Well, you dont get any experience for collecting cloth as a tailor either so… 
But yes, its weird not to get exp from skinning, especially as you can be skinning mobs killed by someone else so got no experience from the kill. Even a small amount would help.
The trade off is somebody can create that node for you to skin… free. And you can have someone do that for you indefinitely.
Honestly you’ve got the better deal
well that is good news - I hated that 2 x 4 farming business - what did they nerf
But skinning is the easiest.
Pull the entire zone and skin those poor critters.
You can also skin in dungeons too.
Like what are you even about, TC?
yeah like all the mobs are beasts 
500 for killing a proto dragon or 5k for picking a flower? Pick one.
Yes, you get XP for killing enemies, but you get substantially more for the other gathering professions.
Are are you being purposely obtuse?
seems like you are
I have literally leveled up characters via herbing and mining. I would never level them up skinning because it would take too long.
Ok… I couldnt care less about that.
I said the trade off is that you have an overabundant supply to counter that.
A supply that you yourself can provide and strangers can provide at no cost to you.
You can skin in dungeons. there are no herbs or or in dungeons anymore.
There is a balance. you are only seeing the negative… You have plenty of perks
This is like getting a job at McDonalds and complaining about the Google CEO having it better than you. Go for the gold dude. Reroll your profession.
yes skins are more plentiful, hence the lower prices and they made things worse by the changes that allowed multiple people to skin a mob.
How is that different from multiple people mining?
Mining and herb sometimes requires killing before tapping. However yes, skinners have to kill for every tap and that’s where their xp comes in.
They dont. If you hang around a hunting area you’ll get more skins than you’ll need for a week
Discussed this above. I don’t get 5K for picking a flower. I get 2400 on my characters. They are all under level 65. And I can kill 5 or more proto dragons in the time between picking two flowers so it seems to even out.
This too but then they do get 0 xp.
It’s significantly lower gold per hour…that doesn’t matter.
Yup. But the abundance is the trade off.
It’s just skinny gave you XP why would anyone not skin?
You could just hang around a super concentrated area and never leave
That’s not good news, it was near dead now it’s fully dead lol.
I have got 4500xp for either mining or herbing xp and I get less than 500xp for killing a single mob which takes me longer too.