why should I keep skinning?Follow

1 Stack of Devilsaur leather = 20 - 25 G ;D

Depending on your server, but I've made a butt load of rep and money from doing skinning turn-in's. Once we reach our queue I may chagne mind, but definitely other things that can be skinned besides the regular type leathers. I'd get to 60 on skinning before deciding.

I've never seen a stack of mithril go for 10-15g, or thorium for that matter. Possibly a stack of dark iron bars, but that's about it (other than arcanite bars of course). I'm currently skinning and herb on my rogue (and my hunter was engineering and mining). Skinning IS very profitable; however, in general you're going to have to sell a greater volume of skins as compared to herbs or metals. However, collecting a larger volume of skins is much easier as all you have to do is kill beasts. Devilsaur leather does sell for quite a bit, as do scales and other speciality items. Obviously prices fluctuate from server to server, but if you're getting 10-15g for a stack of mithril on your server I suggest you get your **** to the badlands with your mount and start running circles around there mining iron and mithril. That's where I used to farm on my main - easily 3 stacks of mithril and 3 of iron per hour of farming, and of course lots of stone and gems too.

light leather stacks only go for aobut 5s in my server :P

Skinning, other forms of gathering, and producing. This will mostly sound silly. :-)

This is only what I'm doing myself in my server. I have two gathering professions. Am I nuts? Sort of.

Within any server, it could actually be very easy for a producer to make rapid money, without any form of gathering on the side. Aslong as a player tracks profit margins based from the materials used, they will make sales.

The thing is, most players are making their own equiptment. This causes a reduced supply of trade goods in the auction house. The reduced availability makes it difficult for a blacksmith, say.. produce equiptment on demand. Also charactors not using the "credit on delivery system" harms this aswell, and the general lack of desire on suppliers part to sell anything less then bulk.

The result is an econemy where people choose one gathering skill, and one production skill so they can aquire their items with some sense of reliability.

I've chosen to use two gathering skills until I've bought my second mount. Then I will switch to using two production skills.

I want to note, we have two or three more gathering abilities. Disenchantable items, meats for cooking, cloth for tailors and medics.

Many people complain about their econemies, but I'm here to also do something about it.

When I first played my friend’s acct at school I started a warrior and went mining/skinning. But by lvl 29 I bought my mount and only played until lvl 36, but the moral of the story is that for quick Gold go mining/skinning.
My ‘Main’ 29 Priest is Enchanting/Tailoring, this I can help my little Rogue (mining/skinning) ‘twink’ with some enchants and the rogue can help the priest by feeding it cloth, wool, leather and when it gets higher, other things.

Mining/Skinning = Fast Gold (especially if you hit it right and people are trying to lvl their skills, 90s for copper stack used to sell out 5-7 stacks at a time (Lightning’s Blade))
Also, skinning is very easy to lvl esp. if you get behind a 60 who likes one-shotting animals.. easy monayyyy.

Enchanting/Tailoring = Gold maker when you’re near 250+ and great for making some Purple items. People respect you a lot more if you throw them an enchant after a good quest. If all else fails, tell them the Red Glow will help them pick up chicks.

All IMO

The way im reading your post is that you have barely skinned if your selling light leather so you should go lvl that for a couple hours and sell on AH when you can skinn heavy leather and sell it and you can get xp from skinning because you got to kill the mob but heavy leather on my sever goes for about 75-85s and think if you get about 5 or 7 stacks it adds up so just get out there and xp your skinning skill

To answer your question bluntly, you should keep skinning so I don't have to. Someone has to do it. You should be proud of your altruistic service to the larger community. Just like the soldiers who give their lives in defence of low gasoline prices for the rest of us. I would thank them if they were still alive.

Why are you equating Heavy Leather to Mithril?

 
Light Leather   = Copper 
Medium Leather  = Tin 
Heavy Leather   = Iron 
Thick Leather   = Mithril 
Rugged Leather  = Thorium

Plus, you have to remember the law of supply and demand. Heavy leather is much easier to gather than iron, so the supply is bigger. That lowers the price, but you should make equivalent gold because you'll have more leather than iron. The same holds true for mithril vs. thick leather.

Mining is what is called a huge hit reward, every now and then the big bonus that makes it seem like its an awesome money maker.

Skinning is what is called a dribble reward, its a constant steady stream of income that works out to be the same if not better then mining, without relying on lucky drops. And don't forget, unlike mining, there are always free empty places to skin.