WoW Skinning Guide

This is a World of Warcraft Skinning Guide. If you are looking for ways to make gold please see this Gold Guide. If you are looking for a World of Warcraft leveling guide from 1-70 please see either Horde 1-70 Guide or Alliance 1-70 Guide. Other profession and class guides can be found at Killer Guides.

Leveling Skinning from 1-300 is pretty simple, however it definately helps to have all the locations mapped out before you get started. In this Skinning tutorial I take a different approach. I'm under the assumption you're already a level 60+, and it doesn't matter if you're Horde or Alliance (except at low levels). If you're not level 60 you should just level Skinning as you level your character. Say, you're level 30, then you should follow this guide to up level 150.

Horde Skinning (Starts in Orgrimmar)

• South Durotar - Mottled Boars and Scorpids (1-25)
• North Durotar - Boars and Scorpids (25-50)
• Crossroads area - Plainstriders and Prowlers (50-100)
• Camp Taurajo area - Stormsnouts and Thunderhawks (100-130)
• Thousand Needles - Hyenas, Lions, Wyvern and Thunderhawks (130-170)
• Shimmering Flats - Turtles and Basilisks in (170-180)

Alliance Skinning(Starting in Ironforge)

• South of Kharanos - Crag Boats and Wendigos (1-25)
• Brenwall Village - Wolves (25-50)
• Sentinel Hill - Goretusks (50-100)
• Bluegill Marsh - Crocolisks and Raptors (100-130)
• Hillsbrad Foothills - Bears and Mountain Lions (130-150)
• Yeti Cave in Hillsbrad Fields - Yetis (150-170)
• Arathi Highlands - Raptors in (170-180)

Horde & Alliance Skinning

• Nessingwarys Camp - Raptors, Panthers and Tigers (180-220)
• Gurabashi Arena area - Raptors and Gorillas (220-250)
• Azshara - Stags and Hippogryphs (250-270)
• Azshara - Turtles and Chimera (270-300)

The above directions should provide you with a general guideline of where to travel through Azeroth to level your Skinning. Skinning isn't a very hard profession to skill up but it can be a big money maker if you sell the goods in the auction house. Skinning and disenchanting can be a great money making combo as you level your character. I don't feel skinning is for all classes. For example, you wouldn't want to do skinning with a ranged class because they have to run all the way to the mob after it dies just to do some skinning.