Help on skinning

[Cataleya]

I have just completed the intro quest (cut down a few trees) and then chosen skinning as my primary. I also bought an old skinning knife and put it into my belt.

How do I actually skin? I understand that with mines, trees, plants etc there are nodes around the place - but where are the hide nodes. I presumed they were the creatures I killed but after killing a variety of them around me I couldnt figure out how to do it.

Any help for this confused noob please...

[Roo]

You have to skin things like boars, wolves, etc (not sure if there's any other way). Just right click them once they're dead and looted. You'll then proceed to skin them. Then just loot them again for the hide.

[Galagah]

Only certain animals can be skinned , and they have to be lvl 5 or above ( there are a couple of exceptions to this rule of lvl 5+ but not many ) .
Tend to find lizards , wolves , lions , some snakes , drakes etc to be skinnable .

Bascially when you kill the mob , if theres no loot on it and its skinnable , you'll get eh pickaxe icon appear virtually straight away after it died . If the mob has loot , you need to empty it first .

[Cataleya]

Great, thanks for the help folks. I was doing the right thing then - just too low level atm.

[tehgeek]

Originally Posted by Galagah

Only certain animals can be skinned , and they have to be lvl 5 or above ( there are a couple of exceptions to this rule of lvl 5+ but not many ) .
Tend to find lizards , wolves , lions , some snakes , drakes etc to be skinnable.

Maybe I'm not bugged then. I've been trying to figure out what I can skin since picking my skill and can't find anything within the level range. I thought maybe I had to go for level 1 animals or something (as plants show as level 1). I was trying things that show as skin-able at my level but it tells me they are to high for me but that level is only animals I've found that has the pickaxe thingy when I kill them.

[Ysharros]

At 1-100 skinning you're looking at level 5-12(ish) critters, if things are the same as they used to be when I had a skinner in beta. Much higher than that and you're looking at the next tier, which won't be open to you yet. Lower level critters used to be skinnable but aren't anymore, which is probably a good thing - before that you could pretty much skill up to 100 on the dregs of any starting area - now you actually have to get out and about a little bit.

[Jelonna]

I was killing some level 5-ish bears today around Tursh with about 118 or so skill...and suddenly I was getting ratty(tier 2) strips off them...and even a scraggly or whatever the tier 2 rare is...then later I was killing some Maplelynn stalkers and howlers which are 7-9 or so and was back to mangled same with the level 9-ish turtles around Themnwar's Shield.

Soooo is it my skinning level relative to the mobs level that enables me to get higher level stuff or was that a glitch on the bears?

[tehgeek]

Well I'm not sure what I did (or Sigil did), but I went back to the boars by Tursh that I know I've tried a bunch of times before and BAM, it worked. I got to 100 skill level in like 30mins or less but my connection to the server was really unstable for some reason (had a few bugs with regard to hair/re-login location/ect.) so I ended up just calling it a night.

[Ysharros]

It sounds like those boars? bears? may have been (or still be) flagged for more than one tier of resource, like the treants near Leth Nurae. Some of the level 9 ones wandering around yield tier 1 wood, some yield tier 2. Seemed odd to me at the time but it's sort of a nice bonus when you get to where you can harvest the T2.