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Farming Medium Leather — Retail

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Retail · Original WoW / Classic Era materials
Updated 21 October 2026

This is the Retail guide for Medium Leather. It covers an older expansion’s crafting material, not Midnight’s new reagents.

Train Classic Skinning for this material. Retail uses a separate 1–300 Classic skill bar; the old combined 1–600 progression does not apply. Character levels depend on zone scaling and timeline selection, so the map and quest requirements in your current game determine access.

Where to farm Medium Leather

  • The Cape of Stranglethorn
  • Southern Barrens
  • Stonetalon Mountains

Kill and fully loot the skinnable beasts in the farming area, then skin each corpse. Move between packs so that earlier groups can respawn. Learn the matching expansion’s Skinning skill for better gathering results.

References: WoW-Professions

Updated Retail farming map

Wetlands — Wool Cloth and Medium Leather

Retail / WoW Classic Cataclysm and Mists · reworked Azeroth

Wetlands — Wool Cloth and Medium Leather base mapRoad east of Greenwarden’s Grove1wow-farming.info · Retail / WoW Classic Cataclysm and Mists · reworked Azeroth
Fight the Dragonmaw Whelpstealers and Ebon Slavehunters east of Greenwarden’s Grove. Both provide cloth; skin fully looted Ebon Slavehunters for leather. Stay clear of Alliance guards if Horde. Markers identify approximate areas. Lines are suggested searches; they are not fixed spawn locations or a measured yield guarantee.
  1. Road east of Greenwarden’s Grove — 67, 47

Game cartography © Blizzard Entertainment, via Wowhead. Location reference: WoW-Professions.