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Far east on the coast of The Hinterlands in the Eastern Kingdoms continent is a great place for players with a skinning profession to make some quick gold. There are lots of them and they have a fast respawn rate. They will also not attack you unless attacked first, with the exception of one turtle called Gammerita. It is recommended to be in a group of level 35+ or you can easily handle them solo at level 50+ Although you will want to be 5+ levels higher to allow for killing them quicker.

The turtles drop

•  [Big-mouth Clam]
  • These clams drop often. Read below for what you can get from these clams
•  [Speckled Shell Fragment]
  • These fragments drop as part of a quest but a stack of 5 can be sold to a vendor for 45 silver. These drop quite often.
•  [Turtle Meat]
  • This meat drops fairly regularly and can be sold on the auction house for a decent markup or used in cooking.
•  [Thick Scaly Tail]
  • This is basically useless and not worth farming for profit.
•  [Raw Spotted Yellowtail]
  • This meat drops somewhat rarely, and can be used in cooking.

By skinning the turtles you get

•  [Thick Leather]
  • Used in leatherworking. This drops most of the time.
•  [Rugged Leather]
  • Used in leatherworking. This drops some of the time.
•  [Turtle Scale]
  • Used in leatherworking. This drops rarely and sometimes more than one will drop.
•  [Thick Hide]
  • Rare drop. Used in leatherworking.

What you can get from the big mouth clams

•  [Black Pearl]
  • Rare drop. Also used in leatherworking.
•  [Golden Pearl]
  • Rare drop. Also used in leatherworking.
•  [Zesty Clam Meat]
  • High chance of dropping. Can be sold on the auction house for profit or used in cooking.
•  [Iridescent Pearl]
  • Rare drop. Also used in leatherworking.
•  [Small Lustrous Pearl]
  • Rare drop. Also used in leatherworking.

Also these turtles very, very rarely will drop armor or weapons such as

•  [Ivory Wand]

All in all these turtles are a great source to farm simply from the large variety of high value in demand items that they drop and the items resale/usefulness value.