Top 3 Best Skinning Spots (so far!) in Shadowlands



Shadowlands is a week in and we can finally talk about the best spots for Skinning in WoW, without risking everything definitively getting nerfed. Today weā€™re looking at the top 3 skinning spots Iā€™ve found so far. As much as the goldmaking community improved in BfA, Iā€™m sure weā€™re going to see just as much farming improvement in Shadowlands, so I doubt these will be the best long term, but theyā€™re good enough for now. If you find anything better, let me know. šŸ™‚

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29 thoughts on “Top 3 Best Skinning Spots (so far!) in Shadowlands”

  1. Looks like Blizz beat me to the punch and nerfed the cave spot already. I'm recording all the nerfs again like we did for BfA, does anyone know when approximate time/date it happened? Also, big props to blizz for finally including some goldmaking and profession nerfs in the patch notes. Now we just need to convince them to let us know when they do things like this.

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  2. Great video for those skinners who like to put in the work.. Now here's the secret to getting several thousand leather an hour.. find a skinning spot that has a World Quest dropped on top of it. Yesterday in EU it was the Gorms in Ardenweald. Day before it was snake thingies in Bastion. Find this spot. Wait till peak time. Around abouts when people get home from work, and go and skin the mobs there.. no need to kill. If you're on a high pop server there should be people constantly killing for you. You just need to run and skin. I did this yesterday for 3 hours at the Gorm spot and got in excess of 10k base leather. As an extra boost, if the WQ happens to coincide with the Calling Zone of the day, even more people will flock to that WQ. Enjoy..

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  3. There was a world quests just north of Hero's Rest in Bastion with aggressive dragonbirds yesterday in packs of 2-5, and they forced respawn. They're all around the turtle elite, and there are additional beasts around them as well.

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  4. I love this thank you Reckles. In your search did you come across anything like the Tiragarde Sound dogs? Where you kill 8 things, wait 60s, and then they all respawn at the same time and you kill em again? I know it might not be a top-tier spot but I loved that farm.

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  5. Hey just thought I'd point out something I found that seems to have held true in my experience so far in SL. If you tag a mob first, it seems to know you have skinning and thus is not skinnable by others. I frustrated many a bot, and people trying to push me out of my farm via this method so I have to assume there is now some check that looks to see if the initial tagger has skinning and will hold it only for that person for a period of time before opening up to the rest of the world.

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  6. So at around 48, 58 in bastion there's a cave with about 8-10 mobs that force spawn and can be skinning. It's another one of those caves like mentioned in the video. I found the spot pretty early into shadowlands and had no competition, which net me around 3500 leather in about 2 hours of farming (if i'm remembering correctly), ontop of w/e else came with it. However, I just checked the spot today and on my server there are dozens of people farming it, which makes it pretty non viable. I have a feeling the spot is going to get nerfed soon, due to the nature of having such extreme forced spawns, so for those of you who can take advantage of it go for it i say. And if it's been nerfed since this comment feel free to let me know lol

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  7. Came over from Twitch to comment per request šŸ™‚ Thanks again for the great content.

    When there is a WQ going on, seems like there is the potential for bodies just being left on the ground to skin as well.

    From Twitch: "A potential spot I ran into last night was around the big rare turtle that throws up a treasure chest in Bastion… was a WQ going on at same time i think, bodies galore just being left by everyone.."

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  8. Another way which I don't think blizz will nerf is going to a world quest that you have to kill beasts. They respawn very fast because there are so many people and I also love the free skins!

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  9. By far the best way ive found currently is hitting a couple world quest zones (specifically mid bastion) during semi peak hours and go nuts skinning all the things other people are killing. I did this for a couple hours and got about 2-3k leather per hour with a pretty good haul of callous and heavy as well. You miss out on enemy drops but I was effectively non stop skinning. Once true peak time hits it can be difficult because of the way skinning works if a skinner was the one who killed the mob. Not sure exactly how it works but it seems to give them sole rights to it.

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