Skinning Guide

This WoW Skinning Guide will show you the fastest and easiest way how to level your Skinning profession from 1 to 525. Updated for WoW patch 4.3

Just to note this Skinning guide is not about making gold with skinning, it's just a simple guide which show you the fastest way to level your Skinning.

If you are low on gold, I recommend you to try this Gold Making Guide, it can help you to make loads of gold.

If you are still leveling your character or you just started a new alt, I recommend you to use a leveling guide. You can level your character to Level 85 in 5 days with this Guide.

This guide is aimed for higher level players, who want to switch their profession at higher levels, but this doesn't mean it's not good for lower level players. Leveling your Skinning will be easy, and even easier if you use this Skinning guide, but hell it's really boring. You will have to run around and skin hundreds or even thousands of mobs.

Skinning is the best combined with Leatherworking, If you want to level your Leatherworking too, make sure to check out my Leatherworking leveling Guide.

Skinning does not have any character level requirements in order to learn the next skill proficiency level. Please note that even if a mob is red/orange to you, that this DOES NOT guarantee that you'll get a skill up. It's more likely, but not to be expected every time.

Skinning guide sections:

1 - 60 Durotar, Dun Morogh
60 - 110 Barrens, Loch Modan
110 - 185 Ashenvale, Wetlands
185 - 205 Dustwallow Marsh, Hinterlands
205 - 265 Thousand Needles
265 - 300 Un'Goro Crater
300-360 Hellfire Peninsula, Nagrand
360-450 Borean Tundra, Sholazar Basin
450-525 Mount Hyjal
Related Guides:

Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1-525.


1-60 Skinning Guide
Visit any Skinning Trainer, and learn Skinning Apprentice.

Don't forget to buy a Skinning Knife! (I always forget it) After you bought the knife, just follow the zones listed in the guide. This knife does NOT have to be equipped.

Please visit my farming guides if you want to farm leathers for Leatherworking!

Beasts in the immediate starting area can't be skinned because that area is for level 1-6 players and you won't have any profession until you reach level 5.

When you reach 60, visit your trainer and learn the next rank of Skinning.

Horde:


Alliance:


60-110 Skinning Guide
Do not leave these zones until you reach 110!

Horde:


Alliance:


110-185 Skinning Guide
When you reach 150, you will have to visit your trainer.

Horde:


Alliance:



185-205 Skinning Guide
Visit your trainer as soon as you reach 205. You could probably leave the zones at 200, but there will be a few mobs that are level 41 in Thousand Needles and you need a Skinning skill of 205 to skin a level 41 mob.

Horde:


Alliance:


205-265 Skinning Guide


265-300 Skinning Guide


300-375 Skinning Guide


From here you will gain skills much less frequently, as you will see on the picture below.


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Go to Thrallmar and find Moorutu if you are Horde player, he will teach you Master Skinning. For Alliance go to Honor Hold and find Jelena Nightsky. The paths on the map are pretty straightforward. Just follow those paths and when you reach 330, go to Nagrand.


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Kill Talbuks and Clefthoofs. You can stop at 350 and go to Northrend, if you want to.


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360-450 Skinning Guide


Learn Skinning Grand Master.

Kill Rhinos.


Kill Gorillas, this place is also one of the best place to farm Borean Leather.



450-525 Skinning Guide


Learn Skinning Illustrious Grand Master.

This is a really good place for level 80 players.

If you are level 85, you can check out my Savage Leather farming guide or my Blackened Dragonscale farming guide. Keep in mind that most of the places in the farming guides requires 490 Skinning.

You cannot farm at the place below if you have done all the quests at Hyjal, if this is the case then you should go to near Sulfuron Spire and farm Young Twilight Drakes, just click on the link and you will see the location. There are two drakes there and both have about 10-20 second respawn rate, this means if you kill them too fast you will have to wait a few seconds until they respawn. You can also go to Vashj'ir - Shimmering Expanse.



I hope you liked this Skinning guide, GZ to 525!