WoW Skinning GuideSkinning is one of the most profitable professions you can pick up. It's fairly easy to level but gets time consuming toward the end, but there are no expensive things to purchase or make, just time spent. If you're skinning to level your leatherworking you may want to just buy the supplies in the Auction house. It is VITAL THAT YOU CHECK OUT THIS GUIDE if you don't have any money to do so. Since patch 2.4 was implemented you can now train up to Artisan Skinning at any trainer available. To get your skill past 300 you will need to see the Master Skinning Trainer that is located in each factions appropriate starting city for the Burning Crusade in Hellfire Peninsula, Honor Hold and Thrallmar. Apprentice Skinning / Journeyman Skinning
For easy use purposes the first two sections are combined into one to avoid duplicating zone maps. The Alliance and Horde Territories are clearly mapped out so there aren't any unexpected deaths. There's nothing special with skinning, just remember that you can skin a mob that is generally speaking your current skill divided by 5. If you have a skill of 100 you could expect to be able to skin a level 20 mob (100/5). In these beginning areas you can run around just skinning random beasts in the starting zones. Expert Skinning
Part of journeyman skinning is in these maps from 130-150, but they've been rolled into expert skinning to be more efficient. You can do skinning from 150-180 in Arathi if it is easier for you. 180-250 and beyond can be done in Stranglethorn Vale, it depends how long you want to stay there. Artisan Skinning
The Hinterlands is one of the best skinning mobs as you go from the west to the east, the mobs increase in level and skinning difficulty. There are wolves of all sorts of levels and you can finish to 300 on the turtles along the shore. Azhsara is another good alternative zone to The Hinterlands. Master Skinning
You'll skill up less frequently from 300-375 so you may find yourself skinning an yellow/orange mob and not getting a skill up. Don't worry, the hardest part is from 300-310 it seems to get better or you get used to it. You can go all the way to 375 in Hellfire Peninsula if you wanted, but its faster to hit only 330 and move on to Nagrand. In Nagrand you can also get to 375 if you want to and it is probably almost as efficient as going to Blade's Edge Mountains to skin, but go wherever you like. |
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Hi, Firstly, this guide is
Hi,
Firstly, this guide is great! But there's just one flaw in it. You see, not all mobs are level 20 in Wetlands, the lowest i could find there is 21 and that requires 105 skill instead of the above mentioned 100. This made me fly back to the nearest lowbie place like Thelsamar to get 5 more points. So just a note to you and everyone else using this guide, just play safe and stay at 1 place for 5 more skill level before going on especially if the mobs' level there can vary. Just 1 level = 5 skill points, i hope this note will be useful.
I just wanted to say that
I just wanted to say that for the Thousand Needles part, the best place I found was High Perch (entrance@about: 14.00 33.00).
A lot of mobs close together, and good respawn rate, saves you time leveling your skills, and you can stay there until you're ready to go to Stranglethorn Vale, from there just grab the zeppelin up to UC, and fly over to Hinterlands get up to 300, and you're off to Outland.
Finally, Thanks for this great guide! It's been very helpful for me!
An excellent guide; it
An excellent guide; it includes all the spots I found through trial and error, plus a few I hadn't thought of. I agree with 70Druid above: rather than rushing off to the next area as soon as you hit the top of the prescribed range, stick around for a minute and grind out another 5-10 mobs. If you're well above the mobs' level, it'll take no time at all, and you'll save yourself the trouble of backtracking or looking for that small patch of skinnable mobs within the herd.
All of my toons take up skinning, whether they wear leather or not. Skinning is very convenient to level as your character levels, and a new character can have a few gold worth of skins, herbs, and ores before reaching his/her first major city. After they've accumulated enough money for their level 60 mount, *then* we talk about switching professions.
This is a very good guide.
This is a very good guide. Except on the last bit, when i got to Jagueros Island thingy, all the mobs were green for skinning, so i had to move.
WTF IS JAGUEROS
WTF IS JAGUEROS ISLAND?!?!?!?!!? ROFL!!! WRONG GAME DUDE
Um, right game. Jagueros
Um, right game. Jagueros Island is east of Booty Bay.
um, use a line in ur paint
um, use a line in ur paint app. instead of ur spray paint, i kno it covers a large area but it makes it hard to see wat exactly ur pointing at with the stray dots
I followed this to the
I followed this to the letter and took me half an afternoon at lvl 76 to get from 0-375 skill. very useful guide
nice guide tnx
nice guide tnx
Awesome Leveling guide, But
Awesome Leveling guide, But beware Strangethorn Valley is alot of ganking on pvp server. As a hunter got my Artisan skill there, now going to achieve master in hinterlands and hopefully by then I can hit lvl 35 to increase my leatherworking. Bank filled up with skins so I had to start sending to my alt, 18-slot bags fill way to quick with this guide. Thanks again.
300-375 is nothing...it used
300-375 is nothing...it used to be horrible leveling skinning because from 110+ you might have to skin multiple mobs for a point...used to spend hours in crater to get 20points...
What would be even quicker
What would be even quicker to get from about 105 to about 185 is to stay in wetlands. Skin the crocs until the raptors are skinnable, and then stay at Whelgar's for a while, obviously going back to the city to train. it'll get you to 185 no problem.
Writer overlooked Duskwood.
Writer overlooked Duskwood. Great place for 150-200-ish skinning. Between the wolves and the Worgen, you can be skinning continually. Varying levels here too.
great guide.. extremely
great guide.. extremely useful.. and to the person who argued about jagueros island.. if u don't know what your saying.. then don't post.. all your doing is making yourself look dumb
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