Tailoring

Tailoring is one of the primary WoW Tradeskills. It allows a character to create cloth armor. Tailoring is often paired with Enchanting as the second primary profession, as the items created by the tailor can be disenchanted to make materials for the enchanter.

External Links

Allakhazam's page
Thottbot's page

Tailoring in Classic WoW

Leveling Tailoring Cheaply, 255+

255 Skill - Runecloth Belt

Source: Daryl Stack inside the church in Tarren Mills.

Materials: 3x Bolt of Runecloth, 1x Rune Thread

Create an alternate character and get it to level 5, and then mail it all the belts you make, which you can disenchant, mostly into dream dust, an average of 3 each time, and then sell or use. I suggest you don't do this until 52 or so, when you can grind the first farm in western plaguelands for runecloth. Done this way, it costs 45s (1 rune thread bought at honored faction), and the results more than pay for themselves.

275 Skill - Brightcloth Cloak

Source: Drop (I bought it at Auction House)

Materials: 4x Bolt of Runecloth, 2x Gold Bar, 1x Rune Thread

Again, I disenchanted this. I only did this pattern because I mined the gold myself, but if you don't spend too much on gold bars, this is another cheap pattern, and I made 300 by making 26 of these. (Note: You CAN level to 300 doing mooncloth if you want to. It only takes 200 days at minimum.)

Cloth Drop Guide

I (Nvts) always liked to kill humanoids due to them not dropping as much ‘sell loot’ and almost solely cloth, coin, and magic items. I would look for mobs to kill on Thott, but it was always annoying to do, due to the huge amount of low drop % mobs that is within the data. Now that I have a tailor, I have even more reason to hunt cloth dropping mobs.

I took all of the Linen, Silk, Mageweave, and Runcloth drops from Thottbot. In theory, the ones killed the most either were easiest to kill, popped fast, or some other reason to let them get killed often. I took the first five or six pages of most killed mobs per type and copied it into excel.

I removed all Elites, Chests and such, and instance mobs. I then removed all the lower % drops ( typically under 10% )This should leave me with the most killed, highest rate of cloth drops.

I added in a highlight for drop rates over 40%, and split it into a couple categories due to the Wiki not liking large tables. I made a table for each continent as well.

By Level
Sorted by level then zone. Should let you see all the mobs around your level at a glance.
ClothDropsEasternUnder30ByLevel
ClothDropsEasternOver30ByLevel

ClothDropsKalimdorUnder30ByLevel
ClothDropsKalimdorOver30ByLevel

By Zone
Sorted by zone then level. Lets you see the natural killing progression, if you wish to stay in the same zone a while.
ClothDropsEasternUnder30ByZone
ClothDropsEasternOver30ByZone

ClothDropsKalimdorOver30ByZone
ClothDropsKalimdorUnder30ByZone

Tailoring Pattern Locations

This is a somewhat incomplete chart of where to get Tailoring patterns. Right now, since my master list only includes drops, that's what's listed here. --Soraia 16:58, 17 Nov 2005 (GMT)

