Skinning Gathering Build

Overview

Weapon: Dagger
Focus: Melee DPS
Mode: Gathering

Strengths

  • Great Mobility
  • Great Survivability

Weaknesses

  • Squishy

Overview

This build focuses on maximizing your survivability and running away from fights while gathering. The build does very well at avoiding PVP players trying to gank you while remaining very capable of killing animals and even having access to Lunging StabsLunging Stabs for quick executions and to minimize the time spent fighting them.


Equipment

Elder's Bloodletter
Main Hand Weapon
Elder's Bloodletter
Deadly Swipe
Dash
Lunging Stabs
Deep Cuts
Elder's Mistcaller
Off Hand Weapon
Elder's Mistcaller
Elder's Skinner Cap
Head
Elder's Skinner Cap
Block
Skinning Skills
Elder's Undead Cape
Cape
Elder's Undead Cape
Vanisher
Alternatives ⇅
Elder's Fort Sterling Cape
Elder's Skinner Backpack
Elder's Skinner Garb
Armor
Elder's Skinner Garb
Hide Animal Poison
Skinning Skills
Elder's Skinner Workboots
Shoes
Elder's Skinner Workboots
Rejuvenating Sprint
Skinning Skills
Invisibility Potion
Potion
Invisibility Potion
Pork Pie
Food
Pork Pie
Keep in mind: Gear shown in this build is meant as a reference. Choosing the correct tier of gear is very tricky as there are many variables. Some of them being your budget, your spec and minimum Item Power requirements of your guild if used for ZvZ.


You should always check prices based on IP of the items. For example, a masterpiece quality 4.3 Elder's CryptcandleElder's Cryptcandle could be cheaper while providing roughly the same IP as an 8.0.


Usage

Elder's BloodletterElder's Bloodletter

Deadly SwipeDeadly Swipe — This is your main movement ability that applies an Assassin's Spirit Charge which increases your damage by 6% and stacks up to 3 times. You want to spam this on animals in order to apply Assassin's Spirit Charge to yourself and increase your damage as you take down animals.

DashDash — This is your secondary kiting ability and allows you incredible mobility, really helping with making quick escapes from enemies if you end up dismounted or caught off guard.

Lunging StabsLunging Stabs — This skill acts a lot like the DashDash as you want to use it for the mobility offered but you should also use this on mobs once they are brought down to lower than 40% HP in order to execute them. If you are fighting multiple mobs, its worth bringing all of them below half HP before using this!

Deep CutsDeep Cuts — This is a constant bleed you apply when auto-attacking and the damage really helps with killing the animals quickly.


Elder's Skinner GarbElder's Skinner Garb

Hide Animal PoisonHide Animal Poison — This acts as a heal for yourself and a poison to your auto-attacks dealing high damage to the animals you hit while under this effect. The effect lasts a long time on yourself while the poison does damage very quickly so its best for you to auto-attack as many animals as possible to apply the poison before using Lunging StabsLunging Stabs to finish them off.

Skinning SkillsSkinning Skills — Just like the other passives on the Skinning Set, this increases your gathering yield, improving the amount of resources you gather and also increasing the gathering fame you get.


Elder's Skinner CapElder's Skinner Cap

BlockBlock — Use this preemtively if you get dismounted, gankers will usually try to catch you into CC or purge your run immediately after dismounting you, this will block all CC and damage and force them to waste their CDs if they aren't careful.

Skinning SkillsSkinning Skills — Just like the other passives on the Skinning Set, this increases your gathering yield and its an obvious choice, make sure you stack it up to 10 before leaving the safezone.


Elder's Skinner WorkbootsElder's Skinner Workboots

Rejuvenating SprintRejuvenating Sprint — This run ability allows you to regain some health while also offering you a way out when you get dismounted. Make sure to not make it too obvious when you are about to use it, and while using it instantly once you are dismounted seems like a good idea, make sure to get out of enemy range before using this so they cannot purge it too easily.

An alternative is to use Scent of the WildernessScent of the Wilderness if you would be overweight after you get dismounted. This run increases the amount of weight you can carry but it also silences you for 13 seconds which is 3 seconds more than the duration of the run. You should use this alternative only when you know that you will be overweight if you get dismounted, otherwise Rejuvenating SprintRejuvenating Sprint is the best chance.

Skinning SkillsSkinning Skills — This is another passive increasing your gathering yield and there aren't any other options which makes it the only choice.


Elder's Undead CapeElder's Undead Cape

VanisherVanisher — This cape automatically activates and makes you invisible if you hit 15% HP. This invisibility lasts a few seconds and is usually enough to help you get away and have a second chance at surviving a gank.

You can also use a Elder's Fort Sterling CapeElder's Fort Sterling Cape, especially if you are travelling as it will cleanse one CC from you even when you are mounted. Another option is also the Elder's Skinner BackpackElder's Skinner Backpack offering you extra weight as it lowers the weight of the resources you gather but doesn't do anything else to help with your survivability.


Best Mounts for Gathering

Saddled Swamp SalamanderSaddled Swamp Salamander

This is the top choice for gathering as the Salamander is relatively cheap while being a very difficult to catch mob. Couple its high HP with the fact that the Saddled Swamp SalamanderSaddled Swamp Salamander maintains the same movement speed regardless if you get attacked, it is impossible to slow down unlike other mounts that lose gallop speed when attacked.

Journeyman's Transport OxJourneyman's Transport Ox

This is the mount you want to use as a beginner when you are leveling your gathering skill in royal zones and non-pvp places. This will help you gather for a while without running out of weight, helping a lot as you won't have to go back to town to deposit. You can use a higher tier ox as well but a Journeyman's Transport OxJourneyman's Transport Ox normally does the trick.

SwiftclawSwiftclaw

This mount doesn't have an extra weight which makes it easy for you to tell how much weight you have and know when you would be overweight if you get dismounted. It is also rather fast and cheap but is rather squishy.

Expert's WarhorseExpert's Warhorse

Just like the SwiftclawSwiftclaw this mount doesn't add extra weight, helping you tell just how much you can carry before you grow overweight. However, this mount also has high HP and actually has its own armor, magical resistance and CC resistance values which helps a lot with its tankiness. It is often overlooked but it offers the same speed as a t5 horse with increased tankiness.


Rotations

Escape Combo ↴
Block
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Lunging Stabs
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Dash
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Deadly Swipe
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Invisibility Potion
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Rejuvenating Sprint
  • If dismounted, use this to get away. Start by using BlockBlock to make enemies use their cooldowns before using Lunging StabsLunging Stabs coupled with DashDashto move away from them. Follow up by a quick Deadly SwipeDeadly Swipe before using Invisibility PotionInvisibility Potion to change direction and either mount up or use Rejuvenating SprintRejuvenating Sprint to get further away to mount up.


Consumables

Invisibility PotionInvisibility Potion — This potion turns you invisible and is a great choice for getting away from enemies, especially if you pair it with VanisherVanisher.

Pork PiePork Pie — This is the only good choice for a gatherer as it increases your gathering yield which is perfect. Maximizing yield also increases the gathering fame you get from every animal you skin.


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