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Comment by 14899

Where's a good place to get this? I assumed that the higher the level monster the more knothide leather (over leather scraps) id get, but it doesnt seem to be the case. The drop rate seems to be about 20% on any skinnable mob, which is really poor and makes for frusterating farming.

So far my best results have come from Talbuk Thorngrazers with a little over 50% drop rate.

Comment by 11481

I've found a good place to farm these (at level 70) is from the Barbscale Crocolisks in Ecodome Midream in Netherstorm.

Comment by exah

I think the most profitable way to farm this would be to find an area that non-elites drop more than one piece at a time. From what I've seen, the nonelite trash in the Black Morass will drop 2-3 scraps or full pieces. If anyone else finds a spot like this, post!

Comment by 6460

Try skinning mobs lvls 66+ to get a higher % of knothide leather as opposed to the scraps.

No mob will give Heavy Knothide Leather when skinned, that is only craftable with LW skill and 5 knothide leather = 1 heavy knothide leather.

Combine leather farming with other valuable item drops such as motes (of any kind except shadow and maybe life) for max profit.

Comment by 17327

The drop rate in BM used to be great but I heard they nerfed it thoroughly so I wouldn't bet on it anymore its a long way to go.

Comment by 49525

In my experience, drop rate is about 26 percent from Bull Elekk, based on 328 kills. Although the listing includes Ripfang Linx as a good source of Knothide Leather, I would not recommend grinding on them for two reasons: first, the drop rate is worse than that from Bull Elekks, second, they are much harder to kill.

Comment by Equis

Blackwind Sabercats have the highest drop percentage of non elite mobs. You will need a flying mount to reach them. Unfortunately they have a small population.

Blackwind Sabercats:
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=21723#z0Rzc

Clefthoof bulls in Nagrand only have a 30% drop rate, but there is also a 30% chance they will skin some thick clefthoof leather. This sells very well on the AH. In among the bulls are elementals that drop motes and wild Eleks that drop Consortium rep items.

Thick clefthoof leather:
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=25708

Clefthoof bulls:
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=17132

Comment by 46684

Ive been killing Talbuk Throngrazers https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=17131 like 4-5 at a time with a healer and I'm hunter for a set of 5 kills i usally get 4 Knothide Leathers. I kill the ones in the northern lakes wheres theres like 5-7 close togther. Also there yellow so easy to manage

Comment by 35616

I had gone to BM, thinking I was so clever with the thought I could just kill the first three crocs near the entrance, reset the instance, and repeat without having to worry about running around and aggro'ing other unnecessary mobs. While that was a generally clever plot, the crocs hit crazy hard and fast and in the end only dropped x2 or x3 Knothide Leather Scraps. (Though I did get lucky and one dropped, gasp, 1 whole Knothide Leather!) I became distraught after thirty minutes.

I've had much better luck with the Talbuk Thorngrazers. My favourite spot is a peninsula below Garadar. Whenever I go, it seems there are no Clefthoof Bulls or elementals roaming on that particular piece of land. :)

Comment by Tamer

Leather Workers,

The best place for Knothide leather is Nagrand Talbuk Thorngrazer's Cords 52.2,46.5 Now although they drop alot of scraps they are easily killed and there are hundreds in this area and the re-spawn rate is awesome. I Grinded 300 Knothide leather in just over a hour.
:0)

Comment by lcarnegie

Go to the eco-dom midrealm. (45, 52) and kill the ripfang lynx. They drop a 50%+ droprate or knothide leather.

Comment by Serathis

I suppose another viable solution is farming Black Morass. Altough the droprate has been nerfed and the mobs hit quite hard, a decently geared farming character can make a good profit there from skinning and netherweb silk, especially if (s)he brings summoned food.

Comment by apolojulius

Nagrand, Thorngrazers are easy to kill and i get stacks of knothide leathers in like 2hrs. Enjoy gathering and have fun! :)

Comment by apolojulius

i found either the lions cats up by sylvanaar in bloods edge mts or the talbuks in nagrand have good skin rate of knothide leathers

Comment by 125936

tried cats drop rate is low and the cats are scattered apart. tried Barbscale Crocolisks better drop rate and not as scattered.

Comment by 115685

Go to Netherstorm, from there go to the Farfield Echodome, its at: 45, 11 (generally in that area), the droprate so far, has been very good for me within the last 5 mins on every skin that is :).

Enjoy :).

See yaz bye.

Comment by denate

One of the best places I've found by far is Oronok's Farm, just north east of the Altar of Sha'tar in SMV. The Domesticated Felboars have a very high % to drop knothide leather, with an added bonus of no trash loot so grinding them is quick and easy. Even if you aren't well geared and end up taking quite a bit of damage, Horde players will get healed by Oronok. :P

I managed to get 20 Knothide Leather in about 5-7 minutes. :)

Comment by 88936

Agree with all the posts on BM. heres what i suggest trying. I jumped in a group that was running reg, we blew through it 3 times. i skinned everything possible, and walked away with over 5 stacks. the drop rates are good on the non elites, and the elites usually drop 2 pieces each. if you can get in a group doing this on reg, they might be looking for certain drops, its so quick and easy that you can run it over and over.
Zones + Farmers = PVP. instance farming is undisturbed.

if at all possible, be the only skinner.

Comment by 168440

i think the best place is nagrand, just between the throne of elements and garadar... talbuk thorngrazers had an exceptional skin rate of about 94%... in less than 30 minutes i killed about 50 and only 3 didn't drop knothide leather, but knothide leather scraps, 2-3 per time... it's a skinner's heaven there...

