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There are no resource extraction skills. All you have to do is have the appropriate tool for the job equipped (meaning your character is a high enough level to meet the requirements, and the tool is the proper rating for the type of node) and then use the node. For example, to mine an iron ore node, you need an iron pick or better (steel, darksteel, mithril, orichalcum). To get leather and cloth materials, you have to salvage items using a salvage kit or open loot bags. For instance, using a salvage kit on a hide or piece of leather armor will yield raw leather materials. Other types of materials (scales, fangs, bones, poison sacs, blood, etc.) have to be found from dead enemies.
(edited by Equinox.4968)