Tailoring allows players to cut and weave various pieces
of cloth into armor, bags, shirts, and other cloth
items. Tailors can create cloth items for cloth wearing
classes: Mages, Warlocks, and Priests. Tailors play an
especially important role in guilds because they can
create bags for the entire guild. They can also create
specialty bags such as Herbalism bags that can increase
gathering for the guild. They can learn powerful rare
recipes as the highest levels which allow them to create
powerful gear useful in raiding. Tailors can create
shirts or dress-up items.
Tailors do not require
any special equipment to create their items, such as
blacksmiths require anvils. Tailors can create items
wherever they want, as long as they have the proper
required ingredients. Tailoring does not require a
gathering profession. Proper ingredients must be
gathered from monsters or purchased from other players.
If your friends know you're a tailor they also may
collect tailoring ingredients for you, provided you let
them know exactly what you need.
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To start off, head to
a major city and ask a guard for directions to the
tailoring trainer.
Artisan Tailoring is
available at the highest level once you have reached
level 35. Horde players should head to Tarren Mill.
Alliance players go to Timothy Worthington (Theramore
Isle, Dustwallow Marsh).
To advance beyond 300
tailoring, Horde players need to speak to Dalinna (near
inn at Thrallmar) in Outland. Alliance players need to
go upstairs in the Inn at Honor Hold. Both of these are
located in Hellfire Peninsula.
Grand Master
Tailoring is needed to advance beyond 375. You will need
to head to Northrend.
- Alliance players
head to Valgarde in Howling Fjord and find Benjamin
Clegg.
- Horde players
find Alexandra McQueen in Vengeance Landing.
- Both sides
can go to Dalaran City and find Charles Worth in the
Master Commerce Exchange.
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Tailored items require cloth, typically
dropped by humanoid monsters. You can ask around to find
out what specific monsters drop them or check
profession guides.
Cloth Types:
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Linen |
5-17 |
1-91 |
Wool |
16-27 |
75-130 |
Silk |
25-40 |
125-210 |
Mageweave |
40-50 |
175-250 |
Runecloth |
50+ |
250-300 |
Felcloth |
53-601 |
250-300 |
Mooncloth2 |
- |
290-300 |
Netherweave |
54+3 |
300-375 |
Imbued Netherweave4 |
- |
325 |
Spellcloth5 |
- |
355-375 |
Shadowcloth6 |
- |
355-375 |
Primal Mooncloth7 |
- |
355-375 |
Frostweave |
69-808 |
375-455 |
Imbued Frostweave9 |
- |
400 |
Spellweave10 |
- |
420-455 |
Ebonweave11 |
- |
420-455 |
Moonshroud12 |
- |
420-455 |
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1 - Demons and
Satyrs (Felwood, Azshara, Blasted Lands, Dire Maul)
2 - Mooncloth is created by combining two
Felcloth in a Moonwell. Four day cooldown.
3 - Netherweave Cloth only drops in Outland or
around Kharazan.
4 - Created by combining 3 Bolts of Netherweave
and 2 Arcane Dust. This requires a Mana Loom. Several
Mana Looms are located in Lower City in Shattrath.
5 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued
Netherweave, Primal Mana, and Primal Fire while in
Netherstorm. Four day cooldown.
6 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued
Netherweave, Primal Shadow, and Primal Fire while at the
Altar of Shadows in Shadowmoon Valley. Four day cooldown.
7 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued
Netherweave, Primal Life, and Primal Water while at a
Moonwell. Four day cooldown. Creating a Primal Mooncloth
gives you a Moonwell Restoration buff that gives 12
health and mana per 5 seconds for one hour.
8 - Frostweave Cloth only drops in Northrend.
9 - Created by combining 3 Bolts of Frostweave
and 2 Infinite Dust.
10 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued
Frostweave and 2 Eternal Fire.
11 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued
Frostweave and 2 Eternal Shadow.
12 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued
Frostweave and 2 Eternal Life.
Other
Ingredients
Recipes usually require thread or possibly colored dye
which is purchased from trade merchants. You can usually
find the trade merchants that have all available
ingredients near the trainers. You might also need
leather, gems, potions, and other special ingredients
created by other Profession craftsmen. Leather is found
by
Skinners
so you will likely have to purchase it from another
player or from a friend. Gems are found from monster
drops, treasure chests,
Mining,
Fishing,
and Rogue pick pocketing. Potions will need to be
purchased or given by an
Alchemist.
Recipes
Recipes can be found at trainers, as limited items on
special vendors, as rewards for
reputations,
monster drops, quest rewards, powerful boss drops, and
in the auction house. Ask around if you can't find a
particular recipe.
