Wow Tailoring Leveling Guide Recap

This is a powerleveling guide which will walk you through the quickest and cheapest way to powerlevel tailoring from 375-450 using alternative patterns listed whenever it makes sense.

Leveling Guide:
Note every pattern listed is purchasable from the trainer or a vendor unless highlighted

From 350-375
Bolt of Frostweave (5x Frostweave Cloth) x 1445
Not at 375 yet? No worries! You can make Bolt of Frostweaves until you are!

From 375-380
Frostwoven Robe (4x Bolt of Frostweave, 1x Eternium Thread) x5

From 375-425
you can craft basically the entire Frostwoven and Duskweave set - which is worth it if you plan on using it. Otherwise just goes over the cheapest items in these 2 sets to skill up with.

From 380-390
Frostwoven Leggings (5x Bolt of Frostweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x10

From 390-395
Frostwoven Boots (4x Bolt of Frostweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5

From 395-400
Frostwoven Leggings (5x Bolt of Frostweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5

From 400-405
Bolt of Imbued Frostweave (3x Bolt of Frostweave, 2x Infinite Dust) x5
Craft as may of these as you can until it turns grey at 405, you’ll need it to level from 425-450. If you plan on leveling only to 440 you’ll need 90 of these. If you plan on leveling to 450 you need about 300 more.

From 405-415
Duskweave Wristwraps (8x Bolt of Frostweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5

From 415-420
Duskweave Gloves (9x Bolt of Frostweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5

From 420-425
Duskweave Shoulders (10x Bolt of Frostweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5

From 425-430
Frostweave Bag (6x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 2x Ethernium Thread) x5
Black Duskweave Wristwraps (4x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 2x Iceweb Spider Silk, 2x Ethernium Thread) x5
Black Duskweave Leggings (5x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 2x Iceweb Spider Silk, 2x Ethernium Thread) x5
Depending if you have any Iceweb Spider Silk, Black Duskweave Wristwraps are the cheapest way to level to 430 - I included the Black Duskweave Leggings as they are a good pair of rare leggings that cost only 1 extra Bolt of Imbued Frostweave.

From 430-440
Frostweave Bag (6x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 2x Ethernium Thread) x10
Cheapest thing you can make at this point and at least you can auction them to get some profit.

From 440-445
Frostweave Bag (6x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 2x Ethernium Thread) x25
Optional Abyssal Bag (4x Ebonweave, 2x Spellweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5 - Pattern Obtained through Knights of the Ebon Blade Revered Reputation
Optional Mysterious Bag (4x Spellweave, 2x Moonshroud, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5 - Pattern Obtained through The Wyrmrest Accord Revered Reputation
Optional Glacial Bag (4x Moonshroud, 4x Ebonweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5 - Pattern Obtained through The Son of Hodir Exaulted Reputation
Now this gets extremely hard. There are a handful of patterns that stay yellow to 445 but the cheapest way to go is to just make 25x Frostweave Bags and pray that you get lucky. No seriously. The other option is to craft the 3 rare bags - however Ebonweave, Spellweave, and Moonshroud all have a 4 day cooldown (similar to the cloths in TBC) and the patterns all require reputation to purchase.

From 445-450
Frostweave Bag (6x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 2x Ethernium Thread) x25
Optional Ebonweave Gloves (4x Ebonweave, 4x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 1x Eternium Thread, 1x Frozen Orb) x5
Optional Moonshroud Gloves (4x Moonshroud, 4x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 1x Eternium Thread, 1x Frozen Orb) x5
Optional Spellweave Gloves (4x Spellweave, 4x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave, 1x Eternium Thread, 1x Frozen Orb) x5
Optional Mysterious Bag (4x Spellweave, 2x Moonshroud, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5
Optional Glacial Bag (4x Moonshroud, 4x Ebonweave, 1x Ethernium Thread) x5
You can also make the tailoring epic gloves now as well so might as well craft 1 to help level. Past that the cheapest way is still Frostweave Bag followed by the 2 rare bags. (Abyssal Bags turn green at 445 so is not on this list.)


Total Materials Required:
390 Imbued Frostweave
275 Frostweave Bolt
175 Ethernium Thread

or

7225 Frostweave Cloth
780 Infinite Dust
175 Ethernium Thread

Note that this is the fastest way to get to 450 - you can craft the optional items to sell or to use, but you’ll need more types of materials and it’ll cost a lot more and/or take much longer.


Special Perks for Tailors
Tailors get unique cloak enchants (healer - Darkglow Embroidery, caster - Lightweave Embroidery, melee - Swordguard Embroidery and as well as an easy to craft Spellthread to use on their pants (note that it is not any better then the one they can craft for other players, however the materials are drastically cheaper). Finally tailors get to craft a magic carpet to ride on! Tailors also get a new ability learned from a world drop book - Northern Cloth Scavenging - which increases the cloth drop rates of all Northrend Humonoids they kill!

For those saving TBC materials - you can still make rare/epic TBC tailoring items up to 395 (just about every pattern that crafts a rare/epic item that you learned at 375 will turn green at 390 and gray at 395) however this guide will focus on the cheapest materials to get to 450 - which in all cases points to new Northrend green tailoring items. If you still want to stock up on materials to level with TBC mats your best bet is to craft a ton of Golden Spellthread/Runic Spellthread as they are currently the cheapest high level items as well as still being somewhat useful in WOTLK.

Wow Tailoring Leveling Guide

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

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. If you need more gold in order to finish these steps take a look at this guide. 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 cloths 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. If you are having a slow time farming cloth buy it on the Auction House, if you don't have the money then take a look at this gold guide.

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

This path will take you through 300-375. You will finish this section off by making Bolt of Frostweave for the Grand Master Tailoring section.

Master Tailoring
Levels	Craft	Netherweave Cloth	Bolts of Netherweave	Arcane Dust	Rune Thread	Knothide Leather	Frostweave Cloth
300-325	130 Bolts of Netherweave	650
325-335	10 Bolts of Imbued Netherweave		30	20
335-345	10 Netherweave Boots		60		10	20
345-350	5 Netherweave Tunic		40		10
350-375	846 Bolt of Frostweave						4230
	Totals:	650	130	20	20	20	4230

This is the final stretch of the guide. You'll use a ton of Frostweave Cloth to finish off to 450. Although the price of Frostweave has dropped a bit since Wrath first came out it's still a bit expensive so take a look at this gold guide if you need extra gold.

Grand Master Tailoring
Levels	Craft	Bolt of Frostweave	Eternium Thread	Bolt of Imbued Frostweave	Frozen Orb	Moonshroud, Ebonweave, or Spellweave	Infinite Dust
375-385	10 Frostwoven Belt	30	10
385-395	12 Frostwoven Leggings	60	12
395-400	5 Duskweave Belt	35	5
400-405	196 Bolt of Imbued Frostweave	525					350
405-415	12 Duskweave Wristwraps	96	12
415-425	10 Duskweave Shoulders	100	10
425-445	28 Frostweave Bag		56	168
445-450	7 Ebonweave, Moonshroud, or Spellweave Gloves		7	28	7	28
	Totals:	846	112	196	7	28	350