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PhysicalTooltip
The basics of how to skin animals for their pelts and furs for use in Leatherworking. Gives a potential skinning skill of 75. Requires a Skinning Knife.
How it works
Skinning is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is effect type 95, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 1.
- Effect 2 is effect type 118, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 1. It scales with 1 times spell power.
What it does
Skinning is a spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 5 yards.
Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.
Spell Details
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Range | 5 yards (Interact Range) |
| Cast time | 2 sec |
| Effect #1 | Effect 95 Value: 1 |
| Effect #2 | Effect 118 Value: 1 Spell power coefficient: 1 Misc value: 393 |
Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.
Skinning sounds
The sounds the game plays when Skinning is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.
HerbalismSearchSoundKit 1142
Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.
Used by
Where is this spell used?
Skinning appears in: 1 skill line and 2 teaching spells.
Skill lines
- SkinningSkill line
Teaching spells
- Apprentice SkinnerTeaches this spell
- SkinningTeaches this spell
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Skinning spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 58 separate Spell records named "Skinning". This page is record #8613. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.
| Record | What differs from this record | Likely reason |
|---|---|---|
| #8617 | subtext: Journeyman; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 1, 2 (this record: 1, 1); different tooltip text | A different rank or variant |
| #8618 | subtext: Expert; cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 1, 3 (this record: 1, 1); different tooltip text | A different rank or variant |
| #10768 | subtext: Artisan; cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 1, 4 (this record: 1, 1); different tooltip text | A different rank or variant |
| #13698 | used by: Enchanting; cast time: 5 sec; effect types: Enchant Item; different tooltip text | A different owner |
| #32678 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #50305 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #52158 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #74522 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #75642 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #75644 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #87077 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #102216 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.
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