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WoW Skinning Guide

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Skinning is a profession that allows you to skin animals and mobs after you kill them. To begin you will need a skinner’s knife, you can find one at any general store. This profession is probably the easiest to level since it allows you to level your profession as you level your character. Skinning goes best with leatherworking. However, if you want purely gathering skills on your character, then skinning will not interfere with the ability to track minerals or herbs.  In this WoW Skinning Guide, I will show you a quick way to level up your skinning. 

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WoW Skinning Guide Trainers:

 Alliance Skinning Trainers:

     * Balthus Stoneflayer (Ironforge)

     * Eladriel (Darnassus)

     * Maris Granger (Stormwind City)

     * Mathreyn (Eversong Woods)

     * Radnaal Maneweaver (Teldrassil)

     * Remere (The Exodar)

     * Jelena Nightsky (Hellfire Peninsula)

     * Trapper Jack (Borean Tundra)

     * Frederic Burrhus (Howling Fjord)

 

Horde Skinning Trainers :

     * Killian Hagey (The Undercity)

     * Kulleg Stonehorn (Feralas)

     * Mathreyn (Silvermoon City)

     * Mooranta (Thunder Bluff)

     * Thuwd (Orgrimmar)

     * Tyn(Silvermoon City)

     * Moorutu (Hellfire Peninsula)

     * Tiponi Stormwhisper (Borean Tundra)

     * Roberta Jacks (Howling Fjord)

 

Alliance WoW Skinning Guide Level 1-75

For Alliance, the best place to skin is where a ton of wolves are which are by Ironforge.  If you are a lower level, you can simply skin as you quest.  Elwynn Forest outside of Stormwind is also a great place to skin animals. You should probably invest in some extra bag space so that you can skin for longer and maybe use it later to make yourself some leather armor.

Horde WoW Skinning Guide Level 1-75

Horde skinning for the first 75 levels is best found in the troll starting area.  Mulgar and Durotar have many boars and scorpids to skin to quickly level up.

Level 75 – 150 WoW Skinning Guide

For Alliance, you can still stay in your zone by farming the Loch Modan area.  Run up and down the Thelsamar area while skinning bears and wolves.  This area is best especially since the following area in the wetlands can be used next to get you to 150.  

For Horde, you can skin from north barrens down to south barrens.  If you are a lower level, you can easily get to 150 while skinning and questing.  The Barrens is full of mostly beasts.  It will also bring you to 150.  Don’t forget to train when you hit 150.

Level 150-225 WoW Skinning Guide

Now start skinning with PVP involved.  Arathi Highlands has plenty of dinosaurs and wolf mobs to skin, but beware since this area has plenty of PVP.  The area is large with plenty of places around the Alliance camp to farm.  Thousand Needles is also a great place to level skinning at this level, but it is primarily Horde controlled.  Thousand Needles is a less likely area to run into PVP, so Horde may have a better time farming.

Level 225-300 WoW Skinning Guide

Head to Feralas and this area will get you to about 260.  When skinning in Feralas, if you are not a high level make sure to stay away from the level 60 dungeon area in the center of the zone.  After this area becomes green, head to Un’Goro which is a level 50-55 area that will eventually bring you to 300.

Level 300-375 WoW Skinning Guide

From here your skinning will decrease the level up frequency.  Southern Hellfire Peninsula has plenty of mobs to increase your skill until about 310 or 315.  Once you skin these mobs, head to Nagrand and Terokkar Forest.  These three areas will quickly get you to 375.

Level 375-450 WoW Skinning Guide

This level brings you to the next expansion pack for WOTLK. To start leveling after 375 skin in Howling Fjord or Borean Tundra.  Anything in Sholazar Basin will finally bring you to 450.

Hopefully this WoW Skinning guide helps you reach level 450 and maybe even level up your character a bit. To make the most out of Skinning it is recommended that you choose Leatherworking as a profession as well. Check out this WoW Leatherworking Guide.

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