Best Bait Crafter Process Talent Build Guide for Skinning in Dragonflight

The Bait Crafter tree enables the creation of Elusive Creature Bait, a special craft with a baseline cooldown of 12 hours, which can be reduced by skinning enemies during its cooldown.

This cooldown reduction can be increased by allocating points into the various nodes of the specialization, but beware of using Elusive Creature Bait at low levels, as the enemies called by it might be of maximum level and too much for you to handle!

1. 10 points into Bait Crafter for pathing;
2. 40 points into Mastery to enable the summoning of special creatures with special rewards;
3. 15 points into Bait Crafter to unlock Bottled Pheromones which can facilitate enemy grouping when farming;
4. Learn Elemental Infusion (no knowledge point investment required) to enable creation of Frost-Infused Creature Bait for Awakened Frost farming;
5. 15 points into Bait Crafter for maximum cooldown reduction on Elusive Creature Bait;
6. 40 points into Elemental Infusion to unlock Titan-Infused Creature Bait for valuable Awakened Order farming.

The Mastery build focuses on reducing the cooldown on Elusive Creature Bait as much and as quickly as possible, allowing you to farm more rare enemies. The final point of Mastery also unlocks the summoning of special creatures in special locations with Elusive Creature Bait, which have special rewards such as Obsidian Cobraskin, the new Dreaming Antler Fragment, and previously grey Auric Fleece, all of which are very valuable!

The bait locations for each of the items are shown in the screenshots below:

1. 10 points into Bait Crafter for pathing;
2. 40 points into Elemental Infusion to unlock Titan-Infused Creature Bait for valuable Awakened Order farming;
3. 15 points into Bait Crafter to unlock Bottled Pheromones which can facilitate enemy grouping when farming;
4. Learn Mastery (no knowledge point investment required) to reduce the cooldown on Elusive Creature Bait;
5. 15 points into Bait Crafter to further reduce the cooldown on Elusive Creature Bait;
6. 40 points into Mastery for maximum cooldown reduction on Elusive Creature Bait.

With these talents, you can quickly unlock Awakened Essence farm with Skinning, by crafting Elemental-Infused Baits. These require two Rousing Essences to be used in their creation, but the amount you get back from killing the lured mob is well worth your while!