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Borean Leather

Item Level 20
Trade Goods
Sell price: 22 silver50 copper
Current price 3 gold65 silver
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All-Time typical 3 gold79 silver
Around typicalFlat over 7 days
EU Region (Commodity) Leather
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1061508+114via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This is a favorite spot of mine that requires a high lvl character.

Location: The Oculus (located in the Borean Tundra right on top of the Nexus entrance and below the raid entrance for the Eye of Eternity)

Where to farm: The oculus is made up of what I call tiers/levels and where you want to farm is on the very first tier there are lots of dragonkin, both whelps and the full grown.

My recommended tactic: A requirement for this to be the best spot you've ever encountered is that you are at least lvl 85 and well equipped if you're like me and lvl 90 it's a cake walk.

Enter the instance and if you're not mounted, mount up and run through all the mobs of dragonkin pulling the whole tiers worth of mobs. Run to the end where there are three of the large dragonkin standing near a blackish light anomaly which ports you to the next platform. Pull those three and back track a little bit. Put out your AoEs and they drop like flies. With the newish AoE looting this is the best place by far to farm Borean Leather. Skin all the corpses and head back to the dungeon entrance, port out, reset, and go back in.

In one run which takes no more than five minutes as a 90 I get between 34-43 leather per run. And please, for those of you that read this and see how awesome it is, please don't post this all over the internet as it will most likely be nerfed to oblivion if Blizzards hears too much of it =D Cheers!

***UPDATE***
12/13/2014 For some reason the Heroic Difficulty has been nerfed really badly. I only got 8 leather on heroic but normal, which you can reset unlike heroic, still gave me 31 leather from one pull.

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redraven937+81via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

As a kind of compendium of the suggestions for leather farming:

Source 1: Dragon mobs in Violet Hold.
Pros: If you are the only skinner, you can get some easy stacks from just skinning the elites.
Cons: Finding a group for heroics.

Source 2: Cavedweller Worgs
Pros: Low-HP, spawns in pairs, Jormungar worms also spawn in the area. Also getting Worm Meat and Worg Haunch.
Cons: You end up very deep in a cave, sometimes the Jormugar worms damage the wolves to the point where you can't loot them.

Source 3: Gorillas in Sholazar Basin.
Pros: 3-4 good groups of mostly neutral apes, easy and safe to AoE down.
Cons: Highly annoying vendor trash, can sometimes get a lot of competition.

Source 4: Gundrak Raptors
Pros: Each time you skin them, you get 1-3 pieces of leather instead of just one. Also chance of getting rare pet.
Cons: Relatively spread out, cannot really group them up.

Source 5: Enraged Mammoths
Pros: By the time you make one circuit, they will have respawned at the start. Also getting Chunk o' Mammoth (sometimes dropping 2 at a time).
Cons: Technically a questing mob, sometimes humanoid pats will get in your way.

Personally, I pick the source depending on what else drops that I want at the time. If I want to refresh my stock of Worg Tartare, then I will hit up the caves. If I want to make some coin selling Chunk o Mammoth, I will farm the Mammoths. And so on.

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188626+58via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

An alternative to the Cavedweller Worgs, I found the gorillas in the Sholazar Basin to be wonderful. As a feral druid, i run into the packs and use demo shout, becuase they are not hostile mobs, so i can get the aggro. They I just spam Maul/Swipe and take them down. The Cords of the places I farm are:

66,78 64,75 61,71 56,75

You probably won't need to travel to all of these the respawn time is really quick.

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Borean Leather Price History

EU Region (Commodity)

Borean Leather is listed at 3 gold65 silver in the latest EU region commodity Auction House snapshot, in line with its typical price of 3 gold79 silver. Across its tracked history (Sep 2022 to Jul 2026) it has ranged from 1 gold75 silver to 13 gold8 silver. About 13,923 were available in the latest snapshot.

The current lowest price is around its All-Time typical of 3 gold79 silver.

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Borean Leather Game Data

Crafted By

Borean Leather

The recipe Borean Leather takes 4 Borean Leather Scraps.

Borean Leather Northrend Leatherworking

The Northrend Leatherworking recipe Borean Leather takes 5 Borean Leather Scraps.

Used In

The 25 recipes below use Borean Leather, all from Northrend Leatherworking. The largest single use is 16 for Cloak of Harsh Winds.

