WotLK Classic Skinning Carry

Skinning is one of the two main professions available to every player. This is a gathering profession, just like Herbalism and Mining. Skinning occurs with available mobs, mostly Beasts, Dragonkins and some Undead. In order to skin the mobs, you will need a Skinning Knife. The mobs you want to skin must be looted and meet your skinning requirement. You can also skin mobs killed by other players. The main types of leather are Borean Leather, Nerubian Chitin, Jormungar Scale, Icy Dragonscale and Arctic Fur. Borean Leather has 3 types: Borean Leather Scraps, Borean Leather and Heavy Borean Leather. In order to make Borean Leather you need to combine 5 Borean Leather Scraps and this does not require Leatherworking, but in order to make Heavy Borean Leather you need to combine 6 Borean Leather and this already requires Leatherworking. Borean Leather is the most common type of leather, which is obtained from all Beasts. Nerubian Chitin, Jormungar Scale, and Frozen Dragonscale are less common and are found from Beasts, Undead, and Dragonkins. The rarest skin type is Arctic Fur, it can be obtained from any beast with a very low chance, or it can be obtained by exchanging 10 Heavy Borean Leather from Braeg Stoutbeard. The collected materials are used for other professions such as Leatherworking, Engineering, or Tailoring. High-end hides, Arctic Fur and Heavy Borean Leather can be used to trade for leatherworking recipes from Braeg Stoutbeard. Another feature is Master of Anatomy, which grants an additional Critical Strike Rating. This bonus increases as you increase your Skinning skill, for example: Apprentice rank will only give you total +3 Critical Strike Rating, but Grand Master rank will give you +40 Critical Strike Rating. Usually, gathering professions are used combined with craft professions, Leatherworking for example, but even without it Skinning can be quite lucrative.