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 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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