Butchering

Learn the Butchering skill at the capital city of your realm. The "Butcher" NPC will teach you the specialization. Pair this with the trade skill Apothecary.

Leveling Butchering

• Leveling up your new gathering skill, Butchering, happens through the killing and looting of animal type NPCs in Return of Reckoning. When you kill the animal NPC, right click on the corpse or use your loot hotkey to first obtain whatever items and coin dropped from the mob, then right click or loot hotkey again to obtain a butchering material from the corpse.
• Once a material is successfully looted, the corpse will disappear.
• The level of material that drops is first checked by your skill level, then by NPC level. It's a simple calculation: if you want material of a specific level, divide the material level by 5. This represents the minimum level mob that will drop the material. You can kill mobs within the range of four levels above that. For example, if I want to obtain level 50 materials, I need to farm level 10-14 mobs. 50 divided by 5 equals 10, plus 4 is 14. Level 15 mobs will drop level 75 materials.
• You can only receive materials within the range of your skill level. For example, if you are killing level 20 mobs to get level 100 materials to drop, but your skill level in Butchering is 87, you will only receive level 75 materials and lower.
• Each animal corpse you loot will have a chance to level your Butchering skill by one point, as long as it is within or above your skill level. For example, say my Butchering is currently level 75, and I'm killing level 20-24 mobs (which drop level 100 materials). I'll have a very good chance to level my Butchering up through level 100. If I'm killing level 15-19 mobs (which drop level 75 materials), I'll have a normal chance to level my Butchering through 75 (I might see a slow-down somewhere around 90 because the chance to level is shrinking as I continue leveling up); and if I'm killing level 10-14 mobs (which drop level 50 materials), I'll have a very low, or zero, chance to increase my Butchering past 75.
• The maximum level for all gathering and trade skills is 200.
• Any class can Butcher, but if you're going to have one character with each gathering skill (Cultivating, Salvaging, and Scavenging), it's good to consider learning Butchering on a class that can farm groups of mobs easily. Butchering can be an effective gathering skill for classes with high sustain and reasonable aoe damage. Engineer, Slayer, Magus, and Marauder can all make good Butchers.

List of Enabled Materials Obtained Through Butchering

Material Level	Effect	Name	Animal Type
1	Armor
25	Armor	Thin Scale	Wyvern, Lizard
50	Armor	Torn Scale	Wyvern, Lizard
75	Armor
100	Armor
125	Armor
150	Armor	Thick Scale	Wyvern, Lizard
175	Armor	Supple Scale	Wyvern, Lizard
200	Armor	Firebreath Scale	Wyvern, Lizard
1	Ballistic Skill	Tattered Feather	Vulture
25	Ballistic Skill	Mangled Plume	Vulture
50	Ballistic Skill	Torn Feather	Vulture
75	Ballistic Skill
100	Ballistic Skill	Worn Feather	Vulture
125	Ballistic Skill
150	Ballistic Skill	Chromatic Feather	Vulture
175	Ballistic Skill
200	Ballistic Skill	Pristine Feather	Vulture
1	Energy
25	Energy
50	Energy
75	Energy
100	Energy
125	Energy
150	Energy
175	Energy
200	Energy	Mane Lord's Fang
1	Healing	Weak Ichor	Spider, Scorpion
25	Healing	Thin Ichor	Spider, Scorpion
50	Healing	Milky Ichor	Spider, Scorpion
75	Healing	Waxy Ichor	Spider, Scorpion
100	Healing
125	Healing
150	Healing	Thick Wyvern Blood	Wyvern
175	Healing	Flowing Ichor
200	Healing	Fang Lord's Blood
200	Healing	Mottled Ichor
1	Multiplier	Crusty Squig Bits	Squig
25	Multiplier	Crumbly Squig Bits	Squig
50	Multiplier
75	Multiplier
100	Multiplier	Crunchy Squig Bits	Squig
125	Multiplier	Steaming Squig Bits	Squig
175	Multiplier	Whole Lotta Squig Bits	Squig
200	Multiplier	Special Squig Bits	Squig
1	Restoration	Watery Wolf Blood	Wolf
25	Restoration	Thin Wolf Blood	Wolf
25	Restoration	Putrid Animal Humor	Any
50	Restoration	Runny Wolf Blood	Wolf
50	Restoration	Decomposed Animal Humor	Any
75	Restoration	Stale Animal Humor
100	Restoration	Flowing Wolf Blood
100	Restoration	Fresh Animal Humor
125	Restoration	Mottled Animal Humor
150	Restoration	Hazy Animal Humor
175	Restoration	Clear Animal Humor
200	Restoration	Pristine Animal Humor
1	Stabilizer	Wild Zoic Gore	Any
25	Stabilizer	Primal Zoic Gore	Any
50	Stabilizer	Untamed Zoic Gore	Any
75	Stabilizer	Feral Zoic Gore	Any
100	Stabilizer	Ferocious Zoic Gore	Any
125	Stabilizer	Mad Zoic Gore	Any
150	Stabilizer	Viscous Zoic Gore	Any
175	Stabilizer	Savage Zoic Gore	Any
200	Stabilizer	Brutal Zoic Gore	Any
1	Strength	Shattered Feline Tooth	Cat
25	Strength	Carious Bear Tooth	Bear
50	Strength	Rotting Bear Tooth	Bear
75	Strength
100	Strength	Worn Feline Tooth
125	Strength	Bloody Bear Tooth
150	Strength
175	Strength
200	Strength	Special Feline Tooth
1	Toughness	Weak Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion
25	Toughness	Thin Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion
50	Toughness	Milky Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion
75	Toughness	Acrid Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion
100	Toughness
125	Toughness
150	Toughness
175	Toughness	Caustic Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion
200	Toughness	Pristine Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion
1	Willpower
25	Willpower	Carious Canine Tooth	Wolf
50	Willpower	Rotting Canine Tooth	Wolf
75	Willpower	Fractured Canine Tooth	Wolf
100	Willpower	Worn Canine Tooth	Wolf
100	Willpower	Resilient Cat Sinew
150	Willpower	Pristine Canine Tooth
150	Willpower	Fine Cat Sinew
175	Willpower	Caustic Canine Tooth
200	Willpower	Pristine Cat Sinew
1	Super-critical	Watery Porcine Bile	Boar
25	Super-critical	Thin Porcine Bile	Boar
50	Super-critical	Runny Porcine Bile	Boar
1	Slow	Wattery Rat Spittle	Rat
25	Napalm	Mangled Lizard Tongue	Lizard
50	Napalm	Bloody Lizard Tongue	Lizard
1	Shielding	Emaciated Bat Wing	Bat
25	Shielding	Anorexic Bat Wing	Bat
50	Shielding	Scrawny Bat Wing	Bat
1	Elemental Resistance	Rotting Daemon Flesh	Daemon
25	Elemental Resistance
50	Elemental Resistance	Blistered Daemon Flesh	Daemon