Skinning, as you can imagine, allows you to skin the hides of beasts you’ve killed and use them in Leatherworking and even in Blacksmithing, Engineering, and Tailoring. In the following WoW Skinning guide you’ll get a good intro into skinning as your primary profession.

Skinning is a fantastic gathering profession which allows you not only to skin what you’ve killed but also what’s been left behind by others. To get started, find a trainer, which are usually near leatherworkers. If you can’t find the trainer you can always ask a guard to show you the way. You’ll need a skinning knife, which can be bought from a professions merchant. Read more about skinning in the World of Warcraft Skinning Guide

WoW Skinning Guide: List of skinning ranks and their associated skill levels.

• Apprentice: Levels 1-75
• Journeyman: Levels 50-150
• Expert: Levels 125-225
• Artisan: Levels 200-300
• Master: Levels 300-375

Some secondary professions are better than others when it comes to Skinning. For example, Skinning can be really good with mining or herbalism just because of the profit potential of having two gathering professions. The best profession for obvious reason would probably be Leatherworking. On the other hand professions like Alchemy just don’t compliment Skinning at all.

Not all beasts you kill can be skinned. To find out if something can be skinned just hover over the corpse. It’s important to fully loot a corpse before you begin skinning it. If you do want to skin something abandoned by another player make sure they walk away before you try to skin it.

Hovering over the dead beast will show you a particular color code if it’s something that can be skinned. The color will reveal not only whether your skill level is high enough to skin it but also whether or not it will help you level up even more. What these color code reveal is listed below.

• Red: These are thing you won’t be able to skin at your current skill level.
• Orange: Difficult for you to skin, but there’s a good chance it’ll help you level up your skill.
• Yellow: These are moderately difficult to skin with a moderate chance of helping you level up your skill.
• Green: Easy to skin, but probably won’t help your skill level much.
• Gray: Really Easy to skin, but has no chance at all of helping your skill level.

I hope this WoW Skinning Guide helped you understand skinning a little better.Learn more about skinning in the WoW Skinning Guide