Skinning 300-375 (the easy way)Follow

My first toon in outlands went there as a 60 with 300 skinning/300 mining. I was frustrated at the (perceived) difference in leveling skinning in outlands vs. Azeroth. In outlands a skillup felt like getting a good drop.

By the time I hit Nagrand at level 65 or so I couldn't skin the kills. So, I had to go back to Zangar/Hellfire to level it then return to Nagrand. Incredibly frustrating considering the fact skinning used to be the easiest tics to get.

I've found there is a difference between skilling in outlands vs. azeroth. My druid at level 52 was 300 skinning. I got a portal to outlands and trained skinning 375, then returned to Felwood/Winterspring.

By the time i hit level 54.5 I was 360 skinning (killing yetis in Winterspring brought skillups easy and fast). To test, I returned to outlands and began killing level 58-59 hellboars (and a few orcs too) around HH. I'm now 4 bubs into 55 and my skill is 361.

So, level 50ish skinners, save yourself some headaches and get to outlands and train 375.

Edit: I believe the lowest level you can train professions to 375 is 51. Please correct me if I'm wrong.



Edited, Jun 18th 2007 6:01pm by kindgreen

different races seem to learn skills (in this case, skinning) differently. My NE druid reached 300 skinning way before my Dwarf hunter did. This may be due to the inherent difference in INT, which we know is a factor in getting these skill-ups.

Now I don’t want to redo it just to test some theories, so I’ll go with the INT theory.

I don’t know how you got to Nagrand without some regular skinning to stay caught up, but my experience with Outlands was that skinning again leveled up just fine on the mobs you had to kill normally. Boars, ravagers in Hellsfire. Marshfang slicers and similar, along with sporebats, in Zanga. Warp hunters and wolves and basilisks in Terrokar. These were all quest mobs, so I didn’t go out of my way to hunt them just to level up skinning.

And of course, Nagrand offers the animal hunting quests to continue your skinning gains if you haven’t already reached 375.

O rly? You can train past 300 skinning before level 50?