Skill	Type	Name	Location Found
	Shoulders	Azure Shoulders	World drop
	Waist	Belt of the Archmage	BoE from Knot Thimblejack's Cache in Dire Maul North
	Bag	Black Silk Pack	Syndicate Assassins in Alterac Mountains and Wastewander Assassins and Scofflaws in Tanaris
	Bag	Bottomless Bag	World drop (high-end content only?)
	Feet	Boots of the Enchanter	World drop
	Cloak	Brightcloth Cloak	World drop
	Hands	Brightcloth Gloves	World drop
	Legs	Brightcloth Pants	World drop
	Chest	Brightcloth Robe	World drop
	Cloak	Cindercloth Cloak	Thaurissan Flamewalkers, Burning Steppes
	Hands	Cindercloth Gloves	Twilight Fire Guards, Searing Gorge
	Legs	Cindercloth Pants	Thaurissan Flamewalkers, Burning Steppes
	Chest	Cindercloth Vest	Twilight Fire Guards, Searing Gorge
	Cloak	Cloak of Fire	BoP pattern from Overmaster Pyron, Blackrock Mountain
	Cloak	Cloak of Warding	BoP pattern from Knot Thimblejack's Cache, Dire Maul North
	Legs	Colorful Kilt	World drop
	Shoulders	Crimson Silk Shoulders	World drop
	Waist	Earthen Silk Belt	World drop
	Feet	Felcloth Boots	World drop
	Hands	Felcloth Gloves	BoP pattern from Knot Thimblejack's Cache, Dire Maul North
	Head	Felcloth Hood	World drop
	Chest	Felcloth Robe	World drop
	Shoulders	Felcloth Shoulders	World drop
	Hands	Frostweave Gloves	World drop
	Legs	Frostweave Pants	World drop
	Chest	Frostweave Robe	World drop
	Chest	Frostweave Tunic	World drop
	Waist	Ghostweave Belt	Lingering Highborne, Azshara
	Hands	Ghostweave Gloves	Lingering Highborne, Azshara and Unseen Servants, Eastern Plaguelands
	Legs	Ghostweave Pants	Spectral Citizens, Stratholme
	Chest	Ghostweave Vest	Unseen Servants, Eastern Plaguelands
	Hands	Gloves of Spell Mastery	World drop (high-end content only?)
	Chest	Gray Woolen Robe	World drop
	Chest	Green Silk Armor	World drop
	Bag	Green Silk Pack	World drop
	Bag	Green Woolen Bag	World drop
	Hands	Hands of Darkness	World drop
	Cloak	Heavy Woolen Cloak	World drop
	Hands	Inferno Gloves	BoP pattern from Knot Thimblejack's Cache, Dire Maul North
	Bag	Mooncloth Bag	World drop
	Head	Mooncloth Circlet	World drop (high-end content only?)
	Hands	Mooncloth Gloves	BoP pattern from Knot Thimblejack's Cache, Dire Maul North
	Legs	Mooncloth Leggings	World drop
	Shoulders	Mooncloth Shoulders	World drop
	Chest	Mooncloth Vest	World drop
	Hands	Phoenix Gloves	World drop
	Legs	Phoenix Pants	World drop
	Chest	Red Linen Robe	World drop
	Chest	Red Linen Vest	World drop
	Gloves	Red Mageweave Gloves	World drop
	Head	Red Mageweave Headband	World drop
	Legs	Red Mageweave Pants	World drop
	Shoulders	Red Mageweave Shoulders	World drop
	Chest	Red Mageweave Vest	World drop
	Shoulders	Reinforced Woolen Shoulders	World drop
	Shirt	Rich Purple Silk Shirt	World drop
	Chest	Robe of the Archmage	Firebrand Pyromancers, Lower Blackrock Spire
	Chest	Robe of the Void	Darkmaster Gandling, Scholomance
	Chest	Robe of Winter Night	Cobalt Mageweavers, Winterspring
	Chest	Robes of Arcana	Dark Strand Voidcallers, Darkshore and Defias Enchanters, Duskwood
	Head	Runecloth Headband	World drop
	Legs	Runecloth Pants	World drop
	Shoulders	Runecloth Shoulders	World drop
	Chest	Runecloth Tunic	World drop
	Waist	Runed Stygian Belt	Possible reward for turning Encrypted Twilight Texts in to the hermit in Silithus
	Feet	Runed Stygian Boots	Possible reward for turning Encrypted Twilight Texts in to the hermit in Silithus
	Legs	Runed Stygian Leggings	Possible reward for turning Encrypted Twilight Texts in to the hermit in Silithus
	Head	Shadow Hood	World drop
	Waist	Spider Belt	World drop
	Feet	Spider Silk Slippers	World drop
	Waist	Star Belt	World drop
	Shirt	Stylish Blue Shirt	World drop
	Shirt	Stylish Green Shirt	World drop
	Hands	Truefaith Gloves	World drop
	Chest	Truefaith Vestments	Balnazzar, Stratholme (Scarlet-side)
	Head	White Bandit Mask	World drop
	Legs	Wizardweave Leggings	Dark Summoners, Eastern Plaguelands
	Chest	Wizardweave Robe	Dark Casters, Eastern Plaguelands
	Head	Wizardweave Turban	Dark Casters, Eastern Plaguelands

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Tailoring in The Burning Crusade

A player can become a Master Tailor and begin creating items with patterns from the Burning Crusades expansion at Level 50, with a Tailoring skill of 275. Tailoring trainers are found in Hellfire Peninsula at Honor Hold (Alliance) and Thrallmar (Horde), and in Shattrath City at Scryer's and Aldor's Tiers . Master Tailors can learn patterns up to 375 skill.

Tailoring Patterns in The Burning Crusade

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Tailoring in Wrath of the Lich King

A player can become a Grand Master Tailor and begin creating items with patterns from the Wrath of the Lich King expansion at Level 65, with a Tailoring skill of 350. Tailoring trainers are found in the Borean Tundra at Valiance Keep (Alliance) and Warsong Hold (Horde), in Howling Fjord at Valgarde (Alliance) and Vengeance Landing (Horde), in Dalaran at the Magus Commerce Exchange, and in Icecrown at the Argent Tournament. Grand Master Tailors can learn patterns up to 450 skill.

Tailoring Patterns in Wrath of the Lich King

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