Comment by Jaspah

If you find yourself doing Underbog in the Coilfang Resevoir within Zangarmash, the skinnable mobs drop 1-2 knothide leather each. As a 63, I found myself leaving there with almost 3 stacks of Knothide Leather. This is a great way to get it if you're not 70 yet and if your group contains no other skinners.

Comment by Cotytto

My realm's economy is crazy.

A 20 stack of these sell for less than much lower level leathers go for.I'm lucky if I get a few gold per stack.

I knew I should have went mining.Copper bars sell for much higher than these do,and that's just insane!

Comment by zariplz

This is a great fun way to make some gold. I was goofing off in Org and someone said they wanted to buy it in bulk. So I asked how much they wanted, they wanted 200 peices, or 10 stacks. I said sure thing and we set a price of 125g for the lot. Seemed fair as the leather was going for 10g on the auction house at the time.

About an hour and a half grinding the talbuks in nagrand later, I had my leather, got a leatherworker to turn my scraps into more and mailed the guy his mats. Easy 125g for me, plus the eight or so greenies they dropped, PLUS the junk items I sold in Halaa. The little river delta is the easiest place to farm for me (lvl 69)

Note: Usually leatherworkers trying to level up fast (buy in bulk) will be willing to pay a little more than the current price on the AH BECAUSE as soon as they buyout the stuff on the AH they're left with the highest prices and they NEED that leather.
Yeah. So if someone says they need to buy in bulk, snap up the opportunity.

Comment by 297723

Do theese sell 4 gd gold on the AH

Comment by 384934

I've had 100% luck with knothide skinned from felfire dimetradon just outside Shadowmoon valley horde post... 100% on nearly 60 kills and still going! F*ck you leatherworking! lols

Comment by 352569

North-West of Garadar are the Talbuk Thorngrazer's that spawn very crowded and there are a lot of them along the coast! A bit north-west and west of Garadar are there some Clefthoof Bulls that can be skinned for Thick clefthoof leather which can be selled for a high prize or used in the LW.

Comment by 197305

The best place i found to farm these, is in RazorThorn Shelf (require flying) in Hellfire

Casters beware thou, they stun alot

Comment by 407974

The best place to farm knothide leather is in shadowmoon valley near a small farm where domesticated felboars are the boars respawn almost instantly and are very easy to kill.I got 10+ stacks per hour farming there,definetly should check this place out

Comment by 274176

Confirmed : Oronok's Farm in SMV is the best place to farm knothide leather. the boars there drop no loot so you can straight skin them at about a ratio of 80% leather/20% scraps and respawn quickly. seriously, you kill one, turn around kill another and the first boar is already back. it should be noted though, there are also flayers there attacking the boars. BUT you can skin the boars they kill also, unless they are going back to eat ( ? ) them. the flayers drop silver and junk you can vend for at least 1 gold. not to mention, farmer Oronok is also a vender and does repairs so you can vend the junk right away!
this place is almost too perfect for farming.

Comment by 387602

I just went to the farm in smv and Domesticated boars are unlootable, what gives? must have got nuked by patch 3.2, bummer.

Comment by 438227

Boars in Oronok's farm are no longer skinable :|

Comment by 389201

as a side note, if you're aiming to get netherwing rep you may want to consider farming the netherwing rays in shadowmoon valley. they drop motes of mana, netherwing crystals, and occasionally even netherwing eggs, not to mention a high chance of getting leather instead of scraps. they're fairly easy to kill too, just watch out for the patrolling elites.

Comment by Eidrian

Post Patch 3.2, an undocumented change in "whole" Knothide Leather rates have increased dramatically from all mobs in Outland. I personally found the Talbuks in Nagrand to be the most reliable source of leather so far. Since Oronok's Farm and Black Morass have gotten huge nerfs in their abilities to provide Knothide, we (unfortunately) have to resort to good, ol' fashioned farming. Still, the increased rates in 3.2 should help a lot!

Comment by 11267

August 22, 2009: Killed a boar at Oronok's farm, it had no loot, didn't get the skinning icon.

Wherever people are getting piles of leather in SMV, it's not from Oronok's farm.

Comment by dizzll

I cant find any such place i smv, at all. Ive walked all around the coords given no such place anymore I guess

Comment by 460303

Just tried the Domesticated Boars over in SMV and they don't seem to be skinable anymore as of 3.2.2.

Comment by ArgentSun

If you have an 80 and are leveling an alt leatherworker, there is a very efficient way of farming a very impressive amount of those (or Heavy Knothide if you prefer). In my case it was my 65 Druid leatherworker, and my 80 Paladin.

Find the spawning point of Bach'lor. It's the south-most pin on its map.
Get your 80 there. Now get your alt there.
Either wait for Bach'lor to walk (unimaginably slowly) to the spawn point, or kill it 1-2 times and intercept it right at its spawn point. The goal is to have both of your characters and Bach'lor all at its spawn point and ready for action.
Now that you are all set, kill Bach'lor and the 9 Talbuk Thorngazers/Stags. Quickly loot all the bodies and log out.
Log on your leatherworker alt and skin the 10 bodies (every so often there will be a Wild Elekk or an Aged Clefhoof that spawns around the same place - you can kill them if you want to).
Again log out quickly and hop on your 80. Rinse and repeat.

Now a few words about why this method is so efficient.

