WoW Skinning Leveling Guide 1 - 600

This WoW Skinning Guide will show you the fastest and easiest way how to level your Skinning profession from 1 to 600. Updated for WoW patch 5.2

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.

If you are low on gold, I recommend you to try this Gold Making Guide, it can help you to make loads of gold.

If you are still leveling your character or you just started a new alt, I recommend you to use a leveling guide. You can level your character to level 90 in 7 days with this guide.

This Skinning leveling guide is aimed for higher level players who want to switch their profession at higher levels, but this doesn't mean it's not good for lower level players. Leveling your Skinning will be easy, but it's really boring. You will have to run around and skin hundreds or even thousands of mobs. Skinning is the best combined with Leatherworking, check out my Leatherworking leveling Guide if you want to level your Leatherworking.

Please note that even if a mob is red/orange to you, that this DOES NOT guarantee that you'll get a skill up. It's more likely, but not to be expected every time.

Skinning guide sections:

• 1 - 60 Durotar, Dun Morogh
• 60 - 110 Barrens, Loch Modan
• 110 - 185 Ashenvale, Wetlands
• 185 - 205 Dustwallow Marsh, Hinterlands
• 205 - 265 Thousand Needles
• 265 - 300 Un'Goro Crater
• 300 - 360 Hellfire Peninsula, Nagrand
• 360 - 450 Borean Tundra, Sholazar Basin
• 450 - 500 Deepholm
• 500 - 600 Valley of the Four Winds, Dread Wastes

1-60 Skinning Guide

Visit any Skinning Trainer, and learn Skinning Apprentice.

Don't forget to buy a Skinning Knife, it gives you +10 Skinning skill.

Please visit my farming guides if you want to farm leathers for Leatherworking!

Beasts in the immediate starting area can't be skinned because that area is for level 1-6 players and you won't have any profession until you reach level 5.

When you reach 60, visit your trainer and learn the next rank of Skinning.

Horde:

Durotar

Alliance:

Dun Morogh

60-110 Skinning Guide

Do not leave these zones until you reach 110!

Horde:

Barrens

Alliance:

Loch Modan

110-185 Skinning Guide

When you reach 150, you will have to visit your trainer.

Horde:

Ashenvale

Alliance:

Wetlands

185-205 Skinning Guide

Visit your trainer as soon as you reach 205. You could probably leave the zones at 200, but there will be a few mobs that are level 41 in Thousand Needles and you need a Skinning skill of 205 to skin a level 41 mob.

Horde:

Dustwallow Marsh

Alliance:

Hinterlands

205-265 Skinning Guide

Thousand Needles

265-300 Skinning Guide

Un'Goro Crater

300-360 Skinning Guide

Go to Thrallmar and find Moorutu if you are Horde player, he will teach you Master Skinning. For Alliance go to Honor Hold and find Jelena Nightsky. The paths on the map are pretty straightforward. Just follow those paths and when you reach 330, go to Nagrand.

Hellfire Peninsula
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Kill Talbuks and Clefthoofs. You can stop at 350 and go to Northrend, if you want to.

Nagrand
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360-450 Skinning Guide

Learn Skinning Grand Master.

Kill Rhinos.

Borean Tundra

Kill Gorillas, this place is also one of the best place to farm Borean Leather.

Sholazar Basin

450-500

Learn Skinning Illustrious Grand Master.

At the Pale Roost, stone giants are throwing rocks and knocking down Stone Drakes. When the drakes land, they will have about 50k HP left. They drop only Savage Leather or Blackened Dragonscale, no leather scraps. The drakes have a really fast respawn rate, and for elites, they are very easy to kill.

Deepholm

500-560

Learn Zen Skinning.

Kill Wyrmhorn Turtles near the small lake.

Valley of the Four Winds

560-600

Kill scorpions at Dread Wastes.

Dread Wastes

I hope you liked this Skinning leveling guide! Gratz to 600!

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