Is skinning in outlands profitable?
I'm working on my third alt (just hit outlands) and picked up mining and skinning for the $$$ (350+) I remember doing the whole talbuk/nessingway thingy where you pretty much kill every thing that walks.. and i remember wishing i could skin em:P
How is the income from skinning in outlands? I'm so tempted to drop it for eng, but I know it's a money sink.
so i keep on keeping on hoping that either:
a: skinning pays off
b: mining is self sufficient and will gain $$$ by itself
c: drop skinning and pick up ENG for fun things...
D: I would like bombs and the rocket shoes/gun:P
I guess it all boils down to $ vs. time.. i can happily skin everything i see, but i'm soooo tempted to dump it for ENG
yea/neah?
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If you really want to take up the money sink that is engineering go for it. However, if there is nothing you NEED from it right away hold off on the switch til you get 70. That way you can skin all that stuff in Nagrand and make gold from it all while stockpiling the mining mats you will need to powerlevel engineering later.
Agree with Khalane 125%. Keep both until 70. Skinning is nice, but to make money you need a LW to turn Knothide scraps into leather, then into leather kits. Normal Knothide Kits are good, heavy Kits are very good and then Clefthide and Cobrahide just go out of sight. 20 G a piece and more.
So mine your mats, along with Primals, and when you have more money than you can spend, then get Eng.
So mine your mats, along with Primals, and when you have more money than you can spend, then get Eng.
alcattle wrote:
Agree with Khalane 125%. Keep both until 70. Skinning is nice, but to make money you need a LW to turn Knothide scraps into leather, then into leather kits. Normal Knothide Kits are good, heavy Kits are very good and then Clefthide and Cobrahide just go out of sight. 20 G a piece and more.
So mine your mats, along with Primals, and when you have more money than you can spend, then get Eng.
So mine your mats, along with Primals, and when you have more money than you can spend, then get Eng.
No you don't. You can still make money off skinning. I sell my skins all the time scraps and all.
I find that Outlands skinning is allright. Knothide Leather Scraps usually go fairly cheap on the AH but full Knothide Leather is higher in price per stack and always in demand. It might not make you thousands of gold in a week but if you're not a crazy spender you'll do ok.
Yea I think I'm going to stick with skinning and mining in outlands... it's just so boring:P I figure the money will be decent, and switching to ENG would prolly just suck money outta my pockets.
I haven't had a chance to AH the few stacks of scraps yet, but I figure anything I get for em is nice. Have no idea what other stacks of skin sell for, but I'm sure i'll get there soon!
Thanks for the replies and insight, pretty much confirmed what I was thinking;)
(i've also noticed that skinning past 300 seems to take way longer than 1-300. I was at 300 by lvl 40ish, I've skinned about 30 hellboars and got to.. lvl 309!? weird)
I haven't had a chance to AH the few stacks of scraps yet, but I figure anything I get for em is nice. Have no idea what other stacks of skin sell for, but I'm sure i'll get there soon!
Thanks for the replies and insight, pretty much confirmed what I was thinking;)
(i've also noticed that skinning past 300 seems to take way longer than 1-300. I was at 300 by lvl 40ish, I've skinned about 30 hellboars and got to.. lvl 309!? weird)
My rogue is a skinner/leatherworker. I put leveling LW aside for a while to make some money to enchant all my new gear. Anyway, sking knothide leather scraps and turn them into leather. The leather used to sell for 10-12 gold a stack, but after last patch and the new recipes, it's been going for 17-20 gold a stack. Knothide Armor kits don't make as much money as the mats on my server, but Heavy Knothide Leather sells for a pretty penny. I've seen a stack of Heavy Knothide Leather sell for over 60 gold this past week.
My advice would be to keep skinning until 70 and tip a leatherworker guildy to refine your leather for you. You can make some nice gold with skinning post 50. I think I raised the gold for my lv 60 epic mount completely from Rugged Leather between the levels of 52 and 58. Once you get to Outlands though, the good stuff sells for quite a bit.
