Tailoring

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	Tailoring (Profession)
	Ingredients • Specializations • Quests • Patterns • Trainers

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. Tailors are responsible for creating cloth items for cloth-armor wearing classes: Mages, Warlocks, and Priests. They occasionally make items for other classes, such as cloaks or spellthread for pants. They also make decorative shirts. Tailors are also able to make special cloth equipment which requires that the user have a high level tailoring skill in order to use the item as well as a special Tailoring Mount.

From the official site

Tailors take simple cloth and weave wonders out of it; cloth armor and robes, shirts, bags and other creations are the purview of the tailor. The benefits are diverse - lightly armored classes can wear mystic robes, all types of heroes can benefit from a variety of bags, and everyone can appreciate the decorative shirts and outfits springing from the tailor's loom.

Tailoring doesn't rely on a gathering profession - cloth is found in chests and on defeated foes, as well as purchased. As such, Tailoring is paired with a variety of professions, though Enchanting is common.

Most Tailoring can be done anywhere, provided that you have the necessary materials.^[1]

Getting Started

The first staple for tailors is [Linen Cloth], followed by [Wool Cloth], [Silk Cloth], [Mageweave Cloth], [Runecloth], [Netherweave Cloth], [Frostweave Cloth] and [Embersilk Cloth]. Typically, humanoid monsters drop these items, although most undead do as well, while demons drop [Felcloth] (used in high-level pre-BC patterns). Recipes usually require thread and occasionally colored dye, both of which are purchased from NPC trade merchants. Additionally, tailoring recipes sometimes call for leather, gems, potions, or other special ingredients created by other craftsmen. Leather is gathered by skinners and must be purchased from other players. Gems are found from monster drops, treasure chests, mining, prospecting ore, fishing, and Rogue pick pocketing. Potions will need to be purchased from an Alchemist.

Requirements

Tailors no longer require any special equipment or location to process their materials into finished products. As long as the tailor has all of the required materials for the creation of an item, it can be made anywhere in the world at any time.

Only creating [Glacial Bag] has a 7 day cool-down.

Suggested 2nd Profession

Tailoring does not require a gathering skill to acquire materials, unlike Alchemy (which needs herbalism) or Jewelcrafting and Blacksmithing (which need mining). This gives tailors a lot of freedom when selecting their second profession.

Enchanting complements tailoring well, since green or higher quality items made with tailoring can in turn be disenchanted to use for your own enchanting purposes. Also, many of the endgame patterns require materials produced by disenchanting.
Skinning is one of the few professions that supplies materials for tailoring. Several patterns (mainly boots and certain bags) require some kind of leather.
Mining on its own is a very profitable profession, because jewelcrafters, engineers, and blacksmiths all require mats from it. In addition, many Grand Master recipes require materials that are easily obtained through mining, such as gems and Eternal elements.

Suggested Classes

Skilling Up

To get the most skill from the least linen when starting out as a tailor, make nothing but bolts of linen cloth and bank them. Around a skill level of 50, making bolts of linen should go gray. At this point you can take all that linen out of the bank and start tailoring in earnest. You have to make bolts anyway, so you might as well get every drop of skill out of them that you can. Repeat this every time you learn to use a new type of cloth.
See Tailoring Leveling Guide.

Types of Crafted Items

Cloth Armor

Tailors can create many pieces of cloth armor, appropriate for Mages, Warlocks, and Priests. Other caster classes, like Holy Paladins and Balance or Restoration Druids, may sometimes opt to wear cloth gear due to the pieces' greater bonuses to caster related attributes. In addition to making stand-alone cloth armor pieces, tailors can also craft multi-item collections, sets of gear that share a name and visual design. Some of the collections give a set bonus.

Bags

The most popular tailored item is bags, which can only be made by tailors and leatherworkers (engineers can also make engineering bags). Players without these skills can acquire bags from loot drops, quests, or from merchants, but tailors can sell bags in larger quantities and for lower cost. This provides an excellent opportunity to make money, especially from players looking for large 18- and 20-slot bags. Make sure to get the bag patterns as soon as they are available.

Tailors can also craft four types of specialty craft bags: Shard Bags for Warlocks, Enchanting Bags for Enchanters, Herb Bags for Herbalists, and Gem Bags for Jewelcrafters. Such bags are larger than the generic non-specialty ones, but are only allowed to carry a certain type of item. If an item is collected that is of the correct type, it's automatically placed into the special bag.

Shirts

Tailors can create a wide array of shirts in different colors and styles. Although shirts have no stats and provide no game play benefits, they can sometimes show prominently on a character, depending on what equipment they are wearing. A shirt has the potential to make a character look much better. Tailors can sell shirts to players looking to improve their appearance.

Special Clothes

Tailors can create special outfits, such as dresses and tuxedos, that have no stats and are merely decorative. These can impress other people in town or be used for special occasions. The people most likely to buy these will be those who roleplay.

Faction Recipes

Some recipes are only learnable after achieving a certain reputation level with a particular faction. These are listed at the faction recipes entry.

