Skinning Guide for Dragonflight (2024)

By taking the Bait CrafterMastery talents, you can start gathering Obsidian Cobraskin, the new Dreaming Antler Fragment, and previously grey Auric Fleece, all ofwhich should be great gold makers going forward. The bait locations for each ofthe items are shown in the screenshots below:

Skinning is responsible for processing the corpses of DragonflightBeasts into skins and hides widely used by Leatherworking and toa lesser extent by other specializations. They can also craft Lures andBaits, such as Temporal Dragonhead Lure or Titan-Infused Creature Bait which allow for more targeted material farming.

In Dragonflight, multiple skinners can skin the same mob, as long asthey were in the group responsible for its tagging or no skinners were presentin the group that tagged. This opens up efficient group farming for skins andremoves the risk of ninja looting by other players in the area.

Dragonflight also introduces Crafting Specializations, which youare able to unlock once your profession skill hits 25. These serve as a professiontalent tree system fueled by Skinning Knowledge, obtained from weekly quests,one-time treasures in the Dragon Isles, Draconic Treatises, and first-time crafts.

While you will eventually be able to unlock all talents, doing so will requirea long time as the sources of knowledge are very limited, especially once one-timetreasures and first-crafts are exhausted.

Devastation Evokers with their unique Dracthyr mobilityabilities, Soar and 2% baseline Perception gain racial, are greatoptions for skinning.

The very best skinners, however, should be WorgenBeast Mastery Hunters and Guardian Druids, who benefit from theability to quickly round up a lot of beasts to kill safely, while also havingextra skinning skill and increased skinning speed!

Dragonflight introduces three new stats specific to gatheringprofessions: Perception, Deftness, and Finesse.

We explain what each stat does and how to maximize them in the specialized guidebelow:

Skinning can make great use of all three stats, but you might want to focuson specific stats for different playstyles. We go into detail with Skinning statsand the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

You can gather four base skin types:

Resilient Leather, which are skinned from any non-Dragon andnon-Scalehide beasts, who give Adamant Scales, instead.

Rarely, you can find Dense Hide from regular beasts and Lustrous Scaled Hide from Dragons and Scalehides, instead!

Some enemy types can drop unique types of skins, such as Rockfang Leather,which comes from Rockfang Cats / Tiger beasts. You can also find:

• Windsong Plumage from Ohuna Bird enemies;
• Crystalspine Fur from Crystalspine Quillbeast enemies;
• Salamanther Scales from Salamanther Lizard enemies;
• Pristine Vorquin Horn from Vorquin Stag enemies;
• Fire-Infused Hide from specific Fire Beast enemies;
• Cacophonous Thunderscale from Thunder Lizard enemies.

Skinning is perhaps the easiest primary profession to level, as all you needto do is kill and skin mobs, without any real concern for your own skill levelor enemy levels and modifiers.

Regardless, you should still take into account the racials of the characteryou are leveling on and learn about the knowledge points you will need to advanceyour Specializations, both of which are discussed in our specialized guidebelow:

Skinning Specializations dictate what enemies you are most proficient at Skinning,and you can even learn how to craft Baits and Lures with the BaitCrafter tree!

As Skinning is so easy to level, we would recommend you to quickly unlock alltrees, starting with Harvesting for its damage benefit while leveling,while deciding what tree to specialize into later.

Skinning Specializations are divided into three disciplines, each with multiplesub-specializations within, which can be unlocked as you put points into theirpre-requisite disciplines, akin to talent trees.

Tanning is what you need inorder to learn how to refine hides to maximum Quality. Depending on whatyou invest into, you will learn how to refine Hides, Leather, andScales, and also gain more skill and secondary stats while skinning enemies.

Harvesting has a great firstpoint benefit, which increases your damage against Dragons and Beasts in the outdoorzones, allowing you to level and skin faster.

Beyond that, you can learn how to occasionally loot Curiously-Shaped Stomachwhen skinning, which contain Enchanting materials and other useful goodies,how to gather more unique skins from enemies with Trophy Collector, how tocraft Fishing baits with Lure Crafter, and how to gather moremeat from enemies with Meat Carver.

Bait Crafter has nodes thatteach you how to craft Baits, such as Elusive Creature Bait.

You can also learn how to infuse them with elemental power in order to targetfarm-specific Awakened Essences with the Elemental Infusion tree.

Skinning makes gold by farming skins in the Dragon Isles, with rarerskins being looted based on your Perception stat.

As skins are a common ingredient for Leatherworking, try to sellyours in raid days, when Leatherworkers are more likely to be looking to createand sell their wares. The Oribos Exchangecan also help you understand the price fluctuation for skins in yourserver, and which skins are best to farm at any given moment.

We have a specialized guide for Dragonflight gold-making below, which containsa gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successfulgold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!