Some have brought it to my attention they are concerned that the creature changes Smitty has discussed, will effect the skinning experience of creatures.

Skinning difficulties are based off a separate set of values that the creature itself. Now, I don't believe any of the creature's attributes, or even the creature's level is a direct influence on the difficulty of accquiring a skin. That said, I'll leave the door open for Tarragon to correct me if I am wrong.

We do make a reasonable attempt to keep the difficulty of the skin in line with the difficulty (read level) of the creature. However, we have been known to intentionally make some of the lower level creatures are very difficult to skin (thus you get a lot of exp) and some of the very high level creatures very easy (thus you get less).

So now have I totally confused you? :)

Ok, then to keep it simple; I have no reason to believe the expected changes Smitty talked about, will have any effect on skinning.

Trev