25th February 2009

Can You Skin Your Way to Gold Farming Riches

What would you say to the idea that there’s a way to make massive amounts of gold fast, while you attend to your other business in the game? You might say I’m lying, but you would be wrong to do so. One great way to grind out massive gold farming profits is through skinning. Yes, boring old skinning. Believe it or not, when it comes to earning gold, skinning is the most efficient profession in the game.

Skinning is a great way to make lots of gold because you can complete it during the course of your travels without having to return to any zones or anything. Most World of Warcraft gold guides don’t have any special directions or zones to visit because you don’t need them. You can skin as you kill regular mobs. What’s even better is that anyone who is not a skinner will leave their kills just lying there for the first skinner that comes along. That means you can make significant gold easily without risking your own skin killing the mobs.

Which Places are the Prime Spots for Skinning?

While you can make serious coin just skinning wherever you happen to be, if you really want to rack up the gold, a good guide should be able to point you to some locations where you should spend more time searching for creatures and carcasses to skin. At lower levels, these areas are the ones like Stranglethorn Vale, where everyone and their brother is doing hunting quests. The expedition mastery quests, which combine to make up 60 separate kills for each player, mean that there will be bodies lying around all over the zone for you to skin at will.

What Kind of to Skin

If you’re just starting out in the game, the answer to the question of what to skin is simple: anything you can get your hands on. If it’s skinnable, you should go for it. Taking this approach will help you to build up an early war chest. That said, there will be instances where focusing most of your energy on particular types of mobs can really pay off. After all, you can only skin so many carcasses per hour, so you will want to focus your efforts a little more concertedly toward certain mobs than others, especially when there’s a good chance that you’ll end up with rare leather drops.

Here’s one example. In Outland you can earn lots of gold from mobs that drop Knothide Leather, and even more from drops of Heavy Knothide Leather. For this reason, Nagrand is obviously a very popular hangout for skinners. Most World of Warcraft gold guides specifically direct players to hang out in Nagrand and pick off any of the 180 different kills each player must complete for the Nagrand mastery quests. There are a lot of mobs out here that are skinnable and they respawn constantly. With a good World of Warcraft gold guide in hand you will make a fortune in no time.

The keys to skinning for gold are in knowing where to be, when to be there and how long to spend there skinning. If you can get efficient at every step of skinning and hunting for gold, you can make up to 150-200 gold an hour at the highest level of the game.

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