Originally Posted by
Droodid
You can get skinning to max in about 2 hours of actual effort, I thought it was going to be much worse. If you're alliance, just go to the starting zone and farm the elephant like things in the northeast.
Leatherworking can go from 1-700 by just buying the latest leather and making items with it, you get +10 skill per item until around 650, then at 650 make the daily CD, buy the item for rerolling stats on gear made, and create those until you're 700. It'll cost a little bit of gold, but it's very easy to do.