You may need to move a little north from the spawn point. The goal is to find a point where you can just stand, fight, or skin. Ideally Bach'lor will be around you the moment you log on your 80... but these are details that will cost you no more than a few seconds if you don't get the exactly right. Oh, and kill any random wandering mobs while you are on your 80 - there are some air elementals and wandering gronn that may give your alt trouble.
Bach'lor and its pack have 2 minutes respawn timer.
All 10 (up to 12 if you count the random Elekk or Clefthoof) have a very high chance to drop Knothide Leather. You should be averaging 8-10 Leathers per clear.
With all the fighting, skinning, and relogging, that's 8-10 Leathers every 3 minutes or so. Multiple by 20, that's 160-200 Leathers, more grays than you will ever want, and the occasional green... all in one hour.

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Comment by 443892

Seemingly extremely expensive these days. At least on my server I have not seen a stack below 60 gold in the last 4 days.

Comment by Arthonor

The Felfire Diemetradon in SMV are great for farming. They have high drop rate of Knothide Leather, and they spawn fast.
They live around the green "lakes"(i.e. 31,40) so they are easy to find, and they give XP.

Comment by Grein

I usually goto Razorthorn Rise and kill the Ravagers up there. The droprate is very, very good.

Razorthorn Rise is on the border between Terrokar and HFP (North of Veil Reskk).

Comment by 379932

on my server ( aggramar) knothide leather goes atm for 45-50g per stack on the AH ... :)..also the heavy knothide leather goes for 100g each stack

Comment by 248155

If your skinner is level 80 with decent gear, best place to farm for this leather is Underbog (normal). Kill and skin all sporebats and rays, skip other mobs (when possible).

Pros:

no competition
very good droprate (1-2 per mob)

Cons:

you have to do whole instance to avoid dungeon limit and get most leather (largest packs of skinnable mobs are at start of instance and near end of it)
skinnable mobs are a bit scattered around (especially at start of instance

Comment by 354821

This item is essential for any Death Knight or any player level 60+. Mainly because of this-->Heavy Knothide Armor Kit which provides an enchant to your shoulders and helm.

My suggestion is to hire a skinner to farm you some and the suggested value per piece is 40-50 silver each. Don't forget to tip for there services of getting you the leather which you should calculate the total and times it by .10 or .20 (10%-20%).

An example: I bought 40 pieces of these and paid 20 gold(which is 50 silver per piece) and gave a 4 gold tip(20 times .20(20%) to get the 20% tip)

Comment by 86502

Eco-dome Midrealm in Netherstorm have nearly a 100% drop rate for knot hide leather.

Not completely accurate. Just farmed there and its about the same if maybe higher slightly then the skinning results of beasts in Nagrand.

I got about 75-80% Knothide with the rest being scraps.

(If you're including scraps then I guess you could say it is 100% but that's about the same with the talbuks :/ )

Comment by harower

Hi thought I would share with you the best way to get this leather.

Without doubt the best way to farm this is to stand on the Bach'lor spawn point.

He spawns with all of his gang so once you have killed them all and skinned them. skinning takes roughly 1 min.

He spawns again right where you stand over and over with all his gang. I found respawn time is also 1 min after you finish skinning. Thats just great. So the respawn for all 10 of them at the same time is about 2 min from time of there death.

I have submitted a crude screenshot of exactly where to stand to achieve this once you have found him the first time and killed him, move to the spot I have indicated.

Encase the screenshot doesn't get approved. the spot to find him is just to the right of the little pond right below forge camp fear.

Happy skinning.

P.S You will pretty much have bach'lor on lockdown so make sure to share the kill for ppl on the quest.

Comment by 324117

If you're lvl 80, and lvling leatherworking/skinning like me, you should go to Razorthorn Shelf in Hellfire, i got one stack of knothide leather in 6 minutes, and my druid is undergeared so you'll probably be faster yourself.

The droprate there so far looks like 75% : knothide leather dropped nearly every single kill.

I accidently stumbled upon them while searching for mobs to farm felscales, sadly they don't seem to drop these, maybe on a very low droprate.

Comment by 711520

Wanted to second (third?) the Razorthorn Shelf suggestion. 85 hunter here just picked up LW and farmed about 250 Knothide Leathers in this area in about an hour (counting the scraps I converted, real number probably more like 220 Knothides)

Comment by 3434

For a lvl 85, hands down the best place to farm these that I have found is netherwing ledge, in southwestern shadowmoon valley. They spawn on the edges of the 'island', and a full circuit around takes about 5 minutes and will net you approximately 15 leather. Netherwing Rays drop them 100%.

Comment by Takata

I paid 29g on my server for 17 knothide.....

Comment by Rocketpoodle

Getting knothide leather from Bach'lor is a great idea he has a 2-4 min spawn time (i timed it myself) and spawns at 26, 52 in Nagrand. i used this on my 79 feral druid. It was the easiest and quickest method to farm knothide leather.

Comment by paulthegreat

If you have an 85 tank, you can farm up about 4-5 stacks of knothide leather in about 10 minutes in Zul'Aman, just on all the Lynx trash. Each of the cubs (as well as each of the adult lynxes, and each of the neutral crocs) drops 1-3 leather, never any scraps.

Comment by Adnila

First time poster on WowHead,

After grinding several spots that were mentioned here, I found that Black Morass is the fastest way to grind Knothide Leathers.

