Profession guide · Primary · gathering

Skinning

Skinning gathers materials for the crafting professions. How to train it, how to level it, and its camp objects.

Drunken SafariLast Updated: 24th Oct, 2026

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Source tiers

Official or client data
Verbatim reporting, hands-on
Provisional or placeholder
Our analysis

How we source

55510TrainingApprentice to Artisan

23Trainersin Wowhead’s Forever data

3Camp objectslearned at skill 20, 140, 300

Overview

Pays no Legacy Points (only the six crafting primaries do).

Camp objects

Its three camp objects, with the skill to learn each recipe (and to use the object, where that is higher). Source tier A: A (how camps work)

Object	Skill	Does	Materials	Where to get it
Camp Chair	20	+2% critical strike with spells and attacks; does not stack with Moonkin Aura	3× Light Leather, 2× Simple Wood	source not in the data
Field Guide	140	a readable book that grants Track Beasts	3× Medium Leather, 1× Fine Thread, 2× Slimy Murloc Scale	source not in the data
Trapper's Workbench	300	Requires Skinning (300) · Use: Places a Trapper's Workbench containing 1 trap, and provides all the benefits of a Camp Chair. Requires a Campfire nearby. May be placed over a Camp Chair to replace it. All camping features share a cooldown of 1 hour.	1× Iron Bar, 4× Heavy Leather, 2× Simple Wood	source not in the data

Training

Rank	From skill	Raises cap to	How	Cost
Apprentice	start	75	Trainer	10
Journeyman	50	150	Trainer	5
Expert	125	225	Trainer	50
Artisan	200	300	Trainer	5

Training to Artisan costs 55510 in all.

23 trainers in Wowhead’s Forever data (Alliance 10, Horde 11, Both factions 2)

Alliance

Balthus Stoneflayer (Skinning Trainer) — Ironforge
Brighid Stormflayer (Junior Skinning Trainer) — Dun Morogh
Eladriel (Skinning Trainer) — Darnassus
Helene Peltskinner (Skinner) — Elwynn Forest
Jayla (Skinner) — Ashenvale
Maris Granger (Skinning Trainer) — Stormwind City
Radnaal Maneweaver (Skinner) — Teldrassil
Riley Peltskinner (Junior Skinning Trainer) — Elwynn Forest
Terunne Bearshaper (Junior Skinning Trainer) — Teldrassil
Wilma Ranthal (Skinning Trainer) — Redridge Mountains

Horde

Dranh (Skinner) — The Barrens
Kagil (Junior Skinning Trainer) — Durotar
Killian Hagey (Skinning Trainer) — Undercity
Kulleg Stonehorn (Skinning Trainer) — Feralas
Malux (Skinning Trainer) — Desolace
Margaret Weaver (Junior Skinning Trainer) — Tirisfal Glades
Mooranta (Skinning Trainer) — Thunder Bluff
Nawka Wildsong (Junior Skinning Trainer) — Mulgore
Rand Rhobart (Skinner) — Tirisfal Glades
Thuwd (Skinning Trainer) — Orgrimmar
Yonn Deepcut (Skinner) — Mulgore

Both factions

Ishlee Breezewhisper (Skinner) — Zephras Isle
Mendalass Tattermend (Skinner) — Zephras Isle

Tools

Keep these in your bags; the client’s own data says which recipes need them. Source tier A: A

Tool	Needed by	Where to get one
Skinning Knife	every gather	Skinning Knife, sold by trade-goods vendors (10)

How to level it

Skinning skill rises as you skin. Higher-level beasts need more skill, so skin what you kill as you level and keep your skill near the top of what your zone allows. Wowhead’s Forever data has no Skinning recipe or node list, so there is no route to compute.

Recipes

Every recipe up to skill 300, grouped by the skill you learn it at. Skill-ups shows where it is orange (learned; a point every craft), yellow, green and grey (no more points). The materials’ cost is our launch-day estimate. What it does comes from the client: our item sweep’s tooltip lines and the spell text of each item’s Use or Equip effect.

Apprentice (1–75) 1

Recipe → makes	Skill-ups	Where to get it	Materials	What it does
Camp Chair Common	– 20 22 25 learn at 20	source not in the data	3× Light Leather 2× Simple Wood about 265	Requires Skinning (20) · Use: Assembles a camp chair that allows you and others sitting nearby to gain 2% increased critical strike chance with all spells and attacks, mutually exclusive with Moonkin Aura. Requires a Campfire nearby. All camping features share a cooldown of 1 hour.

Journeyman (76–150) 1

Recipe → makes	Skill-ups	Where to get it	Materials	What it does
Field Guide Common	– 140 142 145 learn at 140	source not in the data	3× Medium Leather 1× Fine Thread 2× Slimy Murloc Scale about 2212	Requires Skinning (140) · Use: Places a Field Guide that allows players to read it and gain Track Beasts, and provides all the benefits of a Camp Chair. Requires a Campfire nearby. May be placed over a Camp Chair to replace it. All camping features share a cooldown of 1 hour.

Artisan (226–300) 1

Recipe → makes	Skill-ups	Where to get it	Materials	What it does
Trapper's Workbench Common	– 300 300 300 learn at 300	source not in the data	1× Iron Bar 4× Heavy Leather 2× Simple Wood about 6146	Requires Skinning (300) · Use: Places a Trapper's Workbench containing 1 trap, and provides all the benefits of a Camp Chair. Requires a Campfire nearby. May be placed over a Camp Chair to replace it. All camping features share a cooldown of 1 hour.

Where this comes from

Source tier A: A Recipes, materials, what they make, rarity, the yellow/grey skill-up points, starter recipes, tools, cooldowns, reputation requirements and each item’s Use or Equip text: the game client’s own tables (build 1.60.1.70532); tooltip lines: our client item sweep of 27 September; camp objects: KB 400.40.1.
Source tier B: B Learn skill, orange/green points, where a recipe comes from, vendors, training costs, trainers and gathering nodes: Wowhead’s Forever dataset, read 24 October (its recipe lists and materials match the client’s, apart from the camp objects of Skinning and Cooking’s Basic Campfire). Reputation requirements and the side of a vendor’s zone are the client’s (A).
Source tier D: D The levelling route and every price: ours (launch-day estimate, then the beta Market), with Classic’s skill-up chance rule, which Forever has not been shown to change. The beta closed on 23 October; launch is 4 November.

Generated 24 October 2026 by genprofessions.py from the client tables (build 70532), Wowhead’s Forever data (24 October) and the launch-day estimate · Last updated 24 October 2026.