On rare occassions, when attempting to skin the target.
The skinned target does not drop any loot, but rather has the loot icon, when hovering over their corpse.
An error message reads “Target is tapped”, when attempting to loot the skinned target.
Cause? Might be due to the skinning timing perfectly aligning with the mob’s despawn timer.
Cross realms issue… or a cloaked player/bot standing off to one side making it difficult for you to loot the target. I’ve had this happen several times also. I just walk away. But if this kept up I would venture into another area. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that some bots are now actually invisible.
Just to add… on my Shaman, often I can kill a mob in one or two hits… and when mob falls, it’s still moving… so if that’s the case, you can’t skin the creature until it’s actually and completely dead…