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Skinning

Skinning is directly related to leatherworking, but the leather and hides produced are also needed by blacksmiths, engineers, and tailors for various projects. With a trusty Skinning Knife in hand, a skinner can retrieve leather and hides from many beasts through Azeroth. Skinning Knives can be found from Trade Suppliers and some Leatherworking Suppliers. You do not need to equip the Skinning Knife, just have it with you (NB, Skinning Knives have no durability, so they make a good fallback dagger in the event your main weapon goes red).

Worgen have a natural affinity for skinning due to their "better half." This allows them a bonus of +15 to skinning skill and reduced time to skin.

To skin, just kill a beast and loot it. You can't skin an unlooted mob. You can even skin someone else's kill, as long as they've looted it. When you mouse over the body, if it says "Skinnable" in the tooltip, you're set. To protect your skins from being accidentally looted by someone else, wait until all combat is complete to loot the mob, then skin each mob immediately after looting.

Skinning is the easiest of the gathering professions to level, since the resource nodes come to you (and you get xp from killing them and making them harvestable). Many of the skinnable items - especially scales - can also drop from the kill, but the drop rate is significantly lower. As a general rule, you need to have a minimum Skinning skill around (mob level x 5) to be able to skin it.

Skinning also makes certain gathering quests easier (in particular, the yeti hide quests in Feralas and Winterspring). There's a chance to get the quest item off the skinning as well as the drop, so this gives you a second chance. You can even get the quest skin off both, doubling your rate of progress.

As with all gathering professions, when grouped with other skinners, you need to agree on the loot rules for skins in advance. Also, since you can skin kills from other players, you should make sure that the skinnable body you find is really abandoned.

Skill

Skinners gain the Master of Anatomy skill at skill level 75. This is a passive ability which increases the character's critical strike rating. Initially, this raises the rating by 3 up to a maximum of 80 at skill 525.

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