Realm - Drak'Tharon
Character - Grapes // Horde
Class - Death Knight (Blood)
Level - 85
Location - Caverns of Time: Black Morass (Normal)

In short, I calculated how much Knothide Leather you receive per hour.
After 20 runs (Possibly more after I'm done posting), here were my findings:

The only skinnable mobs when you enter are the Crocs and stealthed jaguars.
I went in a clockwise rotation around the map and finished at the center.
Also note, at level 85, it takes a half second to stand on top of the mob to gain aggro.
This was also done by mounting.

The average time to round up the mobs: 4.6 minutes (Keep in mind this was done mounting and I started the stopwatch as soon as I pass the NPC near the entrance)
Average time to loot and skin: 5.5 minutes
Average Knothide Leather per run: 38
Average Knothide Leather scraps per run: 12
Average repair bill per run: 97 silver
Average gold from vendoring trash items: 8 gold

Post notes:
-Try not to round up too many crocs/jaguars. I've found during my 3rd run that some despawn because it took too long. (A.k.a. it's a waste of time)
-Like I mentioned before, wait a half second to gain aggro while you're standing ontop of the mob.
-My rotation to AoE the mobs down were: Death and Decay -> Outbreak -> Pestilence -> Blood Boil. I continued to Blood Boil until everything died
-Some mobs such as the stealthed jaguars tend to come late, so don't fret when you don't see them
-If you are unable to see the pack of mobs you aggroed, don't fret either. They are simply slow and more than likely running at you.
-Try not to head too far south and start the event for Black Morass. (unless you wish to of course)

Comment by 794453

If you wish to farm these as level 80, you have 2 choices

Heroic Underbog - good source, those ray mobs drop average of 2-3 leather per kill
also green drops and what not will net you few hundred gold
bad part is your bag get full and can sell off easily

Shadowmoon vally-around the lava area south of Shadowmoon Village have tons of dino mobs to skin, once your have your circle, move across to area south of death forget to skin boars. when you get done clearing those, dino mobs should have respawned
cons-alot of scraps

both spot will get you farming min of hundred of these in 30 min

Comment by 809343

The fastest way to get this is pretty ugly too.

Both Bach'lor and Banthar have a cooldown of about 3 minutes and spawn with their own cluster of mobs. A 80+ character with Master Riding can easily aoe Bach'lor and his adds, skin them and fly to Banthars spawn point in about 90 seconds. Killing, skinning those and flying back to Bach'lor takes about the same time. If timed right both groups will spawn about 5-10 seconds after arriving at their respective spawn points. That means indefinite aoe-farming of 2 elites + adds on respawn.

Now to the bad part: Both Bach'lor and Banthar are not only some of the nicest rare beasts, but are both crucial parts of the Hunting quest chain in Nagrand. If they are killed on respawn, there is no way for other players to finish this huge quest chain and gain the achievement for this part of the Nesingwary quests meta-achievement!

So, if you really do this, be social and warn others in the zone about it and let them kill the elites. You could get banned for not doing so.

Comment by Cafee

Black Morass is definately the place to be as of 4.0.6.

I'm a level 85 Moonkin, and taking ALL the crocs and jaguars in BM, including gathering them together, looting and skinning, took me around 15 mins, and gave me a total of 61 Knothide Leather (after i turned scraps into knothide leather).

If you've got a decent aoe availeble, and ur char is in the appropiate level for it, BM farming is the way to go for Knothide farming.

Comment by Omgomgesiuol

Suprised nobody has mentioned Karazhan, I find it actually quite nice for Knothide.

Usually people skip the part with the beasts altogether, but if you go right through the Servant's Quarter as you enter the instance it's like a goldmine for this stuff, clearing the Fel Hounds and Bats (Spiders have a nice droprate for Netherweb Silk, but aren't actually skinnable so you can skip them).

I just ran it now and got a little over 60 pieces, and for any tank class it's not hard at all. (My Feral gear is full of greens and I zoom through it) Could probably do it as a non tank class too, considering it's a level 70 instance.

Comment by DefensorPacis

As of 4.1.0, by far the best possible place I could find to farm this was Razorthorn Ridge in Terrokar Forrest at (55, 14). There are 8 groups of 3 ravagers up almost 100% of the time. Starting at the first group, and working through them all, when I'm done with the eighth I go back to the first and start all over again. No downtime to speak of. Only two real complaints and those are;
There are some Flayers that run around constantly, but they do so little damage, it doesn't even bother me.
The ravagers themselves have a small stun, not enough to get you killed, but enough to make you terribly upset.
Keep in mind these mobs are all level 70, and on my level 70 druid twink, I was able to farm a little under 300 Knothide Leather in an hour, plus 3 stacks of scraps.
Overall, the best place I've been to just farm Knothide Leather for.

**EDIT**
Not too long after posting this, while I was continuing to farm these little buggers, I actually noticed there were even more ravagers on the same level as these guys, so I believe that there are somewhere around ~40 ravagers that each drop 1-3 knothide leather, and as stated before, if you cycle through them you'll always have something to kill.
Obviously you'd go through them quicker on an 85, but this remains to be my go-to spot for Knothide Leather.

Comment by Itami

Running the Black Morass event also gives a fair amount of leather. All the elite dragonkin are skinnable and generally skin into 2-4 knothide leather. It's pretty easy and fast on regular.

Comment by 632893

@DefensorPacis
Razorthorn Ridge.

Thank you mate, very good spot..

Comment by Bonanca

Is it not possible any more to get more than one Leather by Skinning 1 Mob?

Comment by 793069

I found a good place to farm knothide is the felfire diemetradons around the large lava pool in the magma fields of shadowmoon valley. just keep running around the pool killing them, and when you get back to the starting point they have all re-spawned.

