The big update in WoW has happened. Dragonflight presents a redesign of the professions with many additions and changes. This guide is dedicated to the Skinning profession, so you will find all the information you need to learn this profession.
Dragonflight Skinning Bonuses & Benefits
Skinning is easy: you kill beast-like enemies and then skin them to get your loot. There are many kinds of leather, hides, and scales that you can gather in the Dragon Islands. A small list of bonuses that Skinning provides you with:
- The most important thing about the Skinning profession is that it is cumulative and beneficial to Leatherworkers. The resources that you can collect with Skinning, such as leather and furs, will always be in demand by other players, which means that there will always be a demand for your goods at auctions and you can earn gold from it;
- While the basic gameplay of Skinning remains largely unchanged in Dragonflight, a new consumable has been added that is designed to give Skinners a new form of play: Creature Baits. Skinners will be able to create and place Creature Baits to lure elusive creatures out of hiding;
- A useful new recipe: Bottled Pheromones – pull mobs towards them for easy Skinning. It’s not yet known how long it lasts, but it’s already a fantastic quality of life-benefit to reduce downtime while gathering.
5.0Dragonflight Skinning Changes
Let’s take a look at the changes to the Skinning profession that came with the Dragonflight update:
- Crafting Orders – is a new system where you can request to order an item in two ways: through a local player or through an NPC;
- Crafting Tables – a place where you can experiment with new crafting recipes;
- Item Quality – the higher the level of the item, the more powerful the item will be after creation;
- Recrafting Items – if you have created an item of poor quality, you can use your new knowledge to remake that item to make it better;
- New Profession gear – not only gives bonuses but also saves space in the inventory;
- Gathering Stats – this is a new addition to the resource gather system. Finesse gives you the ability to gather additional resources, as well as a slight increase in gathering speed. Deftness increases your gathering rate compared to Finesse. Perception gives you a much better chance of getting additional rare materials when gathering. Increase these characteristics with professional equipment and specialization of your profession;
- Skinning now has 3 specializations: Tanning is represented by talents that allow you to gather raw materials, Harvesting is represented by talents that allow you to gather special materials from creatures, Bait Crafter is represented by talents that allow you to craft decoys.
To delve deeper into these issues, check out our Dragonflight Professions guide for a more detailed description of all the changes that have taken place with the release of Dragonflight.
Dragonflight Skinning Equipment
Every profession in Dragonflight has unique gear. This means that when a profession is used, your character visually transforms into the special gear associated with that same profession, all other times you will look like a normal Druid. Take a look at the equipment for Skinning: a knife, a fur hat, and a backpack.
Unfortunately, this equipment is not transmoggable.
Dragonflight Skinning Specializations
Here are all the specializations available for Skinning, we have described each of them in detail so that you can comfortably learn all information.
Tanning
Specialize in collecting unprocessed, common materials such as leather, scales, and hides of creatures from the Dragon Isles.
Tanning (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain +1 Skill to skinning, improving your skills and general Skinning techniques.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- The chance to collect hides when Skinning creatures on the Dragon Isles;
- Up to +10 Deftness at Skinning;
- Any sub-specialization of your choice;
- Up to +10 Finesse at Skinning;
- Learning how to improve poor-quality hides by recycling them from raw materials;
- Up to +10 Perception at Skinning;
- Learning how to further improve hides by recycling them from raw materials.
Leather Mastery (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain +1 Skill to Skinning primarily leather-yielding creatures, improving your skills in Skinning leather.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- Learning how to improve poor-quality leather by recycling them from raw materials;
- Up to +30 Finesse at Skinning primarily leather-yielding creatures;
- Up to +20 Skillat Skinning primarily leather-yielding creatures;
- Up to +15 Perception Skinning primarily leather-yielding creatures;
- Learning how to further improve leatherby recycling them from raw materials;
- Up to +15 Deftness Skinning primarily leather-yielding creatures.
Scale Mastery (40 Points). Focus on scale skinning techniques, gaining +1 Skill while skinning primarily scale-yielding creatures per point in this Specialization.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- Learning how to improve poor-quality scales by recycling them from raw materials;
- Up to +30 Finesse Skinning primarily scale-yielding creatures;
- Up to +20 Skill Skinning primarily scale-yielding creatures;
- Up to +15 Perception Skinning primarily scale-yielding creatures;
- Learning how to further improve scales by recycling them from raw materials;
- Up to +15 Deftness Skinning primarily scale-yielding creatures.
Harvesting
Specialize in collecting special materials from creatures you skin, such as morsels for fishing lures, meat for cooking, and materials for specific types needed by crafters.
Harvesting (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain +1 Deftness, improving your efficiency at Skinning.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- A priority for knowledge of anatomy by increasing your damage against dragonkin and beasts when you are outdoors in the Dragon Isles;
- Up to +5 Deftness at Skinning;
- Any sub-specialization of your choice;
- Up to +10 Finesse at Skinning;
- Up to +10 Perception at Skinning;
- The chance while Skinning to find Curiously-Shaped Stomachs.