My advice would be to keep skinning until 70 and tip a leatherworker guildy to refine your leather for you. You can make some nice gold with skinning post 50. I think I raised the gold for my lv 60 epic mount completely from Rugged Leather between the levels of 52 and 58. Once you get to Outlands though, the good stuff sells for quite a bit.
Don't level one Engineer - Level two of them!
One of my alts is a Skinner/Engineer (from level 5). Another is Mining / Engineering (Dropped Skinning at 300/ lvl 50's). Any other alt over lvl 10 is a Herbalist or a Miner, or both.
Engineering requires a huge stack of mats to level up to 300 - Even the 200 mark, where you choose gnomish or goblin, still takes a heck of a lot of Bars.
I had all alts gathering and pooling mats for when I quit skinning to power level Goblin Engineering. (2 Engineers? One's Gnomish, the other Goblin. Both can use Jumper Cables XL, but only one can make them.)
Both happily made their way over the 300 mark, Repair Bots and Delicate Arcanite Converters have that effect on Skill levels.
BC came out. Absolutely nothing of any interest to me. Nice to Haves?, Sure, but nothing with any WOW factor.
2.3 came out. Now we have Epic headgear, blue headgears, toys, and a rather spiffy mount. Time to re-level Engineering. So I begin:
I'm levelling the Skinning Engineer (Gnome), but soon the Fel Iron Bolts and Casings turn grey, and I need a shed load more. Rather than waste the potential skin ups, I get the Mining Engineer (Goblin) involved. She happily makes the Bolts,Casings and Blasting Powders for me.
I soon make the (very obvious) connection: I've had 100 Fel Iron bars and 60 Adamantite bars, along with 2 Primal Fires and 2 Primal Earths (Not a lot of mining effort TBH) and turned them into a lvl 355 Engineer and a lvl 335 assistant. Engineer. I have 40 Adamantite bars left on one char, Making Shell cases will whizz the lower char up to the same level as the main, AND I can still get XP for them on the main.
Now I have an Epic to work towards, Some neat toys, a legitimate reason to roll for Primal Nethers, and best of all, a sense of accomplishment.
So: Try levelling 2 Engineers together. You could also use a guildie rather than an alt, if you don't fancy 18 months of chomping at the bit, waiting for Engineering's time to finally come.
One of my alts is a Skinner/Engineer (from level 5). Another is Mining / Engineering (Dropped Skinning at 300/ lvl 50's). Any other alt over lvl 10 is a Herbalist or a Miner, or both.
Engineering requires a huge stack of mats to level up to 300 - Even the 200 mark, where you choose gnomish or goblin, still takes a heck of a lot of Bars.
I had all alts gathering and pooling mats for when I quit skinning to power level Goblin Engineering. (2 Engineers? One's Gnomish, the other Goblin. Both can use Jumper Cables XL, but only one can make them.)
Both happily made their way over the 300 mark, Repair Bots and Delicate Arcanite Converters have that effect on Skill levels.
BC came out. Absolutely nothing of any interest to me. Nice to Haves?, Sure, but nothing with any WOW factor.
2.3 came out. Now we have Epic headgear, blue headgears, toys, and a rather spiffy mount. Time to re-level Engineering. So I begin:
I'm levelling the Skinning Engineer (Gnome), but soon the Fel Iron Bolts and Casings turn grey, and I need a shed load more. Rather than waste the potential skin ups, I get the Mining Engineer (Goblin) involved. She happily makes the Bolts,Casings and Blasting Powders for me.
I soon make the (very obvious) connection: I've had 100 Fel Iron bars and 60 Adamantite bars, along with 2 Primal Fires and 2 Primal Earths (Not a lot of mining effort TBH) and turned them into a lvl 355 Engineer and a lvl 335 assistant. Engineer. I have 40 Adamantite bars left on one char, Making Shell cases will whizz the lower char up to the same level as the main, AND I can still get XP for them on the main.
Now I have an Epic to work towards, Some neat toys, a legitimate reason to roll for Primal Nethers, and best of all, a sense of accomplishment.
So: Try levelling 2 Engineers together. You could also use a guildie rather than an alt, if you don't fancy 18 months of chomping at the bit, waiting for Engineering's time to finally come.
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