Quote Originally Posted by 'Gadzooks',index.php?page=Thread&postID=213722#pos t213722
It kills me that my current team has no skinner, but I just have no interest in stopping now and leveling it from 0
I just recently went back and leveled 6 new professions from 0 on my 3 priest dps, i had just never bothered with it until now, and I must say that with a multi-box team leveling skinning was one of the easiest and fastest things to power-level. Just round up blocks of animals and kill them and watch the skill points pile up.

Notably good leveling areas were the basilisks and turtles in the salt flats, the razor thingies on the southern path out of hellfire and the family packs of rhinos in borean tundra.

And as long as you're at it, try to level up some cooking, killing mobs for the meat is much less boring than fishing, although some fishing will likely still be needed to bridge between some recipe levels, but the way fishing works now, you can get the fish you need at pretty much any skill level (just a very reduced rate if you are severely under skilled for the area).