This is a guide on how to level your skinning skill from 1 to 450 quickly. At each level, it outlines which beasts you will be able to skin, and where best to find them. If you need info on any of the items or places mentioned in this guide, head over to WoWHead and search for it on the WoW database.

Skinning is one of the gathering professions of World of Warcraft. It requires a skinning knife. It is paired well with the Leatherworking profession, and can become quite lucrative in the later stages of the profession. All prices in this guide are approximate, they may differ slightly depending on where you buy recipes and your server.

Levels 1 - 75

To begin your career as a skinner, you will need to visit a skinning trainer in one of the major cities of Azeroth and become an Apprentice. This will cost 8 copper. You will also need to purchase a skinning knife for 66 copper, and this must be in your inventory in order to be able to skin. A corpse must be completely looted before you are able to skin it. The best places to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Dun Morogh: Crag Boars and Wendigos
Durotar: Mottled Boars and Scorpids

Levels 75 - 130

Visit another skinning trainer and become a Journeyman. This will cost 4 silver and 25 copper. The best places to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Loch Modan: Elder Black Bears, Mountain Boars and Threshadons
The Barrens: Plainstriders and Savannah Prowlers

These mobs will yield Ruined Leather Scraps or Light Leather. If you are a Leatherworker, you can bind 3 Ruined Leather Scraps together to make 1 Light Leather.

Levels 130 - 180

At 150, return to your trainer and become an Expert Skinner. This will cost 42 silver and 50 copper. The best places to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Wetlands: Crocolisks, Raptors and Whelps
Thousand Needles: Hyenas, Wyverns and Cougars

These mobs will yield Medium Leather, Light Leather, Medium Hide or Light Hide.

Levels 180 - 225

The best place to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Strangethorn Vale (North): Raptors, Panthers and Tigers.

These mobs will yield Heavy Leather, Medium Leather, Medium Hide or Heavy Hide.

Levels 225 - 250

At 225, return to your trainer and become an Artisan Skinner. This will cost 4 gold and 75 silver, and you must be at least level 25. The best place to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Stranglethorn Vale: Raptors, Gorillas and Basilisks.

These mobs will yield Heavy Leather, Thick Leather or Heavy Hide.

Levels 250 - 300

The best place to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Azshara: Stags and Hippogryphs.
Un'Goro Crater: Diemetradons.

These mobs will yield Thick Leather, Rugged Leather, Rugged Hide or Thick Hide.

Levels 300 - 325

Travel to the Outlands and learn the Skinning Master rank from Thrallmar or Honor Hold. This will cost 8 gold and 50 silver and you need to be at least level 40. The best place to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Eastern Plaguelands: Plaguebats.
Winterspring: Chimaeras and Frostsabers.
Hellfire Peninsula: Helboars.

These mobs will yield Thick Leather, Rugged Leather, Rugged Hide, Knothide Leather Scraps, Knothide Leather or Fel Scraps.

Levels 325 - 350

The best place to find mobs to skin for these levels are.

Nagrand: Clefthoofs and Talbuks

These mobs will yield Knothide Leather Scraps, Knothide Leather, Thick Clefthoof Leather,

Levels 350 - 405

Travel to Northrend and learn the Skinning Grand Master rank from Warsong Hold, Valgarde, Vengeance Landing or Dalaran. This will cost 28 gold and you must be at least level 55. The best place to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Howling Fjord: Shoveltusks and Rams

These mobs will yield Borean Leather Scraps, Borean Leather or Arctic Fur (rare).

Levels 405 - 430

The best place to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Borean Tundra: Mammoths
Grizzly Hills: Deer, Bear, Wolves

These mobs will yield Borean Leather Scraps, Borean Leather or Artic Fur (rare).

Levels 430 - 450

The best place to find mobs to skin for these levels are:

Sholazar Basin: Longneck Grazer, Crocolisks and Gorillas.

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