WoW Tailoring Guide

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Tailoring is a primary profession in the World of Warcraft that involves taking different types of cloth and weaving them into armor, shirts, bags, and more. The armor created by tailors is especially useful for mages, priests and warlocks, plus they can create some decorative items that anyone can wear.

High level tailors can even make special threads to enchant their pants and the pants of other players. There’s also a special tailor-only mount: the flying carpet. This WoW tailoring guide will provide you with everything you need to learn how to be a grand master tailor.

Companion Professions
Tailoring doesn’t rely on any of the materials gathered from gathering professions (herbalism, mining, and skinning), although some leather is needed in a few patterns. Because of this, tailoring isn’t obviously paired with another profession. Skinning isn’t a bad choice, however. Another good profession is enchanting. You can create green items with your tailoring to raise your skill level, then disenchant them and sell or use the materials yourself. If you’re looking to make some money, herbalism or mining both make good second professions.

Materials Needed for Tailoring
Tailoring relies entirely on the cloth dropped by humanoid enemies. The first type of cloth you’ll encounter is linen. Linen cloth is dropped by low-level humanoids. As you start fighting more powerful enemies, you’ll find wool, silk, mageweave, runecloth, netherweave, and, in Northrend, frostweave. Some demons will also drop Felcloth, which is used in some patterns.

Some tailoring patterns also require leather, which you can get from skinners, and gemstones, which you can get from mining or prospecting ore. A few patterns actually need potions, and for those, you’ll need to find an alchemist.

Tailors don’t need any special equipment to create most of their items—they can start tailoring anywhere they have all of the required materials. However, some special cloth such as Mooncloth can only be created in specific places, and these special types of cloth often have long cooldowns.

Learning to be a Tailor – WoW Tailoring Guide
You can learn tailoring from any tailor trainer. These trainers can be found in all of the major cities. Once you learn apprentice tailoring, you’ll be able to make items using linen and then wool cloth. When you look at your tailoring patterns, you’ll see that they are different colors. Orange patterns will always give you a skill up when you make them, while yellow patterns will give you a skill up about half of the time. Green patterns will rarely give you a skill up, while gray patterns will never give you a skill up.

Once your tailoring has reached 75, you’ll need to become a journeyman tailor to continue increasing your skill. This is done by returning to a trainer. To become a journeyman, you need to be level 10 and be at skill level 50 or more. There are four levels after journeyman: expert (requires level 20 and 125 tailoring skill), artisan (level 35 and 200 skill), master (level 50 and 250 skill), and grand master (level 65 and 350 skill). Note that to become a master, you must have the Burning Crusade expansion, and to become a grand master, you need the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Specializing
When you reach Outland, are level 60, and have a skill of 350 or more, you can specialize in either Mooncloth tailoring, Shadoweave tailoring, or Spellfire tailoring. All you have to do is complete the required quest. Specializing allows tailors access to patterns that use that type of special cloth. It also allows players to make two pieces of Mooncloth, Shadoweave, or Spellfire at a time instead of one. To create these special types of cloth, though, you must be at a Moonwell (Mooncloth), an Altar of Shadows (Shadoweave), or in Netherstorm (Spellcloth). Many of the specialized items are bind on pickup, meaning the tailor is the only one who can use them.

Once arriving in Northrend and reaching skill level 415, tailors may want to change their specialization because there are three new options: Ebonweave, Moonshroud, and Spellweave. Once again, specializing allows tailors to make two pieces of cloth instead of one. To specialize in one of these, you must drop the specialization you learned in Outland.

Like the Outland specialization, you must be in a specific area to create the special cloth. For Ebonweave, you’ve got to journey to the Maw of Neltharion. For Moonshroud, it’s the Emerald Dragonshrine. Finally, Spellweave can only be created in the Azure Dragonshrine.

Spellthread
When you arrive in Shattrath City in Outland, you can side with either the Aldor or the Scryer faction. Each has two different spellthread patterns for a tailor. Both provide the same bonuses, so it doesn’t matter which one you choose. The first level of spellthread provides +25 spell power and +15 stamina, while the second level provides +35 spell power and +20 stamina. Tailors can create spellthread and trade it to other non-tailors in addition to using it themselves.

New spellthread is available in Northrend. Four of these are tradable to other players, but two of them, the Master’s Spellthread and the Sanctified Spellthread, can only be used by the tailor who makes them. Likewise, there are some cloak embroidery enhancements that only the tailor can use.

Tailoring Mounts
If you have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, a tailoring skill of 410, and have expert riding skill, you can craft the Flying Carpet. This carpet provides 150% flying speed and 60% ground speed. At skill 425 and with the artisan riding skill, you can create the Magnificent Flying Carpet, a 280% flying/100% ground speed mount. To use either of these mounts in Northrend, of course, you have to also know Cold Weather Flying.

Bags
The other great items that tailors can create are bags. These include the basic eight, ten, and sixteen slot bags, but they also include some rare and very large bags. These bags include the 32-slot bags for each profession (the Emerald Bag for herbs, the Mysterious Bag for enchanting supplies, etc.). They can also create 20-slot Frostweave bags and the huge 22-slot Glacial Bags, the largest bag that a player can create (there are larger bags for sell from NPCs, but they are incredibly expensive).

This is the end of this WoW tailoring guide. I will add more tips and tricks later.