Slow Day

Good Morning. Well Afternoon for me.

So it has been a slow day for progress on my post, but a busy day otherwise, hence the delay.

Lets talk about a gathering profession today.

Skinning - The best gathering profession for ease of use.

Lets go over some good points -

You can level skinning from your starting zone.

You can skin other people's kills (after they have looted)

You can skin critters (deer, rabbit etc.)

Leather is sweet money - Leatherworking, engineering, blacksmithing and tailoring all use leathers for some recipies.

When you hit northrend you have a chance to skin arctic fur, a rare and valuable item.

So why pick up skinning? Well if the above reasons weren't sufficient, take these thoughts into consisderation. You are leveling by questing and killing things. You kill, get the xp, then loot the corpse for the vendor trash it likely has on it. You make marginal profits and AH any greens you find that aren't an upgrade. Now, same scenario but you have skinning. Whenever you kill something that is skinnable, you skin it and get the hide/leather/scraps. You take that skinned product and list that on the AH with the greens I mentioned before and you are making money even faster. Also, you can effectively "loot" other people's kills by skinning those kills for more leather - there are no loot rules, meaning you dont even have to be in the same party, or even the same faction!

I will try to post about herbalism later today. If not today, then you know the post for tomorrow!

-Whø