tribal (leather int/agi) - Pratt McGrubben, Feathermoon (A) / Jangdor Swiftstrider, Camp Mojache (H) forever: Fan transcriptions mention Dragonscale and Elemental sets; Tribal not mentioned (Reported/Unknown)