Best Stats and Gear Guide for Skinning in Midnight

All stats have their uses, but for Skinning we recommend focusing on Finesse in order to maximize your overall loot, unless you are specialized into hunting Majestic Beasts for their epic skins, in which case Perception is much more valuable, as you want to maximize the odds of getting the best loot when killing your lured targets daily.

Deftness is also a strong stat for Skinning, specifically because you can often farm hyperspawns with little movement involved, and thus much of your time will be spent on killing and skinning everything!

For more information on profession stats and gear, please refer to our dedicated guide below:

Skinners, like most other professions, can use three pieces of gear at once, 1 tool and 2 accessories. Epic-quality items are best in slot.

Item	Type	Source
Sunforged Skinning Knife	Tool	Blacksmithing
Thalassian Wildseeker's Workbag	Accessory	Leatherworking
Thalassian Wildseeker's Stridercap	Accessory	Leatherworking

Quality is a big factor in the stats you can get from the gear. Green versions are bind on equip and from trainer recipes, but blue and higher versions require specialization, faction, or renown grinding for their recipe and are bind on pickup, requiring you to submit a Crafting Order for them.

Also, remember to enchant your primary tool with Enchant Tool - Amani Perception, Enchant Tool - Sin'dorei Deftness, or Enchant Tool - Haranir Finesse, depending on your farming focus.

Use Blacksmithing-crafted Refulgent Razorstone and Alchemy-crafted Haranir Phial of Finesse or Haranir Phial of Perception to temporarily increase your gathering stats while going out Skinning.

Skinning cannot make gear for use by other professions.