Comment by 773202

On my 85 feral druid, I believe the area between Garadar and Ring of trials in Nagrand was perfect. So many clefthoof, talbuk, and elekk and they respawn fairly quickly. Wont take long to get a good bit. :]

Comment by 312381

Let me just share my recent experience with you all...hope it helps.

If you are a hunter...go to Black Morass and mount up, then proceed to aggro at least one crock and one panther. Then ride your mount all over the instance and aggro every single one of those bad boys. Once you have them all, group them tight by running a circle around them and then run one direction drop a frost trap, turn and Multi Shot (may take 2 or 3)...then spend the next two minutes looting what was upwards of 200 knothide...

Good times

Comment by dinaautumn

I would say that if you have an 85, Eco-dome midrealm in outland, netherstorm, is the best place. Just kill lynx and crocos, and before you have cleared the area, they will respawn. I got around 100 pr 10 minute, because they drop from 1-4 everytime, and if not, they drop around 3 scraps. Even though i play at a high population server, there aint many farming or lvling up there.

Comment by 876938

Another good place are the diemetrons in shadowmoon, those near black temple ^^

Comment by Yates15

Netherwing ledge is a good place to get knothide leather ,there is a cave to the north is with a lot of Nethermine flayers

Comment by Psysaturn

The two best places I have found for skinning Knothide Leather and lots of it in the most efficient and fastest way is in:

Eco-dome Midrealm, Netherstorm; killing and skinning the cats and crocs in there (for me it was 100% drop)

And in Nagrand just north of the Mag'har village along the lake; killing and skinning Talbuks. They are along the water and around all the large trees there, making a circuit along the lake and back down along the trees and back up along the lake is probably the most efficient of all. You can kill them incredibly fast, they're "neutral" mobs so you can enjoy being around a lot of them without them swarming you (if you're lower level) and by the time you make a full circuit they will have all respawned so you can infinitely farm. For me it was 100% drop rate of leather, never a single scrap.

On my server (hyjal) the AH is selling them for 85-100 gold per stack (I know thats really messed up, but whatever) so after you've farmed the 500 or so you need to get to the next level of leatherworking you can keep farming to pad your pockets. r roll in the riches, in my case. (They actually sell for that price, not just listed as a joke)

Happy hunting :D

Comment by Dredmon

Knothide Leather you need?
Hit Nagrand on your steed.
Slay a beast-like gazelle.
May your hunting go well!

Comment by 649607

I'm currently killing Talbuk Throngrazers in Skysong Lake in Nagrand, just around the lake, there's loads of Talbuk Throngrazers to kill. Pretty good and quick skinning if your the only one around there..

Comment by 600152

Not to be negitive or anything but. comments like these are the reason i stopped going to thottbot.
"If your max lvl and want easy farming this is what you do .. .bla bla bla"
Well what if your not max lvl and actually leveling your prof at the right level?
I supose my lvl 61 is off to kill some hellboars.... or maby buzzerds.

Comment by naet17

Bach'lor and the Talbuks is excellent for farming Knothide leather, only thing i found on this page that was missing was the actual spawn point of him and his mob, i found that if i stood at the co'ordinates 26,52 that he pretty much spawns directly in front of you every few minutes. Hope this helps!

Comment by 948532

A nice farming place would be Karazhan. 3 runs of skinning the bats/fel hounds and this is what I've got :

163 x Knothide Leather
96 x Knothide Leather Scraps
8 x Fel Hide

The amount gained will depend on the guild perk Bountiful Bags.

1 x Froststeel Lockbox
1 x Shadow Dagger of the Elder
1 x Shattered Hand Legplates of the Gorilla
1 x Sundered Spaulders of Frost Protection
1 x Dragonhawk Bands of the Bandit

119 x Razor Sharp Fang
34 x Gnarled Claw
29 x Evil Bat Eye
3 x Eroded Axe
1 x Deteriorating Blade
1 x Corroded Mail Pants

Hope this helps.

Comment by 962691

Head to the Eco-dome in Netherstorm. Between the lynx and crocs they always drop knothide leather. 150 drops, all knothide, no scraps. lotsa good places to farm these days.

Comment by 262166

Black Morass. End of story. Mount up, ride around the zone, aggroing all the mobs... they will follow you and never leash. Once you have them all, dismount and AOE them down (FoK on my rogue was perfect for this.) 15 minutes tops - mostly for looting / skinning - gets you 5 full stacks if you have Bountiful Bags guild perk.

Sables are a little hard to see but you can grab 'em. Crocs are a cinch. Avoid spiders for extra fun (I made a game out of seeing how much I could pull without getting spiders).

Good luck and happy skinning!

Comment by 863853

For those of you who are looking for a comment that's actually within the cataclysm expansion, I farmed raptors and worgs around the daggermaw ogres in Blade's Edge Mts. Just start around 67, 23 near gruul's lair and work your way down the strip until about 45,52 near bladespire hold. The raptors and wolves in this area have 100% Knothide leather drop rate. I don't think I got one piece of knothide leather scraps until I killed a Bloodmaul dire wolf around 45,66. Keep going back and forth, up and down the area killing wolves and raptors and you'll build up a decent amount of knothide leather in no time.

Comment by lehearts

Best place to farm these is not in Nagrand, but in Blade's Edge near Sylvanar (the cats & flying drakes).

Comment by 1015478

The best Place FULL STOP, for knothide leather is a place many people would not think of trying.
If you go into the instance black moras on normal, and hop on your mount you can round up as many animals in the instance you want. They will not reset and they will keep following you as long as you dont exit the instance, die or etc.

