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
Tailoring trainers are found in every main city.
A player can become an Apprentice Tailor and begin creating items with patterns in Classic WoW at Level 5. Apprentice Tailors can learn patterns up to 75 skill.
A player can become a Journeyman Tailor and begin creating items with patterns in Classic WoW at Level 10, with a Tailoring skill of 50. Journeyman Tailors can learn patterns up to 150 skill.
A player can become an Expert Tailor and begin creating items with patterns in Classic WoW at Level 20, with a Tailoring skill of 125. Expert Tailors can learn patterns up to 225 skill.
A player can become an Artisan Tailor and begin creating items with patterns in Classic WoW at Level 35, with a Tailoring skill of 200. Artisan Tailors can learn patterns up to 300 skill.
Tailoring Patterns 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 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 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.