| A player can make some serious gold with the | | | | First, hunt high level animals such as Hellboard, |
| skinning profession. Skinning is a primary | | | | Clefthoofs, and Nether Drakes. Don't go around |
| professions in which players skin animals and | | | | trying to skin every creature you kill, because not |
| creatures for their hide. The resulting hide can be | | | | all of them can be skinned. Also, you won't be |
| used by Leatherworkers, Tailors, Blacksmiths, and | | | | able to skin certain creatures if your level is too |
| Engineers. | | | | low. Don't be discouraged, though. Practice skinning |
| If you want to learn skinning, find yourself a | | | | on low to medium level creatures and while |
| teacher. This will be a non-playing character, or | | | | gaining experience points do some research on |
| NPC, programmed into the software. You may | | | | creature skins before proceeding. |
| use leatherworking trainers as a reference, since | | | | Once you've reached the master skinning level, |
| most skinning trainers aren't located to far off. | | | | you'll be able to skin almost any creature you kill |
| Make sure to purchase a handy skinning knife | | | | in Azeroth. You'll be able to sell the hide at the |
| from a merchant. If you want to increase your | | | | auction house for a nice price and earn yourself |
| skill level-which will bring you more valuable hides | | | | some gold. Got a bunch of scraps you want to |
| and gold-travel to places such as Hellfire Peninsula. | | | | throw away? Not so fast. Sell them to a |
| Each skinning you do will earn you at least five | | | | Leatherworker. You never know what kind of |
| points. It's a long process before reaching the | | | | profit you can make if you throw away your raw |
| master skinning level-which is 375 points-but there | | | | materials. |
| are ways to hasten this process. | | | | |