WoW Tailoring Guide

Tailoring is one of the 14 professions available in World of Warcraft. Tailoring allows players to cut and weave various pieces of cloth into armor, bags, shirts, and other cloth items. Tailors play an especially important role in guilds because they can create bags for the entire guild, provided the guild members gather the proper ingredients. Warlocks, Mages and Priests frequently take up tailoring as a profession as they are cloth wearers and benefit directly from this profession as they create their own outfits. This WoW tailoring guide will show you how to get your tailoring skill up from tailoring 1-450.

The process for tailoring is among one of the most demanding professions to power leveling, requiring an amazingly large amount of Netherweave (around 3,000) just to get through the 300s. It often requires a lot of farming, a lot of patience, and more than a little work, however the rewards are worth the pain. Epic Tailored items are often considered to be some of the best pre-teir 5 gear in the game. Below are step by step instructions to power level tailoring using only basic recipes and materials.

Required Materials

• 180 x Arcane Dust
• 10 x Bleach
• 30 x Blue Dye
• 75 x Coarse Thread
• 135 x Fine Thread
• 5 x Gray Dye
• 60 x Heavy Silken Thread
• 20 x Knothide Leather
• 160 x Linen Cloth
• 520 x Mageweave Cloth
• 2460 x Netherweave Cloth
• 35 x Netherweb Spider silk
• 60 x Red Dye
• 120 x Rugged Leather
• 75 x Rune Thread
• 900 x Runecloth
• 760 x Silk Cloth
• 45 x Silken Thread
• 200 x Wool Cloth

Leveling WoW Tailoring Tactics

WoW Tailoring Guide, Part 1 – WoW Tailoring Apprentice

To get started making cloth you will need to go to your trainer in Azeroth to learn how to be a WOW tailoring apprentice.

• Level 1-45: make 80 bolts of Linen Cloth using 160 Linen Cloth. If you reach skill level 45 before you finish making them, you can stop and make some later if you actually need them.
• Level 46-70: make 35 Heavy Linen Gloves using 70 bolts of Linen Cloth and 35 Course Thread.
• Level 71-75: make 5 Reinforced Linen Capes using 10 bolts of Linen Cloth and 15 Course Thread.

WoW Tailoring Guide, Part 2 – WoW Tailoring Journeyman

At this level you will need to see your trainer to become a WOW Tailoring Journeyman.

• Level 76-105: make 55 bolts of Woolen Cloth using 225 Wool Cloth.
• Level 106-110: make 5 Gray Woolen Shirts using 10 bolts of Woolen Cloth, 10 Fine Tread and 10 gray dyes.
• Level 111-125: make 15 Double Stitched Woolen Shoulders using 45 bolts of Woolen Cloth and 2 Fine Thread.

WoW Tailoring Guide, Part 3 – WoW Tailoring Expert

At this point you will need to see your trainer to become a WOW Tailoring Expert.

• Level 126-145: make 190 bolt of Silk Cloth using 760 Silk Cloth.
• Level 146-160: make 15 Azure Silk Hoods using 30 bolts of Silk Cloth, 30 Blue Dyes and 15 Fine Threads.
• Level 161-170: make 10 Silk Headbands using 30 bolts of Silk Cloth and 20 Fine Threads.
• Level 171-175: make 5 Formal White Shirts using 15 bolts of Silk Cloth, 10 bleach and 5 Fine Threads.
• Level 176-185: make 15 Crimson Silk Vests using 60 bolts of Silk Cloth and 30 Fine Thread and 30 Red Dyes

WoW Tailoring Guide, Part 4 – WoW Tailoring Artisan

At this part of the game you will want to see your trainer to become a WOW Tailoring Artisan.

• Level 200-215: make 15 Crimson Silk Pantaloons using 60 bolts of Silk Cloth, 30 Red Dyes and 30 Silken Threads.
• Level 216-220: make 5 Black Mageweave leggings using 10 bolts of Mageweave and 15 Silken Threads.
• Level 221-230: make 10 Black Mageweave Gloves using 20 bolts of Mageweave and 20 Heavy Silken Threads.
• Level 231-250: make 23 Black Mageweave Headbands using 69 bolts of Mageweave and 46 Heavy Silken Threads.
• Level 251- 260: make 190 bolts of Runecloth using 950 Runecloths.
• Level 260-275 – Runecloth Belt
• Level 275-280 – Runecloth Gloves
• Level 280-300 – Runecloth Bag – Sold by Qia in Everlook, Winterpring
• At skill level 300 train Master Tailoring
• Level 300-325 – Bolt of Netherweave
• Level 325-340 – Bolt of Imbued Netherweave
• Level 340-350 – Netherweave Boots

At skill level 350 a tailor can choose to “specialize” or “master” a specific type of tailoring. The options are: Shadoweave, Spellfire, and Primal Mooncloth. While all tailors can transmute all three types of cloth – shadowcloth, spellcloth, and primal mooncloth – specializing allows you to create two pieces of cloth for the material cost of one.

• Shadoweave tailoring (Shadow / Frost): Allows the tailor to learn the patterns for the Bind on Pickup Shadow’s Embrace set, and to create an additional shadowcloth at the Altar of Shadows.
• Spellfire tailoring (Fire / Arcane): Allows the tailor to learn the patterns for the Bind on Pickup Wrath of Spellfire set, and to create an additional spellcloth in Netherstorm.
• Mooncloth tailoring (Healing): Allows the tailor access to learn the patterns for the Bind on Pickup Primal Mooncloth Set, and to create an additional primal mooncloth at a moonwell.

• Level 350-360 – Netherweave Tunic
• Level 360-370 – Imbued Netherweave Tunic – Sold by Arron in Shadowmoon Valley.
• You need to be either neutral with both Scryers and Aldor OR alligned with the Scryers in order to purchase this pattern from the vendor. If you are alligned with Aldor, you can have someone that IS alligned with Scryers purchase it for you, or you can buy it off the auction house.
• Level 370-375 – Arcanoweave Boots – Drops in Tempest Keep: The Mechanar.
• The mob called Sunseeker Astromage drops this pattern. While it is possible to reach 375 tailoring by making Imbued Netherweave Tunics, that would require a lot of materials. Chances are you will want to farm The Mechanar for several different tailoring drops, this being one of them.

To get cloth which is the foundation items you will need in your tailoring recipes you will have to kill or loot humanoids.

You might also need these for the tailoring recipes – leather-from a skinner, some potions-from an alchemist and possibly gems-fishing,mining or monster drops. Remember all these can also be bought if you have enough gold from the Auction house .

One of the most popular profession combinations is Tailoring with Enchanting. They complement each other perfectly, as dust is needed for some special types of cloth, while disenchanting of the items made from Tailoring will ensure constant abundance of enchanting materials. These materials can either be used or sold for a profit. Leveling Enchanting without Tailoring is extremely difficult and expensive process.

Tailoring can earn quite a bit of gold at higher skill levels, it is easy to get, and you can use it for reputation gains. Bags sell for big time gold when you learn the ability to make the largest general bags and goes up again when you learn specialty bags.

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