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Skinning Guides
Skinning is an easy process that should be done every time you kill an enemy that is skinnable. When you've killed an enemy (usually a beast, but can vary) then loot its corpse. Make sure it's completely empty and then over it and look for the words "skinnable" in the tooltip. If it's skinnable and you have to the skill level to do it (see further below) then you can begin the process of skinning!
To skin an enemies corpse simply right click on it (a skinning icon should appear when you hover over it). A bar will appear letting you know the time it takes to cast (which depends on what rank you have in skinning, can go up to 3 seconds) and will continue until finished. If you succeed then you'll enter loot mode (unless you have auto-loot on or shift-clicked the corpse) and be able to pick up whatever leathers/hides/scales the enemy has. If you fail then you simply try again.
The reason skinning is attractive as a profession is because you don't have to hunt down any minerals or plants. All of the leather comes from enemies you have slain, providing you with some easy extra income. Well, you do have to hunt down the skinnable enemies, but at least when they defeated you can loot whatever they have, gain XP, and then get some extra bonus loot!
The difficulty of a corpse depends entirly on the level of the enemy when it was alive. When your skill is below 100 you can skin anything that is your ((Skill Level)/10)+10. For instance, having 40 skill points in Skinning would be ((40/10)+10 = 14. After 100 skill points in Skinning the formula changes to Skill Level/5. For instance, having 200 skill in Skinning would allow you to skin enemies up to level 40.
If an enemy is skinnable then the tooltip will have a color with it. Depending on that color is if you can skin the enemy or not.
Red: Can not skin the enemy and require more skill with Skinning before you can.
Orange/Yellow/Green: You can skin it with decent (Orange is more difficult then Green) success. Orange has a great chance to give you a skill gain, yellow has an alright chance to give you a skill gain, and green has a fair chance to give you a skill gain.
Grey: You can skin it with 100% success, but there will be no skill gain.