Moon Well Locations
Alliance players can find Moon Wells at the Temple of
the Moon in Darnassus, Auberdine in Darkshore, the Park
in Stormwind, or in Cenarion Hold in Silithus. Horde
players have a little more challenging time finding Moon
Wells. They can find Moon Wells in Cenarion Hold, in
Ashenvale east of Iris Lake, or in Thalanaar in Thousand
Needles. In Outland there is a Moonwell at the Cenarion
Outpost just outside of Shattrath City. There's also a
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Tailors can create a wide array of different shirts. In
addition to being available in different colors, shirts
also come in many varying styles. Shirts 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.
Although some shirts are more expensive and harder to
make, early easy shirts can still sell well. If you're
trying to make a look, try all of the shirts available.
Collect them all! The most popular selling shirts are
Dark Silk and Rich Purple Silk.
Shirts: White
Linen, Blue Linen, Red Linen, Green Linen, Gray Woolen,
Stylish Red Shirt, Stylish Blue Shirt, Stylish Green
Shirt, Bright Yellow Shirt, Dark Silk, White
Swashbuckler's, Formal White, Red Swashbuckler's, Rich
Purple Silk, Green Holiday, Black Swashbuckler's, Orange
Mageweave, Orange Martial, Pink Mageweave, Lavender
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At the highest tailoring levels you can choose a
tailoring specialization. The three areas of
specialization are spellcloth, shadowcloth, and primal
mooncloth. The benefit of specializing is that when
making the respective cloth, you create two pieces of
cloth for the same materials and cooldown - doubling
your cloth making output. Each type of cloth has a four
day cooldown on creation on their own timer. Therefore,
once you specialize you can make two cloths for your
specialization and one cloth of the other two choices,
all on separate cooldowns.
To specialize, you
must have at least 350 skill in tailoring. Head over to
Shattrath City, where you'll find four master tailors in
the southeast part of Lower City. If you're sufficient
level and skill, they'll offer a quest for
specialization.
You should review the
various specialty patterns you can obtain by
specializing before you make your decision. Your class
and talent build will likely play a role in your
decision. Here are some general guidelines for the items
you can make with the three specializations:
- Spellfire
Tailoring - Arcane/Fire damage items, 28-slot
enchanting bag (Fire/Arcane Mage)
- Shadowweave
Tailoring - Frost/Shadow damage items, 28-slot
soul shard bag (Frost Mage/Warlock/Shadow Priest)
- Primal
Mooncloth Tailoring - Healing, 20-slot bag (Holy
Priest)
You can still make
some of the above items no matter what specialization
you choose, however, it will take twice as long to
create an item outside your specialization assuming you
create all the required cloth yourself. There *are*
certain cloth sets that can only be created by those
that have a certain specalization. So make sure you
research what set you want before picking your
specialization. Trading specialty cloth with tailors of
other specialties can be much faster and more efficient.
In addition, set bonuses of the crafted items may
require you to be of a certain specialization to become
active. You can now unspecialize in tailoring and then
select a new specialization. This is a repeatable
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Once you reach Grand Master Tailoring, you can
again choose a tailoring specialization. The three areas
of specialization are spellweave, ebonweave, and
moonshroud. The benefit of specializing is that when
making the respective cloth, you create two pieces of
cloth for the same materials and cooldown - doubling
your cloth making output. Each type of cloth has a four
day cooldown on creation on their own timer. Therefore,
once you specialize you can make two cloths for your
specialization and one cloth of the other two choices,
all on separate cooldowns.
To specialize, you
must have at least X skill in tailoring. Head over to
Dalaran City. If you're sufficient level and skill,
they'll offer a quest for specialization.
You should review the
various specialty patterns you can obtain by
specializing before you make your decision. Your class
and talent build will likely play a role in your
decision. Here are some general guidelines for the items
you can make with the three specializations:
- Spellweave
Tailoring
- Ebonweave
Tailoring
- Moonshroud
Tailoring
You can still make
some of the above items no matter what specialization
you choose, however, it will take twice as long to
create an item outside your specialization assuming you
create all the required cloth yourself. There *are*
certain cloth sets that can only be created by those
that have a certain specalization. So make sure you
research what set you want before picking your
specialization. Trading specialty cloth with tailors of
other specialties can be much faster and more efficient.
In addition, set bonuses of the crafted items may
require you to be of a certain specialization to become
active. You can now unspecialize in tailoring and then
select a new specialization. This is a repeatable
choice, but costs gold each time. |
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Skinning might go
well with tailoring, because you can collect leather for
recipes.
Additional Tailoring
recipes can be found in encoded messages found on the
members of the Twilight's Hammer in Silithus.
There are some
tailoring quests such as Shadowweave Mask (NIlith Lokrav
in the Searing Gorge) or Meilosh in the Timbermaw Hold,
when you have a friendly reputation with the Timbermaw.
Some powerful recipes
are bind on pickup and only found from high level
enemies.
Many factions have
reputation-based recipes available for purchase.
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