Just aoe the whole bunch once they've been rounded up and you'll get a HEAP of knothide leather. On a side note: You also get a lot of web from the spiders which is kind of useful.

Comment by 855119

Farming Knothide lether here is the best and easiest. Just run around in the water and collect a load of CROCS, then kill and skin. If you are a Hunter, keep you pet on passive so he does not kill everything and rob you of loot and skins. I found this to be the best and fastest place to farm the Knothide Leather

Comment by Allakhazam

any thoughts on the best place to farm these as a rogue? nagrand?

Comment by Allakhazam

Damn the 2.1 change, BM was such a nice outlet for leathers. :(

Comment by Allakhazam

since patch 2.1 Black Morass mobs do not drop multible leather anymore. :(

Comment by Allakhazam

72 tank pally; YMMV--but . . .

Bach'lor (Talbuk Mastery) runs with a herd that stays close enough together (29,37; 28,50, etc.) to be grabbed by Consecration. A couple of whacks with Divine Storm and you have 7 knothide leathers (or scraps) at a time.

*Get Bach'lor out of the way first; he has knockback, which is Bad for healing, which you'll need if you aggro the entire herd.* I grabbed him with Hand of BReckoning and pulled him away.

(This is also a hunting ground for the Aged Clefthoofs for Vision of the Dead.)

Edited, Jun 13th 2010 1:16pm by LionofMercy

Comment by Allakhazam

Nagrand is good. I also like farming in Netherstorm near The Crumbling Waste. There are Phase Hunters and Nether Rays there that drop Knothide 100% of the time when skinned (or that's what I've found). I like farming there cause it's good for gold farming too, as they also drop motes of mana

After an hour of farming I walked away with 43 Knothide Leather and 22 Motes of Mana or 2.2 Primal Mana. As well as about 10 gold worth of useless stuff.

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Comment by Allakhazam

Oronok's Farm in Shadowmoon Valley is my favourite spot. It is located north east of coilskar point, in northen shadowmoon valley (in outland) on a mountain.
The Domesticated Felboars are level 66 and have a high percentage knothide skinning chance. As a bonus, these mobs don't drop anything, so you can skin them right away.

Comment by Thottbot

Everywhere, anything you can skin in Hellfire Peninsula or Zangarmarsh drop knothide leather scraps/knothide leather/fel leather.

Comment by Thottbot

The best place to farm knothide leather is in the Black Morass.

Its in an instance so there is an unlimited amount of mobs and no competition or pvp.

The mobs can and frequently drop up to 3 knothide per kill. Plus stackable vendor trash with the occasional lvl 65+ blue and greens. You can also repair, buy food/water at the vendors who are right outside.

Comment by Thottbot

I think that nagrand is probably the best place to farm leather both knothide and clefthoof(which sells for a ton om my server, Warsong)

There are 100000k sninable animals walking around and like 80% are yellow.

This area is like the ferelas of azeroth IMHO

So if u want some easy cash, come home one day make your self a nice cup of Earl Grey, turn on your favorite music and just farm these beasties for 3 hours straight... also think of all the grey junk u get to sell. It might get a bit boarding but hey...

Comment by Thottbot

There's a small lake southeast of Garadar. Many drop

Comment by Thottbot

If you are 70 and have decent skills go to Black Morass. I went in there with a group and we cleared out all the trash in there while waiting for a party member. I was the only skinner and got about 5 stacks just from one run. 4 Green items dropped too. Really nice farming spot if you can survive the mobs. (Tougher and more HP than normal) But stay away from Medivh. I plan on going back there solo to see what I come out with.
Ra 70 Druid Daggerspine

P.S. Prolly shouldn't have told you that, but most people will probably not be in there to farm leather due to the fact that you have to do Escape from Durnholde first to be able to even enter Black Morass.

Comment by Thottbot

In Netherstorm near "The Crumbling Wastes" area there are Phase Hunters which are skinnable and also drops Mote of Mana as an added bonus.

Comment by Thottbot

I farmed in both places and i think that the place NE
of gardar on the western side of lake is better than BM.... has eaiser mobs... (iam a 70 feral druid) like BM I got regular knothide leahter or 3 knothide scraps... however if i got an add i typically lived but more than that id die and things never lose aggro so you have to run out of the instance if you want to lose aggro and mobs close to gardar are easier and faster to kill

IMO go NE of garder in nagrand to farm knothide leather
hope this helps hehe

Comment by Thottbot

no, he meant WEST of garadar, and slightly north - talbuks all over the place, usually 3 or 4 around each tree with tons lining the lakeside - I've been farming there while 3 other people (usually hunters) have been doing the same, and there's still virtually no competition for mobs - they respawn fast enough and there's just so many of them.

Plus, they are neutral to you so you can pick and choose your fights - you only need to worry about the clefthoofs sometimes aggro'ing to you, but that's a bonus in and of itself, as you get a good chance at skinning thick clefthoof leather.

Comment by Thottbot

Im a 67 hunter at the moment so i have not tried the black morass but i will vouch for the spot in Nagrand, you can pick and choose your fights and you can take down more than one at a time. Also you can get mote of air and earth from the elementals that run around the area as an added bonus if you want to kill those that stand in the way of your skinning prey. The Talbuks have the highest drop rate but take down the clefthoofs for their leathers also. seems like a 1/6 drop for me on the clefthoof leather and about 1/2 or 1/3 drop on the knothide from the Talbuks. That is what i was getting from about an hour of grinding i had 3 stacks of knothide and 10 clefthoof, and managed 1 and half primal air(but i was not really going for the airs). Hope this helps

Comment by Thottbot

I farm 20 in 30 min. in Nagrand. I am a hunter 70.

