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The original was posted on /r/wow by /u/SeraphStarchild on 2026-08-12 15:10:09+00:00.

I was excited for all of ten seconds into Witherbark village because damn if there weren't a lot of things to skin all over the place. Except, they're all tagged to only give you Torn Material, which sells for a grand one and a half silver. I'm on the skybridge at the moment and everything is the same, just dropping a different named trash item. Why are these even tagged as skinnable in the first place?

Low level skinning has also been fucked since the start of the expansion. Outside of dungeons, skinning in TBC or Wrath areas (possibly others, I haven't checked) only gives you exactly one piece of leather per skin. It's something to do with housing, because in the pre-patch for Midnight, I was getting Khaz Algar skinning levels from Outland mobs.

A lot of things have pissed me off about this patch already, but not being able to gather materials for my profession unless I specifically go out of my way to do so is a pain in the ass, especially when it's teased that I should be able to do so.