Summary of Skill Levels and Training Requirements

Proficiency	Required level	Required skill	Maximum skill
Apprentice	5	N/A	75
Journeyman	10	50	150
Expert	20	125	225
Artisan	35	200	300
Master	50	250	375
Grand Master	65	350	450
Illustrious Grand Master	75	425	525

Tailoring in The Burning Crusade

The Burning Crusade expansion introduced [Netherweave Cloth] as the primary material for tailoring; as in Classic WoW, netherweave cloth drops primarily from humanoid monsters. Five pieces of cloth yield one [Bolt of Netherweave]. For higher level patterns, tailors must craft Bolts of Imbued Netherweave from normal cloth bolts and [Arcane Dust]. Mana Looms were once required to craft these (requirement removed with Patch 3.0.2), and can still be found either in Shattrath's Lower City or in Silvermoon. To advance beyond 300 tailoring players originally needed to head to the Hellfire Peninsula in Outland, but now can learn the skill from the trainer in any major city. Horde Players find their Master Tailoring Trainer "Dalinna" in the Thrallmar inn. Alliance players need to go upstairs in the inn at Honor Hold.

Specialization

Tailoring specializations
Mooncloth Tailoring Shadoweave Tailoring Spellfire Tailoring

Tailors of level 60 or higher with a skill of 350 or greater can choose a Tailoring Specialization -- Mooncloth Tailoring, Shadoweave Tailoring, or Spellfire Tailoring -- by completing a quest from one of the neutral specialists in Shattrath's Lower City. These specialists also sell patterns relating to their specialty. Specializing allows the tailor to make two pieces of [Primal Mooncloth], [Shadowcloth], or [Spellcloth] (respectively) per cooldown instead of just one, and from a single set of mats.

The three types of specialty cloth in Burning Crusade originally had an unshared 3 day 20 hour cooldown, so specializing was vital; with Patch 3.0.8 the cooldown was removed, but being able to make items with essentially half the mats is still a major advantage. More importantly, the specialty you choose in Outland carries over into Northrend where new cloths become available in the same specialties.

Each cloth must also be crafted at a specific place.

Name	Materials			Location
[Primal Mooncloth]	1x [Bolt of Imbued Netherweave]	1x [Primal Life]	1x [Primal Water]	Moonwell
[Shadowcloth]	1x [Bolt of Imbued Netherweave]	1x [Primal Fire]	1x [Primal Shadow]	Altar of Shadows
[Spellcloth]	1x [Bolt of Imbued Netherweave]	1x [Primal Fire]	1x [Primal Mana]	Netherstorm

Specialization provides access to recipes for highly desirable epic cloth gear. Each specialization is associated with one epic 3-piece gear set. The recipes and pieces for each set are BoP and are tailor-only. Furthermore, the set can only be worn as long as the tailor retains its particular specialization.

The Primal Mooncloth Set boosts spell power, mp5, and intelligence; Shadow's Embrace boosts spell power, stamina and intelligence; and Wrath of Spellfire boosts spell power, crit, and intelligence. Originally, the three sets boosted Healing Power, Shadow and Frost spell damage, and Fire and Arcane spell damage respectively. However, the WotLK expansion brought an end to school-specific spell damage buffs on gear, and ushered in the unification of healing power and spell damage into a single stat. The bonuses on these TBC sets have been altered to reflect those changes while retaining the sets' benefits for particular specs.

To re-specialize, you may return to the cloth merchants in lower Shattrath to unlearn your old specialization. It will cost 150 to unlearn the current specialization at level 70 and 20 to learn a new specialization. At level 63, the cost to learn another specialization remains the same but the cost to unlearn is only 50, so it seems to scale with the character level. WARNING: Unlearning a particular specialization will disable your ability to use the items previously crafted under that school.

Note that all tailors can make [Primal Mooncloth Bag] (20 slot bag), [Ebon Shadowbag] (28 slot soul bag) and [Spellfire Bag] (28 slot enchanting bag). The recipes are bind on pickup, but the bags are not.

Spellthread

Spellthreads are tailor-crafted augments that grant caster-class bonuses to leg armor. Applying a thread will overwrite another augment or enchant on the item. The recipes require gaining reputation with the Aldor or Scryer factions. As these two factions are at war, tailors who wish to learn all four recipes must grind to exalted with one faction, then drop it and grind to exalted with the other.

Name	Stats		Faction
[Mystic Spellthread]	+25 Spell Power	+15 Stamina	Scryers	Honored
[Silver Spellthread]	+25 Spell Power	+15 Stamina	Aldor	Honored
[Runic Spellthread]	+35 Spell Power	+20 Stamina	Scryers	Exalted
[Golden Spellthread]	+35 Spell Power	+20 Stamina	Aldor	Exalted

Notable Resist Sets

TBC tailors can create two epic resist sets that are useful for level 70 raid encounters.

The Soulcloth Embrace 3-piece set provides a total of +110 Arcane Resistance and is useful for players attempting The Curator in Karazhan.

The Soulguard 4-piece set (plus cloak) provides +260 Shadow Resist and is required for attempting Mother Shahraz in Black Temple.

Tailoring in Wrath of the Lich King

Trainers may be found in the starting zone areas Valiance Keep (in Borean Tundra) or Valgarde (in Howling Fjord). A trainer is also located in the Magus Commerce Exchange region of Dalaran. At Tailoring 325, tailors may learn Northern Cloth Scavenging from a Northrend trainer (this skill may also be taught from the book [A Guide to Northern Cloth Scavenging] which drops randomly in Northrend). This allows them to loot additional Frostweave cloth off humanoids in Northrend. This works much like skinning: after other members of the party have looted their mobs, tailors will see newly lootable corpses that contain ~3-7 pieces of additional cloth. If there are multiple tailors in the group, they will all see the mob as lootable.