Skinning is a straightforward, convenient profession for those already engaged in hunting animals, but it's highly useful, too. Skinners ensure that nothing goes to waste by removing the hides of dead beasts and amassing piles of fur and leather. You will typically be able to skin creatures much higher level than you can kill. Unlike the mining or herb gathering, skinning allows very frequent practice when outdoor hunting resulting in a great deal of leather and very rapid training. This is one of the better gathering professions, since a skinner can skin mob corpses left behind by other characters as long as they've looted all the items from the corpse. In range of skinnable corpse out of range of skinnable corpse Leather is also used for some blacksmithing, engineering, and tailoring recipes. Leather, hides and scales are used for leatherworking. most birds cannot be skinned despite being beasts.

Not all mobs of each type can be skinned, e.g. Skinning allows players to gather leather, Hides and scales by skinning certain mobs ( beasts, demon beasts, dragonkin, silithid, some nerubians and, very rarely, humanoids).

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