Profitable Skinning Glitch (Patreon)

At the start of a Dragonflight there was a report about a mob named Territorial Coastling that could be skinned repeatedly for lustrous and dense hide, very valuable skins. The moment I tested confirmed the glitch it was fixed, with further skinning attempts after the first one yielding junk items, and I forgot about it.

Recently however I had another look and understood that the hotfix was only partially effective.  The reason being that you get valuable skins from the Coastling, once every daily reset. And, further it seems that every rare that can be skinned in the Dragon Isles resets daily also.

It is difficult to say for certain but this appears to be unintended and therefore an exploit. Skinning materials are behaving differently from the main loot drops rares give you which is strictly one-time only per character, no daily reset.

Even if it is not an exploit it is very lucrative and not widely known. Often when dense hide drops you have over 1000 gold worth of skinning materials from a single mob.

As of the time of writing Lustrous Hide (depending on quality) varies between 59-108 gold on EU with Dense Hide fluctuating between 375-500 gold.

I would like to be able to show a route for patreons to farm rares, but any artistic representation of anything in wow could potentially get me into legal trouble, as this would be using Blizzard's art assets-this is not allowed outside of things like youtube where Blizzard grant special permission. 

Fortunately Wowhead has a list of all mobs which drop dense hide that can be used as a rough guide. 

https://www.wowhead.com/item=193216/dense-hide#skinned-from

Players who are handy with dragon-riding will find it doesn't take long to travel between rares-but you can use a simple alternative strategy with alts: just park a level 60+ character you don't use much near a rare's spawn point. Then log-in every day and kill and skin the rare. This is one of the best uses of an alt army.