I killed Clefhoof (lvl 65) and Talbuk Stag (65)
Nagrand /tloc 61,47 and around.

I hope it will help

Comment by Thottbot

I trained tailoring to 375 and am now doing LW, currently at 355, and I am here to tell you that as long as you skin every beast you kill, you should hardly ever be short on knothide leather for LW. There's just no comparison. I'm farming Heavy Clefthoof leather now, and I have knothide coming out my ears. I have more than I know what to do with.

If anything, it's the Primal Earths and Primal Airs that will give you trouble when leveling LW in the 350+ phase. On the other hand, Nagrand is chock-full of air and earth elementals. Killing them while killing the clefthoofs really helps there. On my server, the primal airs run 20g a pop, so you pretty much have to farm them all unless you like being broke.

Comment by Thottbot

Best Place to farm IMO ,

Netherwing Ledge, In the mines..
Nobody skin the mobs in there and they are very easy to solo , Just from today I got 48 Heavy Knothide from there

Comment by Thottbot

About Black Morass : It seems that the more people in the group, the more leather they drop.
I tryed to go there solo, and barely got a couple leather, very bad drop, as someone stated above
Then i tryed dual boxing there with another char (team of 2) and they were droping 1 leather per mob
Then i read the person above saying in a 5 man group he was geting 2-3 per mob

i suspect the drop rate to be 100% - (20% x number of people missing in the group)

Comment by Thottbot

If I am a 62 hunter where is the best place to skin for the knothide leather?

Comment by Thottbot

okay I just want to know how high your skinning needs to be to get these leather pieces.... they should be able to be skinned that is kinda odd if you can only get leather off of a drop

Comment by Thottbot

wow the easiest place to farm the knothide leather is right out side of thunderlorde strongholde where all the wvyerns and wolfs are. they are really low so easy to solo without stopping and also they normally always drop a knothide leather so far anyways

Comment by Thottbot

Im 64 Hunter and i recomend grinding through underbog lots. If you can get a good group together you can go all the way through in around an hour and walk out with a minimum of a stack. I got NO scraps and some doubles.

Comment by Thottbot

First, the scraps to leather skill is now trainable @ 300 from the regular training section.

Second, thotbot doesn't/can't distinguish between looted items and those aquired with a gathering profession. This really only screws up skinning, cause you can't kill flowers, or mineral nodes and loot them.... (except you can "skin" the tree dudes in sketis)

So, since most people don't skin, and even skinners don't always bother....the stated drop rate is much lower than in reality.

look up the mob to get the ratio for scraps/leather/other types of leather

And on behalf of skinners everywhere PLEASE LOOT YOUR KILLS!

Comment by Thottbot

I agree! Theres nothing more frustrating than seeing a whole heap of dead beasts but not being able to skin them! You get vendor trash, we get leather, you get a better chance of us being able to make you some thing pretty.

Comment by Thottbot

I'm sure a few people have mentioned it, but here are a few great places to farm knothide depending on your level.

If you're in the low 60's, stick with hellfire, skin all the boars. most only give scraps, but they're very easy and they're all over the place. also, there's ravagers on your way to shatt that'll drop fel hides as well. the leather scraps are annoying, but you'll definitely get some knothide pieces as well.

At mid 60's, go to nagrand. there's the talibuts, the clefthoof which give cleft leather as well, and ya, elementals running all around to give you primals you'll need to start making some serious patterns down the road. I find one of the best areas to be directly to the east of Telaar. go across the bridge and you've got yourself a field day of Clefthoof and Tali's running around all over the place. a tiny bit south and you've got rumblers that'll give motes of earth, as well as an ogre camp a tiny bit souhteast of the brudge crossing. i farm my leather, get my primals, and get warbeads for rep with the consortium and the Kurunai at the same time.

once you're up in your high 60's, go to blades edge or netherstorm. you'll get less and less scraps, more consistent knothide leather, and in netherstorm the phase hunters drop mana mote which go for a nice price on my server.

I'm a level 70 Bm/MM hunter, and i use my leather for mainly clefthoof armor kits. you'll need some heavy leather, 8 pieces of cleft leather, and 4 primal earths, but i usually sell these for about 60-80g a piece because my servers has a ton of twinks that use these kits for like level 19's. they usually sell in about an hour tops.

i find that they Celestial ridge in netherstorm is awesome. there's a ton of netherdrakes running around, you'll get knothide on almost every one, not the scraps, and you'll start farming neth dragonscales which sell for a fortune on my server. For me, i use the scales in patterns, but in the past when i sold them i would get about 80g for stacks of 20.

Happy hunting and skinning everyone, best of luck, hope what i said was useful for a few of the folks new to the outlands.

Comment by Thottbot

I cant believe nobody has mentioned Oronok's Farm in SMV! Its a tiny enclosed space (30 yard diameter) with 5 boars and they are constantly respawning, I am a level 70 hunter and with pet on aggressive he didnt stop for an hour and I was 9 stacks better off...Try it, you wont be disappointed.

Comment by Thottbot

ZOMG, thats the best info anyone has posted. The domesticated felboars there spawn fast enough to always give you a target, 80% of the drops are knothide leather with a couple of scraps every now and then and, the best part, you dont have to loot then skin them out. Its just straight out skin when they are dead. Yes, you dont get to farm those greens and rares while your skinning but, to power level your skinning and leatherwork, this is the place to be if you dont want to have to find a vendor every 20 minutes to dump horns, claws, tusks and the other array of general crap that fills your bags so fast normally.

