This WoW Skinning Guide will show you the fastest and easiest way how to level your Skinning profession from 1 to 600. Updated for WoW patch 5.4

Just to note this Skinning guide is not about making gold with skinning, it's just a simple guide which show you the fastest way to level your Skinning.

Skinning Guide

Visit any Skinning Trainer, and learn Skinning Apprentice.

Don't forget to buy a Skinning Knife, it gives you +10 Skinning skill.

Beasts in the immediate starting area can't be skinned because that area is for level 1-6 players and you won't have any profession until you reach level 5.

When you reach 60, visit your trainer and learn the next rank of Skinning.

Horde:

Durotar

Alliance:

Dun Morogh

Do not leave these zones until you reach 110!

Horde:

Barrens

Alliance:

Loch Modan

When you reach 150, you will have to visit your trainer.

Horde:

Ashenvale

Alliance:

Wetlands

Visit your trainer as soon as you reach 205. You could probably leave the zones at 200, but there will be a few mobs that are level 41 in Thousand Needles and you need a Skinning skill of 205 to skin a level 41 mob.

Horde:

Dustwallow Marsh

Alliance:

Hinterlands

Thousand Needles

Un'Goro Crater

Go to Thrallmar and find Moorutu if you are Horde player, he will teach you Master Skinning. For Alliance go to Honor Hold and find Jelena Nightsky. The paths on the map are pretty straightforward. Just follow those paths and when you reach 330, go to Nagrand.

Hellfire Peninsula

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Kill Talbuks and Clefthoofs. You can stop at 350 and go to Northrend, if you want to.

Nagrand

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Learn Skinning Grand Master.

Kill Rhinos.

Borean Tundra

Kill Gorillas, this place is also one of the best place to farm Borean Leather.

Sholazar Basin

Learn Skinning Illustrious Grand Master.

At the Pale Roost, stone giants are throwing rocks and knocking down Stone Drakes. When the drakes land, they will have about 50k HP left. They drop only Savage Leather or Blackened Dragonscale, no leather scraps. The drakes have a really fast respawn rate, and for elites, they are very easy to kill.

Deepholm

Learn Zen Skinning.

Kill Wyrmhorn Turtles near the small lake.

Valley of the Four Winds

You can find more farming places if you visit my Exotic Leather farming guide.

Kill scorpions at Dread Wastes.

Dread Wastes

I hope you liked this Skinning leveling guide! Gratz to 600!