Updated for WoW patch 2.4.3
 Introduction & Tips
This WoW Skinning Guide will show you the fastest and easiest way howto level your Skinning profession from 1 to 375.
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.
This guide is aimed for higher level players, who want to switch their profession at higher levels, but this don't means 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 in WoW.
I found many other Skinning guide on the internet, they just list the best zones, usually the zones with the most beasts in it. However, while you travel between those zones, you will loose a lot of time and you won't level your skinning faster. This Skinning guide will show you two simple path which I found the fastest way to level Skinning, one for Horde and one for Alliance. You can find a few formulas below, these might help you while you will leveling your Skinning.
Up to skinning 100, you can find out the highest level mob you can skin by (Skinning skill)/10)+10. Example: ( 50 / 10 ) +10 = 15
From skinning level 100 and up the formula is simply: (Skinning skill)/5.Example: (175 / 5 = 35)
Skinning is the best combined with Leatherworking, If you want to level your Leatherworking too, make sure to check out our Leatherworking leveling Guide.
With the Skinning Enchant to gloves, you can skin an enemy 1 level higher than you normally would be able to do so. Skinning does not have any character level requirements in order to learn the next skill proficiency level. Please notethat even if a mob is red/orange to you, that this DOES NOT guarantee thatyou'll get a skill up. It's more likely, but not to be expected every time.
1-75 Skinning Guide
Visit any Skinning Trainer located in World of Warcraft, and learn Skinning Apprentice.
Don't forget to buy the Skinning Knife. I always forgot it. After you bought the knife, just follow the zones listed in the guide. This knife does NOT have to be equipped.
Beasts in the immediate starting area can't be skinned, because that area isfor level 1-6 players and you won't have any profession until you reach level 5.
Alliance:
From 1 to 50 make a circle around that lake near Ironforge, when you reach 50you can go and visit your Skinning trainer at Ironforge and learn Journeyman Skinning. After youlearnt it, you can continue to level your Skinning until around 75, while youmove toward Loch Modan. Keep in mind, it's not guaranteed that you will reach75, but if you won't reach it you can just still go to Loch Modan, lower skillwill be enough too.
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Horde:
From 1 to 75 you will start at Sen'Jin Village in Durotar and head towardOrgrimmar, while you skin every beast you see. When you reach Orgrimmar,visit your Skinning trainer and learn Journeyman Skinning. After that, flyto Crossroads which is located in The Barrens. Keep in mind, it's not guaranteedthat you will reach 75, but if you won't reach it you can just still go toOrgrimmar, Skinning 50 will be enough too.
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75-155/165 Skinning Guide
Alliance:
From 75 to 115 follow the path you see on the picture below, after you reach115 you can head toward Wetlands. If you go there at lower Skinning level, theremight be some beast which you won't be able to Skin.
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From 115 to around 140, follow that river you see on the picture and Skin thebeasts you find. At 140 or a bit more, you will reach the city and you will haveto fly to Ironforgein order to learn Expert Skinning. After you learnt the skill, fly back toWetlands and continue to level up your Skinning until 155, so you will be ableto skin the level 31 Raptors in Arathi, which is the next part in this SkinningGuide.
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Horde:
75-125 Skin the beasts you find while you head toward Camp Taurajo. Make surethat you have Skinning 125 when you reach the Camp, elseDranh at Camp Taurajo won't be able to teach Expert Skinning to you. From125 to 165 head toward Thousand Needles and skin the beasts you see. To behonest, I feel sorry for Alliance players at this point of the Skinning guide.Horde players have such a good traveling roads, it's a lot easier to levelSkinning as a Horde player then as an Alliance.
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155/165-205 Skinning Guide
Alliance:
Follow that path on the map from 155-170, when you reach 170 you can head toward the orange 170-205 part. You will find higher level raptors there.However there are level 36-37 raptors at the south-east corner of the orange zone. Don't go there until you have Skinning 180. After you reached Skinning205, you cango to Ironforge and learn Artisan Skinning. When you learnt the skill, go to Feralas.
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Horde:
From 165 to 205 just follow the path you see on the picture. Make sure thatyou have Skinning 205 before you leave Thousand Needles. After 205 go to Tanarisand fly to Feralas, at Feralas findKulleg Stonehorn he will teach you Artisan Skinning.
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205-300 Skinning Guide
From 205 to 230 just skin mobs around Camp Mojache, this one is doable forboth Horde and Alliance. When you reach 230, mount up and head toward the Yeticave, it's where you can see the 230-260 part on the map. If the Yeti cave isfarmed by someone you can head to South and kill Hippogryphs. After you reached260, follow the path to the 260-280 part. There is another Yeti cave there, butthose Yetis are higher levels. When you killed all of them, you can find a lotbeasts in front of the cave. At Skinning 280 you can fly to Un'goro Crater,however you can stay here too, and skill up your skinning by killing the beastin front of the cave.
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300-375 Skinning Guide
From here you will gain skills much less frequently, as you will see on thepicture below.
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Go to Thrallmar and findMoorutu if you are Horde player, he will teach you Master Skinning. ForAlliance go to Honor Holde and findJelena Nightsky. The paths on the map are pretty straightforward. Justfollow those paths and when you reach 330, go to Nagrand.
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Kill Talbuks and Clefthoofs.
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Now you have Skinning 360, with Skinning 360 you can skin mobs up to level72. There is 4 beasts that are higher than level 72, two of them are Rare Elitein Karazhan and one of them is found in Hyal Summit, so there is 1 mob that youwon't be able to skin yet. You can stay at Nagrand and skill up to 375, or youcan go and farm the leathers you need.
I hope you liked this Skinning guide, GZ to 375!
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