Every profession in Classic World of Warcraft has its high and low points. Tailoring often gets overlooked, since it seems to only benefit certain classes, but the profession is more useful than most players realize. The cloth is always in demand for something, also used by Engineers for various recipes and collected by players for quests.
Tailoring isn’t just useful for cloth wearing classes, although they have a definite advantage in being able to use what they make. High levels tailors can learn and make valuable, useful, or rare items that you can either use yourself or sell to your fellow players for a decent amount of coin.
10 Cloth Collection
One of the greatest advantages of Tailoring is that it requires cloth, and unlike herbs or minerals, you don’t need another profession to gather it. Cloth drops from virtually every humanoid enemy in the game, and that includes dungeons, so it’s easy to both find and to collect. No need to be confused by that level 60 running the Scarlet Monastary all by themselves, they’re just farming cloth to grind up their reputation or Tailoring skill.
9 Truefaith Vestments
This set is so coveted that some layers level a Priest and Tailoring just to make and wear these robes. They’re BoP (Bind-on-Equip), so you can’t sell them to friends or guildmates. It requires a maxed level, 300 Tailoring, in order to craft it, and your ’toon has to be at least level 57 to wear it. If that wasn’t enough boxes to check off, this rare recipe drops from the last boss in Stratholme, Balnazzar.
8 Fishing and Tailoring
Is there anything that fishing can’t do? Besides being a helpful way to level cooking, it can also help level your Tailoring skill. Schools of fish will often yield crates and chests filled with goodies, including cloth.
The next time you see a school of floating wreckage off the coast, dip your fishing pole in and see what you get. Potions, items, or miscellaneous junk often drops in addition to the cloth. If you can’t use it yourself, you can sell it to a Tailor who does.
7 Quest For Cloth
While you’re collecting cloth to level your Tailoring, you can also use it to finish certain quests. Each major city in the game hosts an NPC that gives you a unique gathering quest. Give them some cloth to complete the quest, and they’ll give you a reputation bonus with their faction. This comes in handy for a number of reasons, one of the most popular that you want that faction’s mount. You can also sell your cloth to others who are trying to complete the quests.
6 The Bloodvine Garb Set
Players will often level their characters with one profession and then switch to another at level 60, and the reason is a set like this one. For Warlocks, the Bloodvine Garb Set is the best gear that they can get until Phase 6. One thing that makes the set unique is that its BoE (Bind-on-Equip) so you can make them for your friends.
One advantage of this set is that the patterns are available from the Zandalari Troll vendor, but you can’t buy them until you have an Exalted reputation with the faction and only Tailors with a level of 300 can make them. That’s not all, however, Tailors with a level of 300 get an extra 2% on their spell crit, and although that seems small, it’s enough to make many a Warlock change their profession to Tailoring.
5 Costumes and Special Events
It’s not just about high-level gear that takes you through a dungeon or gives you an edge in the battleground. Sometimes it’s just fun and games. The holidays that put some colorful diversions into the World of Warcraft calendar include clothing, and Tailors can help revelers dress up for the occasion.
It’s surprising to see how expensive a simple shirt of a certain color can be compared to a high-level bit of gear with bonuses and buffs. The prices seem to skyrocket during holidays and special events if you’re a Tailor looking for a few extra coins.
4 Guild Services and Tailoring
Sure, every guide has a tabard, and you’ll be making gear for raiding and PvP, but what about other outfits? If your guild is hosting a special event that requires certain clothing, it’s the Tailor who puts the wardrobe together. It’s not only a way to make new friends but also something to remind your guild officers of how indispensable you are.
3 An Excuse to Explore
Since you can find cloth in so many different places throughout Azeroth, the whole World of Warcraft is your cloth paradise. You can fish cloth up from various lakes, rivers, and oceans, find it in chests scattered throughout the wilderness, or pick it up when it drops from humanoid creatures or demons in the dark and far-flung corners of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms.
2 Storage Wars
What’s the most valuable commodity in the World of Warcraft? That’s an easy one. Bag space, whether it’s in your bank or on your ’toon’s hip, is something every player needs more of, no matter what they’re class or profession.
And who provides all that extra bag space? You, as a Tailor, have an almost total monopoly on this market. You can also make bags for specific classes, like the Soul Shard bags for Warlocks, or for certain professions, like Enchanting and Mining bags. Never mind crafting gear, this is where the gold is.
1 Robe of the Archmage
There are special tailoring recipes for Warlocks and Priests, but don’t think that Mages have been left out. Unlike the Bloodvine Set, and like the Truefaith Vestments, this pattern binds when you pick it up and belongs to the maker alone. It also has the same requirements regarding the level needed to wear it and the skill required to make it. The recipe drops from a mob in Lower Blackrock Spire, the starting raid that’s part of the network of dungeons in Blackrock Mountain.
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