WoW WotLK Classic: Skinning 1 - 450 Leveling Guide

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Skinning is a primary crafting profession in World of Warcraft Classic. It's considered a gathering profession as it only involves the collecting of materials from slain corpses for use in other professions, namely Leatherworking. The level cap of professions is increased from 375 to 450 in Wrath of the Lich King (Wotlk)and will include a whole lot more corpses to skin.

Skinning provides a small critical strike buff with the passive bonus Master of Anatomy.

Skinning is often paired with Leatherworkingas a second primary profession. The bulk of materials used in Leatherworking is provided by the materials gathered from Skinning.

Here is a list of all the items you will need in order to level from 1 to 300. We've also included a brief description of where to get each item. Keep in mind that depending on your luck with skill-ups you may have a surplus or deficit for some materials listed in the table below.

Enemies that can be skinned will change the mouse cursor when hovering over the corpse. It will also display a colored tag «Skinnable» in the tooltip. The color of that tag will change depending on the level of your Skinning. The color indicates the success rate and chance of increasing the Skinning level. (see skill-up section in this article for exact calculations)

The level at which an enemy can be skinned is based on your Skinning level as follows:

Make sure to pick up Apprentice Skinning from the appropriate trainers in your area. Let's start with the good old Classic zones of Azeroth.

For the Horde, the best routes are near the Orcs and Trolls starting areas in Durotar. Starting at Sen'jin Village and heading North towards Razor Hill then making a detour West and North to Orgrimmar. Look for Boars, Scorpions, Raptors,