| I'll be direct on this one: the fastest way to make | | | | player didn't skin. Carrying the skinning knife with |
| gold in World of Warcraft is, hands down, skinning. | | | | you is like carrying a gold generating machine in |
| Why? Skinning is, simply put, the easiest trade skill | | | | your inventory. |
| to use in all of Azeroth, and requires very little | | | | Easy to sell - the materials you gather from |
| aside from a skinning knife and the right skinning | | | | skinning will be used in various recipes, from |
| level. | | | | leather working to blacksmithing. Since the |
| Huge supply of material - your material comes | | | | materials are very diverse, you'll always be able |
| from the beasts of Azeroth. Whether it's leather | | | | to sell your stacks at the auction house (assuming |
| hides, dragon scales, or wool, skinning gives you | | | | you don't overprice your goods). Skinning, like |
| an incredibly huge and diverse number of items | | | | mining and herbalism, provides the foundation for |
| you can easily harvest over and over again. Plus | | | | a lot of the other jobs out there. |
| this material generally comes from inferior | | | | Skinning is, or is close to, the single fastest way |
| enemies, such as neutral beasts, which are far | | | | you can make money in World of Warcraft |
| easier to kill than hostile enemies. | | | | without grinding away at long, complicated |
| Easy to use - all you need is a skinning knife; no | | | | instanced dungeons. Skinning gives you a huge list |
| fancy recipes, or complicated weaving patterns. | | | | of materials you can gather from weaker beasts |
| Carry your knife with you and you can skin just | | | | which can easily be sold on the auction house for |
| about any non-humanoid within your level range. | | | | a big profit. |
| Plus, you can skin other beasts that the other | | | | |