Hunter gold guide for WoW Forever

Solo what others cannot

A Hunter with a pet kills beasts that would kill another class at the same level, and keeps killing them while the other class rests. That reach is the Hunter gold mechanic: the elite beasts, the packs in the corners of a zone and the skinnable creatures nobody else farms alone are all in range, earlier than for anyone else, at no cost beyond ammunition.

Skinning is the profession

Every beast a Hunter kills is a node. Skinning turns a farm into a farm plus a harvest, and leather is consumed by leatherworking, by the armor kits every class buys, and by the bags and quivers made from it. The block on this page prices every tier of leather and hide on your market; the hides are rarer than the leather of the same tier and usually worth more per unit. The two at the end come from beasts only a well-geared Hunter farms alone, which is the whole point.

Ammunition is the cost

Arrows and shot are the Hunter's running cost. Buy them from a vendor, never from the house, and count them against the farm: a beast that yields less than the ammunition it took is not income. Pet food is the other cost, and a Hunter who skins feeds the pet from the kills.

How to list leather

Leather moves in volume, like cloth. Full stacks at the median, not single listings under the cheapest one. Hides move in smaller lots and hold their price; list a few at a time. The level bands say what else your level can sell; a Hunter follows them with skinning on top.

The zone and creature pages under zones say which beasts players have seen drop what, from their own reports, so you can pick a farm by what it yields rather than by rumour.