Skinning

Skinning

Overview

Skinning is a primary gathering profession. It lets you collect leather and hides from defeated beasts.

It pairs naturally with Leatherworking, which turns that leather into armor.

What this profession is for

• Gather leather and hides for Leatherworking, or to sell them.

Learning the profession

Skinning is learned from a skinning trainer. Each rank raises the profession's maximum skill and requires a minimum skill:

• Apprentice: up to 75 skill.
• Journeyman: up to 150, from 50 skill.
• Expert: up to 225, from 125 skill.
• Artisan: up to 300, from 200 skill.
• Master: up to 375.

Remember to visit your trainer as you approach your rank's limit: beyond it, your skill no longer increases.

In The Burning Crusade, every skinning trainer in the capital cities teaches the Apprentice to Artisan ranks, from 1 to 300. The Master rank, from 300 to 375, is learned in Outland, from the master trainers shown in brackets.

Alliance

• Stormwind: Maris Granger.
• Ironforge: Balthus Stoneflayer.
• Darnassus: Eladriel.
• The Exodar: Remere.
• Hellfire Peninsula: Jelena Nightsky (300 – 375), at Honor Hold.

Horde

• Orgrimmar: Thuwd.
• Thunder Bluff: Mooranta.
• Undercity: Killian Hagey.
• Silvermoon City: Tyn.
• Hellfire Peninsula: Moorutu (300 – 375), at Thrallmar.

Neutral

• Shattrath City: Seymour (300 – 375).

Guide 1 – 375

This guide takes you from 1 to 375. Up to 300, the route is the same as in Classic Era; beyond that, it goes through Outland. For each skill range: the zones where you can skin beasts.

You need a Skinning Knife in your bags: it is sold by general goods vendors.

1 – 50

Skin the beasts of the starting zones. Remember to learn the Journeyman rank at 50.

• Alliance: Elwynn Forest, Dun Morogh.
• Horde: Durotar.

50 – 100

Move on to the following zones:

• Alliance: Westfall, Loch Modan.
• Horde: The Barrens.

100 – 125

Remember to learn the Expert rank at 125.

• Alliance: Wetlands.
• Horde: The Barrens.

125 – 150

• Alliance and Horde: Hillsbrad Foothills.

150 – 200

Remember to learn the Artisan rank at 200.

• Alliance and Horde: Arathi Highlands.

200 – 250

• Alliance and Horde: Feralas.

250 – 300

• Alliance and Horde: Un'Goro Crater.

300 – 330

Learn the Master rank from your faction's master trainer in Hellfire Peninsula, or from Seymour in Shattrath City. Then skin the boars and other beasts of the peninsula.

• Alliance and Horde: Hellfire Peninsula.

330 – 375

Skin talbuks and clefthoofs.

• Alliance and Horde: Nagrand.