It's kinda weird, isn't it? Every crafting profession I've had gives a guaranteed skillup when crafting something orange. But skinning for some reason doesn't. Is that intended?

So yeah, it should be:

orange >= 100%
100% > yellow > 50%
50% >= green > 0%
0% >= grey

With the exception that the first yellow skill is always 100%.

You are however not the first person that I have seen mentioning this.. so might be a bug or a skinning unique thing?

Well it's not because I consistently don't get skillups from orange

g0bledyg00k wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Well it's not because I consistently don't get skillups from orange

Yes

Have you checked that you are not max skill?

I've done this with all gathering professions incl skinning. I gather for like 10 mins and wondering why I don't get any skillups and I look at my skill tab and I see for instance that I have Skinning 225/225.

I've leveled Herbalism and Skinning (Herbalism on two chars) both up above 225 and I've never experienced this, unless I forget to rank up.

Sometimes I obviously continue leveling with max skill because it's either expensive at that level or I'm on a "roll" and don't want to get back to a major city.

I have 300 Mining on one char and ~200 herb/skinning on another char. If this happened to me I never noticed it.

I've got the same issue.
I was leveling skinning yesterday and when i was around 180/225 i did not always get a skillup on an orange colored beast.

I remember encountering the same while skinning a turtle, I was sad because it was killed by another player and was much higher level than I could kill. Could it be because your skinning is a bit ahead of your level? Were you skinning creatures that would be impossible or hard to kill by yourself? I don't know. :/

Edit: Hmm, it did not make any sense anyway since the limitations are already applied while learning the professions.

Not really, I was a lvl 60 killing 40-ish mob. And no my skinning wasn't maxed

I levelled to 203/225 last night and to skin several mobs before getting a skillup. I skinned everything from green to orange, it remained the same.

Just ran into that yesterday for about 3 or 4 mobs that showed skinning as orange. Hasn't happened since.

Apparently for skinning it's not like other professions;

Skinning Color Codes
Any skinnable corpse will have a a color code on the "Skinnable" property when you move your pointer over it:
Red: Not skinnable.
Orange: Difficult to skin, may fail; high chance of increasing Skinning skill level.
Yellow: Moderately difficult to skin, almost never fail; moderate chance of increasing Skinning skill level.
Green: Easy to skin, should never fail; low chance of increasing Skinning skill level.
Gray: Very easy to skin, should never fail; no chance of increasing Skinning skill level.
Up to skinning 100, you can find out the highest level mob you can skin by: ((Skinning skill)/10)+10.
From skinning level 100 and up the formula is simply: (Skinning skill)/5.

(source: https://vanilla-wow.fandom.com/wiki/Skinning)

It always cracks me up when skinning fails.

"Oh shit I fucked this leather up, it didn't come off right. Let's put it back on the animal and try again!"

Pippina wrote: ↑

4 years ago

It always cracks me up when skinning fails.

"Oh shit I fucked this leather up, it didn't come off right. Let's put it back on the animal and try again!"

Telvaine wrote: ↑

4 years ago

I always imagined this as you accidentally stabbing yourself. "And just slice through the belly right h - FUCK THAT'S MY THUMB".