The Skinning Guide to Gold Farming



Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2009

by Robert Gillis

For many players, skinning seems like a dull profession. It doesn ' t lead into another profession right away and it doesn ' t provide much in the way of excitement as you aren ' t going out of your way to find it, but if you are interested in grinding your way to riches, having skinning as a profession is a surefire way to make big profits quickly. World of Warcraft gold guides have the right of it when they tell you that it is the most efficient profession in the game.

Skinning is effective because you can complete it during the course of your travels without having to return to any zones or anything. Most World of Warcraft gold guides don't have any special directions or zones to visit because you don't need them. You can skin as you kill regular mobs. What's better is that anyone who is not a skinner will leave the carcasses of their kills ripe and ready for the picking by skinners like you. That means you can step in and pick off their kills with ease, boosting your totals substantially.

Where to Skin

That said, most World of Warcraft gold guides will give you a few good locations where you should spend more time searching for creatures to skin. At lower levels, these areas are the ones where high volumes of hunting quests are performed such as Stranglethorn Vale, where the expedition mastery quests, which combine to make up 60 separate kills for each player, can leave trails of bodies ready for you to skin throughout the zone.

What to Skin

While an early strategy to skin any creature you see is a good one, there are instances where you will want to focus your efforts a little more concertedly toward certain mobs than others, especially when the chance for rare leather drops are possible. In Outland for example, you can make big profits off of mobs that drop Knothide Leather and especially Heavy Knothide Leather. For this reason, Nagrand is obviously a very popular place for skinners to work. Most World of Warcraft gold guides tell playes to park themselves in Nagrand and pick off any of the 180 different kills being done for the Nagrand mastery quests by each player. There are a lot of mobs out here that are skinnable and they respawn constantly. With a good World of Warcraft gold guide in hand you can make a fortune in no time.

The key to skinning for gold is in knowing where to be, when to be there and how long to spend there farming for gold. If you can effectively approach every step of the skinning and hunting process with gold in mind, you can make as much as 150-200 gold an hour at the highest levels never forget all that valuable vendor trash and item drops.

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Robert Gillis is  a huge World Of Warcraft Fan. He loves to play the game, hours on end, and will give away some of his secrets every now and then.
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