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Skinning guide · WoW Forever

Before you begin

Skinning levels while you fight: every beast you kill and skin gives a point while it is still orange or yellow. Up to 100 skill you can skin beasts up to level (skill / 10 + 10); after that, up to level (skill / 5).

Each step names the leather you will get, the zones for your faction and where to stop. Keep a Skinning Knife in your bags.

Bring

  • Skinning Knife×1

Good to know

  • Skin everything you kill, even when you are not here to level: the leather sells.
  1. 1–75Starting zone beasts
  2. 75–155Keepers
  3. 155–205Keepers
  4. 205–280Keepers
  5. 280–300Keepers

Step 1 of 5 · skill 1–75

Starting zone beasts

Stop at75

Learn Skinning and buy a Skinning Knife from a trade goods vendor. Skin every wolf, boar and cat around your starting town.

GatherAbout 80 beasts

  • Light Leather
  • Light Hide

Where to go

AllianceAlliance

  • Dun Morogh
  • Elwynn Forest
  • Teldrassil

HordeHorde

  • Durotar
  • Mulgore
  • Tirisfal Glades

Trainers

  • AllianceMaris GrangerSkinning TrainerStormwind City72, 62.4
  • AllianceBalthus StoneflayerSkinning TrainerIronforge39.4, 32.4
  • AllianceEladrielSkinning TrainerDarnassus64.2, 21.8
  • HordeThuwdSkinning TrainerOrgrimmar63.2, 45.2
  • HordeMoorantaSkinning TrainerThunder Bluff44.4, 42.4
  • HordeKillian HageySkinning TrainerUndercity70.4, 59.2

Where the materials come from

Light Leather
  • Skinning: 92 beasts of level 11-20
    • Mystlash Hydra (level 19-20, Ashenvale): 76%
    • Thunderhawk Cloudscraper (level 20-22, Barrens): 75%
    • Thunderhawk Hatchling (level 18-20, Barrens): 74%
  • Leatherworking: Light Leather
  • Drops from 200+ enemies - best chances:
    • Wolfguard Worg (level 20-21, Shadowfang Keep): 50%
    • Bloodhound Runt (The Hall of Thanes): 20%
    • Fel Interloper (level 15-18, Westfall): 18%
Light Hide
  • Skinning: 100 beasts of level 11-20
    • Shadowfang Whitescalp (level 18-19, Shadowfang Keep): 16%
    • Vagash (level 11, Dun Morogh): 11%
    • Mangeclaw (level 11, Dun Morogh): 11%
  • Drops from 149 enemies - best chances:
    • Wolfguard Worg (level 20-21, Shadowfang Keep): 12%
    • Bloodhound Runt (The Hall of Thanes): 1.5%
    • Fel Interloper (level 15-18, Westfall): 1.3%

Step 2 and on · skill 75–300

Sealed for keepers

The first step is open to everyone. The rest of the Skinning road, with every count, zone and vendor, is for Ledger keepers. Keepers keep the addon free for everyone else.

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