Skinning in WoW Forever

Skinning, the third gathering profession you can get free early on, brings a Camp Chair at skill 20 with 2% critical strike for the camp, a Field Guide that grants Track Beasts and a Trapper’s Workbench that holds one trap.

Camp objects and buffs as on our WoW Forever professions and camping page, from Blizzard’s Deep Dive recap and Wowhead’s and Icy Veins’ beta guides; recipes from beta client build 1.60.1.69913. Last reviewed: .

What Skinning does in WoW Forever

With the Field Guide, Track Beasts — a hunter ability in Classic — comes from a camp object, per Wowhead’s beta guide.

Skinning camp objects

Skinning camp objects in the beta, by tier (Wowhead’s beta guide; skill from the beta client)
TierCamp object and what it doesSkill
Tier 1Camp Chair — 2% critical strike20
Tier 2Field Guide — grants Track Beasts140
Tier 3Trapper’s Workbench — holds one trap300
  • The beta client (build 1.60.1.69913) has Skinning’s camp recipes at skill 20, 140 and 300.
  • You need the profession to place an object, but anyone resting at the camp gets its effect. Objects can be traded, and crafting one makes two.
  • How campfires, resting and the shared one-hour cooldown work: WoW Forever professions and camping.

Does the Skinning camp buff stack with class buffs?

Camp buffs are variants of buffs that classes already bring, and Blizzard says they don’t stack with them: a camp fills in for a missing class rather than adding a second buff.

None of our sources names a class buff that one of Skinning’s camp objects collides with.

Get Skinning free in the starter zone

A quest at about level 3–4 in the starter zones rewards a choice of three manuals: Herbalism, Mining or Skinning. Per Wowhead’s roundup of Blizzard’s panels, the manual teaches you the profession if you don’t have it yet and don’t already have two professions.

New Skinning recipes in the beta client

The beta client (build 1.60.1.69913) has no Skinning recipes that Classic Era (1.15.9.69722) doesn’t have, apart from the three camp objects above.

Skinning in the Legacy system

Forever’s account-wide Legacy system gives a Legacy Point the first time you take a tradeskill to 150, 225 and 300 skill, so Skinning alone is worth three. These perks touch it (first rank, as seen in the demo):

  • Bountiful Harvest (Professions tree): Find 20% more Scarce materials through Mining, Herbalism and Skinning.
  • Working Overtime (Professions tree): 4% higher chance of a skill-up from primary, secondary and class tradeskills.
  • Dedicated Study (Professions tree): Raises your lowest primary or secondary tradeskill by 1. Once both primary tradeskills and all three secondary ones reach 300, it gives 2 to 4 random Elemental Essences instead. 25 sec cast, 23 hr cooldown.
  • Reagent Economy (Resourcefulness tree): Class abilities no longer need reagents bought from vendors, and Tier 1 camping features cost no reagents to craft.
  • Field Guide (Adventure tree): The cooldown for adding camping features is 8% shorter.
  • Permanence (Resourcefulness tree): Your long-duration party and raid buffs, and the benefits of resting at a camp, last 50% longer.

Every perk, its tree and where it was seen: WoW Forever Legacy system.