Skinning Guides

Skinning Guides

There are a total of 11 primary professions of which only 3 are gathering professions and the rest are crafting professions. Skinning is not the most popular profession among players and is usually picked up by those who are leveling leatherworking, as leveling leatherworking without skinning can be insanely expensive. Like all professions skinning offers your character a stats boost, and if your character is level 85 then you will get an additional 80 critical strike rating. Skinning passive bonus can be good for dps classes that are dependent on critical strike chance like hunters, mages, feral druids, enhancement shamans, paladins and others; it's good but not great. This bonus is very low compared to the bonus of some other professions. However, gathering professions will allow you to level up faster as you gather materials across the world since for each material you gather you will gain experience - this will make it quite valuable when leveling a new character as it will speed up your leveling process.

Skinning is learned from skinning trainers which are located in every major city or settlement. If your new to skinning then make sure you pick up a skinning knife other wise you will not be able to skin dead animals, you purchase it off the vendor next to the trainer. Skin, scale and fur are acquired from killed beasts, dragons etc. Logically you cannot skin humanoids, elementals etc.

Skinning skill 1-300 1-75 skin beasts in Durotar or Dun morogh such as: bears, wolves, leopards, crag or mottled boars and scorpids.

75-130 skin beats in Loch Modan or Northern Barrens such as: bears, boars, hyena, zhevra, birds etc.

130-180 skin beasts in Wetlands or Hillsbarad foothills such as: raptors, birds, lions, crocolisks and turtles.

180-220 skin beasts in Southern Barrens or Stranglethorn Ville such as: Basilisks, Gorillas, Birds, Cats, Boars, Cats, Kodo, Turtles, Giraffes, Zhevra.

220-250 skin beasts in Thousand Needles or Eastern Plaguelands such as: Hounds, Birds, Bats, Boar or Cats, Serpents, Hyena, Birds 250-300 skin beasts in Un'goro crater or Winterspring such as: Yeti, Dinosaurs or saber cats.

Skinning skill 300-375 300-330 Skin helboars and ravagers in Hellfire Peninsula.

330-350 skin Clefthoofs, Talbuks and Elekks in Nagrand 350-375 there is a high variety of beasts that you can skin in Shadowmoon valley, Netherstorm or Bladesedge mountains.

Skinning skill 375-450 375-405 you can skin Shoveltusks or rams in Howling Fjord or Mammoths in Borean thundra.

405-430 move to Grizzly hills where you will find a high variety of animals to skin 430-450 Sholazar basin is you next stop, there you can skin various beasts like: Grazers, cobras, wasps, showeltusks etc.

Skinning skill 450-525
Leveling up skinning in cataclysm is fairly simple you will start of in mount hyjal with skill of 450 and you can skin stags or other kinds of beasts or dragons until you reach 470 skill. Once you do you will move to Uldum which is filled with hyenas, crocolisks and other skinable creatures. After you have hit 485 in Uldum then you will want to move onto Twilight Highlands this is where you will find allot of dragons and other beasts and these will allow you to hit 525 and get the best profession stat bonus.