CreatesRecipeProfessionNeeds
Cloak of Harsh WindsRare Cloth Back, item level 34. Also takes 4 Crystallized Air.Cloak of Harsh WindsNorthrend Leatherworking16
Arctic HelmUncommon Leather Head, item level 33.Arctic HelmNorthrend Leatherworking14
Frostscale HelmUncommon Mail Head, item level 33.Frostscale HelmNorthrend Leatherworking14
Iceborne HelmUncommon Leather Head, item level 33.Iceborne HelmNorthrend Leatherworking14
Arctic ChestpieceUncommon Leather Chest, item level 32.Arctic ChestpieceNorthrend Leatherworking12
Arctic LeggingsUncommon Leather Legs, item level 33.Arctic LeggingsNorthrend Leatherworking12
Arctic WristguardsUncommon Leather Wrist, item level 33.Arctic WristguardsNorthrend Leatherworking12
Frostscale BracersUncommon Mail Wrist, item level 33.Frostscale BracersNorthrend Leatherworking12
Frostscale ChestguardUncommon Mail Chest, item level 32.Frostscale ChestguardNorthrend Leatherworking12
Frostscale LeggingsUncommon Mail Legs, item level 32.Frostscale LeggingsNorthrend Leatherworking12
Iceborne ChestguardUncommon Leather Chest, item level 32.Iceborne ChestguardNorthrend Leatherworking12
Iceborne LeggingsUncommon Leather Legs, item level 32.Iceborne LeggingsNorthrend Leatherworking12
Arctic BeltUncommon Leather Waist, item level 33.Arctic BeltNorthrend Leatherworking10
Arctic GlovesUncommon Leather Hands, item level 33.Arctic GlovesNorthrend Leatherworking10
Arctic ShoulderpadsUncommon Leather Shoulder, item level 32.Arctic ShoulderpadsNorthrend Leatherworking10
Frostscale BootsUncommon Mail Feet, item level 33.Frostscale BootsNorthrend Leatherworking10
Frostscale GlovesUncommon Mail Hands, item level 32.Frostscale GlovesNorthrend Leatherworking10
Frostscale ShouldersUncommon Mail Shoulder, item level 32.Frostscale ShouldersNorthrend Leatherworking10
Iceborne BeltUncommon Leather Waist, item level 32.Iceborne BeltNorthrend Leatherworking10
Iceborne BootsUncommon Leather Feet, item level 32.Iceborne BootsNorthrend Leatherworking10
Arctic BootsUncommon Leather Feet, item level 32.Arctic BootsNorthrend Leatherworking8
Frostscale BeltUncommon Mail Waist, item level 32.Frostscale BeltNorthrend Leatherworking8
Iceborne GlovesUncommon Leather Hands, item level 32.Iceborne GlovesNorthrend Leatherworking8
Heavy Borean LeatherHeavy Borean LeatherNorthrend Leatherworking6
Borean Armor KitBorean Armor KitNorthrend Leatherworking4

Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.

How Borean Leather Compares

Similar Items

The 10 items nearest to Borean Leather among Trade Goods > Leather; 8 of them also come from Wrath of the Lich King.

ItemItem LevelDetailsLowest Listed Price
Borean Leather (this item)20Crafted with Northrend Leatherworking; Used in 42 recipes, including Heavy Borean Leather and Iceborne Chestguard3 gold
Borean Leather Scraps20Used in Borean Leather (Northrend Leatherworking); Use: Borean Leather60 silver
Heavy Borean Leather20Crafted with Northrend Leatherworking; Used in 95 recipes, including Heavy Borean Armor Kit and Jormungar Leg Armor27 gold
Icy Dragonscale20Crafted with Northrend Leatherworking; Used in 19 recipes (Northrend Leatherworking), including Icescale Leg Armor and Dragonstompers2 gold
Nerubian Chitin20Crafted with Northrend Leatherworking; Used in 16 recipes (Northrend Leatherworking), including Frosthide Leg Armor and Nerubian Leg Armor15 gold
Jormungar Scale20Crafted with Northrend Leatherworking; Used in 6 recipes (Northrend Leatherworking), including Jormungar Leg Armor and Jormscale Footpads17 gold
Icy Dragonscale Fragment20Used in Icy Dragonscale (Northrend Leatherworking); Use: Icy Dragonscale1 gold
Nerubian Chitin Fragment20Used in Nerubian Chitin (Northrend Leatherworking); Use: Nerubian Chitin51 gold
Arctic Fur20Used in 40 recipes, including Frosthide Leg Armor and Icescale Leg Armor66 gold
Jet Black Feather204,900 gold
Knothide Leather15Crafted with Outland Leatherworking; Used in 31 recipes, including Netherweave Gloves and Netherweave Boots4 gold

The lowest listed price among them is Borean Leather Scraps at 60 silver in the EU Auction House.

Across Regions

Borean Leather has a current Auction House listing in 2 regions. The lowest listed price is in Europe.

RegionLowest Listed PriceListed OnCheapest Realms
Europe3 goldRegion-wide
United States4 goldRegion-wide

Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.