Skinning in WoW Forever

What Skinning does in WoW Forever

Looking for Light Hide? Current Forever uploads on Wowhead list it from skinning 200 creatures. It is a low-rate bonus hide, not a guaranteed result: large samples of common level 11–20 beasts sit around 5%, so keep skinning along your leveling route instead of camping one named mob. Greater Plainstriders in The Barrens, Moonstalkers in Darkshore and Elder Black Bears in Loch Modan are three current large-sample examples. One Light Hide plus one Salt makes one Cured Light Hide for early Leatherworking.

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

A creature can be skinned once, as in Classic. For the first two weeks of the beta every skinner in a group could skin the same corpse; Blizzard’s October 1 notes ended that.

Skinning camp objects

Skinning camp objects in beta client build 1.60.1.70755 (effects at level 60; hover or tap an icon for its tooltip)

Tier	Camp object and what it does	Skill
Tier 1	Camp Chair — 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.	20
Tier 2	Field Guide — Places a Field Guide that allows players to read it and gain Track Beasts, and provides all the benefits of a Camp Chair.	140 · Blueprint
Tier 3	Trapper's Workbench — Places a Trapper's Workbench containing 1 trap, and provides all the benefits of a Camp Chair.	300 · Blueprint

• Plan a camp with Skinning: our WoW Forever Camping Planner adds the rest of your party, the campfire and the Legacy perks.

Does the Skinning camp buff stack with class buffs?

The class buff that the beta client says Skinning’s camp buff doesn’t stack 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.

Skinning recipes in the beta client

The beta client (build 1.60.1.70755) has no Skinning recipes apart from the camp objects above.

Skinning in the Legacy system

Forever’s account-wide Legacy system gives tradeskill Legacy Points only for primary professions that aren’t gathering ones, so Skinning earns none. These perks still 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 of a random Elemental Essence 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.