WoW Tailoring Guide

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Tailoring is a useful profession to have but between buying your class skills, tailoring skills, and using a lot of cloth for your First Aid you might find yourself trying to farm cloth. DON’T! Seriously, don’t spend time grinding or farming when you don’t have to. Buy your cloth and recipes from the Auction House. If you are saying, “Yeah, right…I have 15 silver right now” STOP AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS site.

Here is an apprentice to mastery tailoring guide (levels 1 to 375). The process for tailoring is among one of the most demanding professions to power leveling, requiring an amazingly large amount of Netherweave (around 3,000) just to get through the 300s. Below are step by step instructions to power level tailoring using only basic recipes and materials. You'll see comments for most of the cloth, basically these are linchpins to tailoring. Unfortunately Blizzard has created a high demand for cloth throughout the tailoring skill but only allowed you to gain 10-15 levels per tier. You'll find yourself crafting 450 Bolts of Netherweave and gaining only 25 levels (300-325), one of the most expensive and time consuming steps in this power leveling process. Enjoy!

Apprentice Tailoring requires a bunch of linen and some miscellaneous things from the tradeskill vendor. This can be easily obtained as your leveling or you can go back to place like the Dead Mines later to farm the linen you need. I suggest you get 180 linen cloth, the minimum you'll need is 160, but since Linen Bags turns yellow at level 70, you might need a few extra. Make sure you save all the bolts of linen that you make until you're level 75.

Apprentice Tailoring
Levels Craft Linen Cloth Bolts of Linen Cloth Coarse Thread
1-45 90 Bolts of Linen Cloth 180    
45-50 5 Linen Belts   5 5
50-75 25 Linen Bags   75 75
  Totals: 170 80 80

Journeyman Tailoring is the wool stage of tailoring. You'll need at least 150 Wool Cloth to craft the 50 Bolts of Woolen Cloth you'll need from 105-125. However, I recommend you get 180 to make sure you reach level 105 and have enough extra bolts to reach 115 while crafting Gray Woolen Shirts. For me wool cloth was cheap enough to just grab on the Auction House, I paid around 50s per stack or 9 gold total. The rest of the materials can be found at a the vendor.

Journeyman Tailoring
Levels Craft Wool Cloth Bolts of Woolen Cloth Fine Thread Gray Dye
75-105 60 Bolts of Woolen Cloth 180      
105-115 10 Gray Woolen Shirts   20 10 10
115-125 10 Double-stiched Woolen Shoulders   30 20  
  Totals: 210 50 30 10

To become an expert tailor and learn the following crafts you'll need to visit either Georgio Bolero in Stormwind or Josef Gregorian in Undercity. You'll need at most (hopefully) 800 silk cloth to craft 200 Bolts and thus levels 145-215. The best place to get silk is either Scarlet Monastery or the Auction House, it's one of the most popular clothes so it typically is less expensive than mageweave. Note that when you get to level 175 you'll stop to craft at least 10 Bolts of mageweave to reach 185.

Expert Tailoring
Levels Craft Silk Cloth Bolts of Silk Cloth Blue Dye Fine Thread Bleach Mageweave Silken Thread Red Dye
125-145 200 Bolts of Silk Cloth 800              
145-160 17 Azure Silk Hood   34 34 17        
160-170 10 Silk Headbands   30   20        
170-175 5 Formal White Shirts   15   5 10      
175-185 87 Bolts of Mageweave           435    
185-205 20 Crimson Silk Vest   80   40       40
205-215 10 Crimson Silk Pantaloon   40         20 20
  Totals: 540 200 34 82 10 435 20 60

For at least the next 35 levels you'll want to head to Timothy Worthington in Dustwallow Marsh or Daryl Stack in Hillsbrad Foothills along with your 87 bolts of mageweave. These, along with some cheap dye and thread will get you to level 250.

Artisan Tailoring
Levels Craft Orange Dye Bolts of Mageweave Heavy Silken Thread
215-225 12 Orange Mageweave Shirts 12 12 12
225-235 12 Black Mageweave Gloves   24 24
235-250 17 Black Mageweave Shoulders   51 34
  Totals: 12 87 70

Once you reach level 250 you'll want to start collecting Runecloth and Rugged Leather. It will cost you at most 980 runecloth and about 130 rugged leather. You'll also want to start looking for the pattern for Runecloth Bags sold in Winterspring. If you can't find this pattern don't fret, you'll just need an extra 10 rugged leather and 5 extra Bolts of Runecloth (25 Runecloth) to make it from 275 to 280 making Runecloth Gloves instead. The gloves will turn green at 290 so it might take as many as 20 crafts to hit 300, this is accounted for in the total materials row.

Artisan Tailoring
Levels Craft Runecloth Bolts of Runecloth Runethread Rugged Leather
250-260 176 Bolts of Runecloth* 980      
260-275 17 Runecloth Belts   51 17  
275-280 5 Runecloth Bags   25 5 10
280-300 30 Runecloth Gloves   120 30 120
  Totals: 750 196* 40 130

Here is a path that requires loads of netherweave to level to 375, you should consider your specific requirements before going forward..