Lure Crafter (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain a chance of finding pieces when Skinning, improving your skills at collecting useful morsels in the Dragon Isles.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- The chance to gather Bite-Sized Morsels while Skinning;
- Up to +15 Deftness at Skinning;
- Learning how to craft a Thousandbite Piranha Lure;
- Up to +10 Finesse at Skinning;
- The increased chance to gather Bite-Sized Morsels while skinning;
- Up to +10 Perception at Skinning;
- Learning how to craft a Cerulean Spinefish Lure;
- The chance to gather Exceptional Morsels while Skinning.
Meat Carver (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain an increased chance of finding meat when Skinning, improving your skills to collect meat from certain creatures from the Dragon Isles.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- The chance to gather meat by Skinning some creatures of the Dragon Isles;
- Up to +20 Finesse at Skinning;
- The little chance to gather meat by Skinning some creatures of the Dragon Isles;
- Up to +15 Deftness at Skinning;
- An increase your knowledge by learning a new technique that allows you to occasionally get extra meat when you Skinning certain creatures from the Dragon Isles;
- An increased chance, for your carving skill, of getting extra meat when skinning some Dragon Isles creatures when you honed your abilities.
Trophy Collector (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain +1 Perception at Skinning, improving your skills in identifying rare materials.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- The increased chance to gather species-specific reagents from Dragon Isles creatures;
- Up to +25 Deftness at Skinning;
- Up to +20 Finesse at Skinning;
- Up to +15 Perception at Skinning;
- The search master of rare materials gets up to +50 Perception at Skinning.
Bait Crafter
Specialize in creating bait to lure out elusive creatures based on where you place it. This bait has a long cooldown, but the elusive creatures tend to have better materials when skinned.
Bait Crafter (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain +1 Finesse at Skinning, learning techniques that will allow you to gather more materials from each creature.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- Learning how to craft Elusive Creature Bait. Elusive creatures tend to be very useful, you can lure them by placing them outdoors on the Dragon Isles;
- Up to +15 Deftness at Skinning;
- Any sub-specialization of your choice;
- Up to +20 Finesse at Skinning;
- Learning how to craft Bottled Pheromones. The Bottled Pheromones will lure to you all the nearest free beasts and dragonkin that can be skinned;
- When Skinning an Elite and Rare creatures, the amount of cooldown returned an Elusive Creature Bait is doubled.
Mastery (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain +1 Deftness at Skinning, improving your coordination.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- When Skinning the amount of cooldown returned an Elusive Creature Bait is increased by a moderate amount;
- When Skinning the amount of cooldown returned an Elusive Creature Bait is increased by a small amount;
- Up to +10 Perception at Skinning;
- The Elusive Creature Bait can sometimes attract elite creatures, which can bring a better Skinning reward;
- Up to +10 Finesse at Skinning;
- When you have reached peak bait use, you can now attract rare creatures in certain locations and skin them for a chance at better rewards.
Elemental Infusion (40 Points). For each point of this specialization, you gain +1 Perception at Skinning, improving your feelings by attuning to the elements.
Mastering this talent you can get:
- Learning how to craft an Infusion: Frost;
- Up to +25 Finesse at Skinning;
- Learning how to craft an Infusion: Earth;
- When Skinning the amount of cooldown returned an Elusive Creature Bait is increased by a small amount;
- Up to +10 Perception at Skinning;
- Learning how to craft an Infusion: Titan.
Dragonflight Skinning Specialization Basics
Start your Skinning specializations at level 25 in Skinning in the Dragon Isles. After reaching this mark, you will unlock others that you can unlock in any order, but for this, you will need a higher level. The Skinning profession has 3 specializations in total: Tanning, Harvesting, and Bait Crafter.
- At Dragon Isles Skinning 25 you gain access to the first specialization;
- At Dragon Isles Skinning 50 you gain access to the second specialization;
- At Dragon Isles Skinning 75 you gain access to the third specialization.
Each specialization in Dragon Isles Skinning Knowledge has a talent tree to track accumulated knowledge. Earn Knowledge Points by completing World Quests and exploring the Dragon Isles. And in order to move to the next level, you will need points, where for every 5 Knowledge points spent on a specialization talent, you get additional bonuses.
Dragonflight Skinning Trainers
If you intend to learn this profession, you need to know which trainers can help you with this, we will also indicate their location:
- Ralathor the Rugged, Valdrakken, Thaldraszus
- Basan, Pinewood Post, Ohn´aran Plains
- Makhul, Timberstep Outpost, Ohn´aran Plains
- Toinaar, Wingrest Embassy, Waking Shores.
Stay tuned for our updates, as soon we are going to tell you about leveling in the Skinning profession. Good luck in your adventures in the Dragon Isles, and don’t forget to rate our guide if it was helpful to you.
