Last night I completed Phase 2 of my plan to switch Bzak to Skinning/Leatherworking over Mining/Engineering. Phase 2 consisted of dropping Mining and levelling Skinning.
It took me about 3 nights of play (but less than 1 day of /played time) to get Skinning to 375. so it wasn't too bad. I had hoped to come across more people in Nagrand completing their Mastery quests, but last night everyone doing them apparently were also Skinners because the free skins were few and far between. This just meant that Nomnomnom and Bzak had to chain kill Talbuk after Talbuk and Clefthoof anfter Clefthoof.
All said and done, I walked away with the following...start to finish.
55 Leather Scraps
137 Light Leather
95 Medium Leather
188 Heavy Leather
211 Thick Leather
76 Rugged Leather
242 Knothide Leather Scraps
154 Knothide Leather
35 Thick Clefthoof Leather
11 Fel Scales
3 Fel Hides
My route consisted of the beginning levels in Elwynn Forest, Eastvale Logging Camp and Thesalmar then moving to the Wetlands and the area around and in the Yeti cave near Southshore. From there I went to Stranglethorn Vale where the majority of my levelling occured on the Raptors near the Gurubashi Arena. From there I went to the Blasted Lands and finally hopped a boat and flew to Azshara to kill Hyppogryphs and Turtles. This got me to 300 and then it was off to Outlands.
Outlands was much simpler consisting of Fel and Hellboars in Hellfire and then the Ravagers on the road to Terrokar Forest. After hitting 330 on the Ravagers, the remaining 45 levels were all done on Talbuks and Clefthoof in Nagrand.
All in all...much easier to level Skinning than Mining.