Master Tailoring
Levels Craft Netherweave Cloth Bolts of Netherweave Arcane Dust Knothide Leather Rune Thread Bolt of Imbued Netherweave Netherweb Spider Silk
300-325 450 Bolts of Netherweave* 2700            
325-335 90 Bolts of Imbued Netherweave**   270 180        
335-345 10 Netherweave Boots   60   20 10    
345-360 15 Netherweave Tunic   120     30    
360-375 15 Imbued Netherweave Robe/Tunic         15 90 30
  Totals: 2700 450* 180 20 55 90* 30

Bolts of Imbued Netherweave

Bolts of Imbued Netherweave bring you up to 340.

Imbued Netherweave

Imbued Netherweave Robe/Tunic is Grey at 365

in response to the comment

in response to the comment above, imbued netherweave robe/tunics are yellow at 370, no where near grey at any known level of tailoring.

No, it isn't. I'm currently

No, it isn't. I'm currently on 366 and it's not even yellow.

370 Shadowweave Tailor here

370 Shadowweave Tailor here and Imbued Nether Weave Robe is Yellow at 370.

Hi retard, it's Imbued

Hi retard, it's Imbued Netherweave Robe/Tunic, bought from Scryers in Shadowmoon Valley, which isn't even learnable until you are 360. It's orange at 360, and turns yellow at 370. Perhaps you were thinking about Netherweave Robe/Tunic instead.

Get your facts straight next time before you even attempt to correct other people.

You seem to be getting

You seem to be getting confused with Netherweave Robe and Imbued Netherweave Robe. Netherweave robe goes grey at 360, however the Imbued Netherweave robe which can only be learnt at lvl 360 does not.

bolt of linen cloth brings

bolt of linen cloth brings me to lvl 50 everytime cheaper that way no thread needed

Excellent guide. Thank you

Excellent guide. Thank you for your hard work on this! Saved me a ton of time.

Saved me alot of time too -

Saved me alot of time too - Everything is done according to this guide, no problems at all! Except that i went to Thrallmar as lvl 46 to learn Master tailoring, but i had to be lvl 50 - lol :) - Thanks for you effort with this guide.

Hi, I am Aldor, can I get

Hi, I am Aldor, can I get Imbued Netherweave Robe too? Or is there something else I can level to 375 with?
Thanks

I guess the way you reply or

I guess the way you reply or correct someone makes you feel superior in some sense. How shallow your life must be to have this frame of mind.

runecloth gloves are yellow

runecloth gloves are yellow until 300 so u dont need so many rugged leather or runecloth to reach 300

It is purchased at the

It is purchased at the Scryer area in Shadow Moon Valley but it is BoE. You need to have someone neutral Aldor/Scryer, or Scryer purchase it for you. There are usually some on the AH at a marked up price.

Awesome guide, went from

Awesome guide, went from 1-375 in under a day

incredible guide - exactly

incredible guide - exactly what i was looking for :) thanks alot

Hi i curently have 296

Hi i curently have 296 tailoring and am a lvl 65 mage but i have no other secondary skill. Does anyone have any sugestions on one? thanks

enchanting and nice guide

enchanting

and nice guide

you might want to tell when you have to go visit NPC for limited enchants , like +7stam on shield etc.

r u chinese farmer?

r u chinese farmer?

lulz

lulz

This is a nice site. thanks

This is a nice site. thanks for this, it helps me a lot

where can i get a corn dog??

where can i get a corn dog??

TYVM.... this is a great

TYVM.... this is a great guide. followed your intructions to a Tee and made it to 374. Dam close! thanks again.

Bloody awsome guide.

Bloody awsome guide. perfect. this is by far cheapest and eaisest way to get 375 tailor. thanks again =]

This is COMPLETLY

This is COMPLETLY wrong!!even their math is wrong at some parts! it says u need like 980 runecloth, which is NOT NEEDED, maybe only 700, and somehow turns their 980 into 750.

DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THIS!

Awesome guide guys, thanks a

Awesome guide guys, thanks a lot!! it really made those nasty 20 points a whole lot more enjoyabel :) cheers and keep it up!

thanks for this guide :x!

thanks for this guide :x!

When you say to go to

When you say to go to Dustwallow March or Hillsbrad, Dustwallow soes not sell orange dye.

Making the netherweave bag

Making the netherweave bag is another way to go from 320 to 325 and the bags are useful have kicking around.

Enchanter/Tailoring From

Enchanter/Tailoring
From 275-300 I'd recommend wizardweave leggins. On my server rugged leather costs way too much where as if you use dream dust and then disenchant the leggings after you get more dream dust back than you started with.

only spent 100g, and got

only spent 100g, and got from 0-365 in 2 days, great work!

QQ more noob

QQ more noob