Comment by Thottbot

One other thing. Oronok does healing waves periodically with around 3K of healing, so don't use bandages until you absolutely have to.

Comment by Thottbot

Couple of tips:
AV! The elite wolves guarding drekk skin for knothide leather very reliably (if they dont they drop 3 scraps). Be the one to kill the wolves and skin them. If the raid fails to take down drekk the wolves respawn.... yes you can skin them again!
Blades Edge: Kill boars in the huge boar field north of ogrila, farm here for when you need felscales (best drop rate I've ever seen).
Netherstorm: Kill Artifact Seekers in the ruins for knothide, fel hide, aldor marks & aldor armaments simultaneously. If you sell everything you loot you will make a fortune. I got 4 armaments in an hour that sell for 40g each.

Comment by Thottbot

Oronok's Farm in SMV is without a doubt THE best place to farm knothide leather. The domesticated boars only rarely drop scraps, and there were only a few times where I actually had to wait more than 5 seconds for the boars to respawn. Also, the grind is quick, since you don't have to loot the mobs--they don't drop anything. It makes it that much more efficient if you're trying to keep up slice and dice all the time.

Also, as far as healing is concerned, at first I thought Oronok only healed once you were below 50%. Then I figured out it was only because of the spawn locations that it seemed that way. If you move the mobs within his cone of vision as you're fighting them, he will often heal you. There were plenty of times where he healed me to 100%, and after I figured that out, I never dropped below 60%. You are pretty much guaranteed not to have to bandage or eat.

The only thing that might interfere are the regular flayer invasions. About every 20 or 30 minutes, 3 of them will descend on the camp and attack either a boar or the elite pet. Most of the time they will be intercepted by the pet; if not, Oronok will kill them himself when they attack a boar. Don't bother them and they won't bother you.

You can farm ridiculous amounts of leather here. I was getting about 4 to 5 stacks per half hour. Surprised it hasn't been nerfed yet.

Comment by Thottbot

ive been farming these in negrand for a while. IMO the best thing to do is kill ALL the mobs (not just talbucks) and if youre high enough lvl kill bachlor and the elete clefthoof (i cant remember his name), they drop either 3 leathers or 1, never scraps.

good luck

Comment by Thottbot

a good place for knothide is netherstorm. kill the mana guys and they usually drop knothide leather, rarely any scraps. The mote of mana is an extra plus, very easy farm bizzzzz

Comment by Thottbot

Oronok's farm in SMV near the Altar of Shat'ar has 5 demon boars(they no longer give exp or drop( instead it goes straight to the skinning option. the respawn rate is UNREAL i have farmed 200-400 knothide an hour.Oronkok Torn Heart will heal you, he has food/drink,and he has the repair option, the only thing he doesn't have is a mailbox. Every once in a while 5 or 6 Rock Flayers will spawn and the dog or oronok will take them.
If there is anything that i havnt said, questions you have, or wish to just talk. Goomm of Gorgonnash

Comment by Thottbot

Has this changed after the latest patch? There are 6 single knothide leathers at the AH @ kazzak, and they're all listed for 2000-3000g each bid / buyout from different players.

Comment by Thottbot

For lower lvl toons, Nagrand lvl 65-66 Talbuk Thorngrazers have given me knothide leather almost 90% of the time. Specifically the talbuks near Laughing Skull Ruins (47.27). There are tons of these neutral talbuks around the trees, and they respawn fairly quick.
As an added bonus, there are Clefthoof Bulls mingled in the talbuks. They freqently drop Thick Clefthoof leather.

(Kagebuke, Stonemaul)

Comment by Thottbot

I love Oronok's place, It does not fill my bag with trash, and at I get alot of knthide, ty forhelping

Comment by woxenrud

I spent a couple of days evaluating all the farming methods mentioned here on wowhead for all eight leather types in cataclysm. The methods I had the most success with, skins per hour wise, were the following:

Light leather
Marsh Crocolisks (southern Silverpine Forest)
660 light leathers per hour
Also drops: medium leather, light hide, medium hide

Medium leather
Black Dragon Whelps (southwest Stonetalon Mountains)
624 medium leathers per hour
Also drops: heavy leather, medium hide, heavy hide

Heavy leather
Uldaman backdoor. Pull the three packs of scorpids and the various beasts in between
474 heavy leathers per hour
Also drops: plenty of medium and thick leather, heavy medium and thick hide

Thick leather
Nyxondra's broodlings (northwest Badlands)
537 thick leathers per hour
Also drops: rugged leather, thick hide

Rugged leather
Gordok Mastiffs (Dire Maul N). Pull the hounds in the pit and the ones just at the start of the second room
894 rugged leathers per hour
Also drops: thick leather, rugged hide

Knothide leather
Razorthorn Ravagers (mountains on the border between Terokkar and Hellfire Peninsula)
738 knothide leathers per hour

Borean leather
Stoic Mammoths, Jormungars (southeast Storm Peaks). Kill the two packs of mammoths, clear the outside and inside of the cave, repeat
513 borean leathers per hour
Also drops: jormungar scale, arctic fur

Savage leather
Baradin Crocolisks (west Tol Barad) Best to do on times when other players are around for extra free skins
567 savage leather per hour

The exact results and methods I used can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6t_fX0bz0s

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