Dragonflight Skinning Boost

Is WoW Skinning Useful?

The obvious benefit of Dragonflight Skinning is collecting the various leathers, hides, and scales needed to create items for Leatherworking, but Skinning in Dragonflight has so much more to offer. Scales and specialty leathers are a common reagent in Dragonriding mount customizations created by Inscription, so they will also be in great demand. It has the most interesting specialization tree of all the gathering professions, with some truly novel and exciting possibilities. Skinning now has a small crafting component unique to them as gatherers, since with the Lure Crafter talents, they can create special fish lures such as Thousandbite Piranha Lure for targeting specific fish. Other sub-specialties for Skinners give them the ability to harvest meat and skins, which is excellent for cooking.

Most interesting is the Bait Crafter specialty. Instead, the skinner can create bait to lure special skinnable creatures in the Dragon Isles, including Rares and Elites! Even opening the Harvesting talent tree gives Skinners increased damage against beasts and dragonkin while adventuring outdoors in the Dragon Isles, so this should always be your first pick.

Leatherworking is the primary user of Skinner's wares. Still, as mentioned above, Inscription also has a high demand for Flawless Proto Dragon Scale and Rockfang Leather for Dragonriding mount customizations. Skinners are the source of all fish-specific lures, such as Cerulean Spinefish Lure in the Dragon Isles, and you'll need scales to create those as well. Other than the ability to combine scraps into leathers through several expansions, Skinners have never had items they could craft directly. These baits cannot be acquired in any other way.

New Dragonflight Skinning Specializations

Each Profession has its own set of unique Specializations, tailored to fit and enhance crafting and gathering capabilities thematically. Skinning in Dragonflight is no exception, with access to these Specializations: Tanning, Harvesting, and Bait Crafter. In total, Skinners will need to spend 400 Knowledge points to max out their Specializations: 120 in Tanning, 160 in Harvesting, and 120 in Bait Crafter.

• Tanning - allows you to learn to refine your skins and scales from Quality 1 to Quality 3, as well as specialize in either Leather Mastery or Scale Mastery. This will improve your relative skill, Deftness, Perception, and Finesse when skinning. Improving Quality is almost always a money-losing proposition, since you must combine x5 of a lower quality to turn it into x1 of the next higher quality. Sell your lower-level skins and hides and buy the higher quality when you need it.
• Harvesting - has three interesting sub-specializations, one of which introduces a potentially valuable crafting component. Lure Crafter allows you to make fish-specific Fishing Lures such as Thousandbite Piranha Lure, including the skill to find one of the ingredients only Skinners can produce to make them. Since this is the only source for fish-specific Fishing Lures in Dragonflight, this gives Skinners a corner on this market. Meat Carver gives you a chance to butcher Meat off kills as well as harvest them for skins, which is valuable for Cooking. Trophy Collector increases your chance of collecting rare species-specific gathers.
• Bait Crafter - allows you to craft Elusive Creature Bait, which draws Elusive, Rare, and even Elite skinnable monsters to you. Mastery further hones your ability to make the most of your creature bait, reducing the cooldown and giving you better chances to get more interesting mobs. Elemental Infusion allows you to learn Infusions, which imbue lured creatures with elemental properties of Frost, Decay, Titan, or Earth, giving you chances to loot corresponding Rousing Essences. Not only that, many of these Elusive creatures can be Tamed by Hunters, and there are some recolors that only seem to be available through this system, such Elusive Rimeclaw Bear with green or purple back spikes. Anyone can tame these, but only Bait Crafters can summon them. Any specific Elusive creature is a totally random summon.

How do I learn Skinning in Dragonflight?

Skinning in Dragonflight is the one profession you don't have to go to a trainer to learn, although you can do that if you wish to. If you know basic Skinning going into Dragonflight, all you have to do is skin something, and you're learn Dragonflight Skinning. Simple as that!

If you don't know any Skinning going into the Dragon Isles or wish to switch to Dragonflight Skinning, you'll have to see a trainer to learn basic WoW Skinning first.

• Ralathor the Rugged - Valdrakken, Thaldraszus, /way 28.0, 60.6.
• Makhul - Timberstep Outpost, Ohn´aran Plains /way 84.4 23.2.

What profession goes with WoW Skinning?

Dragonflight Skinning provides valuable leather, hides, and scales for Leatherworking and is a great source of steady income. Only with this profession will you get maximum effort from your crafting and gathering profession and make a lot of gold and valuable items and consumables for yourself. You could choose another crafting profession and sell all your materials on Auction House.