This Skinning Guide It will show you the easiest and fastest way to level up your profession as a skinner from level 1 to 450. Updated with patch 3.2. It is a guide designed for people of a high level, who want to change their profession, but it is not ruled out for people of a lower level. Advance as your level allows it. Raising the skinning level is easy but it will be even easier and faster if you follow this guide.
The best combination with the skinning profession is obviously leatherworking, you can follow our Leatherworking Guide to climb that profession.
With the enchantment Formula: Enchant Gloves - Skinning You can increase your skinning ability by 5 so you can skin enemies of a higher level than you would normally be capable of. Like all other gathering professions, like Herbalism y Mining, has no level restrictions.
Skinning guide sections:
1-75 Durotar, Dunmororg
TBU The Barrens, Loch Modan and The Wetlands
155/165-205 Thousand Needles and Arathi Highlands
205-300 Un'Goro Crater and Feralas
300-360 Hellfire Peninsula and Nagrand
360-450 Boreal Tundra and Sholazar Basin
1-75
Visit any skinning instructor located in the capitals and learn the skill of skinning.
Don't forget to buy the skinner knife. Once purchased, leave it in your bags, you do not need to equip it to use it.
Alliance:
From level 1 to 50 make a circle around the lake near Ironforge, when you reach level 50 you can visit the skinner instructor in Ironforge and learn Skinner Officer. After learning this skill you can continue leveling up to 75. Once at 75 you must travel to Loch Modan. It is not totally certain that you will go up to 75 before reaching Loch Modan but if it is not much nothing will happen.
Horde:
From level 1 to 75 you must start in the Sen'Jin Village in Durotar and go up towards Orgrimmar, skin all the beasts you see. When you arrive in Orgrimmar, visit your Skinner Instructor and learn Officer Skinner. After doing so, fly to El Cruce, in Los Baldíos. Keep in mind that it is not certain that you will reach level 75, but if you don't, nothing will happen. You can learn Skinner Officer starting at level 50.
TBU
Alliance:
From level 75 to 115 continue the route marked on the map below, going up to Los Humedales. Keep in mind that if you do not have the necessary level there will be beasts that you will not be able to skin.
From level 115 to 140 approximately, follow the course of the river as it marks the route drawn on the map and skin the beasts you see. Up to 140 or a little more. You must reach the Port of Menethil, fly to Ironforge, learn Expert Skinner, and return to the port. From 140 to 155 you must skin the kidnappers (level 31) from the area marked on the map. And you will already be able to go to Arathi, in our next part of the guide.
Horde:
From level 75 to 125 skin the beasts you encounter until, following the map, you reach Camp Taurajo. Make sure you have Skinning at level 125 when you get to Camp otherwise Dranh, at Camp Taurajo, won't be able to teach you Expert Skinner. From level 125 to 165 go down to Thousand Needles and skin all the beasts you find.
155/165-205
Alliance:
Following the path of the 155-170 map, skin everything when you see and when you reach level 170 start the route marked 150-205. You will find higher level Raptors there. But there are levels 36-37 in the southeast corner of the marked area, do not go there until you are at level 180. When you reach level 205 go back to Ironforge and learn Skinner Craftsman, after learning it go to Feralas.
Horde:
From level 165 to 205, you just have to follow the path marked on the map. Make sure you have a skinning level of 205 before leaving Thousand Needles. After passing Thousand Needles head to Tanaris and fly to Feralas. Once in Feralas look for Kulleg Stonehorn, he will teach you Craftsman Skinner.
205-300
From level 205 to 230 just move around Camp Mojache, this part is for both the Alliance and the Horde. When you reach level 230 go to the Isilden Ruins area, on the west side as seen on the map. Over there you can find a Yetis cave to skin, if there are people there you can go south and kill hippogriffs. Once you reach level 260 go to the area of the map 260-280. There is also a cave of Yetis but with higher levels, when you kill them all when leaving you will find more beasts. Once you reach level 280 you can fly to Un'Goro Crater although you can stay a little longer here and level up.
As you can see on the map, the area to level up in the Un'Goro Crater is very simple. Just skin until you reach level 300.
300-375
From here you can check that the frequency with which you level up is less.
Now we must go to the Hellfire Peninsula. If you are Horde go to Thrallmar and look for Moorutu and he will teach you Master Skinner. If you are an Alliance go to the Hold of Honor and look for Jelena Nightsky. Now it is quite simple, it is to follow the route marked from level 300 to 305 and then look for beasts in the areas marked for levels 305 to 310 and 310 to 330.
Now we must go to Nagrand, there in the area marked on the map we must kill Talbuks and Clefthoof. Although it marks up to level 360 you can travel to Northrend 350 if you wish.
360-450
Go to Northrend and learn Grand Master Skinner
Once in Boreal Tundra, kill and skin Rhinos in the designated areas until you reach level 390.
Now go to Sholazar Basin. Kill and skin Gorillas. You can find them in several places but the best area is the one indicated on the map. Stay here until you increase your level to the maximum.
I hope this guide has been useful to you. Congratulations on your 450 in Desuello!
Very good guide, really accomplished